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

  1. We didn't give Poland to Stalin because it was not ours to give in the first place. Stalin invaded Poland initially in 1939 after Britain and France (which had secretly helped Hitler rise to power) refused to enter into an alliance that might have put a break on German expansionism, forcing Stalin to seek to create a buffer zone. Then he invaded Poland again during a war that Britain and France had no small part in causing in which Russia, to get to Germany, had to pass through. In both cases Russia was acting in its own best interests. Then consider the USA went and created a totally unnecessary cold war by threatening Russia with NATO and a re-armed Germany to the point of Stalin having to create yet another buffer zone in the form of the Warsaw Pact. And after a series of colour revolutions orchestrated by the West that saw the rapid expansion of NATO and the EU (both American dominated institutions hostile to Russia) throughout Eastern Europe and moving the American empire, an empire that had spent the last 75 years trying to destroy it, right up to its borders, created a hostile fascist state right next door that once more posed an existential threat to the country. Perhaps you'd have been better off under Hitler. I'm sure under his version of corporatism you Poles would have had plenty of opportunities to serve as gasterbeiter. Western Europe (capitalism's imperial core) exploits eastern Europe for the benefit of its parasitical, rentier, debt-ridden economic system, cheap Polish labour being just one of many advantages of being Western.
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  2. Tell that to China and Russia. Both countries went from peasant societies to modern superpowers in the space of no more than 40 years.
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  3. International bankers and fascist corporations involved in speculation crashed the global economy. Had nothing to do with Labour, which exists only as a fake, Tory-lite opposition party anyway, no more able to rein in the American deep state and its client states in the EU than anyone else.
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