Comments by "Vaska Tumir" (@vaska1999) on "Cyrus Janssen" channel.

  1. The West has turned into a circus.
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  2. ​ @wilburmcbride8096  So don't insult them. It's not as though you have democracy in the US, where you need to have at least a billion dollars behind you to run for president! 😅
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  3. ​​ @redeyexxx1841  I studied Anglo-Saxon as a postgraduate. It's a perfectly neutral, descriptive term.
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  4. I had a one-day stop over in Shanghai about 7-8 years ago and loved what I saw there. I'm now retired and am in the process of moving back from Canada to Europe (Serbia). Once that's done, I look forward to travelling to both Russia and China, and, in preparation, plan to start learning Mandarin soon.
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  5. Lots of people are talking about it, just not in the MSM.
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  6. China is THE world's oldest continuing civilizational state, with nothing to compare with. Not Italy, not Egypt, not Greece, not Iraq/Mesopotamia, not Iran/Persia. Italy is the successor to Rome, but China remains China.
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  7. ​ @hengng4414  Why any timeline at all? Other countries are joining as soon as they're approved for membership, which has never taken more than a year. Also, why should these particular countries hold referendums, when no country in Europe held a referendum on joining either NATO or the EU? I agree that they should have, but they didn't.
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  8. ​ @m.rebman7221  Toronto was fine until about the mid-1990s, when Harper Conservatives wrecked it. By now, even cities like Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, London, etc. are seeing an epidemic of poverty-driven crime and homelessness. Hard times all over Canada.
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  9. India is shackled and perpetually held back by its religious culture, its caste system and the mental landscape it imposes. Nobody wants to address this not only because it may be undiplomatic to mention it, but because it would take a massive revolutionary program to change it. For the time being, such a thing is practically unimaginable.
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  10. Exactly. I hope it won't work anymore.
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  11. ​ @DudeNoEdge  Dream on. When they tried to hold a vote on that in Quebec, Trudeau's father Pierre Trudeau brought the army into the streets, declaring a state of emergency.
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  12. It's also #1 by far in production. It out-produces the US and the EU combined!
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  13. I've bought things from them. Never knew Shein was a Chinese company. Nice.
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  14. @user-rk9it9hz6g US corporations helped develop China, there's no question about it, but they wouldn't have moved their production to China if the physical as well financial infrastructure had not been there. In the last analysis, it's the CPC that has made China great. Today, it outproduces both the US and EU combined.
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  15. I doubt they could compete with Chinese students or keep up with them.
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  16. ​ @DimitarBerberu  That was the ranking a few years ago. Russia overtook Germany last year and is edging closer and closer to overtaking Japan in a few years, too.
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  17. Switzerland is way too expensive.
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  18. ​ @DudeNoEdge  American and European imperialism are a matter of incontestable record. China, in contrast, never sought or developed overseas colonies.
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  19.  @dss3113  The price of petrol has always been absurdly high in Europe as a whole, not just Germany.
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  20. If you want to understand what the US really is, check out Prof. Michael Hudson, economist and economic historian. Some of his books are now available in Chinese (Mandarin), too.
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  21. *hypocritical (That was probably an Autocorrect stupidity, but Hippocratic means something very different.)
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  22. If you want to thank a specific leader for China's incredible progress, that person should be Deng Xiaoping.
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  23. Learning a new language is great for warding off senility and the Alzheimer's. Try spending 3-6 months in Russia, enrolled in a Russian language course just for fun.
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  24. ​ @crescentprincekronos2518  The world doesn't need a country to "lead" it. Every country decides what it wants and how to achieve it, and no country has the right to even aspire to "lead" others. How presumptuous to think that any country could or should dictate to others ("lead" them)!
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  25. ​ @norwegiangothic6054 Zelensky changed laws to effect that.
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  26. BRICS consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Argentina has applied to join them, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia are preparing their applications, which will be submitted at the next BRICS meeting next year.
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  27. And the 22nd, and 23rd, and 24th, etc.
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  28. Your #5 doesn't even feature on their priorities list.
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  29.  @zenlei8258  Good God! It's not just common knowledge by now but a matter of public record, discussed in numerous articles by US authors!
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  30. I suppressed that last from memory -- it was beyond shocking when it happened.
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  31. Because a large percentage of the electorate may support far right policies. How many people think something's good or right doesn't make it so (and obverse, of course). Le Pen is not far right, but not because many people are voting for her.
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  32. I hope India understands what being friends with the US means. Indians should consult Henry Kissinger's writings on that.
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  33. He's looking very handsome these days.
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  34. The USA has been an aggressor nation almost since its inception. Just have a loot at what they did to various countries in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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  35. Mostly homemade. Sure. 😂
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  36. There's nothing new or realistic in this supposedly new development. Russia will never accept a ceasefire, which can only be a pretext for the re-militarization of Ukraine. It will have to be a lasting peace or complete capitulation by Ukraine. Ukraine still has a chance to negotiate real peace with Russia, but to do so it first needs to change the law that forbids any peace negotiations with Russia.
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  37. Apart from the 14% of the world in the collective West, nobody else fears China. China is the only piwerful country in history to voluntarily choose😮 NOT to engage in imperialism.
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  38. China is not among, it's THE world's longest continuing civilization.
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  39.  @Andy-P  There are two reports associated with the UN. The first report was not by the UN but by an American who presented it to the UN, claiming China was committing genocide of the Uyghurs, sending them to concentration camps, etc.. The media, of course, haven't bothered to clarify that, so people are left with the impression that it was the UN who came up with that report. The second, real UN report didn't find anything of the sort, so our media has hushed it up.
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  40. Apart from the 14% of the most heavily propagandized population on Earth, the people of the collective West, nobody else fears China. China's the only great power in world history to voluntarily choose NOT to engage in imperialism, going so far as to burn down its own (at the time largest and most advanced) navy so as not to be tempted into military adventurism aboard. YouTube's already deleted this comment once....
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  41. Italy just showed China that it can't be trusted, that it's fickle and unreliable.
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  42. I think it's going to be the next few centuries, in truth.
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  43. China has its own, and in my view pragmatically more successful, democracy than the faux "representative" one we have in the West. Just look at the actual composition of the CPC and its governing bodies: people rise to positions of power by demonstrating that they can be entrusted with managing the socio-economic realm to the benefit of all Chinese. It's a democratic meritocracy that produces a genuinely representative political managerial class any Chinese person can aspire to in practice and not merely in theory, as in the West.
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  44. Everybody knows the US blew up the pipelines. Biden had publicly promised in 2022 to destroy North Stream 2.
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  45. ​ @nurainiarsad7395  I second that.
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  46. ​ @squiggs1002  Um, no. It's the Russian economy that's surpassed Germany's to become the #1 in Europe and #4 in the World. The only way you can get around this reality is by denying the superior accuracy and validity of Purchasing Power Parity rankings over the hugely, and I mean ludicrously misleading GDP ones. The latter are a joke as the West counts prostitution and getting ill as contributing to their GDPs! 😅
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  47. I visited China briefly a few years ago and am planning an extended trip in 2027. This time, I want to stay a few months and really travel the country. Maybe take a course in Mandarin. 😊
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  48. On Scott's last point: you can't provoke a change of government in a country whose government and military are in the hands of Nazis. Surely the geniuses in Kremlin know that?!
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  49. I probably won't live to see the day, but the sooner the West becomes truly irrelevant and unable to mess around with other countries, the better for us all.
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  50. ​ @amoxzi Yes. That's what you do in such a situation.
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