Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Could the Ukraine war turn into World War III ?" video.

@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521 All nuclear powers should unilaterally disarm. No to Imperialist wars.
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As long as we live in the Imperialist stage of capitalism war is part of the workings of capitalist competition.
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@newbwheeler9777 The root cause of war is economic. Capitalist competition for markets investments and profits. Putin represents the new capitalists in Russia. This war is about the sale of gas to Europe. Its has nothing to do about so called Democracy in the US or Imperialist Europe. Putin is acting like the Russian Czar. He blames Lenin for Ukraine.
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@joecostantino3684 Break up NATO Imperialist alliance and defeat for Russia in Ukraine.
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@unitedwestanddividedwefall3521 The US will not invade Cuba because of the armed struggle from all of the Cuban people it would face. That is the power of a socialist revolution with national self determination. That was also the original idea of the Soviet Union a voluntary federation of socialist states not a single country.
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@brandtmanning1084 The world doesn't need to be perfect only made better. That's what our species has been doing for thousands of generations and years with social labor creating a surplus and transforming nature while creating culture and transforming ourselves in the process. You live in a world today that no one could for see just 400 to 500 years ago.
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@Ufthak Imperialism has a definition its not just a political swear word to be thrown around. Its a combination of foreign investments and foreign military force used to guarantee the return on investments. That what makes the advanced capitalist countries Imperialists. National Independence movements threaten Imperialist investments and that's why struggles for national independence threaten the worlds national capitalist powers. The worlds Imperialist powers fought two reactionary world wars to redivide the world among themselves. The end result was victory for the American Imperialist since they were both an advanced capitalist power and protected by geography.
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@xanoveth NATO is an Imperialist allaince set up by the US/UK/France . It's purpose is to make and threaten war on those countries that don't do what the Western Imperialist want.
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@xanoveth The US has been escalating with trade sanctions against Russia. Sanctions that hurt ordinary people.
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@flytink1 Sanctions on Japan were the cause of Pearl Harbor. The US and NATO are no better. The US and NATO killed 100,000 in Afghanistan in a war against Afghanistan Taliban fighters who were originally armed by Reagan to fight the Soviets. No reason to support the US and NATO in another war for profits..Ukraine needs world wide solidarity. We need to support working people in Russia not starve them. .
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@MrMJmusicLover It is Lenin who mercilessly fought the national chauvinism of the second international. It was Lenin who declared war on Great Russian Chauvinism and Stalin who reintroduced this poison into Lenin's Party along with destroying it with the Purges of the 1930's.
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@Guckchuck123 Chucker Np because MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is a temporary phenomena. Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism is not a stable system for human life on earth. This is an era of war, fascism and revolution. Should nuclear weapons fall into the hands of a fascist state like NAZI Germany then the prospects of human life on earth are limited. A minority of the American Imperialist has a;ways wanted to use them in crisis. General MacArthur in Korea, General Curtis La May during the Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis and some wanted to use them in Vietnam. .
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@Ufthak No because the Chinese have only recently adopted capitalism and began investing in foreign countries. The don;t have much of a NAVY either nor have they fought many wars beyond their borders The US invaded at least every Latin American country once in the 20th century it also has way more foreign military bases (800 )than any other country . The US came out of WW2 as the leading world Imperialist power. Mao kicked out all the Imperialist powers from mainland China.
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@daniel3231995 Defeat for Russia in Ukraine and break up the NATO Imperialist alliance.
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@flytink1 NATO and the US are an Imperialist alliance that has been operating under the illusion of having won and not lost the cold war. Ukrainians are not victims but fighters for national independence just like other countries that have fought the Imperialist powers like Ireland, Cuba, Poland and Vietnam.
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@joecostantino3684 Imperialism is still the highest stage of capitalism can not bring peace or democracy. This is just part of the continued decline of American Imperialism. American Imperialism did not win the cold war. Rather the Stalinist regimes were dfeated by popular revolutions with wannabee capitalists taking over who were the most corrupt of the Stalinists.
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@mehg8407 The American Imperialist want war because its always good for the business profits they get to sell the armaments to destroy other people and then they get to sell more to those who fear war and lastly but not least they get to sell the products to rebuild. They get to call for national unity and sacrifice by the working class. This is why the boss class needs to be removed from power.
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Typical boss concern about remaining wealthy.
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@hungusthefungus3461 The hurt the working class and the poor who are the people with a stake in ending Imperialist war. Capitalist exploitation gives the capitalist nations a motive for war as an investment in defeating their market competition. .
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@anthonyluu4122 Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism.
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@gsixuwlj No because more states will acquire them given that mentality, then their is also the risk of accidental detonation plus a minority faction in the US has always favored using them in a first strike or in limited nuclear warfare. They need to be eliminated from the earth. A peoples militia is the best guarantee of national sovereignty. A socialist economy has no need for Imperialist expansion either.
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@lsk7443 How many people thought small nations like Cuba and Vietnam could defeat the greatest Military Empire the world has ever seen? The great majority of humanity hates these weapons because they are even worse than firebombing of cities and carpet bombing. They threaten life on earth itself. Any regime using them would be an instant pariah. The American Imperialists are the only ones ever to use them and over a million protesters gathered in New York at the UN to demand a world without nuclear weapons.
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@flytink1 I live in south Texas and was born in the city of America's first armory Springfield, MA. Leon Trotsky was a Ukraine Jew who was the first Soviet Commissar of Military Affairs murdered by Stalin's NKVD in 1940 ashes lie just to the South of here in Mexico City. Putin is not even a member of the Communists Party of Russia. Rather his is the United Russia Party. NATO and Biden are just another group of Imperialist hypocrites. This is just more evidence of Imperialism being unable to bring peace and that the American Imperialists did not win the cold war.
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@stahleis Defeat for Russia in Ukraine and break up the NATO Imperialist allaince.
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@ДмитрийГарин-с8р You like Putin are a Czarist acting in the interest of Russian capitalism. All communists must oppose their own ruling class in any Imperialist war. We say break up the NATO Imperialist alliance and defeat for Russia in Ukraine. End all US Sanctions. As comrade Trotsky said back to Lenin not forward with Stalin. We all risked our lives to oppose the US war in Vietnam you can do the same. Defeat for the NATO Imperialist.
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@koywong5059 The problem with nukes is the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima is being forgotten. What kept nuclear states from going to war in the past is not the path to peace. What must be destroyed is Imperialism as that is the true cause of war and that can only be done with revolutionary nationalism and socialism. Defeat for Russia, NATO and the US.
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@flytink1 Cuba never went through a Stalinist counter revolution. The US has done nothing but try and destroy the revolution since 1959 with its blockade. Putin is not a socialist. His is the United Russia Party. He and his friends are capitalists. Sanders voted for the war in Afghanistan he has gone over to the capitalist Democrats who are traitors to the working class and like AOC are socialist in name only. Reagan financed the terrorists in Afghanistan only to have them bite the hand that feeds terror in 9/11. Bush launched his Imperialist war in Afghanistan only to be defeated and have the best politicians dollars could buy run for their lives. Putin faces an antiwar opposition just like LBJ and the Russian CZAR. We the Socialist Workers Party are the antiwar party. We beat the FBI in Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General.
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@TheLAGopher The US ruling class does not keep any long term promises in the class struggle. Ruling class foreign policy is bi partisan voters in Florida or any other state have no say in that policy. The Cuban revolution was made without Moscow or Beijing's aid. Revolutions will continue because capitalism in decline lays the basis for revolution not Stalinist bureaucrats. How successful they become depends upon the leadership of those revolutions. The Imperialist continue their 60 year attempt to strangle the Cuban revolution. Invasion would exact a steep cost from the Imperialists since victory would not be guaranteed and the masses of people in Latin America would see it as another Imperialist assault upon them. The American Imperialist won nothing with the end of the cold war except more instability for their Empire. After 20 years of war in Afghanistan with their NATO partners they withdrew in disgrace along with the best corrupt "nation building" politicians money could buy. The Imperialist didn't even consult their closest NATO Imperialist partners before withdrawal. .
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@LucasFernandez-fk8se We don't need or have a right to be the world's policeman and we need to enter negotiations to stop building more nuclear weapons which is what the US Imperialist are doing. It's nuclear arsenal has stopped no one else from building nuclear weapons. If you want others to act responsibly than that is the way you have to act. The US Imperialist in Washington DC are incapable of doing that. Instead they would like a free hand be able to throw their weight around, overthrow governments at will and be the biggest bully on the block. Those days are over as the military budget becomes more unsustainable as we speak. Instead of doing anything for our workers and farmer at home the Imperialist in Washington want to choose up sides pick winners and losers and promote more wars for their bankers and bosses national profiteering interests. You can't be both a Democracy and an Imperialist power which is what the US is .It can start by ending its sixty year blockade of Socialist Cuba. Why should I care if some boss loses his shirt in a bad foriegn investment?
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