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

  1. ​​ @thinktankindi1972  Why should a country that calls itself communist play by the rules of capitalists, especially as the latter seem to be losing? Communism/socialism never works; fails every time wherever it's tried...? Capitalism and corporatism is our salvation? Gimme a break!
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  2. 🎶 First they ignore you, Then they laugh at you Then they fight, Then you win. 🎶
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  3. Seems to me that the USA wants to decouple itself from China while destroying the competitiveness and manufacturing of Europe and prevent the development of the Global South.
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  4. MMT is neoliberalism, dummy.
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  5. Turkey wants a foot in both camps. It wants to be in a position to play both sides against each other.
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  6. Unless they can turn to China and Russia and free themselves from the USA. BRICS+, the SCO, etc. might be a way to do this.
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  7. The USA facilitates and encourages this behaviour, if not outright orders it. One word from the USA's financial apparatus and the entire EU would fall into line, along with its mass media, politicians, academia and the think tanks and astroturf pressure groups that make up so‐called civil society in western countries.
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  8. What arrogance! As if legitimacy is something the USA could grant in the first place. Like, come on, 1 billion+ people belonging to a civilisation thousands of years old have to ask the permission of the United States' government before they're accepted by the rest of the world.
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  9. The D-word is taboo.
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  10. Those countries you mentioned are just second-order players in a system of trade still dominated by China. You can't get around the problem by simply changing suppliers, that's even assuming those countries can supply you with the commodities you want, at the prices you can afford.
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  11. GDP, even when it's not fake, is not that good of an indicator of an economy's performance and even less so as a measure of a society's health. Its chosen because it appears to be empirical and makes the USA and its minions in Europe look better than they really are compared to the rest of the world. Even then they have to massage the data.
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  12. 1 solitary warship, an obsolete one at that, is hardly a threat. A symbolic gesture, yes, but a threat?
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  13. Plausible.
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  14. I suspect that one or both of those parties have been compromised because they keep advocating policies that are not in the economic interests of Germany.
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  15. Looks like you have no sympathy for working people just trying to earn a decent living when they go on strike to protest about being replaced by machinery or having their wages reduced.
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  16. The USA is using the same military Keynesianism that the Germans used prior to world war two with the military‐industrial complex taking over everything. Using the stolen resources of Palestine the USA wants to monopolise the Palestine's maritime gas reserves and turning Israel into another Saudi Arabia, simultaneously creating a captive market in Europe by forcing it to get its gas and oil from client states of the USA.
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  17. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter because Hong Kong is now an integral part of China (as it always was until Britain forcibly annexed it) so they can do whatever they want within their own country.
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  18. But that's exactly what the USA does: give food stamps (tax breaks) to millionaires.
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  19. And then... the Americans demanded that the Japanese share the technology with them?
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  20. The USA wants to divide the world into two books blocks, just like it did in cold war 1.0.
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  21. ​ @bargainninja6449  The sanctions are mostly fake. In sectors of the US economy that really matter that is. No, sanctions are mainly meant to damage the economies of the European Union and others.
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  22. They want Ireland to be another Greece.
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  23. Yes there is. The world.
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  24. Is this the Keynesianism that got Europe out of the Great Depression in the aftermath of world war 2 (as contrasted with the laissez-faire of the pre-world war 1 and inter-war years?)
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  25. What if gold is held by foreign powers, eg. Britain, in behalf of the USA? Remember how Britain sold most of its own gold? Who did they sell it to and why?
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  26. Can the USA force the countries of the European Union to do the same? After all, they sanctioned the Russians and have frozen (stolen) their assets at the behest of the USA so maybe they will delist Chinese companies from European stocks exchanges as well.
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  27. A classic trope of westerners is that the Chinese – Asians in general – are quite unable to innovate or invent things. This is a truly strange belief to hold seeing as it flies in the face of historical fact given all the inventions that have come out of China in the last 2½ millennia.
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  28. That man is a libertarian extremist. He shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the US economy.
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  29. China and Russia must get together with other countries and start blocking access to raw materials like oil and minerals. On their own they can do little. As Lenin (or somebody else) said, your can't have a revolution in just one country.
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  30. She's a US agent of influence. Indeed, the EU is an organisation that serves the interests of the USA.
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  31. She's an agent of the influence working for the USA. Indeed, the EU itself is an organisation set up to serve the interests of the USA as much as it serves the interests of European capitalists.
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  32. The USA and its corporate controllers are killing Europe!
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  33. The corporate elite want the world to be divided between a West led by the USA and the rest of the world. The banks and corporations want a captive market and a base of operations. The EU provides them with that.
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  34. The EU wants to permanently alienate Russia on behalf of the USA. Cold war 2.0.
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  35. They are under the influence of the USA and any incompetence, corruption or manipulation by them is reflected in their actions.
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  36. Better a communist 'dictorship' for the majority then a fascist dictorship for the elite.
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  37. Like I keep saying, the corporates in the West want a captive market. As rentiers/monopoly capitalists they don't like genuine competition. They like to live off the unearned increment of other people's labour rather than do the hard graft themselves.
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  38. It's designed to hurt Europe more than the USA. Indeed, the USA will probably still source its uranium from Russia but through third parties like India.
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  39. For as long as the EU exists. The EU and NATO, together with its military bases are how the USA dominates Europe. As long as France and Germany – the core of the EU – are under the thumb of the USA we can expect no change.
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  40. Maybe it was all planned as part of the Great Reset.
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  41. How will the USA react to this action by China?
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  42. It's all part of a plan. It must be. Even Trump and co. can't be this stupid. They must want to crash the dollar and start anew.
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  43. Yes, the Brown Shirts of capitalism (social democracy) have 'won' the elections – whatever that means – and might make some minor cosmetic changes. The Black Shirts will wait until it's their turn again.
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  44. MMT is not Keynesianism, it's just a name for neo-liberal economics à la Thatcher and Reagan. And we know after 50 years where that's leading us. Also, Keynesianism worked well enough from the late 1940's to the 1970's. It has its problems like any other economic theory but in modified form (eg. China) it can be very successful. As for protectionism, it is good (and often necessary) for an economy when properly applied.
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  45. You don't have a genuine, functioning democracy in any meaningful sense of the word; certainly not one accountable to the majority. What you have is a plutocratic oligarchy that gives you a choice between two factions, one representing the FIRE sector and the other the MIC and both under the control of banksters.
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  46. The USA wants to apply the same shock therapy to western Europe the way it did to eastern Europe. It wants to reduce Europe to the same level of dependency and inequality as Latin America.
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  47. The automobile industry would not be able to survive without them, much less compete. This goes for the airline industry and many other industries as well. Every country that's ever developed has done this and every country that wishes to stay developed will continue to do this. It's best if you leave the free market BS to American neoliberal think tanks. The Chinese government isn't listening.
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  48. Surprised 'she' wasn't mixed race and transgender too.
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  49. Basically, the American strategy is to divide the world along cold war lines with the USA having its own trading bloc centred around Europe. It wants a captive market with a currency area like that of the Sterling Area used by Britain during the interwar years where its colonies were forced to conduct business exclusively in pounds sterling. The USA is practicing mercantilism/protectionism and forcing the nations that make up its imperium dependent upon itself and unable to trade with the wider world (or even amongst themselves) without its permission. It wants to lock down Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Canada and a much as South and Central America as it can and force them into a US dollar preference and free trade area.
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  50. Nor from both.
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