Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "The Cynical Historian" channel.

@jesperburns But you CAN'T domesticate zebras. Tame them, yes, but domesticate , no. The two are not the same. Don't you think that if the zebra could have been domesticated it would have been in much the same way that, say, goats, cows, oxen and horses had been in Europe? And maybe they didn't need to as they had camels and horses they'd got from elsewhere according to this video.
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@jesperburns : then why in the hundreds, if not thousands, of years of human-zebra contact has there ever been a society that has done so. Also, even if what you say is true, there is still the issue of the zebra's anatomy making it unsuitable for many of the things humans would need of such an animal. Selective breeding over many generations may have changed this but it still wasn't done, even though the horse and the cow/ox were bred for desirable traits. Why?
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 @Coastpsych_fi99 The poor are still poor whether deserving or not. Palestinians are still starving, deservedly or not.
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I thought it was created by anti-communist Anglo-Americans to justify the wars against Japan, Korea and Vietnam and belittle communist China and Russia.
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@mikeshafer5366 Russia/the Soviet Union was already winning the war and that's the real reason the USA was only too happy to open up a second front: the Americans didn't want Stalin to take almost the whole of continental Europe. And the Americans opening up a second front had absolutely nothing to do with any principled opposition to fascism either.
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How can they be universal if they only appeared once, in one particular place, after thousands upon thousands of years of prior non-existence, being contested outside the West and increasingly within the West itself? Does China have these values… Russia?
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I think it was a theory created in the 1950's during the cold war/era of McCarthyism in the USA in an attempt to explain ('other') countries like China and Russia. Basically cold war propaganda which, to be frank, by today's standards would be seen as not a little racist and certainly condescending. Edward Said would probably describe it as falling under the label of 'orientalism'.
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The opium war is still being fought… in Afghanistan.
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Would that be Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or any of at least half a dozen major protestant sects? Yes, they're Christian in the broadest sense of the word but they nonetheless have major doctrinal differences making them a diverse lot.
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