Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Sean Foo" channel.

  1. My bet is on the run-around. Saudi Arabia is an artificial state wholly dependent on the USA. Only China and Russia militarily defending and economically supporting Arabia from the USA would be able to prise this prize from America's grasp and neither are currently able or willing to do that. It's thus a long game that will likely not pan out anytime soon.
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  2. Why do people keep referring to the Yemenis as Houthis? They are Yemenis. It's like referring to the Afghans as Taliban rather than what they are, Afghans. Also, the USA, both directly and through its proxies in the Gulf (mainly Saudi Arabia), have already been waging war on Yemen and through deliberately engineered famine caused by their blockades have caused more than a million deaths in the country.
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  3. Japan is still an occupied country. Key parts of its government are under the control of the USA. The same for South Korea.
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  4. It doesn't have to make sense to you. It makes sense to the elite. That's all that matters.
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  5. ​ @britthoward4776  Are they the same Kurds who were being gassed with the full support of the USA and the European Union, using weapons and chemicals supplied by them? And is that the Iraq that was illegally invaded and its still occupied by the USA (incorporated into the US empire), even though they've been asked to leave? You're reply to @ikechukwuogbu9306 is also a fallacy known as ignoratio elenchi.
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  6. To be honest Finland was always a de facto member of the NATO alliance even if not formally, thus its current actions are merely formalising the status quo, albeit in a deliberately provocative way.
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  7. ​ @shadeaquaticbreeder2914  Houthi, I'm given to understand, refers to the majority ethnic group of Yemen. It's like using the word English when referring to the actions of the United Kingdom.
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  8. And you know, that's not a joke or satire: the USA would do that.
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  9. That's capitalism – private profit whatever the cost. Corporatism/late stage capitalism even more so. Let's face it, we're in a race to the bottom, the result of capitalism's insistence on competition to the last man standing. There can be only one. And for the USA that's them.
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  10. And you know, that's not a joke or satire: it's just the sort of thing the USA would do.
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  11. ​ @DJs021  Strange to tell but the United Kingdom had similar levels of poverty back in the 18th and 19th centuries yet still managed to become a 'super power'. So it's not impossible.
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  12. The USA is in the same boat the United Kingdom was in circa 1820: unable to compete with China, unable to sell things to China.
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  13. Truth be told we've been in a depression/semi-depression far worse than that of the 1930's since 2008 but nobody's talking about it. This is what happens every 70 years or so under capitalism, an even more so now that fiat currencies and fractional reserve banking are involved.
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  14. It's not socialism that's destroyed the Argentinian economy but 5 centuries of colonialism and a century of US influence. Look at the Chinese to see how a country can prosper by assiduously prioritising the needs of its own people over westerners.
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  15. What if the state nationalises certain strategic sectors of the economy and no longer runs then strictly for profit but instead implements policies designed specifically to alleviate the worse kinds of poverty and builds up a mixed economy that is more robust, like China did/ does?
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  16. I'm sure the Chinese have a Belt and Road solution for that.
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  17. ​ @gavasiarobinssson5108  And when capitalists do the same, is that freeloading? And what's wrong with being lazy, that is, not wanting to be a slave?
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  18. No such thing as a "mild" recession.
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  19. Sounds plausible.
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  20. It all boils down to competition – when it's good it stimulates development and innovation; when it's bad it leads to the destruction of domestic industries that can't compete. Capitalism sees competition as inherently good and certainly inevitable but it isn't. It's all contingent. Regarding Argentina sending it's gold to London: they were probably ordered to by the USA/bankers, to hold them economically hostage and deter them from doing anything western capital doesn't like, as well as being used to back up/refinance the US dollar and reflate its economy when it's reincarnated as a CBCD post-crash/depression.
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  21. Recession... or depression? Natural... or manufactured?
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  22. We are dealing with politicians and Eurocrats who are bought.
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  23. This is all by design. The USA wants to corral Europe and the corporations of both continents want captive markets whose customers don't have alternatives.
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  24. Well so far it seems to be working. I see no substantial pushback yet from Europe, the Americas or Asia and any alternatives that might be offered by way of the BRICS+ seem to be in their infancy, if gathering pace. This state of affairs looks as if it will last at least another decade or two, if not longer. It seems China is in no rush to remove the USA from the top spot just yet.
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  25. More like they are discussing plans to finalise Europe and the USA's move towards a global Central Bank Digital Currency in a way that doesn't collapse the US dollar and allows the USA to continue to dominated the West. Perhaps they are also discussing how to suppress gold and silver in the event of a crash. The USA may even be discussing whether it can secure a loan from the Asian Economic Development Bank.
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  26. They want to reduce the wages of the average American to the same level as the Global South, only then will US industry be competitive.
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  27. Have your wages increased accordingly?
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  28. The USA is a car-centric society because it was made that way in from the 1950's onwards. A quite deliberate and conscious choice was made by urban planners to destroy other forms of public transport in favour of the automobile.
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  29. The USA wants Europe to burn.
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  30. And the USA wants Europe to pay for it.
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  31. Stop it with the worship of the 'free market'. No such thing has ever existed. As for comparative advantage, well China is doing just that: producing and selling things cheaper than its rival because it is able to do so. Economic theory is good in principle, but economic facts trump theory every time.
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  32. How does exporting inflation to other people's countries make the dollar mighty? You should stop and ask yourself why the US dollar is in this situation because it certainly isn't something to be proud of. The US economy is in crisis, countries don't want dollars and this is why the Federal Reserve is having to give the holders and purchasers of dollar bonds a higher return, one that is unsustainable in the long term.
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  33. The USA wants the EU to decouple from Russia and China and it's using its agents of influence in the EU to achieve this. It wants a world of European satellites cut off, Warsaw Pact style, from the rest of Eurasia.
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  34. In het verleden konden ze het imperialisme gebruiken om de concurrentie onder controle te houden, maar nu is dit steeds meer geen optie.
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  35. In the version of the story I heard as a boy it was a gingerbread man and a fox. The moral of the story was that bad things come to those who are naughty (Mr Ginger being a nasty prankster running from those he'd angered).
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  36. Because China practices true sovereignty. And what's wrong with not allowing your currency to be freely traded? It stops currency manipulation by speculators and capital flight.
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  37. ​​ @UrsaMinor983 China, Russia, the UN can take over. Also, international maritime trade is not threatened by anyone (unless the USA starts creating fake pirates the way it creates fake Islamists and uses them to cause mayhem on the high seas).
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  38. The UK said the same thing back in the 1840's and 1860's, only this time around the West won't be able to send gun boats up the Yangtze and force opium on the Chinese, nor send ships into Tokyo bay and force a third Plaza Accord on the Japanese. Gunboat diplomacy won't work this time around to correct the trade inbalance and the UK and the USA will go bankrupt paying for Chinese and Japanese products that they can't produce themselves due to de-skilling, de-industrialisation and pricing themselves out of world markets.
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  39. No, the EU sanctioned Europe. The European Union is like NATO, both are controlled by the USA.
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  40. It serves the interests of the American deep state.
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  41. The USA is sooooo arrogant! It's as if they think that only the USA exists. If the USA was a person they would be diagnosed with narcissism.
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  42. I think the USA is counting on Europe joining them in embargoing China by threatening them with secondary sanctions if they refuse. Basically, cold war redux.
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  43. The arrogance of the Americans is truly mind-blowing. And that Europe seems to be going along with them is also mind-boggling.
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  44. ​ @philfortner1805  It can still strong-arm other countries then... just not China. As long as China remains unwilling or unable to pull the plug on the economy of the USA then the rest of the world will just have to suffer the depredations of the empire.
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  45. That's partly the reason why the USA is failing economically. It stopped teaching economics as a real science (classical economics that included political economy) and started treating it like it was an ideology, a system of apologetics for neoliberalism. Instead of guiding the American economy by allowing economists to prescribe policies based on sound empirical analysis they just used it to justify neoliberalism.
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  46. The sanctions and threats of sanctions by its minions are all a United States-inspired bluff, testing the waters, a gamble. And it's failed. China sails on.
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  47. Unfortunately, you've lost the ability to make your own crap and prevented Europe from being able to take up the slack by deindustrialising it strategic areas so they couldn't outcompete the USA.
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  48. "None of that was America's fault." So what do you call the USA literally blowing up German pipeline infrastructure?
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  49. And despite the hype neither China nor Russia, much less BRICS, seem to be in any hurry to change things. Or even want to.
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  50. Only 50%‽ You'll need it to be cut a whole lot more. Sounds like you're still wanting to be able to dominate the world but on the cheap.
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