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

  1. I think Singapore has more to gain in the long run by pursuing a policy of benevolent neutrality towards China than by siding outright with the USA. Its close proximity, cultural and ethnic ties and an economy based on being a seaport open to all weigh heavily in favour of the city state maintaining good bilateral relations with China. Anything else would be economic madness as I don't think that any other South East Asian country, with the possible exception of Japan, is likely to be that keen to damage their economies for the sake of continued western hegemony.
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  2. Why would the United States of America pick a war with the People's Republic of China knowing that it would in all likelihood lose, both militarily and economically? Do they think Japan, Korea, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines will fight China on their behalf and leave South East Asia in ruins for the USA to just sweep down like a vulture like happened in Europe in world wars 1 & 2? I think not. I think that the countries of Asia are far too sensible and far too integrated into a Chinese-led regional and global economy to do that. And make no mistake the maritime power of the USA has been completely negated by the development of supersonic and hypersonic anti-ship missiles and modern submarines such that its navy would be comprehensively destroyed if it tried to blockade China. Thank you Brian for the work you do on your channel. Advocating for peace is often a thankless task, but luckily we have people like you who do it regardless. Maybe all this talk of war is just a distraction from the depression/recession in the West; fear-mongering to keep people in line and justify ever greater funding for the military‐industrial complex. Maybe nothing will come of it.
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  3. If only we'd had a Putin to come to Milosevich's aid, who knows what the future would be like — no NATO expansion, no EU expansion, no Maastricht treaty....
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  4.  @inkbold8511  I'm sure only a little pressure would be needed to persuade the Thais to deport or extradite him. Like he himself has said, unfortunately Thailand is caught between a rock and a hard place in that being seen as too militant in standing up for the interests of the Thai people runs the risk of alienating western support, while being seen as being too weak in defending their interests runs the far greater risk of alienating them. It's a dilemma that increasingly not only does the Global South have to face but traditional allies like Germany, Britain and France are also having to face as well under both presidents Trump and Biden. It's like walking on a tightrope, one false move and your on the Grim Reapers bucket list.
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  5. You've given yourself away by using the phrase CCP (it's CPC).
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  6.  @hanchiman  Uncle Sam is playing John Bull and Down Under for fools. Such barefaced hypocrisy and toadying don't generally go down well with domestic audiences but neither country's leaders seem to know or care.
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  7. Tiny island but presumably strategically important in some geopolitical or military sense.
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  8. The best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity.
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  9. The Republic of China during a takeover would become synonymous with the People's Republic of China with the USA seeing them both as one and the same and thus destroying the ROC's economy would be seen as entirely legitimate, it being tantamount to destroying part of China's economy. It would be like Austria vis-a-vis Germany in the war of 1939-1945 or South Vietnam during the US-Vietnam war.
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  10. I think among modern armies only the Japanese of the Asia‐Pacific war between Japan and the USA of 1941-1945 routinely fought to the last man, the soldiers of other armies fighting stubbornly but eventually surrendering when they ran out of ammunition, food, or suffered heavy casualties, especially officers.
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  11. Don't expect any conflict of interest scandal any time soon, that's only reserved for MP's who fund Palestinian charities — antisemitic and supportive of terrorism. No accountability you see. And egregious double standards too.
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  12.  @kevint1910  So you're saying that it's us, the Europeans, who are to blame for the USA getting into these wars... not your country's very own military‐industrial complex or homegrown lobbyists for American corporations? I'm not saying that European governments don't lobby the USA, but for war...? No, I don't agree with that because no ordinary citizen in their right mind wants war, either in Europe or the USA.
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  13. ​ @robyenney951  ​They also replaced chattel slavery with other forms of slavery disguised as freedom in addition to creating the modern system of wage slavery that we know today. So to say that they got rid of a type of slavery that they themselves had created while merely replacing it with another, more sophisticated form of slavery is a bit disingenuous.
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  14. What are the differences, can you enumerate them?
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  15. In all likelihood the USA knew from the very start that Ukraine could never win in a war against the Russian Federation and thus this was never the expected outcome. In my opinion the intention was to drain both countries of resources and manpower and eventually leave Ukraine a failed state and an economic burden on Russia. In addition, I think it was also intended to divide Europe not only against Russia but also against itself. Now it's on to China, but here I doubt they will have much success because the Chinese know what's coming and neither they nor the people of Taiwan want any part of it.
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  16.  @lovealways2609  The USA wants it like that. It wants to promote a demographic crisis in Ukraine to add to the general destruction and use of sanctions aimed at making the rebuilding of infrastructure as hard as possible. The USA wants a weakened and divided Europe.
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  17. Neo-liberalism is a failed economic system. It was only ever designed to serve the wealthy and the banking sector.
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  18. "No frost." What does that metaphor mean? I've never heard it before. •●•●•●•●• "Без инея". Что означает эта метафора? Я никогда раньше ее не слышал.
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  19. If it's a capitalist "democracy" it almost certainly will because under such a set up capital dominates and as private capital tends toward corporitization and corporations/corporate economies tend toward globalization, they appropriate more and more of the public commons and concentrate more and more wealth in private hands, leaving less and less for everyone else, which tends to make them unpopular and thus the capitalists are against democracy, those without wealth and property exercising their power against those with.
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  20. A few, choice hits with air-fuel bombs (MOAB's – Massive Ordinance Arial Bombs) might be able neutralise the static entrenched positions of the Ukrainians... if the Russians can get air superiority or are prepared for quite heavy losses to their air force. Perhaps a MOAB can be fitted to a cruise missile, negating the need to use more vulnerable aircraft.
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  21.  @jascforfun7576  Pseudo‐alliance?
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  22. It already is officially a part of China according to the United Nations.
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  23. Along with the breakup of the union with Scotland and Wales becoming independent. That and the abolishment of the monarchy and the corporation of the City of London.
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  24. Starlink may have been shut down by the Americans themselves.
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  25. That's why it might be important in the future for Australia to 'dilute' their population with more Chinese and other people from the part of the world where they live. Make themselves ethnically interdependent, as it were, with their neighbours.
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  26.  @Kingdom-cg6bm  Only when you're advancing and gaining territory. When you're retreating, or even when the front line is static, then the need for a system of effective air defence in‐depth is at its greatest.
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  27. Only temporarily. Sooner or later Germany is going to want a better deal. (I wonder if we'll be seeing Victoria Newland giving out food in Germany when it's chancellor makes the economically right but politically wrong decision á la Yanukovich).
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  28.  @felixsu375  With both the euro and the dollar fiat currencies they probably can by simply printing more currency and if it causes hyperinflation so what. The USA doesn't care and as it seems to be happening anyway I figure those at the Federal Reserve see it as inevitable and have nothing to lose while Davos‐Bilderberg will use it as a way of demolishing the present global financial architecture and replacing it with something more to their liking, eg. a single universal digital currency.
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  29. Wishing everyone a prosperous New Year. 🍻🎉🥳🎈
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  30. The USA got to be 'first world' by exploiting the Global South ('third world'). Most the of western Europe did the same.
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  31.  @daddy_1453  You forget that Russia had been culturally at least as much a part of 'the West' as anybody else since the late 18th century and it was only during the latter half of the 20th century when things changed.
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  32. Their barefaced gaslighting is what irritates me the most. Them telling me that black is white over and over again to the point where I begin to question my own sanity and am sorely tempted to agree with them just to get them off my back is galling.
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  33. I'm sure that the United Kingdom is ripe for a colour revolution if anyone like Jeremy Corbyn gets elected, especially if he says the pandemic is a fraud and the lockdowns aren't needed.
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  34. Whoever did it it's in the interests of the USA and on their behalf.
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  35. ​ @PhuaTeckHoe  Typical short-termism.
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  36. An interesting development. It certainly makes sense to use some of these aircraft if they are old and nearing the end of their service life.
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  37. ​ @belladonna6624  I tend to agree and would add that admitting to it in everything but name (by allowing Seymour Hersch to report leaks) is also deliberate (not that they could hide such things).
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  38. ​ @fars8229  The bombing of Yugoslavia and destruction of its government was both deliberate and illegal under international law. What NATO did was commit a war crime. The USA wanted to break up Yugoslavia and to this end it sponsored terrorists and mercenaries to achieve it, using bombing to help them. Charges of genocide were bunk and even if true would still not have been an acceptable excuse.
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  39. Hopefully the civilian population in the immediate area will have already left or been evacuated, but leaving behind civilian infrastructure that, unfortunately, will have been damaged or destroyed.
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  40. The British elite want to curry favour with their US overlords as well as to massage their own egos by harking back to better times when Britain had an empire all of its own. Either way, to line their own pockets and gain power and influence by exploiting others.
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  41. It's like a US Federal Army soldier comparing a native American warrior to a US Confederate Army soldier.
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  42. It is the mercenaries and special forces of the United States and its NATO allies who are more likely to be put on trial if captured by the Russians. I assume though that the Russians and Americans have already made agreements in secret as to what happens in such cases. Presumably the POW's will be discreetly repatriated after being interrogated and the public will be none the wiser.
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  43. Britain relies on the USA for its continued political relevance in the world. The country's political elite live vicariously through the USA and the country's financial institutions, riddled as they are with corruption and facilitators of money laundering and tax evasion, require the influence of the neocons in the USA and the economic policies of globalised neoliberalism for their continued success.
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  44. I think the countries of the global south need to be given more support by China and Russia. Like during the cold war when China and Russia would support countries like Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba, they need to do so again.
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  45. 13:24‐14:45 💯 👍👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿
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  46. Like the nuclear missile gap of the 1950's, only this time it's real. The USA must learn to balance its budget so more money is spent on its civilian economy and less on its military.
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  47. China should step up to the plate and create a pan‐Asian banking system analogous to, and as a replacement for, the likes of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and even the Bank of International Settlements itself, financial institutions of the West that are dominated by the USA .
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  48. They'll do the same, I imagine: pay lip service and still do their own thing more or less. It's all a charade anyway.
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  49. Good points you raise in my opinion. Only war or similar catastrophe leading to social restructuring will change things. Something like happened to Germany or Japan. Or Turkey after the fall of the Ottomans.
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  50. The Japanese were willing to surrender thereby rendering the need for an invasion of the Japanese archipelago unnecessary. The USA knew this but still dropped two atomic bombs. Mind you, these were the same people who knew about the impending attack on Pearl Harbour and did nothing having provoked Japan in the first place.
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