Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "The New Atlas" channel.

  1. The Nobel Prize may be good when it comes to science but has become something of a joke when it strays into politics. I know that politics is a subject which is controversial even at the best of times but giving the Peace Prize to recipients who are, to put it mildly, clearly undeserving of it does nothing to enhance the reputation of the Nobel Institute and, indeed, reflects badly on the Nobel Prize committee and calls into question their moral judgement.
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  2. Straight to the facts, no adverts, no delays. Just the way I like it. If only all videos were like this. — Keep up the good work of informing the general public and countering state propaganda.
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  3. Vietnam I'm sure doesn't want to be placed in the invidious position of having to choose sides between the USA and China, but if it comes to it I'm pretty certain they will choose their Asian neighbours over some country half a world away. The USA should start cooperating more and competing less.
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  4. Could the French actions be due to the fear that once NATO becomes irrelevant (as the events unfolding in Ukraine show it is) then the EU – NATO's political-economic counterpart – will also become irrelevant, or at least have its legitimacy questioned. That as France is so invested in the EU project, its failure will be France's failure?
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  5. It seems the USA has perfected a form of imperialism even more successful than that of its predecessor, namely indirect neo-colonialism where it rules through proxies rather than directly through governor-generals. This gives the colonised the illusion that their free and makes it a whole lot harder to rid themselves of the neo-imperialist yoke because it would involve both civil war and cultural revolution to overthrow their own comprador class. In effect, they would be fighting to free themselves from a deeply ingrained culture of self-subjugation implanted centuries earlier. How does one even begin to fight culture? Just look at the Indians and Latin Americans to see how deeply westernised and western-oriented they are. Can you wipe out 500 of Catholicism? Can you rid yourselves of speaking Portuguese, English and Spanish? Rid yourselves of European architecture and Western clothes?
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  6. I wonder what India feels about all of this. If the USA can engineer a coup in neighbouring Bangladesh they must be wondering what the USA might be planning for them. I do hope that India will not succumb to the same pressure.
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  7. Interesting discussion. Enlightening.
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  8. Special forces, in my opinion. Special forces doing extra special things.
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  9. It's basically been infiltrated by the intelligence community and those who serve capitalism and the corporations (the real middle class). Like most charities that operate in the West it has just become another capitalist business that is run for profit and as a vehicle for tax evasion.
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  10. Perhaps China will eventually be able to bring some form of stability to Myanmar through its Belt and Road Initiative, especially as its economy thrives vis‐à‐vis that of the USA. As Asia becomes more integrated economically the hope will be that some of the prosperity that may come as a result will bring improvements in the lives of ordinary people in Myanmar such as to bring about raised living standards and political stability. The USA will then no longer be able to feed on the discontent caused by lack of socio-economic development.
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  11. The armchair warriors of the USA, the ones who can't shake off their cold war mindset, want to take down both but to successfully engage China they must first neutralise Russia, otherwise they are like Germany in world wars 1 and 2, fighting a two front war. The worst nightmare for them is some sort of Eurasian union with the coming together of Russia, India, China, France and Germany.
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  12. ​ @ukrainted_states_of_amerael  The Soviet Union also had nukes but decided to reform itself peacefully without resorting to their use. And if it could so can the USA.
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  13. It's so refreshing to turn on a video that's got no commercials and gets straight into things with no intro.
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  14. The USA as currently constituted is institutionally incapable of being anything other than imperialist/colonialist. The same applies to a lesser extent to western Europe, namely Britain and France, which built their wealth and prosperity by leeching off the rest of the world, especially through their empires. Now that Britain cannot do this (at least to the extent it peviously did) and France is having increasing difficulties doing this in Africa they are finding their economies, and by extension their societies, are declining. The economy of the USA will also suffer if it stops being able to exploit the resources of other countries. Anglo-American capitalism is innately predatory, even more so in its present incarnation of corporate financialized neoliberalism. That's why China and Russia must do everything they can to help the Brics+ countries develop their economies so that they can be independent of the West and gain true economic sovereignty.
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  15. In would seem that the foreign policy of the USA is largely determined by the dynamic existing between its military‐industrial complex and its corporations and banks so I ask: how would the loss of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency and the subsequent decline in its purchasing power effect the country's ability, as well as its willingness, to destabilise other countries? They say that a crash/depression is right around the corner though I don't know how true that is and if it occurred what effect it would have on the US-China-Russia dynamic.
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  16.  @9064peterpan  The BBC is what happens when you let the CIA's Cointelpro infiltrate their sleeper cells and agents of influence into the institutions of the British state. It's what happens when a country's elite prostitute themselves and turn into a South American style comprador class just to stay relevant in the modern world. The traitor's dilemma: collaborate or be crushed.
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  17. Myanmar.
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  18. I hope not. Despite their differences I hope India, China and Russia become closer in their economic, political and military cooperation and together create a Eurasia that can progressively raise the standard of living and bring prosperity to all of its people. In time, this prosperity could be extended to the Americas.
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  19. Zelensky is a puppet, nothing more. And puppets don't make decisions, their puppet masters do.
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  20. Imran Khan may be the best prime minister Pakistan has ever had. I'm actually slightly surprised that he's managed to stay in office as long as he as. The Americans must have taken their eye off the ball for a while on this one.
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  21.  @PapaShuffler  Capitalism doesn't care. Under capitalism everything is a commodity to be bought and sold for profit. The air, the land, plants, animals, humans... all exist simply to serve the needs of the one percent. Society is a feudal pyramid with the billionaires at the top and everyone else below them a slave. No doubt, they have every intention of 'optimising' the rest humanity in keeping with their self‐serving plans.
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  22. It's because the USA doesn't like the name South China Sea as to them it seems to imply that China has a central role to play in the region, while they don't like the name Asia‐Pacific because China being an Asian country, again, it seems to imply China has a central role to play in the area. Indo‐Pacific, on the other hand, not only flatters India but also implicitly repudiates any implied centrality of China in the region.
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  23.  @japutaruko8052  And as they try they'll use up even more of their taxes in weapons development at the cost of their civilian infrastructure.
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  24. Yugoslavia was in the way of NATO and EU expansion, as well as being a stable socialist/communist country that represented a successful example of how a multicultural society could be. Remember, NATO and the EU are the military and political‐economic arms respectively of the military‐industrial complex of the United States, the so‐called deep state, and it's these two organisations that, amongst others, the USA uses to influence Europe and seek global hegemony.
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  25. The USA has been using the same military Keynesianism that was pioneered by the Germans in the 1930's to get them out of the Great Depression. It works for a while but becomes less effective over time. Instead of investing in social and public infrastructure like the Chinese, a policy that would benefit the whole country long term, the USA invests in military infrastructure instead, which provides little real benefit to the general population over the longer term.
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  26. But China and possibly Russia, and even India, will eventually be able to manufacture everything that both North America and Europe currently do and probably a lot cheaper and of a similar or higher quality. The USA and Europe will not be able to play the better technology card for very much longer.
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  27. The United States and its closest allies are actually bringing democracy and human rights into disrepute. Whether this is deliberate, predictive programming designed to prepare westerners themselves for authoritarianism or dictatorship or not I don't know but it's socially corrosive to civil society and the hypocrisy surrounding the issues of democracy and human rights undermines any claims to moral superiority the West might once have had. ☆ สหรัฐอเมริกาและพันธมิตรที่ใกล้ชิดที่สุดกำลังนำประชาธิปไตยและสิทธิมนุษยชนไปสู่ความเสื่อมเสียชื่อเสียง ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการจงใจ โปรแกรมคาดการณ์ ซึ่งออกแบบมาเพื่อเตรียมชาวตะวันตกให้พร้อมสำหรับเผด็จการหรือเผด็จการหรือไม่ ฉันไม่รู้ แต่มันกัดกร่อนสังคมต่อภาคประชาสังคม และความหน้าซื่อใจคดที่เกี่ยวกับประเด็นประชาธิปไตยและสิทธิมนุษยชนบ่อนทำลายการอ้างสิทธิ์เหนือกว่าทางศีลธรรมที่ชาติตะวันตกอาจคิด เคยมี.
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  28.  @1233-f7h  And put their members on watch lists and make sure their bank accounts are clean and have no illicit sources of money.
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  29. The USA has not failed in the Middle East. To the contrary, I'm willing to bet that it has largely succeeded in its primary goals.
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  30. Military, security and intelligence is what is keeping the US economy afloat. The USA economy has basically been corporatized, a state in which private corporations depend on the public purse to keep themselves in business and where the most profitable areas are also the least productive from the ordinary consumer's point of view (though not from the point of view of that small slice of the population that is the wealthiest).
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  31.  @chubascomohd2688  Not in the USA. In the USA the military‐industrial complex reigns supreme whoever is in power. In the United Kingdom it's the City of London.
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  32. I don't think the Japanese would really go to war with China. If the USA tried to get the Japanese to fight China then I think that would be the deal breaker as far as the US-Japan alliance is concerned.
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  33. Japan is still an de facto occupied country and its military are to a not insignificant degree still subject to the influence of the USA, as is its foreign policy.
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  34. They should just emulate the legislation of the USA, that way the West cannot say anything without being seen as hypocritical.
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  35. Don't get your hopes up. Like many countries they may just go through the motions and remain unwilling or unable to enforce the law.
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  36. But, even then... it could be rigged.
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  37.  @walid7885  The security apparatus of the USA is what has infiltrated the mass media of Europe and much of the world. And they've been doing it since at least the 1950's.
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  38.  @ptd8726  And then we could accuse them of stealing Chinese technology.
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  39. The USA wants for Asia what happened to Europe in the two world wars. They want Asians to fight each and leave their countries in ruins while the USA gets rich by selling weapons and coming in at the last minute to 'save' them. Don't let yourselves be divided the way the countries of the Middle East currently are. Don't fall into that trap.
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  40. The Dutch would agree. Their farmers anyway are in uproar about the proposed ban on fertiliser use. Deliberate shortages of foodstuffs, especially grains, as well oil, gas and fertiliser (and their precursor products) are being created by certain western institutions and governments/governmental agencies. Parastatals like agribusiness and pharmaceuticals conglomerates and quangos like the World Economic Forum (WEF), together with certain private 'philanthropic' organisations may be to blame.
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  41. ... The deep state.
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  42. One word: Eurasia. Europe AND Asia. Together this supercontinent, if united, has the potential to put everyone else including the USA in the shade. And whoever dominates Eurasia – China, Russia, France, Germany, or a combination – will have the power to dominate the world. The current global hegemon sees this, rightly, as a threat and wants to stop it. Britain did exactly the same thing and its prodigal son seems intent on following in its footsteps.
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  43.  @questworldmatrix  They don't have their own gold so they have to steal other people's.
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  44. @Armament Armed Arm The native Americans probably. Maybe another trail of tears for the indigenous peoples is in the offing as their reservations are needed for the whites.
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  45. ​ @markorsrpska7230  The euphemism SMO is necessary because war is supposedly outlawed. So by not calling it war but something else they can get around activating the UN charter which sees war as the ultimate crime.
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  46.  @thehturt5480  Ignorance doesn't necessarily mean stupidity. It could just mean that someone lacks knowledge on a subject such that they cannot make a properly qualified decision about it.
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  47. Russian phototonic radar that renders stealth fighter bombers perfectly visible; hypersonic missiles that are impossible to counter; China's new stealth bomber.... Yeah, the USA will certainly need to be at the rate China and Russia are developing. Next they will be telling us the technology was stolen from them.
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  48. But when! When will China replace the dollar with the Yuan? Will it happen in our lifetimes? Will the Chinese simply use the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights to create a new international crypto-currency which ends up as a modified form of the status quo with the United States still powerful?
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  49. That's howJudaism, Christianity and Islam started. And when people started questioning and then dissenting they called it blasphemy or heresy and made it punishable under law. That's what the Spanish inquisition was all about.
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  50. Shush now! You'll give the CIA ideas.
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