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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