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

  1.  @kelp4est  Pretending to retire from the army while still remaining secretly in its employ is a way of creating plausible deniability. Because a captured mercenary is ostensibly no longer a serving member of their country's regular armed forces their government can deny overt involvement and say they were acting on their own.
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  2. 02:10 Spot on! The world's countries should replace the IMF and the World Bank as soon as possible and create one or more independent financial entities to replace them under the umbrella of the BRICS/SCO that serve the needs of the Global South better. No more usury. No more structural adjustment programmes.
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  3. If this happened in the United States they would have declared war in Saudi Arabia saying that MBS did it.
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  4. The are owned by the Chosen People and their readership is the Chosen People and their fellow travellers.
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  5. Those murdered should be have their murderers brought to justice and made to pay according to the law. Better late justice than no justice.
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  6. Firstly, the sanctions aren't as severe as propaganda would have you believe. There are loopholes and getarounds that allow countries to continue trading with Russia. Secondly, sanctions aren't necessarily designed to bite but may be largely symbolic, a case of being seen to do something rather actually doing it. Also, their primary ostensible target – governments, businesses – might not in fact be the real target; ordinary people are. The rich and powerful won't be effected by sanctions and certainly not as much as ordinary people. Iraq under Saddam is a good example.
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  7. I remember when a certain female left to become the wife of an ISIS paramilitary was stripped of her citizenship. No such actions here though.
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  8. The Netherlands will become dependent on the USA and those countries under its influence for food. In effect, as you say, its to bring about food and energy shortages in Europe and the wider world for the benefit of a small group of people and to make sure no one country in the European Union can resist effectively. Saving the planet and stopping Russia are just pretexts. It makes you question the whole of the global warming/climate change/green/overpopulation agenda. ▪︎ In my opinion all of what's happening is at least in part because the rentier elites in western Europe and the USA know the game's up, that the bubble of all bubbles is about to burst, and are, as a result, planning for the consequences: US default, hyperinflation, the loss of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, widespread political dissent (especially against the ideology of neoliberalism), and the accompanying potential for civil unrest. The elites who control corporate monopoly capitalism have anticipated this and are now seemingly implementing plans that have been drawn up long ago in response. It is coordinated using bodies such as the EU, NATO, WTO, UN.
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  9.  @fspa6663  The British media is basically owned and run by the same people who own and run the media in the USA, as is the political class. Together they form a rentier-comprador elite beholden to Anglo-American financial interests, the sort that have seen the rapid and catastrophic decline in the industrial manufacturing base of both countries, leading to the dire economic predicament that we, but not them, now find ourselves in.
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  10. Fixed. Like the Nobel Prize.
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  11.  @troutstalker4744  Yes. Coal and natural gas are both fossil fuels, though I have read somewhere that neither actually come from primitive trees the died in the Cambrian but from other geological processes and are not finite but self-renewing, though I do not know how valid the theory is.
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  12. Simple: they bend (read break) the rules.
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  13. In fairness they only fought to get back the land that Russia had taken from them in the winter war and once that was achieved they ceased their military operations. Their actions could thus be interpreted as being opportunistic rather than showing a heartfelt ideological support for fascism.
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  14.  @superuli8162  "The Russians are only half as corrupt." Sounds a little chauvinist to me.
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  15. They've showed us in no uncertain terms just how compromised and partisan they are.
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  16. The USA, by this WaPo article has given tacit permission for the controlled media of the the American empire to start changing their tune.
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  17. And they were/are very probably in violation, in spirit if not in letter, of the non-proliferation treaty, as well as other treaties (now defunct) between the USA and the RF.
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  18. ​ @befeleme  China's not really 'free market' as the state plays a central role in the regulation of the economy. Maybe it can be called free market capitalism for small businesses, capitalist entrepreneurs and start ups, but certainly not for corporations like Jack Ma's Alibaba. Indeed, I don't think there has ever existed such a thing as a free market anywhere at any time in history, except in the ideology of liberals and the empty rhetoric of neo-liberals; markets have always been regulated in some way or another by the powers that be.
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  19. ​ @thesmogo  I personally prefer the term the American empire.
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  20. It's a setup. He's the fall guy.
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  21. Permanent low-to-medium intensity wide spectrum conflict is what I think the USA and its closest allies might be aiming for.
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  22. I'm sure the Russians will find out the story, if they haven't already. They have a sophisticated intelligence service that will help them.
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  23. It irritates me the degree to which the Romans used abbreviations in their inscriptions. How would people know what they were referring to if they were not already familiar with the terminology? It's so lazy.
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  24. Is Nigel Farage unfamiliar with the Cuban missile crisis? One country did threaten another another, and not just once either.
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  25. He's a man faced with some hard choices.
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  26. They will call you Cassandra, more likely. The prophet who only prophesied doom.
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  27.  @tohellorbarbados7119  From what I'm given to understand the Finns, once they'd took back the territory they had lost to Russia, became more or less neutral until the end of the war. That is, they only gave as much support to the Germans as was necessary. They never went all in and became full on National Socialist.
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  28. The members of the European Union are responsible for any hardship that comes there way by refusing to limit the powers, or exercise proper oversight, of the various institutions of the European Union.
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  29. @Occam's Hammer Unfortunately, the USA and its NATO-EU lackeys would overthrow it with Astroturf colour revolutions á la Arab Spring or Maidan.
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  30. My prediction is that the EU will become even more authoritarian and will basically serve a troika made up of the USA, France and Germany (with the latter two tending to defer to the USA unless it loses its influence).
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  31. From the point of view of the USA, Germany must be cut down to size and reminded that it only has as much sovereignty as does not conflict with the interests of USA vis‐à‐vis Russia and the EU.
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  32. And don't forget the personal financial interests of certain members of the political class in the USA.
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  33.  @rashmigupta9  it's not lying to them because they seem to genuinely believe in what they say.
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  34. The Scottish Nationalist party can then rule Scotland on Russia's behalf.
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  35. ​ @vumba1331  Fascist state run by Bolsheviks (communists)? Isn't that a contradiction, communist fascists?
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  36. Is that the money stolen from Canadian truckers?
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  37. Who granted them immunity from prosecution? If they commit war crimes then they should be punished.
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  38. ​ nwo2696  a fan? A policeman?
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  39. Since when has the West cared about the welfare of Africans? The attitude of the West is that the rest of the world is there to be exploited, including its people. Whether Nigerians suffer hardship or death is irrelevant to the rulers of the world.
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  40. If he's a Christian fundamentalist then he'll probably think that's fine and dandy. He thinks he'll be one of those 'raptured'.
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  41. Same here. My sympathies to you. Expect your energy bills to go up by as much as 50%. Mine did. Just the standing charge alone is exorbitant before you even consider the usage charge. Also your rent will very probably go up too.
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  42.  @sukikahlon1  The United States wants western Europe to become like Eastern Europe, second world, though third world will be fine if it makes the USA (fhe corporations that control it) more prosperous and to continue their dominance.
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  43. Being awarded anything by western institutions is a red flag for a start. "Independent" is debased coinage, as a label it means absolutely nothing as all media use that term to describe themselves. It's who is behind the newspaper, it's proprietors, that ultimately determine the editorial line and if Novaya Gazeta is secretly controlled by or is under the influence of some shady western organisation then I can understand the Russian government's actions. That said, an attack on the press and the shutting down of newspapers is not to be encouraged. Censorship is generally bad as it closes down thought and debate.
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  44. How close to war do generals get? I would have thought that as a higher-up he wouldn't see much battle.
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  45. Seems to be a nice, clean area he's walking around. And sunny.
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  46. They've planned for it.
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  47. You forget... she's elected by the people that matter, the Bilderburgs.
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  48. ... and run a second time from Dunkirk. Britain should be neutral in any war in Europe. If France wants to come to the aid of Poland then let them, but not Britain, not this time around.
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  49. The Greek debt crisis was deliberately engineered. Nothing accidental about it; nothing to do with Greek laziness or greed.
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  50. Too much money and power concentrated in too few hands, in my opinion.
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  51. It's all about delaying the inevitable for as long as possible, in the meantime isolating Russia and its allies from the rest of Europe as much as possible and causing as much division within the EU if all else fails.
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  52.  @SkyCloudSilence  Shim — she/him. Use the correct pronouns. 😏😏😒😜
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  53. a) He's senile. b) He's misinformed. c) He's a politician.
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  54. And a very corrupt politician!
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  55. And how much will her food bill be when the Dutch government has closed down most of the Netherlands' dairy farms?
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  56. 10:00 Absurd! He's probably doing it merely for the publicity. It's hypocritical too because whatever he accuses the Russian Federation of is, a fortiori, something that the USA, France and the client state of the USA, Britain, do even more. The Permanent Five ignore the General Assembly already as it is so ignoring the Security Council would make perfect sense, taking it to its logical extreme (like they did with the Second Iraq War and the war in Yugoslavia).
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  57. So he's basically just one more corrupt politician on the take and his posturing mere opportunism.
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  58. The United States as well due to it frequently not allowing Israel to soften its stance or engage in compromise with the Palestinians even when the Israelis want to and realise it would be in their interests. In short the United States wants a permanent state of tension in West Asia and Israel is the main method to achieve this even if it goes against the wishes of many Israelis who would like to make some sort of piece with their neighbours.
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  59. ​ @sutlers2day he was crossing the road to his car and another car was coming down the road; maybe he didn't want to get hit.
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  60. I see a 78 day NATO bombing scenario on the horizon. Only this time around Russia will use its anti-aircraft missiles to shoot them down.
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  61.  @DanaDikaiosyne  Good question, in my opinion.
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  62. He's a fan of the Duran.
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  63. Those lamp posts hardly give out any light.
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  64. More to play China off against Russia than to tame it, I'd say. And I think they're trying to do the same again but are being less successful this time around.
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  65. Probably because art connoisseurs from the middle class say it is.
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  66. Does this mean that Russia can not request an enquiry later on?
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  67. The Russian Federation should make a formal diplomatic complaint to the Federal Republic of Germany over her remarks. And then she should be sacked.
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  68. They did the same for the shooting down by a BUK missile of a civilian commercial aircraft over Ukraine: not allowing Russia to carry out a proper forensic investigation by refusing to fully cooperate with them.
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  69. Britain seems to have taken on the same role as Colombia in relation to the United States.
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  70. And what are your conclusions?
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  71.  @Memovox  Realistically, could he have been anything else? The Japanese must live with the legacy bequeathed to them by their predecessors decades before any of them were born. The same for the Germans and the British.
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  72. These sanctions were thought up in the USA and are designed to cause as much disruption to European Union-Russian Federation relations as possible. The USA wants economic and political disruption within and between the states of Europe. It wants to weaken the EU as an economic competitor and political rival and reassert US dominance, especially with regards Germany and France by preventing them formulating and implementing any foreign policy independent of the United States.
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  73. Turkey's decision won't go down well with the USA (unless he's just posturing – you never know with Erdoğan – or it's been pre-agreed with the USA).
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  74. It's a non‐starter and they know it. It's just for propaganda purposes. I suppose the European Union could en bloc boycott the General Assembly but I highly doubt the USA, France and its protégé Britian would be willing to leave their seats on the Security Council empty. The last time that happened (USSR under Kruschev) it didn't end well: the Korean war broke out and there was no one to veto it. The rest is history.
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  75. The British did something similar in 1939: emboldening the country to oppose a more militarily powerful Germany, thereby kick-starting a terrible war that might not have happened (at least not in that year) were it not for an outside country's interference. The USA wants Ukraine to be a basket case, totally wrecked economically, bankrupt financially, and with Russia drained of billions to repair its infrastructure and heal its broken society.
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  76. Eric Blair (George Orwell) saw the future.
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  77.  @kesscarlton8759  The shareholders and corporates who control them.
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  78. That's the excuse, the real reason was to test the USA's new wonder weapon and scare off the Soviets (Russians). (It's still a false equivalence though.)
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  79. The West (US imperium) has a hypersonic missile gap and now it has an artillery shell gap as well. The gaps are growing.
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  80. Tiny countries trying to stay relevant by punching far above their weight and showing their loyalty to the US deep state.
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  81. Germany down! Russia out! The USA hegemon in... forever!
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  82. I hope he is OK.
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  83. If it was Israel the IAEA personnel would already have been massacred and the western press would be silent or falling over themselves to explain it away.
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  84. More like the USA shot Europe in the head.
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  85. Maybe the USA wants these tiny states on the border with Russia to provoke the Russians.
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  86. Come on everyone, this story is made to NOT be believed. It's gaslighting 101. A deliberate insult to the intelligence of Russians. Of course, like the 9/11 triple towers and the JFK et al assassinations many people will believe it and set themselves against this who don't. — 13:30 Correct!
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  87. But that's the whole idea.
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  88. China and Russia need to step up their game and actively start undermining the financial grip that the United States and a few other countries in western Europe have over the rest of humanity.
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  89. I take it you don't like muskrats.
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  90. European Union.
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  91. The USA and its poodles in the EU have already sent troops to fight against Russia in Ukraine, effectively pitting the Russian Federation against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. To all practical purposes the USA is at war with the Russian Federation, albeit undeclared. Furthermore, this isn't a war by proxy like it's portrayed in Western media, but a war where Western special forces and intelligence agencies are fighting Russian troops directly. They tend to be portrayed as mercenaries working for themselves but in fact many of them are active members of their respective armed forces using the merest fig leaf of deniability.
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  92. "They" weren't thinking anything, the deep state is the one that did the thinking for them.
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  93. Who's his replacement? Kamala Harris? Donald Trump?
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  94. Rules... can be bent. Rules... can be broken. Rules are made by rulers, to be followed by the ruled.
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  95. Sounds like the 'Haiti option' might be being considered for the native reservation of Gaza and the Stolen Territories. For those who don't know Haiti is that god-forsaken country in the Caribbean that's been invaded umpteen times by the USA and is currently under its umpteenth de facto occupation by so‐called peace keepers of the United Nations carrying out the agenda of the USA.
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  96. Finland can't seriously attack Russia so it must do so symbolically. Hence, such pettiness.
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  97. No one!
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  98. Poor man. He's been working too hard and needs take a rest.
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  99. Black shirt fascists arguing with brown shirt fascists, each side supported by their various media, brown shirt fascis media and black shirt fascist media.
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  100. Was the area you were walking in once a colonnaded courtyard? A temple? Or palace? A model of how the area looked in its heyday would have been nice.
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  101. He'll probably be sent back to Chile.
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  102. Thanks for the update, Alex! 👍
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  103. I'd much prefer that France has a centre left government than a one that is hard right myself. — Je préférerais de loin que la France ait un gouvernement de centre gauche plutôt qu'un gouvernement d'extrême droite moi-même.
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  104. He was already out of power so I don't think it will be that great a loss from a political point of view.
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  105. Your impersonation of Trudeau reminds me of the late singer Michael Jackson. 😂
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  106. Sounds like he's a possible traitor, an Irish Quisling. The Irish fought the English for their independence and now they want to hand it over to the EU (an institution heavily influenced by the USA, a country that shows with every passing day that it's quite willing to sacrifice Europe's economic prosperity and political stability for its own self-interests).
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  107. Biden reminds me of the Soviet Union under the 2 or 3 leaders before Gorbachev.
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  108. ​ @PamelaValemont  And the people that kill them will themselves conveniently meet with a fatal accident.
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  109. Did Russia exist back then?
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  110. Special forces, intelligence assets and mercenaries.
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  111. Consulates, along with diplomatic missions and embassies, are considered sovereign territory according to the Vienna Convention. I think the personnel inside them (some of them anyway) may also be considered soverign citizens with diplomatic immunity.
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  112. He did indeed. The Roman Catholic Church would not allow him to get a divorce so he broke with it, leading to more than a century of religious strife whose reverberations still echo to this day (eg. Ireland).
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  113. Nothing has happened yet. No coup, no mercenaries attacking regular troops. Nothing. Just words... hot air. ■ Еще ничего не произошло. Никакого переворота, никаких наемников, атакующих регулярные войска. Ничего. Одни слова... болтовня.
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  114. Check out channel The New Atlas. Its host just did a video about this.
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  115. They want to make it into propaganda. They may also want them to be killed because dead men tell to tales.
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  116. Just goes to show that the IMF is completely controlled by the USA and a political tool.
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  117. Agreed. 'Whataboutism' is the go-to insult of choice when you point out inconvenient truths.
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  118. He is talking about a US department store chain in Russia.
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  119. Not Europe, the European Union (EU). An essentially undemocratic institution controlled by globalists and authoritarians and heavily influenced by the USA and its bankers.
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  120. The Japanese invading New Guinea (an unfree colony) in a war and posing an immediate threat to Australia is different from the Chinese being invited in by a sovereign state to protect them from political destabilisation, create better business opportunities and built needed infrastructure that they can't build on there own. Totally different. One was a real threat and the other is merely a potential threat – and then only if you believe the USA and Australia have a right to threaten Chinese maritime sea lanes but China has no right to take measures to protect those sea lanes in the event of a blockade.
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  121. ... Run by the Germans and the French... on behalf of the USA.
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  122. He isn't.
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  123. The Americans seem so desperate to wean Europe of Russian resources and capture the EU's energy market for themselves.
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  124. Stealth fighters to Ukraine to stealthily infiltrate Russian airspace and bomb the Kremlin/assassinate Putin. Biden denies everything.
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  125. What's an embargo and how does it differ from sanctions?
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  126. Probably behind 9/11 too.
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  127. Thanks for the video. Apropos, the architecture there seems Stalinesque, brutalist, minimalist, austere and ugly. It's almost never a good idea to use bare concrete for aesthetic effect; it's just too stark. And boring to look at.
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  128.  @1mattattaker  👋🏽
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  129. "Do the neocons want to close the West behind an iron curtain?" Yes, they do.
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  130. I think he's just a shill for the MICIMATT/MIC who's also extraordinarily mercenary and venal, unprincipled as well as proudly ignorant, chauvinistic and xenophobic. Probably a religious fundamentalist too.
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  131. He has no moral compass.
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  132. China and India share a common border imposed on them by the British, a border that is somewhat vague and at times disputed. Furthermore, it is for India and China to sort out their border disputes not the USA. What common border does the USA, six thousand miles away, share with China? None. As for building up its military, one, it has every right to do so within its own borders and, two, when faced with the existential threat that is the corporatist USA, continually goading it over issues like North Korea and Taiwan – a country that, incidentally, it formally recognises as belonging to China anyway – and which, as with India, it has no business meddling in. As for the West, I think what you really mean is the empire of monopoly capitalism made up of half a dozen or so corporations and banks located in the core imperialist countries that is hell bent on taking over the last remaining opposition to their dominance.
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  133. Will the Greeks pay a second time?
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  134. It will destract people so that they will no longer protest the judicial reforms he's brought in.
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  135. 'Thatcherisation' of the Netherlands – privatisation of everything; selling off to global corporations.
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  136. The United Kingdom is being led off a cliff by their plutocratic comprador elite and its addiction to kissing the arse of Uncle Sam.
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  137. As elections are now essentially meaningless beyond theatre and the American electorate have absolutely no say on any issue at the federal level, a coup d'état at this point is not needed. The POTUS already has the powers of a dictator at his disposal and has had them since at least September 2001 and the two parties have no disagreements when it comes to the military‐intelligence‐security‐police apparatus.
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  138. Really‽ 🤣🤔
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  139.  @andrewsarchus6036  Okay smart ass, which is it? 😏🤨
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  140. The Russians should have got a marine drone to infiltrate the area where the sabotage took place and film whoever did it. When they deny it the Russians can say "look, here's the evidence." and use it at the UN.
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  141. Western leaders are not really elected by their peoples without first being vetted and pre-selected by the US government. So the same corruption and iniquity that afflicts the government of the USA also afflicts Europe as well.
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  142. Probably a United States agent of influence. The forty billon plus dollars bill is no doubt designed to finance just such a person like him.
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  143. 1000th like! 🙋‍♂️
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  144.  @julieannmyers8714  Libertarianism is capitalist anarchism on steroids. It's also an ideology that comes from the USA and has little appeal to most other countries. It may even be an ideology promoted, like Christian fundamentalism, because its adherents are so extreme in their support of the free market, consumerism and go‐it‐alone individualism, all the things neocons love.
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  145.  @citizenworld8094  Hundreds of years of English colonialism has made the Irish unable to think for themselves and so they need the EU to do the thinking for them. Irish sovereignty requires independence from EU institutions if it requires Ireland to be nothing but a puppet of the neoconservatives and neoliberals of Brussels, Washington and London.
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  146. It's almost a if someone wants to cause disunity in the European Union while encouraging it to become more and more authoritarian.
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  147. They ganged up on Russia in 1917 and in 1990 they descended like a pack of wolves so it should come as no real surprise. The western part of Europe is predatory and imperialist and Russia has always stood in the way of its expansion and exploitation so has always been seen as an obstacle to be overcome.
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  148. The deep state of the USA are probably planning to destabilise India like they destabilised the Middle East and Latin America and are now trying to destabilise Europe. They want India in their pocket.
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  149. Like the EU and the UN, NATO is an institution created to serve the interests of the United States. It was created so that the USA has a stranglehold on Europe.
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  150. As a matter of urgency China and the BRICS need to develop an alternative version of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. They need to free the Global South from their debt bondage. India, Brazil and Argentina would benefit greatly if they could rid themselves of these US-led western institutions that impose such onerous conditionalities upon them, preventing them from successfully developing their economies.
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  151. It also wants to dislocate Europe's economic relations with Asia. Destroying trust in European financial institutions is one way of doing this.
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  152. Rather than democracy coming to eastern and central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall a series of US‐backed colour revolutions occurred in which a think tank trained and funded comprador class came to power. In the case of Poland it was led by a certain shipyard worker from Gdánsk, a man chosen to be Washington's point man Warsaw.
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  153. Some serious intimidation is in the pipeline for Iran and Syria, but outright war...?
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  154. Let's hope that the Germans come to their senses before it's too late and don't allow the interests of the USA (who are the main culprits behind all of this, in my opinion) to sabotage their economy. The USA wants Europe to be under its control and not form political or economic associations with others. Keep the Russians out, the Germans down, and the USA in is still mainstream in the political thinking in Washington DC.
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  155. Like with Turkey, membership of the European Union for Ukraine is the bait that the elite dangle in front of Zelensky to get him to do what they want him to do, even if it goes against his own country's interests.
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  156. The USA is straying into really dangerous territory if it's resorting to blowing up the oil and gas pipelines of its rivals, Russia and China. I would like to assume that it is Ukraine that has done this in an attempt to frame the USA but I am not sure that it is.
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  157. She's far too old for the position she holds and even more so if she's an alcoholic. Same goes for Biden. There should be both age limits and mental competency tests for holders of public office with those suffering from senile dementia, Alzeimers, etc. being barred from the most senior positions.
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  158. You're a bit late to the party, the false flag has already occurred.
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  159. Western media reminds me of the newspapers of the Great War, filled with outrageous lies and distortions.
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  160. They don't want to antagonise the inhabitants of Ukraine because in my opinion they are planning to take most of it over and incorporate it into the Russian Federation, de facto or de jure.
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  161. I heard his account was reinstated.
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  162. Neo-facists or techno-feudalists.
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  163.  @seanzibonanzi64  And Africa is the first cradle of all human civilisation.
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  164. I've been thinking the same. 😆
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  165. The German government should do everything within its power to facilitate the speedy repair of both pipelines and the resumption of gas flows to their country and contribute as much funding and technical assistance as is necessary in a joint German-Russian reconstruction project and thereby send the strongest message that they do not support this outrageous act of sabotage. The Germans should not allow their politicians to sacrifice their nation's industry and the wellbeing of their citizens on the alter of American geopolitics.
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  166. It's the de facto defeat of the USA in the Korean war that set the country on its path of imperialism, ultimately leading to the disastrous wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan. The US elite never got over it. The sooner the USA gets back to the largely non-inteventionist foreign policy it practiced prior to world war 1 and largely stays out of European affairs the better.
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  167. Lindsey Graham is a minor player in the US political system. His actions would only mean something if and when used in conjunction with consensual support of other members of Congress. As for the sponsorship of the bill by Lindsey Graham, probably he's merely being used as a front for the Zionists and or the war faction of the Pentagon/MIC.
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  168. The EU commission will simply ignore the rules or rewrite them. It will not have been the first time such a thing has happened. Like with EU accounting, they'll just get 'creative' with the rules.
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  169. As regards the story of a soldier belonging to the German regular army being captured, I think (if it's true) that it might be some sort of psyop by the Germans themselves to either embarass their own government and paving the way for a change in policy, or to make it so that the Russians will be less likely to cooperate with the Germans.
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  170. Unfortunately, the US biolabs are located all over the world, producing bioweapons and presumably testing them on the local population in defiance of the biological and chemical weapons conventions. Of course, Russia will be very circumspect in what it reveals to the world's public and will almost certainly not be too explicit in its accusations.
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  171. The Americans and/or Bilderbergs/Davos.
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  172. For the purpose of mockery, stemming from the desire on the part of some to censor the letter 'Z' (painted on some Russian tanks) .
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  173. Those loans, if they ever materialise, are either money-laundering/slush fund schemes, or they are tied-aid designed to flow right back into the EU's coffers.
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  174. It was common in the 18th century in Britain, especially by the navy.
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  175. They are thinking long term.
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  176.  @CitrusMoon  couldn't agree more.
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  177. Is Lazarus an historical figure, someone who really lived?
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  178.  @ikeybertso  'Whataboutism' is the usual insult.
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  179. The EU, like NATO and the UN, are assets of the USA.
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  180. No, not really. It was designed like its predecessor the League of Nations to allow the western countries, not least the victors of the war fought between the years of 1939-1945 — the USA pre-eminent amongst them — to continue their domination of the rest of the world by replacing colonialism with neo-colonialism and imperialism with neo-imperialism. Its conception is entirely Eurocentric with the General Assembly merely serving as a rubber stamp. Maybe China/Asia will gradually make it more representative of the values and desires of the so‐called Global South but for now it either actively serves the interests of western countries or is unable to go against them, to the detriment of the non-west.
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  181. He wouldn't... would he???
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  182. Does anyone know the motives of his killer — Is it one of those Japanese nationalists who crop up from time to time?
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  183. They are puppets. Have been since the 'colour revolutions' of 1989 when NATO, EU and the IMF/World Bank/BIS moved in.
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  184. They might even kill them themselves and blame it on the Russians.
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  185. Unless I'm mistaken "Me and Alexander" IS the proper English form while "Alexander and I" is an affectation because 'I' is the objective case and 'me' is the subjective case and in English the normal order is object > verb > subject.
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  186. Millions of tonnes of what? ❔️
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  187. Another reason why Putin is not officially declaring war on Ukraine is because it's technically illegal to do so under international law. One of the things that the USA and Britain are often accused of doing is breaking international law with their attacks on Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan and if Russia can be portrayed as doing the same then not only will western media accuse Russia of hypocrisy and have a field day but maybe they could also (from a theoretical/technical point of view) under the rules of the United Nations use it as a potential casus belli to cover a NATO/US/EU intervention.
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  188. Or gaslighting.
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  189. GB seems to be mirroring the USA in the ineptitude of its leaders.
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  190.  Ayenbite of Inwyt  And controlled by the United States political-security apparatus that shadows every western leader and in the case of Britain uses its own intelligence services against it.
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  191. Why would they kill someone who has no real political power? Did he exercise such influence on the Russian leadership, was his pen so mighty, that it affected Putin's decision to go to war with Ukraine and that by killing him they would be exacting a righteous vengeance on behalf of the Ukrainian people, or that, somehow, it will have such an effect on Putin himself that it will effect the outcome of the war? Though I myself found Dugin to be borderline fascist with his hardcore nationalism and strident deriding of perceived western decadence, still, attempting to kill him is, in my opinion, going too far. Murdering people with no real power is not only pointless but counterproductive and comes across as cowardly. Incidentally, it's got me wondering whether the United States is in some way behind this.
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  192. Too little, too late. And they know it. That's why they are sending them.
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  193. He's using irony. He doesn't believe in the official narrative.
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  194. Is he looking for a wife?
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  195. The bird is then suicided.
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  196.  @fred6319  Let's not forget the anthropogenic climate change lobby blaming everything on CO² and fossil fuels (while never mentioning the possible use of deliberate climate modification by the military). Oil, gas and even nuclear are all supposed to be given up for one reason or another for technology that is as, or more expensive than, existing technology and hasn't even been fully developed yet.
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  197. Iran and Syria will stop them.
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  198. Do you think this is planned? I presume Europe's governments knew they could continue to get their energy through third parties and all this is just designed to cause artificial scarcities and price/inflation increases. As for majority voting, countries that disagree should be able to implement or not implement rules at their discretion.
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  199. It's a vast money laundering operation, gun running, drug and people smuggling racket, just like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam were, all for the corrupt families of the American oligarchy and the security state who use it to fund their private armies and state-within-a-state that came into its own after the false flag attacks orchestrated by the likes of Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearl, etc.
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  200. Gonzalo Lira is yesterday's news. And irrelevant.
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  201. Or each other.
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  202. Purely symbolic. They will be basically recognising a bantustan/Indian reservation. It will still be controlled by either Israel or thy United States, probably by a corrupt and collaborationist government not unlike the Palestinian Authority they breve now. Their oil and gas will still end up in the hands of the West.
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  203. Hopefully, Russia's actions will put a stop to his buying up of Ukraine's arable land and contaminating eastern Europe's food supplies with GMO seeds, as well as freeing Ukrainian farmers from subservience to US agribusiness corporations.
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  204. They did the same under US agent of influence Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative party in the 1980's and 90's. Neo-Conservatives applying Neo-Liberal nostrums.
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  205. And all for attacking its Third World neighbours with their second and third rate armies. I wonder how good it would be against a peer power.
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  206. WEF/Bilderberg/Davos, etc. Multi-billionaires through Agenda 2030 deciding to reduce the global population.
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  207. That's probably because he's been selected by the troika rather than the Greek electorate. I'm curious. You describe yourself as a Greek Canadian American. Does that mean you have citizenship of three countries?
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  208. It's a game of upping (or downing) the ante: the Democrats will threaten the Republicans with corruption charges in proportion to them threatening to bring corruption charges. You go after Biden, we'll go after Trump. It's a game of chicken: who'll go the furthest. I think that it's theatre for the most part. They have a modus vivendi where they'll make a backroom deal and no one gets seriously punished (except the small fry), or if they do they'll either get a pardon or won't serve the full term of their sentence.
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  209. That would be descending to their level. And the Russians, I'm sure, don't want to do that.
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  210. You've expressed it perfectly! 🫡👍
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  211.  @rutous9031  Doesn't Russian use honorifics like Mr, Mrs, Miss, Dr., professor, etc?
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  212. Perhaps the USA wants certain weapons to be captured, studied and reverse engineered. The loss of any advantage they have due to secrecy will then give an excuse for the military‐industrial complex of the USA to spend even more money on even more weapons, research and development. In the case of Europe it will not only make them lose any advantage they may have but in addition their military‐industrial complexes will suffer and they will have to increasingly rely on US R & D and equipment + training. In other words it will make the countries of Europe even more dependent on the USA, destroy or otherwise negatively effect those individual European country's industries, services, research facilities and personnel that are related to the military sector while being a boon to the general economy of the USA and its military economy in particular. Bear in mind that certain countries in Europe rely heavily on their military‐industrial complexes, some to the extent that it's the only thing that keeps them industrialised.
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  213. The destruction of Great Britain is anticipated, perhaps even planned, by the deep state of the USA, just as in Latin America. There the systematic destruction of the economies of Latin America under the various generalissimos imposed by the USA was deliberate, not accidental, not due to corruption or incompetence. Deliberate. Ditto for Russia and Eastern Europe in 1989.
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  214. Europeans are not as culturally homogeneous as the Chinese and the appearance of a unified 'west" is more of myth created in the aftermath of world wars 1 & 2.
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  215. Your clown world was perfect in drawing our attention to the use of Ukrainian state propaganda in this instance. I assume Zelensky's spokesman did this to reassure the ultra-nationalists that Zelensky is one of them.
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  216. Can India help Pakistan maintain its democratic government? Would it want to?
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  217.  @unwantednobody6483  And rupees. ✔
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  218. Do you forget so quickly the extreme austerity that was imposed on Greece by the EU, austerity that caused much hardship to the Greek people and continues to cause hardship? Greece has still not fully recovered from it. Or maybe you never knew because your mainstream media didn't tell you. Or maybe you just don't care.
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  219. Ever thought of having chapters, Alex?
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  220. Any attempt by Japan to cosy up to Russia or China will always be sabotaged by the USA. Ditto South Korea. Unless and until the United States loses significant influence in South East Asia it will always be so.
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  221. GB News is probably part of an intelligence operation by MI5/CIA.
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  222. They're almost comical in their amateurism.
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  223. Perhaps Russia could use Wagner to frustrate the French in Niger (not that they want or need to to), just like they did in the cold war when western neo-imperialists led by the USA were hindered by China and Russia who went some way to help in the various liberation struggles of non-western peoples, albeit for their own ulterior geopolitical reasons.
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  224. Orders from the corporatocracy.
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  225. I've noticed that too. There seems to be a discrepancy between the number of comments visible and the comments counter on some videos. Take note YouTube.
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  226. The United Kingdom doesn't really have its own nuclear bombs (they are all controlled by the USA) so if such a thing were to happen it would be the USA. No two ways about it. However, such a scenario is so outlandish that it's ludicrous to suggest such a thing. The Ukraine on the other hand....
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  227. It's not what they want, it's what their masters, the ones who pay their wages, want.
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  228. (Neo-)Fascist, not communist! Fascists are in control of the Ukrainian government remember.
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  229. Ukraine is like Afghanistan: just a vast money-laundering operation for the US deep state to fund its secret armies, bribe politicians and generate profits for the banks.
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  230. Back then the USA allowed GB to do this as part of a plan to woo Putin and give him legitimacy (apparently, the West is under the delusion that only western countries can confer political legitimacy upon the world's leaders). The opposite is the case today.
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  231. I read/heard that somewhere too. Just another way in which the deep state keeps the ponzi scheme that is the US economy going a little longer.
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  232. He's being debriefed by his US handlers and allotted the sinecures he's earned for doing his master's bidding.
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  233.  @mbolton  if it's not a NATO member why are all the NATO countries openly providing weapons, ammunition, mercenaries, special forces and intelligence assets to fight the Russians as if it were a NATO member?
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  234. Your thoughts on the anti-abortion stance of the SCOTUS.
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  235. The USA is using its client state Germany to pursue a fiscally disastrous policy that I'm sure is designed to economically weaken both the EU and Germany and make them more dependent even as the EU arrogates more power itself.
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  236. Unfortunately, she's doing a disservice to her country. The hegemonic interests of the USA are not the interests of Denmark.
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  237. "Single finger"...?
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  238. They are unhappy that all the electric cars are Chinese. Be wary all you libertarians and neoliberals, free markets, like free competition, only works if you can compete.
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  239. Probably taken her to a refuse/ garbage dump.
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  240. Source?
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  241. It looks to me like western leaders all read from the same script. Literally. Almost verbatim they repeat each other, paraphrasing the same talking points that come from the White House. Almost like they were... puppets.
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  242. High inflation, hyperinflation is what Europe and North America are headed for. Great Depression 2.0. Even a possible collapse of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.
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  243. When the USA finally gets itself the fascist dictator it seems to be heading towards then that might happen. Just enough reform (like the New Deal) to stop the country turning left.
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  244. These 'riots' may have been orchestrated by certain intelligence agencies to justify the subsequent actions that will be taken by Keir Starmer (himself a known intelligence asset). They may also serve as a distraction.
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  245. Part of the Great Reset, otherwise known as the global takeover by western corporations and the banks that fund them.
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  246. Are you sure it was a result of SARS-Cov2/Covid-19 and not an adverse reaction to the 'vaccines'? Or was it just the common cold? I've read that the corona virus hasn't even been isolated and thus tests for it are actually detecting another, similar virus. The PCR test is also not a reliable method of detection.
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  247. Will it matter all that much if he loses? The two parties are just factions of the same corporate state anyway. Policy will still remain essentially unchanged whichever party wins. And Trump's chances of a second term it would seem have been dashed, at least for the time being, by the Democrats lawfare.
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  248. Democracy is — was — just an historical aberration; a temporary phase peculiar to western Europe resulting from a unique combination of political and social movements happening at the time. It was very useful as an ideological tool and for the purposes of propaganda during the cold war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and in the wars between the allies and the axis, but something that was never fully realised in practice. We are seeing it being reversed before our eyes.
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  249. That's certainly going to be demoralising. I pity the families they left behind. The sooner this war ends between these two slavic nations the better.
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  250. Don't women in the USA have breast milk? Why is it such a big deal?
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  251. She's a puppet of Bilderberg/Davos and probably the US deep state too. She's a spy and saboteur (aka an agent of influence) placed in the EU to do the bidding of a certain non‐European power and very powerful interest groups. At least that's one way of looking at it.
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  252. It will have turned into a more authoritarian institution perfectly complementing the authoritarian governments that will by then make up the core member states of the European Union.
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  253. These storys are a textbook case of intelligence agency gaslighting. They are designed to confuse and obfuscate, nothing more.
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  254. If I was Putin I'd threaten Finland with invasion. Go right up to Sweden's border. And if the Swedes still want to join NATO I would make it quite clear that if it did Sweden would not be allowed any nuclear weapons or nuclear capable launch vehicles (submarines, surface ships and aircraft) on its territory.
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  255. Lynsey Graham I think is a little too honest at times. He should just zip it. He embarasses the Establishment with his outspokeness.
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  256. That's assuming Scholz is not himself a US asset.
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  257. ​ @brolohalflemming7042  It still got through, just not as the Community Charge but as the Council Tax. Different name but basically the same principle at work: a tax on everybody.
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  258. United States agent of influence. Davos/World Economic Forum/Bilderburg plant.
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  259. Both Iraq and Syria are illegally occupied as the government of Iraq has told the USA to vacate its territory. As regards the EU, it is just an extension of the MICIMATT complex of the USA, its highest office holders being nothing more than agents of influence working to advance the corporate interests of the USA.
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  260. Sweden and Finland joining NATO sooner or later was always in the pipeline; it was only a matter of time.
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  261. It looks like a crane to me.
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  262. I think you're wrong Alex about Zelensky's intentions with regards a Ukrainian offensive. It's not about encouraging dissension in Russia but boosting morale among their troops in Ukraine and being seen to be doing something – anything! – to please the USA. If something can't be done it's still seen as acceptable to be seen to be at least trying to do something, even if you're not actually doing it. Just going through the motions, basically.
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  263. The EU was created with not a little help from the USA as the economic and political counterpart to NATO and as a means of furthering its control of the continent. The breakup of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact merely encouraged the USA to expand its influence further. It is now reaching imperial overstretch.
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  264. Unless they've been embalmed and kept on ice prior to burial, then I would imagine they wouldn't. I am given to understand that modern armies have special mortuary units that are responsible for the disposal of the dead and maybe they were employed here.
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  265. ​ @fightback397  For the crime of disseminating compromising information. It does not matter how he came into possession of the information; the fact of the matter is that he published it. That's my take on this.
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  266. Maybe the Russians. A cyber attack by the Russians on certain western banks located in the City of London and Switzerland as well as a few other choice locations known for their support for money laundering and tax evasion. Maybe if Biden and son (or Hillary and daughter) were locked out of their bank accounts and threatened with having their private wealth effectively confiscated they might think twice about imposing financial sanctions on others.
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  267. I'm sure that a lot of these sanctions are deliberately designed with loopholes in them specifically so that they can be circumvented by certain countries as they see fit. That and turning a blind eye to violations whenever it suits.
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  268. The Americans are giving the Chinese an ultimatum that they know they cannot and will not comply with and then they are going to use it as an excuse to decouple – in so far as they can – the European Union and any others it can cajole or coerce into following along. To wit, the USA it seems to me wants nothing less than another cold war in which its satellites in Russia and China are isolated. The difference this time is that, instead of cutting off China and Russia they are cutting off themselves. And not only are they cutting off themselves from Russia and China, they are cutting themselves off from the rest of the world because I don't see the rest of Asia, Africa and Latin America choosing just one bankrupt nation to do serious business with over all others.
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  269. Hungary will be strong-armed to at least semi-cooperate in the EU's machinations regarding Ukraine. Orban will be ousted by means fair or foul if he digs his heels in. — Magyarország erős fegyverzetű lesz, hogy legalább félig együttműködjön az EU Ukrajnával kapcsolatos machinációiban. Orbánt tisztességes vagy szabálytalan eszközökkel fogják kiszorítani, ha beleás a sarkába.
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  270. That's an interesting take on things. It would seem to be counterintuitive if true.
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  271. Not boyfriend (he's an adult). Sodomy partner.
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  272. Phone camera on a stick, I suppose.
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  273. If the eurocrats are intent on creating an EU army then Ukraine won't have to join NATO; they'll just join EuroArm (are whatever it will be called). Of course, this EU army will almost certainly be intimately linked to NATO so it will be NATO by the backdoor. Like the EU treaties, they just change a few words and, voila, everything is magically transformed.
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  274. Merry Christmas everyone and a happy and prosperous New Year. 🕯🍻🎅🍰🎊🎁🤶🎈🎉🥳
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  275. The more aware I become of all the censorship, whitewashing, gaslighting, political correctness, wokeness, etc. that's going on the more convinced I am that the entire media of the West is fully integrated into an information management system that is controlled by the deep state of the USA and its closest allies the five eyes This extends to the internet as well. I say this because the same set of messages are being uniformly given out across all media platforms with hardly any differences between them whatever language they are in. And its a grip I fear will only tighten, its sophistication only increase, along with its pervasiveness. The USA wants to dominate the information space of the world no less that it wants total dominance on land, sea, air and in space and has come as close as you can currently get with the technology that's currently available with regards the information space of its NATO‐EU allies. Let's face it, we're in a the first decade of new cold war instigated almost entirely by the neocons in the USA, Australia and Britain. Instead of the end of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact leading us to a more peaceful world it has instead led to the elites in certain western countries thinking they can maintain the unipolarity moment of the Yeltsin era. However, we've moved on since 1989 and Russia is resurgent thus there is an urgent need for such thinking to be abandoned in favour of one acknowledging the bi‐ or tri‐polarity (China, Russia, India) of the nascent new world order that is emerging.
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  276. Even though Britain is no longer officially part of the EU.
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  277. Glad you're back! 🙋‍♂️
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  278. The aim was to damage Europe's relations with Russia and make Europe more reliant on the USA. And it has been quite successful so far. It also serves as a distraction and to consolidate a US dominated pan-European corporate security state that has been expanding exponentially since the 1980's.
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  279. If BRICS de-dollarisation occurs we'll see how long the USA can afford to prop up NATO using just I.O.U.'s.
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  280.  @jimc.goodfellas  ...And the unelected heads of the corporations, banks and their lobbyists.
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  281. ​ @phils4634  The reason they are experiencing economic difficulties is because they are copying western neo-liberalism, a set of economic policies which don't work and have been disastrous to the economies of all those countries that have adopted them. That's because neo-liberalism is an ideology created by the rentier parasite elites of Britain and the USA who want to justify the accumulation of the world's wealth by the FIRE sector of those two countries.
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  282. I think I read somewhere that the USA are going to withdraw the Abrams tank and replace it because it's too hard to maintain and isn't particularly suited to the terrain (too heavy) in Europe.
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  283. Taxing tips! My god, staff in restaurants and bars are already underpaid and often have to hold down two jobs just to make ends meet so taxing them... outrageous! Do they want them to have to hold down three jobs!
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  284. No way is this man going to be re-elected. No way. His party... who knows. The citizens of the USA better prepare for a GOP victory. Another Trump?
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  285. Why?
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  286. If they start sanctioning India then that will be another country they have alienated. But... maybe that is the plan of the Great Reset planners.
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  287. Turkey is a key NATO ally. Would the USA risk alienating Turkey by doing such a thing? It would drive the country straight into the hands of the China-Russia alliance.
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  288. They must think the Russians are stupid.
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  289. They are basically copying the USA. The EU's laws are being harmonised with those of the USA.
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  290. Russia should help Iran acquire the capability to refine its own oil (if it doesn't have that capability already) so it will not rely so much on outside refineries. The same for Venezuela.
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  291. Yes, I agree. This war has gone on for too long and needs to end soon. Peace needs to be restored so that Ukrainians can get on with their lives and rebuild their economy.
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  292. It's a case of the USA 'locking in' the EU and trying to prevent it becoming too independent of the financial and corporate institutions of the Anglosphere.
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  293. It's certainly an accessory to genocide/war crimes/crimes against humanity, after and during, if not – as I suspect – before the fact (as in, the deep state planned this, like it planned the attacks on Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, creating fake pretexts/false flags as cover).
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  294. That is irrelevant. What is important to Biden's backers is that Europe's weapons industry is destroyed so that the weapons industry in the USA prospers and becomes a monopoly. Wiping out the competition in true 'free market' style. Remember, the United States is one big weapons and spy tech factory masquerading as a country.
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  295. Only... she didn't say that. The quote is mis-attributed to her.
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  296. It all depends on the personal financial and other circumstances of the woman in question I suppose.
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  297. I wonder if Russia and China can put pressure on Pakistan to deter its military from overthrowing the country's government. India too (though in India's case they might not be willing or even able given the hostility between the two countries and the relation they have with the USA).
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  298. If they aren't formally allies then they are certainly strategic partners united by common military security concerns vis‐a‐vis the United States. That means they cooperate in the economic, political and military fields. For instance, diplomatically speaking, China tends to support the Russian Federation in international affairs, eg. at the United Nations, and this tends to be reciprocated. Each know that if the USA succeeds in subjugating one of them the other will be next and thus it is better to present a common front on the issues that matter most.
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  299. He's preparing the ground for a series of colour revolutions, assassinations and coups d'état to get the the continent's resources and make it harder for the Russians and Chinese. Also to sterilise the population and slow its grown under the guise of stopping pandemics and taking possession of Africa's crop land.
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  300. Isn't it weirdly ironic that the USA is using anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism against France to further its own imperialism and colonialism in Africa, all the while feigning wide-eyed ignorance.
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  301. Who'd like to place bets on whether Turkey will veto Finland joining NATO? Is this just posturing on the part of Erdoğan, is he just wanting to wangle something out of Russia, USA?
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  302. All those loans are not only non-repayable (i.e odious debt), but tied to purchasing western goods and services, thus the money given will simply be recycled and will not be used in domestic economy. The Ukrainians will get nothing but debt.
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  303. Why did the French assassinate the first governor (president?) of Greece? And did the Greeks ever really accept the German monarchy?
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  304. It reminds me of the last few years of the Soviet Union before Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
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  305. Six billion of Iran's own money, confiscated in 1979.
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  306. Not if it's painted on a Ukrainian flag background.
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  307. He's a spy. 👀
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  308. German politicians are puppets and have been since the war of 1939-1945. German politicians serve as compradors to the USA. Like Latin Americans they are quite prepared to put the United States before their own country.
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  309. More like being a centre of jihadi terrorism in the region (Afghanistan) and agent of tension (India, China).
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  310. They are using Bolton to fire a shot across Erdoğan's bow.
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  311. From the warmongering neocons of the USA it is probably seen as a brilliant strategic manoeuvre, successfully sowing political division within the EU, at least temporarily interrupting vital energy supplies to Europe (damaging the industries of major economic rivals France and especially Germany), and giving a much-needed boost to the USA's own domestic gas production. From a longer term perspective though I would have to say that it will turn out to be unsuccessful in preventing closer relations between Russia and the rest of Europe and forestalling the emergence of a more integrated Eurasia. China's rise to number one pole position is in my opinion inevitable and China will thus still continue its Belt and Road Initiative regardless, pulling both Russia and Germany into its orbit.
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  312. Starmer's not in charge, the Americans are.
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  313. Alex, the EU is under the control of the USA and they are preparing for the US dollar losing in its pole position and thus are creating a continental system that props up the US economy by locking in the West. After all, that's what NATO and the EU were created for in the first place: to separate the east from the west and stop them creating a pan‐Eurasian economic bloc.
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  314. This may all be distraction, smoke and mirrors. As far as we know the Russians and/or Chinese are colluding with the USA on some level and have no substantive differences on the issues that they are portrayed to the general public as having.
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  315. Did ancient Roman bathhouses look like that church with its semicircular walls?
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  316. Russia, India and China should spearhead a reform of the UN using the members of the General Assembly to gather enough member countries to outvote the western bloc.
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  317. Poland is a puppet of the USA. One of the prizes of winning the cold war.
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  318. The Russians or EU could be deliberately equivocating.
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  319. The election was somewhat controversial, although you probably would not know that by looking at the media.
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  320. The West is just the USA. To all practical purposes the EU has no foreign policy of its own.
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  321. The 'Great' War, in fact. Scared the crap out of the capitalists and aristocracy.
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  322.  @rashmigupta9  The moment the putschists came into power actually. One of the first things they did, all planned in advance of course with the Americans. Maybe the Bidens got a cut. Who knows.
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  323.  @jgriffin282  Common sense? In what way? We don't need more austerity, tax increases for the poor, cuts in welfare, to tighten our belts – a right wing thing; we need the opposite. And only the left will do that.
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  324. From my limited experiences with British razor wire the 'blades' aren't particularly sharp and it's only the barbs on either side that are, making it more like barb wire in that it peirces rather than cuts. Of course, razor wire in other countries may be different. [That isn't to say that the blades won't cut into your skin if you press hard enough.]
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  325. A bunch of dual-citizen billionaires and their Christian-Zionist backers. And those who are the owners/shareholders of the major corporations and banks.
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  326. If Britain's world war 2 experience is to go by the Ukraine will be paying back the lend‐lease loans for the next 60 years.
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  327. Both Hitler and Stalin did in WW2.
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  328. Interesting development regarding the indictment of ex-president Trump. As for the situation in Ukraine, still no change: Russia advances, Ukraine retreats. The sooner this little war in Europe ends the better for everyone.
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  329. Maybe the USA is pushing the EU (France, Germany) into creating an army of its own and this is the way it's going about it. It appears it wants to concentrate less on Russia and more on China and by having the Europeans waste their precious resources containing an illusory threat from the former it allows the USA to use the bulk of its own resources for 'containing' the latter. In other words, it wants Europe to be the rearguard protecting America's back while it goes after China. It may also be a crafty way of not only maintaining, but actually increasing, its control over Europe via the creation of a pan-European army that is nominally independent but in actual fact is, like the European Union itself, heavily influenced, if not outright controlled, by the USA through agents of influence. It also weakens Europe by having it invest in pountless military spending (especially if it involves buying weapons made in the USA) at the expense of a much more useful domestic economy that meets the civilian needs of Europeans instead of the military needs of the corporate elites of the USA.
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  330. The head of the political party that wins the most votes in Britain's first past the post electoral system is, ex officio, the prime minister, subject to approval by Her Majesty The Queen.
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  331. № 1 Canada. Or various Muslim fundamentalist groups from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc.
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  332. The Cold War was never really about communism but about stopping the economic development of the East and its competition with the West (not least the USA and Britain). The same for the rest of the non-European world.
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  333. Read somewhere that the director of Homeland Security is trying to ban people saying that, accusing them of disinformation.
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  334. A complete reversal of reality.
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  335.  Erik Hatzenbuehler  A regime that comes to power in a coup d'état orchestrated by a foreign government which then proceeds to ban all political parties, causes a civil war, and persecutes its political opponents and ethnicities, is not a democratic government. Not by a long shot. And while Putin's Russia might not be an ideal democracy according to the definition of that shining corporatist utopia on the hill that is the USA, it is nonetheless a more democratic society than what Ukraine is at the moment. Also, what an arrogant assumption it is that democracy should be the sole criterion of political legitimacy.
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  336.  Erik Hatzenbuehler  I don't think most people do call it a revolution (and if they do then they don't really know what a revolution is vis-a-vis an unconstitional seizure of power), and declaring a significant proportion of your own people persona non grata thus triggering a civil war cannot really fit the definition of revolution because revolutions are popular uprisings against oppression, not for oppression. — Oh, and in answer to your question, yes, Russia invaded Ukraine, but that fact under the circumstances is irrelevant as the government of Ukraine was engaging in widespread persecution of ethnic Russians and inviting NATO, an organisation vowed to Russia's destruction, right onto Russia's doorstep. This constituted an existential threat to Russia's security that the country simply could not tolerate, it being tantamount to a declaration of war on the Russian Federation itself.
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  337.  Erik Hatzenbuehler  Maybe by the Stepan Bandera Azov Battalion of neo-fascists and their fellow travellers, but I'm sure the vast majority of Ukrainians, whether ethnic Ukrainian or ethnic Russian, disagree. Remember, Ukraine fought fascism in the Great Patriotic War so I don't think most people actually do support a neo-fascist, ultra-nationalist government of antisemitic xenophobes hellbent on selling off everything to US corporations.
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  338.  Erik Hatzenbuehler  More of a mutiny by soldiers who were fed up with czarist autocracy and didn't want to the post-revolutionary government to continue an unpopular war.
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  339. I'm sure they'll be returned discreetly and nothing more will be said, certainly not in the British media.
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  340. Their agenda is set by two things: the USA is one and the other is the banks, both of whom are neo‐liberal.
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  341. Nice monument and nice buildings.
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  342. The warrant for his arrest I am given to understand was ad hoc and issued without warning. He presumably didn't know that he was going to be arrested or even that he was on a wanted list. I am also given to understand that this was a stopover for refuelling purposes; perhaps his plane was running out of fuel and had no choice but to land in France.
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  343. Everything seems so clean and bright where you are Alex, like all the buildings are brand new. The sun always brings out the colour of things. Unfortunately, when it's this bright it's usually also hot and I hate sunbathing weather, and even more so if its coupled with humidity. Anyway, an interesting talk and here's hoping don't get sunburn.
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  344. The seizure is just a giant money laundering operation. Same with Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
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  345. More like destroying the livelihoods of everyone outside the one percent and turning everyone into a neo-feudal serf for the FIRE sector of the USA.
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  346. NATO intervene? I doubt that. I am sure the Russians are more than capable of protecting the nuclear reactor from harm by themselves and whatever conclusions the IAEA's fact finding mission reaches I am pretty confident that there will be a quick resolution soon.
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  347. The USA, the European Union has no say. Until and unless the countries of NATO grow a backbone and stand up to the warmongering neocons and libs in the USA then this proxy war the US military‐industrial complex is waging against Russia will go on indefinitely.
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  348. Not necessary and/or desirable. Maybe not even possible.
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  349. They don't care! And why should they; why care about something that you have no power over?
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  350.  @james6401  — The fascists merely went to the United States of America and laid low for a while (about 25 years) before re‐emerging after the assassination of John Kennedy and his brother, Martin King, Malcolm X, etc. The progressiveness embodied by theose people was a bit too much for them to stomach. —
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  351. Since the USA through its proxies (WEF, UN etc.) and agents of influence (Von de Leyen) has decided to create an EU army and have full fiscal union. The powers that be want the European Union to be a full-fledged federation with a central authority whose power supercedes that of the individual states. And it does not hide the fact.
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  352. Unfortunately for the Ukrainians it's only temporary and the Russians will soon reverse these tactical victories. It will end soon.
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  353. The equivalent of US $30 doesn't seem much. Also, this seems very vulnerable to cyber attack. That said, it is an innovation that is to be welcomed, at least initially, and if it helps the country financially and is a step on the road to gaining fiscal independence from the Bretton Woods institutions controlled by the United States, then all is for the best. If major economies like China, Russia and India get on board with trading in crypto currencies then it might provide a means by which the so-called global South can achieve real economic growth and social development instead of being held back by the debt bondage imposed the IMF and World Bank.
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  354. Maybe they'll build it in the rump state (statelet) of Ukraine after Russia has finished with it. But then the war will be over and Ukraine will neither need, nor be able to afford, such tanks.
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  355. It undermines the legal principle that a country's nationals are protected when they travel abroad and that they have basic rights that protects them from arbitrary arrest and seizure.
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  356. " [ ... ] 7 and 28 days after birth extermination." □○□ I know that the USA allows – at least in certain states – (almost) full term abortions but I wasn't aware that the USA also allowed for post‐birth euthanasia. Please elucidate further. When have living, healthy babies (as opposed to babies born with such severe mental or physical handicaps that they would not survive much beyond their first year anyway) been killed in the USA, which states?
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  357. It's an offer designed to be rejected.
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  358. To usher in a central banking digital currency and prop up the US dollar and euro-area.
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  359. Your sound like an incel-MGTOW.
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  360. On the car issue she may be right though. At the end of the day would you rather have a Europe of mass unemployment caused by China making everything or protect your own industries? Laissez-faire is good only if you have a level playing field with more or less equally developed countries and where no one has too great an advantage over others.
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  361. It's just a vast money-laundering operation for the deep state to finance its clandestine operations. Politicians are being used as a cover and so they can be blackmailed, making them easier to manipulate.
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  362. Is Linsey Graham that religious nutter who takes gullible people's money in his megachurch? (Maybe I'm confusing him with someone else).
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  363. The United States senate is coming ever closer to its Julius Caesar moment. These senators and representatives are so out of touch with reality.
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  364. Probably because he was stressed and tired.
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  365. 500th! [Numerologically/Kabbalistically speaking, does that have any significance?]
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  366. The Pentagon of the USA have already factored this into their calculations. They are quite happy to see the EU economically damage itself by undermining confidence by foreign investors in the economies of Europe. They want an economic decoupling between the EU and China, Russia.
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  367. Working.
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  368. Those who did 9/11 want a slush fund to do another false flag (9/11 2.0, code name dirty bomb). Their slush funds from Afghanistan and Syria are apparently not enough. It's expensive to run your own private state-within-state.
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