Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Asianometry" channel.

The effect will be most felt in Europe I imagine. The USA will most likely find a way around this. Indeed, the actions of the US government in provoking the Chinese into making these moves might be really aimed at damaging Europe and making it more dependent on the USA à la natural gas.
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Chinese and Russians seem to have done okay. Cubans too.
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@shauncameron8390 Isn't that the same USA that's been embargoing Cuba these last 60 years or so? And why would Cuba need USAID in the first place if it wasn't under sanctions?
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The Soviet Union tried that, turning swords into ploughshares, and the USA shat on it. Now we have Ukraine.
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@dengxiaopinggaming5500 And China too.
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@shauncameron8390 If the Chinese after the reforms are so capitalist why does the USA fear them so much? And the outsourcing of jobs is EXACTLY what we would expect in a capitalist society. You like capitalism so much, well, here you are with no jobs. That's what happens when you having a job relies on the decisions of a private multimillionaire class looking after their class interests and not yours — do you see the Chinese exporting their jobs for profit? As for your democracy, surely you can just vote to bring those jobs back, no? By the way, the Chinese only made great strides under under Deng, Hu and Xi have because they have built upon the firm foundations of what went before under Mao.
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@robertheinkel6225 You mean, the way the military of the USA keeps expanding... all the way to the borders of China and Russia?
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Armontek Rich people ARE the problem! When you are rich you have interests in property to defend and that invariably leads to rich people entering and monopolising politics. They make the laws. They enforce the laws. And the laws don't apply to them. Concentration of wealth leads to concentration of power as sure as night follows day, leading to oligarchy, aristocracy, plutocracy, monarchy and kleptocracy. Also, we see capitalism leads to monopoly. These are the enemies of a fair and egalitarian society, one which allows for social mobility and creates an equitable distribution of wealth.
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That's like asking whether the USA has anything to do with Russia's actions in Ukraine. Are the increase in fuel and food prices in Europe are in some way related to the EU's sanctions on Russia. The blindingly obvious elephant in the room becomes suddenly invisible. Next you'll be asking whether three steel framed high rise buildings collapsed into their own footprint at free fall speed might have done so after a controlled demolition. /S
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Same with the ex-communist countries of eastern and central Europe. Thought they'd be able to share in the wealth of the core capitalist countries but instead found themselves — literally — exploited as immigrant labour. Now they're just quasi-colonies of western corporations.
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And that's why the USA through the UN and other bodies want it to be taken over by agribusiness funded by corporate banking. They don't like self-sufficiency.
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And now the USA is sanctioning its own satraps in Europe, forcing them into a captive market where they'll buy only US and US-approved energy, food and raw materials.
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And without the USA and the Soviet Union dividing the Korean peninsula between them South Korea would not have been an United States-occupied country these past 70 years.
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@shauncameron8390 Agreed. Without the allies occupying Korea and dividing it into two zones Korea could have been one united country. Such is politics.
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@shauncameron8390 Democracy and capitalism, like democracy and fascism, are essentially incompatible because the interests of capitalists (rich property owners) is fundamentally at odds with those, the vast majority who aren't property owners. And I also don't think China and Russia fear democracy — leaving aside what that means in a country whose means of production and distribution are in the hands of private millionaires who's class interests differ significantly from the class interests of the rest of society — as much as Korea turning into a satellite of the USA and a base for its fascist neo-imperialist war machine.
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@PomaReign China wants a word.
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According the New York Times Russia is losing in Ukraine and the Nazis... I mean Ukrainians... will be in Moscow by years end.
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