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

  1. The USA appears to want to do to the PRC what it did to the USSR from 1946 to 1989 — economically and politically isolate and militarily intimidate it so as to weaken it; subject it to embargo and subversion so as to politically destabilise it; slander it in an attempt to undermine its leadership, demoralise its people and delegitimise its political and social system. Unfortunately for the warmongers and neo‐imperialists in the USA, this time around the new cold war the USA is attempting to start with China is getting off to a rocky start to say the least. Unlike with the Soviet Union, China has many friends and they are reluctant to play ball with the USA and get on board with their agenda.
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  2. Money means nothing when you can print it. One million, one billion... one gazillion. Doesn't matter. Using the usual metrics to measure these things is pointless as they are meaningless.
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  3. The United States will be the one fomenting dissidents in Europe to further its aims of weakening both Europe and Asia and preventing their economic integration to form Eurasia. Destroying i(f it can't control) the European Union, together with deindustrialising and militarily weakening western Europe's core countries and then causing, ultimately, civil wars, dictorships and perpetual political instability á la Middle East.
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  4. The West accuses others of what it is actually doing, or plans to do. When lying it's best to get your lie in first. A lie has travelled half way round the world while the truth is still getting its boots on. Same with the accusations leveled at Russia regarding the possible use of chemical/biological weapons.
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  5. These are propaganda channels run either by delusional fanatics or run/paid for by the military and intelligence services.
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  6. Humanity's ability to use technology for evil purposes is saddening.
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  7. I think the point at which the USA could effect in a militarily significant way the People's Republic of China are long gone. It's missile systems alone would keep US naval forces well away from the Chinese mainland and prevent the use by the USA of their aircraft carriers and other warships. Even US submarines will soon find themselves vulnerable as the anti-submarine warfare capabilities of China improve.
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  8. It seems that the mainstream media of the USA and Canada are the most ontrolled of all the western media.
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  9.  @DailyBeatings  For the PNAC planners it seems to have worked very well. Fascist corporatism is coming along in leaps and bounds and the lockdowns, plandemic fearmongering, and simultaneous introduction of long‐planned crackdowns and restrictions on civil liberties.
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  10. There's also a possible pipeline that Israel might want to build too.
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  11. I wonder if the figure of 800 million people brought out of absolute poverty by China would be mentioned so often if they had done this under the communism of Mao Tse Tung rather than Deng Xiaoping and his market reforms reforms of the 1980's. I wonder if westerners would be singing China's praises as much if it reverted back to a hard form of communism and then began to export it to Asia and beyond, like in the cold war.
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  12. Margaret Thatcher got to where she did because of the infiltration of the Conservative party and political establishment by agents of influence working for the USA. The same with the Labour Party from Tony Blair onwards. One of the USA's earliest and most successful colour revolutions occurred in Britain in 1979.
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  13. In short, usury.
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  14. The USA simply does not want a powerful and independent Germany and neither does Britain. Both work to prevent unity in Europe, especially if it involves Russia. Eurasian economic integration is the Anglosphere's worst nightmare. Britain's elite are throughly Atlanticist and do not want France, Germany and Russia coming together to form a political and economical bloc.
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  15. Quite frankly, I don't think they'll appreciate your efforts.
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  16. It's time China and Russia worked together with other countries to prise Germany and France away from the Anglo bloc and create their own Euro bloc. Britain can join at a later date if it agrees to put the interests of Europe before those of the United States.
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  17. Perhap China could encourage the indigenous development of a sovereign 'information space' as an integral part of its Belt and Road Initiative among participating nations and provide them with the means (technology, financing, technical advice, logistics, etc.) by which they can achieve this in the medium term. This would be especially useful I think from China's point of view as a strategic policy goal for countries in Asia that are most vulnerable to this kind of subversion like Thailand is. Individual nations should have the right to exercise sovereignty over their own domestic information space, much in the way countries already have regarding the right of sovereignty over their airspace, territorial waters and borders.
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  18. Oh how I wish this ugly spat between slavic kindred peoples would end. Surely Zelensky's government knows it has been comprehensively defeated militarily speaking; surely a negotiated settlement which recognises, de jure, the partition of Ukraine – Donbass, Crimea, (its coast?) – and commits the remaining part of Ukraine to a policy of strict neutrality vis-a-vis NATO/EU (which implicitly means de‐nazification, lustration of its government) would be the best option right now. Yes, it's a steep price to pay, but it's that are more losses in terms of human lives and infrastructure. It reminds me of Hitler's last stand in Berlin in 1945 – fighting on despite the inevitability of defeat. Such a waste.
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  19. Do you think the USA wants to deliberately implicate India by using militant or terrorist groups affiliated with it to sour relations between the two countries? India's government supporting the destabilisation of Pakistan could backfire.
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  20.  @ajokhio2909  You said that the suicide bomber was a member of the BLA, a terrorist organisation with links to India. In your opinion was India directly involved in this, or was it the USA using the BLA to frame India and antagonise Pakistan so that there cannot be any rapprochement or thaw between Pakistan and India that might have occurred if Imran Khan hadn't been deposed (and might still occur if he regains power). In other words, do you think this is just the usual, run‐of‐the‐mill terrorism that happens all the time between Pakistan and India, or is something created by outside meddling? After all, the timing of this event seems not a little suspicious. — @A Jokhio آپ نے کہا کہ خودکش حملہ آور BLA کا رکن تھا، ایک دہشت گرد تنظیم جس کا بھارت سے تعلق ہے۔ آپ کی رائے میں بھارت اس میں براہ راست ملوث تھا یا امریکہ نے بھارت کو فریم کرنے اور پاکستان کو دشمنی میں ڈالنے کے لیے BLAکا استعمال کیا تاکہ پاکستان اور بھارت کے درمیان کوئی ایسا میل جول یا پگھلاؤ نہ ہو جو عمران خان کو معزول نہ کیا گیا ہوتا۔ اور پھر بھی ہو سکتا ہے اگر وہ دوبارہ اقتدار حاصل کر لے)۔ دوسرے لفظوں میں، کیا آپ کو لگتا ہے کہ یہ صرف ایک معمول کی دہشت گردی ہے جو پاکستان اور ہندوستان کے درمیان ہر وقت ہوتی رہتی ہے، یا کچھ باہر کی مداخلت سے پیدا ہوتا ہے؟ سب کے بعد، اس واقعہ کا وقت تھوڑا سا مشکوک نہیں لگتا ہے.
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  21. The best advice.
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  22. Emboldened by China and Russia. Also by Iran and Syria and North Korea. Their resistance to empire serves as an example to others.
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  23. I'm sure that Russia wouldn't care much for civilians in such a situation, considering them 'collateral damage' and their deaths unavoidable. Also, the Ukrainians would be guilty of committing a war crime by using civilians essentially as hostages. Just look at Berlin in 1945.
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  24. Their wealth insulates them from overthrow. Only if they experience widespread economic failure will we see the conditions for political instability and even then they have very docile and heavily surveilled populations that are more likely to support authoritarian right wing governments promising to protect them from extremists (i.e. a resurgent left). Russia and China also aren't actively trying, as far as I know, to overthrow their governments (as opposed to allegedly influencing their elections).
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  25. Ukraine joining NATO has been explicitly ruled out. As for North/Nord Stream 2, I think this will only be a temporary hiccup; too much of an investment, both political and financial, was made in its construction for it to stay suspended for long, as well as the economics behind it are still a pressing long term issue for Germany that the import of LNG from the USA cannot adequately cover.
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  26.  @restonthewind  I don't think anyone in the NATO alliance is seriously considering expanding into Ukraine. And why would they? It would be giving the pretext Russia needs, the causus belli, that would lead to a war that would almost certainly end in military defeat for Ukraine and the consequent undermining of the primacy and legitimacy of both the USA and NATO. In fact I think the USA has ruled it out, bluff and bluster aside, not least because it's not very popular with most Europeans. The USA may arm and train Ukraine's military all it likes but its still not a member of, nor ever likely going to be a member of, NATO.
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  27. The whole of whole of the Donbass I would imagine, at the very least.
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  28. NATO, like the EU, is about US control of Europe more than it is about anything else. Its military efficacy against a competent, peer military power is secondary to its ability to put down potential resistance to capitalism and corporatism, much the same way the Warsaw Pact did in eastern Europe.
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  29. Is it true that the tank column was actually leaving the square?
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  30. Don't need a coup, just an election that's not rigged against Trump.
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  31. Link? Citation?
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  32. Europe under the domination of the United States controlled NATO and European Union is practically in an semi-declared war against the Russian Federation.
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  33.  @artus198  Yes, we completely agree on that.
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  34. During the civil war or revolution that the USA might well eventually have then I'm sure other countries will interfere.
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  35. China and Russia should do as much as they can to keep Pakistan stable, if necessary warning Pakistan's generals against attempting a coup and perhaps doing what they did in Turkey by forewarning Erdogan leading him to purge the army and civil service. They should also work to incentivise India to put aside the differences between the two countries and show their whole‐hearted support for constitutionalism and adherence to the rule of law within Pakistan such that they wouldn't take kindly to a junta on their doorstep.
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  36. Unfortunately, as they create digital money out of thin air it's not a problem for them. The problem is that this currency, despite being essentially worthless, can still buy mens lives.
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  37. Perhaps it's not racism as such so much as cultural chauvinism – the conviction that one's own culture is morally or in some other way superior to another.
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  38. I don't think the Russians are using cluster munitions because as far as I'm aware they are banned under a weapons convention of which I think Russia is a signatory (though I could be wrong). They also don't need to use them as more conventional munitions can do the job just as well.
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  39.  @jackneuman5108  Whether Russia is or is not a signatory is irrelevant for the simple reason that cluster munitions aren't being used by Russia in Ukraine. □ And I don't think Russia is suffering from ammunition shortages either as artillery has so far played a key role in Russian military strategy and has proven very effective in destroying Ukrainian tanks and inflicting massive casualties on Ukraine's army. □ I also don't think that the Russians are using cluster bombs because they simply aren't needed no matter how effective they much be under certain circumstances and Russia doesn't want to use them anyway for reasons of public relations (a moral/propaganda victory over the USA and Ukraine).
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  40. Cite your source and we'll see whether it can be trusted or not. And even if the Russians are using cluster munitions it would be entirely understandable given their use by the Ukrainians.
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  41. The flaw in that argument is that the Japanese Self-Defence force IS and always WAS a standing military. Don't be fooled by its apparently innocuous name. The post-war US government also put back in power the very people who were most responsible for committing war crimes against US POW's.
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  42. You sound like a Wikipedia article. Marcos stole billions from his country and left it in the pitiful condition it's in now. The Philippines is still recovering from his malfeasance.
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  43. Thailand is still a basically pro‐western country living in the shadow of western cultural hegemony and military‐economic supremacy. Indeed, it's comprador elites, including its monarchy, heavily rely on the USA and the West more generally to keep themselves in power.
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  44. Is she Taiwanese or from Hong Kong?
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  45. Or get Trump re‐elected.
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  46. It's a government wholly under the influence of international finance whose current primary enforcer is the USA.
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  47. Paypal cannot be trusted. Better to use less well known means of sending money.
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  48. The reason they use subversion is because they can't use democratic means to achieve their aims. Their economic and social polices – neo-imperialist extractive corporatism – are simply too unpopular. Who, after all, wants to be a neo-colony of western monopoly capitalism? The Americans keep insisting that neoliberal capitalism is so efficient and so natural to the human condition yet wherever its been tried it's lead to abject failure and left devastated and pillaged communities in its wake. Coups and colour revolutions are therefore the only way they can achieve control. Anglo-Americans simply don't know how to work in a win-win way; western Europeans in general. Their mindset is win-lose, not win-win; conflict not cooperation.
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  49. They'll bankrupt Europe as well by the looks of things. Meanwhile Russia and China will go from strength to strength.
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  50. Пожалуйста, прекратите спамить. Спасибо.
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