Comments by "iampdv" (@iampdv) on "How Syria's 'Valley Of Death' Became One Of The Largest Landfills In The Country | Risky Business" video.

Consequence of neocolonialism.
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@iotaje1 Sure, him working in cahoots with European politicians has nothing to do with that. While Belgians in particular went to Africa with purely humanitarian aims. I am sorry, but as someone who has lost normal livelihood in a European country simply for having a Russian passport, including being forced to return to Russia at some point over the past couple of years, facing certain risks, I will have problems with buying into the argument that this is my responsibility. No, there is absolutely no my responsibility. These people came into power and stayed there as a result of good business dealings with western elites (look at the two preceding German chancellors, for example, but that's what just at the surface). Maybe what we see now is a result of him outgrowing his role (maybe this is just a manoeuvre to deprive more Russians and now westerners of their liberties). By the way it is incredibly shallow to think in the categories of countries. Big money transcend political boundaries. And if you believe in a bogus claim that there are democracies in Europe, than one could argue that that's Europeans, Germans in particular, who voted Putin in power - there never was a choice in Russian elections, at least not past mid 90s.
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@iotaje1 not sure I understand the question. Much of poorer non-western countries (Australia being counted as western) can be viewed as colonies with distributed ownership by transnational corporations. Take my home country of Russia, for example. The west in general and EU in particular supported the regime of Putin up until 2 years ago, which included nice business deals where they bought what was stolen from Russians and a supply of weapons "for internal use only", so that the business can keep flowing. Now Russians who had no say in this are blamed and taken of the list of humans possessing any rights (many of the sanctions against simple Russians within the EU clearly violate ECHR). And they still buy stolen Russian resources (especially ridiculous in the EU, who declared Putin illegitimate president)! How is this not colonialism?
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@iotaje1 Shallowness of your analysis is just fascinating. "Noone rules over Putin" - like what evidence do you have to conclude that with certainty or do you think that such a certain conclusion can be drawn in principle? I bet you did not pay attention to the news enough to note that from Biden's son leaked data if follows that his family had business dealings with the family of the former Moscow mayor. How's that not a big news? And how much else don't we know?
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Brilliant, my reply won't stay up.. fascinating how this works out with YouTube all the time...
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Trying as a reply to myself what happens in Ukraine is not colonialism? That's just a mere coincidence that the Ukrainian lands were bought in mass by Western mega corporations while the country owes more than it can ever pay... I think I wrote that you can't know if someone rules over Putin. If you don't understand that I would advice you to familiarise yourself with epistemology starting from Kant. It would be not quite foreseeing to assume that he's an all-mighty tsar that doesn't rely on support of the larger circle of elites. To see who's in that circle and how much influence they have over him is strictly speaking impossible for anyone other than him, but certainly for normies that only make an n-order observation in the media. The latest spicy thing in the media is FBK's (more strictly Maria Pevchikh's) film on the role of Abramovitch in bringing Putin into power and how he cleverly managed his wealth shortly before march 2022 to avoid loosing it. You can also see where the former president's family is, and where much of Putin's own wealth is. Also, consider that many colonies became such on the will of whoever ruled them before becoming such at the condition of integrating the elites of that place into the system of elites of the Metropole. It is not infrequent to hear that say Poland was Russia's colony. Polish aristocracy remained to be aristocracy under the Russian emperor's rule, some achieving high status in the empire. This maps pretty well (i.e., is symmetric) to what we have today.
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@iotaje1 what happens in Ukraine is not colonialism? That's just a mere coincidence that the Ukrainian lands were bought in mass by Western mega corporations while the country owes more than it can ever pay... I think I wrote that you can't know if someone rules over Putin. If you don't understand that I would advice you to familiarise yourself with epistemology starting from Kant. It would be not quite foreseeing to assume that he's an all-mighty tsar that doesn't rely on support of the larger circle of elites. To see who's in that circle and how much influence they have over him is strictly speaking impossible for anyone other than him, but certainly for normies that only make an n-order observation in the media. The latest spicy thing in the media is FBK's (more strictly Maria Pevchikh's) film on the role of Abramovitch in bringing Putin into power and how he cleverly managed his wealth shortly before march 2022 to avoid loosing it. You can also see where the former president's family is, and where much of Putin's own wealth is. Also, consider that many colonies became such on the will of whoever ruled them before becoming such at the condition of integrating the elites of that place into the system of elites of the Metropole. It is not infrequent to hear that say Poland was Russia's colony. Polish aristocracy remained to be aristocracy under the Russian emperor's rule, some achieving high status in the empire. This maps pretty well (i.e., is symmetric) to what we have today.
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@iotaje1 what happens in Ukraine is not colonialism? That's just a mere coincidence that the Ukrainian lands were bought in mass by Western mega corporations while the country owes more than it can ever pay... I think I wrote that you can't know if someone rules over Putin. If you don't understand that I would advice you to familiarise yourself with epistemology starting from Kant. It would be not quite foreseeing to assume that he's an all-mighty tsar that doesn't rely on support of the larger circle of elites. To see who's in that circle and how much influence they have over him is strictly speaking impossible for anyone other than him, but certainly for normies that only make an n-order observation in the media. The latest spicy thing in the media is FBK's (more strictly Maria Pevchikh's) film on the role of Abramovitch in bringing Putin into power and how he cleverly managed his wealth shortly before march 2022 to avoid loosing it. You can also see where the former president's family is, and where much of Putin's own wealth is. Also, consider that many colonies became such on the will of whoever ruled them before becoming such at the condition of integrating the elites of that place into the system of elites of the Metropole. It is not infrequent to hear that say Poland was Russia's colony. Polish aristocracy remained to be aristocracy under the Russian emperor's rule, some achieving high status in the empire. This maps pretty well (i.e., is symmetric) to what we have today.
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@iotaje1 what happens in Ukraine is not colonialism? That's just a mere coincidence that the Ukrainian lands were bought in mass by Western mega corporations while the country owes more than it can ever pay... I think I wrote that you can't know if someone rules over Putin. If you don't understand that I would advice you to familiarise yourself with epistemology starting from Kant. It would be not quite foreseeing to assume that he's an all-mighty tsar that doesn't rely on support of the larger circle of elites. To see who's in that circle and how much influence they have over him is strictly speaking impossible for anyone other than him, but certainly for normies that only make an n-order observation in the media. The latest spicy thing in the media is FBK's (more strictly Maria Pevchikh's) film on the role of Abramovitch in bringing Putin into power and how he cleverly managed his wealth shortly before march 2022 to avoid loosing it. You can also see where the former president's family is, and where much of Putin's own wealth is. Also, consider that many colonies became such on the will of whoever ruled them before becoming such at the condition of integrating the elites of that place into the system of elites of the Metropole. It is not infrequent to hear that say Poland was Russia's colony. Polish aristocracy remained to be aristocracy under the Russian emperor's rule, some achieving high status in the empire. This maps pretty well (i.e., is symmetric) to what we have today.
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@iotaje1 what happens in Ukraine is not colonialism? That's just a mere coincidence that the Ukrainian lands were bought in mass by Western mega corporations while the country owes more than it can ever pay... I think I wrote that you can't know if someone rules over Putin. If you don't understand that I would advice you to familiarise yourself with epistemology starting from Kant. It would be not quite foreseeing to assume that he's an all-mighty tsar that doesn't rely on support of the larger circle of elites. To see who's in that circle and how much influence they have over him is strictly speaking impossible for anyone other than him, but certainly for normies that only make an n-order observation in the media. The latest spicy thing in the media is FBK's (more strictly Maria Pevchikh's) film on the role of Abramovitch in bringing Putin into power and how he cleverly managed his wealth shortly before march 2022 to avoid loosing it. You can also see where the former president's family is, and where much of Putin's own wealth is. Also, consider that many colonies became such on the will of whoever ruled them before becoming such at the condition of integrating the elites of that place into the system of elites of the Metropole. It is not infrequent to hear that say Poland was Russia's colony. Polish aristocracy remained to be aristocracy under the Russian emperor's rule, some achieving high status in the empire. This maps pretty well (i.e., is symmetric) to what we have today.
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what happens in Ukraine is not colonialism? That's just a mere coincidence that the Ukrainian lands were bought in mass by Western mega corporations while the country owes more than it can ever pay... I think I wrote that you can't know if someone rules over Putin. If you don't understand that I would advice you to familiarise yourself with epistemology starting from Kant. It would be not quite foreseeing to assume that he's an all-mighty tsar that doesn't rely on support of the larger circle of elites. To see who's in that circle and how much influence they have over him is strictly speaking impossible for anyone other than him, but certainly for normies that only make an n-order observation in the media. The latest spicy thing in the media is FBK's (more strictly Maria Pevchikh's) film on the role of Abramovitch in bringing Putin into power and how he cleverly managed his wealth shortly before march 2022 to avoid loosing it. You can also see where the former president's family is, and where much of Putin's own wealth is. Also, consider that many colonies became such on the will of whoever ruled them before becoming such at the condition of integrating the elites of that place into the system of elites of the Metropole. It is not infrequent to hear that say Poland was Russia's colony. Polish aristocracy remained to be aristocracy under the Russian emperor's rule, some achieving high status in the empire. This maps pretty well (i.e., is symmetric) to what we have today.
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Tring once again what happens in Ukraine is not colonialism? That's just a mere coincidence that the Ukrainian lands were bought in mass by Western mega corporations while the country owes more than it can ever pay... I think I wrote that you can't know if someone rules over Putin. If you don't understand that I would advice you to familiarise yourself with epistemology starting from Kant. It would be not quite foreseeing to assume that he's an all-mighty tsar that doesn't rely on support of the larger circle of elites. To see who's in that circle and how much influence they have over him is strictly speaking impossible for anyone other than him, but certainly for normies that only make an n-order observation in the media. The latest spicy thing in the media is FBK's (more strictly Maria Pevchikh's) film on the role of Abramovitch in bringing Putin into power and how he cleverly managed his wealth shortly before march 2022 to avoid loosing it. You can also see where the former president's family is, and where much of Putin's own wealth is. Also, consider that many colonies became such on the will of whoever ruled them before becoming such at the condition of integrating the elites of that place into the system of elites of the Metropole. It is not infrequent to hear that say Poland was Russia's colony. Polish aristocracy remained to be aristocracy under the Russian emperor's rule, some achieving high status in the empire. This maps pretty well (i.e., is symmetric) to what we have today.
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Seemingly stayed up as a reply to myself
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