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

  1. The USA wants to recreate the conditions of the first cold war but seems to not understand that the economics, politics and military capabilities its two main rivals have changed radically since then. The world has become a lot more economically integrated since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and both the Russian Federation and People's Republic of China are now major drivers of that integration. With BRICS+ the world is becoming much more politically integrated too and these trends towards multipolarity will only continue in the future. The world does not want unipolarity and the sooner the policy elites in the USA realise this and change the foreign policy of their country accordingly the better. Free trade between all countries is what the world wants. It certainly doesn't want one country dictating to everyone else who they can and cannot trade with and under what conditions.
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  2. Kudos to Claire. That ad hominem attack was uncalled for and out of order. Unfortunately, it's an all too common tactic these days.
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  3. Interesting analysis. Let's face facts: Russia has superiority in both quantity and quality over Ukraine with regards their airforce.
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  4. "Soviet oppression." Is that when they Russians and their satellites had an unprecedented raising of their living standards, no more famines, life expectancy, literacy...?
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  5. Pascal, Glenn this is one of the best podcasts I've heard on the subject.
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  6. It's not primarily about Russia and China; they are secondary. The primary goal is to force Europe to become dependent on the USA.
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  7. They are still an occupied country with government and a military still under the influence of the USA. Same with Japan and South Korea.
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  8. ​ @ms-jl6dl a work of fiction. Try reading Karl Marx or Freidrich Engels.
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  9. It would be more realistic of them to talk about the disproportionate influence that the USA exercises over Europe, an influence that it uses ruthlessly in the pursuit of its perceived geostrategic interests increasingly to the detriment not only of the European Union but also of the rest of the world more generally.
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  10. ​​​​ @stevezodiacXL5  a.) The European Union was always and to this day remains, like NATO, an organisation dominated by the USA. In or out is therefore irrelevant: we'd still be under the the thumb of the USA, if not directly then indirectly through its proxies, Germany and France. — b.) In actual fact we have withdrawn from the European Union in name only. In reality, to all practical purposes we are still within it and bound by its rules, albeit by and large on an informal basis. That is, we are still de facto members but now with no formal voting rights, the simple reason being that the European Union is too powerful to ignore on issues like immigration and trade.
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  11. @HK-zf7op A large chunk of Poland was part of Russia until 1919, as were the Baltic states. When Russia invaded Poland in 1939 it was taking back territory it had formerly held. Likewise, after the war Russia kept parts of the territory it had occupied and compensated Poland by giving it formerly German territory.
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  12. Crazy, though that was nothing compared to thy Plaza Accords.
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  13. Who has the superior technology is the main question to ask here. I'm no expert but I would guess the Russians are at least as good as the Americans in this field. And if they strike first...?
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  14. The United States has shut down western diplomacy the same way as it has shut down the dispute resolution mechanism of the World Trade Organisation. It isn't that Europe doesn't want to engage with Russia and China but that it's being obstructed in its attempts to do so by the USA. A rules-based international order is fine with Russia and China as long as those rules are arrived at by consensus and based on the principles of fairness and equality between states. It's the USA's self-perception of itself as being exceptional, along with an innate sense of moral and cultural superiority over non-western peoples, that is getting in the way of progress. The peculiar and irrational hatred of communism and socialism may also have something to do with it as well.
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  15. Actually Eurasia – Europe AND Asia: a truly multi-polar world. But Rimland wants to stop unity within Heartland.
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  16. For eastern Europe membership of the European Union means accepting a neo- or quasi-colonial relationship with Western Europe. Western Europe (the real 'West') sees the East primarily as a source of cheap labour and a market for western goods and for the extraction of strategic resources like oil, gas and uranium or its usefulness as a transit corridor for pipelines and access to other places.
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  17. ​ @m.l.5284 Don't the workers make up the bulk of a nation's economy? A strong economy is made strong by the workers – the ones actually generating the wealth through the sweat of their brow – and not by the managers and rentiers.
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  18. ​​ @m.l.5284  I don't know, but does it matter where it's from? Is it not true? Do the 99% need the 1% for society to function and civilisation to progress and prosper? Or do the 1% need the 99% who make their wealth for them, who till their fields, who wait upon them, who build their palaces, and work in their gold mines?
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  19. Truth be told in never rant went away.
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  20. And that's especially true of Japan.
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  21. But only after it had become a threat to Russia. You've left that bit out. Let us not forget that Ukraine had been a part of Russia for three hundred years prior to the unconstitutional breaking up of the Soviet Union and a large part of its population were and are ethnic Russians.
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  22. Since 1917 actually. More than a century. By now it's institutionalised in academia, the military and civil society in general. Political discourse at all levels is never entirely free of it.
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  23. At least since the false flag of 2001, if not since JFK.
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  24. In my opinion an excellent analysis Mr Diesen.
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  25. Theology is the attempt to justify the irrational (that is the supernatural). Ideology is something similar, but it tries to justify an idealised political system rather than a religion, while philosophy is a secular attempt to justify the status quo or reimagine it in an idealised way.
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  26. ​ @garyddlewis3067  A fortiori you could have said that about the Warsaw Pact, a genuinely defensive organisation designed to protect the Soviet Union from yet another invasion coming from the West (which warmonger Churchill of Britain certainly wanted).
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  27. ​ @garyyoung3179 and the USA isn't‽
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  28. His 'double think' – accepting contradiction without realising it is contradiction.
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  29. 1:04:23 Pascal hits the nail right on the head with the way he explained the attitudes of westerners to the rest of the world.
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  30. Israel (and its enabler, the USA) with a false flag, one preceeded by decades of persecution.
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  31. What ethnic group do the Swiss apply the name to?
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  32. Your optimism may be premature, Lasha.
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  33. Kamala waltzing to the Whitehouse? 😂 I don't think so. Its MAGA all the way. Suck it up, baby! 🤑
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  34. ​ @Karyabs Or Netanyahu. 🫥
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  35. It's the USA that's pushing this so don't expect anyone or any institution in Europe or the European Union to act as a break on this. Like Ukraine, the strategic planners of the US deep state are making the decisions, not the politicians, diplomats, etc.
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  36. Or the United States itself.
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  37. Fuller is a fool if he equates socialism and communism with fascism. No doubt he wants to blacken the name of socialism and communism while giving a free pass to capitalism which I'm sure he believes is a different and better system that represents the norm that all human societies would default to if only they were given the choice. It supports the status quo.
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  38. ​ @jamesmoriarty3593  the concept of the nation state was entirely alien to most people at that time, including the loose agglomeration of peoples we now refer to as Celts. These were tribal peoples whose loyalty was to their tribe/clan, not to nation. Patriotism/nationalism as we know it didn't exist back then and the notion of an entity called Great Britain, much less an obligation to defend it, was absent.
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  39. ​ @ralphbernhard1757 that's not an issue with brevity but of lying.
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  40. ​ @nathansowa9499  Well put, in my opinion.
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  41. I share your concerns. I think we all do, all those who want peace and not war.
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  42. China also has corruption and incompetence and it only gets worse over time, as even a cursory glance at Chinese history shows. At the beginning of a dynasty most of the corruption is small in scale and does not negatively impact the functioning of the state too much but by the end of the dynasty corruption has become so ubiquitous and severe that it gradually threatens the very survival of the state. The end of the Qing dynasty and Guomindang republic are stark examples of this. An oligarchy of capitalist plutocrats (which is what we have now) driven by the inexorable logic of capitalism to concentrate all the wealth in their own hands – and thus all the power – is not and will never be a very nice system for the majority no matter how indoctrinated they may be into thinking that it is.
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  43. Also a canal and gas/oil pipelines.
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  44. The US dollar, a fiat currency that Europe and the rest of the world must use is a form of tribute to the USA, as are those IMF bank loan repayments. As for serfdom, being a wage slave in a high-inflation service economy where your wages don't meet the cost of living certainly feels like being a serf.
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  45. Black, white, shades of grey. Rainbows do not exist.
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  46. Russia invaded Ukraine after constant provocation by the USA (NATO enlargement) and the actions of the illegitimate government (installed by coup) in Kiev.
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  47. Can you elucidate further?
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  48. Blame the victim. Capitalists are good at that and none more so than the Americans.
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  49. Neoliberalism (neoconservativism is just another name for it, imo) is basically a revived form of fascism, the fascism that appeared in Europe in the 1920"s as as response to the appearance of militant socialism and communism. Call it crypto-fascism a form of fascism that 'liberal democracies' will not call it by its real name. Techno/neo-feudalism.
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  50. US censorship is like its secondary sanctions on countries it opposes – not only can you not say X on an American platform but you also cannot say it on a foreign platform operating within the USA or even merely a platform that is merely distantly associated with it in some form or another either, at least not if you want to continue doing business in the USA. Faced with this, the EU and the wider world comply. The EU has also been assigned a intelligence gathering role (especially the so‐called 5 Eyes but Germany and France too) by the American security state, one charged with policing Europe on behalf of America's vast and ever growing intelligence apparatus, so there's that reason too for Europe to comply with American demands.
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  51. ​ @nurainiarsad7395  You still want to impose 'western' values, only by sly and crafty underhand means. You still tacitly support western cultural imperialism and therefore can be seen as a 'fellow traveller' of western imperialism who will stand aside and let others do the dirty work of cultural subversion for you.
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  52. It was and remains an American organisation. It was never anything different.
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  53. As Noam Chomsky has alluded to in several of his books, the so‐called cold war was not against communism but against 'resource nationalism' – the countries of the world becoming sovereign and using their resources for their own development instead of they of the West. The rulers of the west grew strong on the backs of the weak and they don't want the rest of the world to ever get to thy point where they can reverse this.
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  54. The same could also have been said about the Soviet Union pre-1991 and now the Russian Federation. Anything that stands in the way of western and North American capital accumulation is a threat.
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  55. Basically crypto-fascists and Nazi sympathisers/fellow travellers who went underground for three decades from the 1940's to the 1970's, coming out of hiding in the 1980's.
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  56. A project to keep Europe divided started by the British and still going strong more than a century later.
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  57. Switzerland is used as the bolthole of the multi-billionaires who run the military‐industrial complexes of the West. They can survive the nuclear or conventional war they cause in their Swiss bunkers, but for the rest of us....
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  58. Dismantling the EU... or transforming it into a federal dictatorship controlled from Brussels and working hand-in-glove with the United States to further its control of Europe's resources.
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  59. Is there such a thing as a 'centre-right' neoliberal? That's like saying there's such a thing as a centre-right Hitlerite fascist or a centre-left Stalinist communist.
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  60. Infiltration by the USA's intelligence operatives, media amalgamation so there are fewer voices, and capture of the political system through the use of compromised politicians and fake 'astroturf' parties and organisations funded by multi-billionaires with dubious aims.
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  61. They're bankers working for the same people who caused all these problems, the Americans. As eastern Europeans they are also traitors who are fully on board with the subservience of Europe to the USA.
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  62. They (meaning the US military and leadership) know this perfectly well. Their feigned ignorance is pure pretense.
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  63. ​ @andyharpist2938  ​The real blame lies in the economic theories and ideology of neoliberalism. If the Chinese are to blame it's because they have been forced into the straitjacket of Western neoliberalism. Ditto Russia. Remember, the West spent the better part of a century trying to destroy Russian and Chinese communism and convert them to capitalism. Now the West is complaining that capitalist Russia and China are using capitalism to beat them. — Den verkliga skulden ligger i nyliberalismens ekonomiska teorier och ideologi. Om kineserna är skyldiga är det för att de har tvingats in i den västerländska nyliberalismens tvångströja. Dito Ryssland. Kom ihåg att väst tillbringade större delen av ett sekel med att försöka förstöra rysk och kinesisk kommunism och omvandla dem till kapitalism. Nu klagar väst på att det kapitalistiska Ryssland och Kina använder kapitalismen för att slå dem. —
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  64. This treaty might make the DPRK more prosperous. Then again it seems to imply that the North will not try to reunify with the South by military means because it's 'not in Russia's interests'. It makes one wonder whether Russia's cosying up to Korea is just propaganda, public relations, window dressing for the benefit of the USA.
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  65. Is that why both Russia and China sold out in the 1980's and 90's, both becoming capitalist.
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  66. I think the same way. Netanyahu spent most of his life in the USA being beyond for power before being sent to Israel.
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  67. ​ @Memovox  You're wasting your time. You're probably talking to a cyber warfare troll or chatbot (propbot/propaganda bot – an automated program) created by western intelligence agencies, routinely deployed on YouTube channels in response to comments or videos on certain subjects or when certain trigger words are used. I've noticed such – often counterfactual – comments a lot since the genocide of the Palestinians and the war in Ukraine began.
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  68. Unfortunately, the USA and its supra-national adjuncts the EU and the UN are determined to invigilate and censor every platform on behalf of panopticon America. The various components of the transglobal *MICIMATT-Corporate complex (who dominate the EU and NATO and will no doubt in time, if they don't already, come to dominate the SCO, BRICS, etc.) want to have total control over every facet of human existence. MICIMATT – Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank (complex).
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  69. Why are you using underscores? It looks stupid and makes it hard to read your writing. Stop it! Do you really think that censors, human or AI, can't tell what you're saying? Do you really think they're that stupid that they can be fooled so easily? It's like spelling the word "shit" as "S@_t". I know what it means, a potential censor knows what it means, and I'm quite sure an AI algorithm can detect it.
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  70. But what of China and Russia, the BRICS? Aren't they capitalist?
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  71. The European Union, like NATO, is ultimately an institution created and controlled by the USA. Like the United Nations, also created by the USA, it serves American interests by either actively supporting its foreign policy goals, or passively standing aside while being ignored.
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  72. Americans. Like the one ring in the Lord Of The Rings it was designed to lock in the countries of Europe and destroy their sovereignty. How can you be sovereign if you can't even issue your own currency! It also props up the US dollar as the Euro is linked to it and is not allowed to compete with it.
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  73. Apparently it would seem not, at least if they fall under the shadow of the USA.
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  74. And that's why it's going for broke in the Middle East right now – 7 countries in 5 years – with Syria being the penultimate country destroyed and Iran being the last in the list.
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  75. In contradiction to its name the European Union is not actual European at all but a creation of the United States. Likewise, the United Nations is not a creation of the world's nations but, again, the USA and, to a mush lesser extent, western Europe.
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  76. Better late than never, as they say.
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  77. "Germanics" – whoever they are – would presumably already have been in Germany and so wouldn't have needed to come from elswhere. It would have made more sense if you had said that it was Scandinavians – marauders, pirates, bandits, colonisers – who entered France (Normandy) and Germany who caused the problem.
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  78. ​​ @dinnerwithfranklin  While the vast majority are getting poorer and poorer. Is that a system better than communism?
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  79. Neither has the West truly come to terms with its imperialism (and continued) neo-imperialism, colonialism (and continued) neo-colonialism, chattel and other forms of slavery, war-mongering and genocide (just look at present-day Israel). Truth be told, the Japanese were no more brutal than any other empire in history and neither were they uniquely savage or brutal. Why then must they forever be apologising to the American empire and its satraps ìn Asia for doing exactly doing what the USA has done and continues to do? The Japanese commit one Nanjing massacre 80 years ago and no one is allowed to forget; the USA (along with France and Britain) commits massacres on far larger scales – Rwanda, Congo, Libya, Sudan, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Indonesia – almost daily and most westerners are either ignorant of it, deny it, or justify it.
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  80. The Jews and the Arabs got along fine for the most part until the Zionists of the late 1940's showed up and began to ethnically cleanse the indigenous Arabs in their single-minded desire to create an exclusively Jewish ethnostate on the territory of an already existing people, the Palestinians, who, may I remind you, did not consent to share their land with someone else, much less an apartheid, segregationist ethnostate that was hellbent on expelling them.
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  81. To be honest, the Spanish and Portuguese first, then the English and their successors. The Germans were quite late. But still....
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  82. Keynesian pump priming is what I think it's called. I'm given to understand that the Germans did something similar in the 1930's and it worked... for a while. It seems though that such an economic policy is unsustainable over the longer term unless certain conditions remain stable, which isn't likely to be the case for long.
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  83. ... It's a subcontinent. FIFY
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  84. As in wanting Russia to dismantle the Warsaw Pact just so that it can be replaced by US-NATO. Or wanting China and the Soviet Union to dismantle communism just so it can be replaced with parasitic Anglo-American rentier capitalism. Launching a 50 year long cold war in which millions died just to prevent the peaceful contestation of capitalism by communism and its voluntary embrace by the global South. That sounds pretty much like wanting to take over the world to me.
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  85. Not a hot war, but a cold war.
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  86. The ones who are most complacent (and therefore so susceptible to propagandising) are the ones who live the most comfortable lives. They simply see no reason to change a system that seems to be working so well. There has to be a crisis before they begin questioning.
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  87. It always was a propaganda machine. Nothing had changed.
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  88. Agreed to a certain extent but I take issue with it being "relativist" or "postmodernist". If anything I would say it's the opposite in being morally absolutist.
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  89. MacKinder's rimland versus heartland.
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  90. The terms 'Middle East' and 'Near East' are European names for the extensive region that is properly called south-western Asia and which Syria is a part. Perhaps they wanted to avoid using words that may be construed as having negative connotations due to their association with imperialism and colonialism. Near East and Middle East are exonyms.
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  91. ​ @aleph8888  Europe needs NATO as much as it needed the Warsaw Pact.
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  92. All political systems in the West have been subverted by the MICIMATT of the USA and now European politics and political parties are increasingly modelled on the lines of that one country – two factions of a single fascist/corporatist party in the service of miltitary-Keynesian bankster rentierism. Under this system political parties and civil society are to become nothing more than controlled opposition, heavily surveilled, censored and deeply indoctrinated, operating within the narrow confines of a fascistic Weltanschauung dedicated to bringing about nothing less than a world of total corporate domination; mass media, schools and church serve merely as organs of state propaganda and a means by which humans can be turned into domesticated wage slaves (homo economicus) in which alternatives are literally inconceivable.
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  93. Spot on!
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  94. Would that be an actual quote from a book written by none other than the Jews themselves? As I recall the Bible is derived in part from the Jewish Torah and was originally written by, and for, Jews (albeit more than a little hetrodox).
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  95. They are what are commonly referred to in political studies parlance as compradors – members of the political elite who collaborate with the elites of foreign countries to further their own country's economic exploitation.
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  96. Reality will catch up with them.
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  97. It still controls Germany and through its control of their media and education system, the minds of the Germans.
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  98. I like this guys perfect commandof English and his – to me – posh/refined accent.
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  99. The polities of western Europe have been at war with Russia since at least 1917. In the case of Britain, geopolitically motivated since the Crimean war of the 1850's. Rimland versus heartland. Anglo-American Atlanticism against Franco-German Continentalism. Keeping Russia, Germany and France apart.
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  100. Interesting speculation. 🧐🤔🥸
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  101. The United States wants to divide the world, controlling Europe like it did from the 1940's to the 1980's. It wants to recreate the cold war and force the European Union to trade mainly with itself, the USA and its client states and will probably try to prop up its currency the dollar by introducing an EU-wide CBDC, possibly using the pooled gold reserves of European countries in an attempt to make its soft currency hard.
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  102. ​ @aachoocrony5754 ... and the EU.
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  103. Certainly since the creation of the CIA.
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  104. It's certainly made them dependent on EU handouts.
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  105. You have to destroy the village to save the village. You have to destroy democracy to save democracy. That is the attitude of the USA.
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  106. The USA is trying to replicate the conditions of cold war 1.0 with cold war 2.0. It's trying to isolate both Russia and China from the world economy like it did in the cold war. Unfortunately for the USA, China is the biggest economy in the world (fake statistics of the USA aside) and Russia is a major supplier of the world's raw materials. In trying to bring back manufacturing to the USA they think they can just deindustrialise the rest of the world and cut off Asia from trading with Europe and Latin America. Uncle Sam is like King Canute trying to hold back the tide.
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  107. No, Russia was.
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  108. ​ @ctrlaltdebug Don't forget the money laundering and fraud/corruption.
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  109. More like the USA. The USA's military-intelligence apparatus has spent 70 years systematically subverting genuine popular democracy, both at home and in its crypto-colonies, all in the service of a parasitical plutocracy. And Germany, make no mistake about it, is one of the USA's *crypto-colonies. — * I use the phrase 'crypto-colony' because the USA tends to deny (along with Western media in general) that it has colonies, or that European countries like Germany could ever be subject to American neo-colonialism. The idea is dismissed out of hand as ludicrous. Colonialism in the eyes of western media and academia is something that disappeared circa 1970 and, if it still exists at all, it does so as a relic and only in the Global South, a legacy of European – certainly not US – imperialism. Heaven forbid modern Europeans could be colonies or that Israel is a straight-up American colony in the Middle East with its citizens being de facto US citizens á la France and its empire.
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  110. The USA adopted the 1930's German model of economics regarding its economy. It implemented a military-industrial economic policy where military research and development and its spin-offs were the drivers of economic growth and not primarily civilian manufacturing.
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  111. Like NATO it's an organisation controlled by the United States in any issue of substance (and for everything else, controlled by WEF, Davos, etc.).
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  112. China says hold my beer.
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  113. Empire of the USA or corporate-banker empire.
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  114. 22:27 Sorry Pascal but with regards the USA "dismantling" USAID you are, in my opinion, simply wrong. It's rather quite the opposite: they're merely reorganising USAID to make it even more secretive and more cost-effective.
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  115. All part of a plan by US strategic planners to subordinate, divide and impoverish Europe and pave the way for the right wing to gain power across the continent, shoring up neoliberal rentier corporatism and securing Europe for the US empire.
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  116. Your use of the word CCP for CPC instantly identifies you as either a bot or someone who is working, wittingly or unwittingly, as a mouthpiece of United States propaganda. At least be more subtle.
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  117. War is not just military but also economic and political. Economic sanctions and political ostracism (eg. North Korea, Cuba) can also be considered acts of war.
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  118. And even if they did they would still face the same demands from both within and without to police their content in accordance with EU, SCO guidelines and harmonise their laws with the established powers.
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  119. What rule or law did they invoke, or what rationale did they give to justify their actions and did they clearly break the law?
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  120. ​ @hong3170  And to a large extent the mass media and education systems of the West too. A vast propaganda and perception-forming network whose tentacles stretch right around the world, infecting every social institution from academia to media.
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  121. ​ @ashfield1425  The 'free' market has never existed in history. It's a myth. Every western country that ever attained first world status did so by state subsidies, state planning and protectionism. And for the most economically developed, systematically destroying rivals and extracting the surplus value of their labour and raw materials.
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  122. They aren't really conservative. They adopted the term rather craftily as a deception because it was familiar to people and had legitimacy. It was a way of making people think they were something they were not. The same goes for neo-liberals, another term hijacked to serve an insidious agenda. Neither of them or either conservative or liberal but, rather, more akin to extreme reactionaries who hated communism and socialism and everything they stood for. Perhaps fascist or corporatist may be too strong a word but they certainly come from the same stable, ideologically speaking. Obviously, they couldn't call themselves fascist so they lied and pretended they were conservative liberals. In short, they are imposters, wolves in sheep's clothing.
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  123. I fear you might be right. Unfortunately.
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  124. ​ friendlhi  Agreed. Not surprising as it was created by the USA and wasn't a genuine project of European countries.
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  125. Maybe a catastrophe for Russia but I don't think it is for China. Indeed China is probably the one country out of all the others that persuaded Putin to give up on Syria. It wants stability and a stake in the reconstruction of Syria and what's left of Palestine. Pipelines, roads, canals... the chance of securing building contracts in Syria and progressing with the Belt and Road Initiative in the greater Middle East are more important that propping up a country in a war it cannot win.
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  126. It looks to me to be highly probable that the main actors in this drama have already worked out a deal between themselves on how to divide Syria into various spheres of influence.
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  127. The media use it as a scare word and means of deligitimation, like they use the word 'Taliban' for the Afghan government or 'Houthis' instead of Yemenis.
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  128. Capitalism/corporatism might be able generate great wealth, but only communism/socialism can distribute that wealth equitably. Ideally, the two can be syncretised into an optimal system of wealth creation and wealth distribution. Wealth that goes to the top 10% and leaves everyone else scrambling for the scraps is not a morally defensible position. Where we can feed the world's population several times over yet people still starve because of a fanatical belief in the monopolising by private interests of resources vital to the healthy functioning of entire societies is not good. The world is suffering from a pathological obsession with the ownership of private property and selfish individualism, none more so than those in the West. It needs to end.
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  129. ​ @Pid75  Mexico?
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  130. ​ @kuchingkuching  Careful, your jealousy is showing. The whole point of western imperialism and colonialism throughout the centuries up to the very present we live in is, and remains, to seize the wealth of the world's nations to enrich themselves, confiscating the global commons that should by rights belong to all of us for the benefit of just a greedy, selfish few, whether those few be an aristocracy or a plutocracy. It is the very nature of capitalism and the feudalism it grew out of to concentrate all wealth in t their own hands by monopolising resources. Do you think that artificial scarcity caused by capitalism would just go away if the West were to get its dirty hands on Russia's resources?
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  131. You said it yourself: the Golan Heights are being illegally occupied by Israel. Officially, under international law the Heights are recognised as territory belonging to Syria. Acknowledging that fact is not necessarily a negation of the legitimate security concerns of Israel but merely a recognition of its illegality.
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  132. I wouldn't go as far as saying he was a traitor. Maybe naive, but not really a traitor because he was deceived by the USA. Yeltsin, in the other hand, was in my opinion a traitor.
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  133. European Governments cannot be held to account when they are not accountable to the public commonwealth but to private moneyed interests.
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  134. ​​ @djape1977 like Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Or the USA's invasion of Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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