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

  1. It would be descending to the low level of the US government, as well as probably being counterproductive: the US government would simply use it as an excuse to interfere more.
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  2. It would be an interesting development and could potentially alleviate some of the problems associated with conventional loans.
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  3. Agreed, but strikes in Britain hardly constitute an uprising.
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  4. Germany caused wars, but with the help of France, Britain and the USA.
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  5. It was the completion of a slow coup that probably began in the closing days of world war 2 when fascism went underground for 3 decades, stepped up a gear towards the end of the 1960's and went into overdrive in the 1990's, culminating in the events of the 11th of September 2001. I say culminating but that event should really be seen as just the end of the main takeover phase of the US government and the beginning of the takeover phase of the European Union.
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  6. Could be one of the reasons.
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  7. The same can be said for Great Britain, the USA's predecessor and role model. Even at the height of empire the country still suffered from widespread poverty, homelessness and drug abuse.
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  8. The USA had a brief period as a hyperpower – from 1945 to the Korean war of the 1950's – and it when right to its end head. Like an alcholic it's become drunk on power. Alcohol is a hell of a drug, however, and ultimately will destroy you if you're not careful.
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  9. AUKUS seems like BRICS... and just as united.
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  10. The Americans don't care. Like with oil and from gas from the USA, you can get your products from the USA as well. They might be overpriced and inferior but, who cares, it's helping the US economy, and the US economy is the economy of the free world.
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  11. And the Russians seem to be completely unwilling to stop this continued violation of Syria's sovereignty.
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  12. Why – can't "The West" make its own microchips? And isn't Taiwan/Republic of China recognised as a part of the People’s Republic of China anyway?
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  13. 1.They are not needed? 2. It is not politically expedient? 3. Can not do it right now?
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  14. Let's hope that India's political leadership is wise enough to continue to maintain the stable non-aligned status it has adhered to since its independence.
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  15. Because it's not really a democracy, at least for the majority who have been economically disenfranchised by (neo-) liberalism.
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  16. 5:00 – 5:46 That's exactly why they do this! It's a simple, yet effective, propaganda technique. They say the camera never lies, but we know that's not true.
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  17. Evidence please. Mercenaries are not the same as regular troops (though the special forces and intelligence assets of certain NATO countries are known to be involved no direct combat role has been revealed officially to my knowkedge).
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  18. They are going for a Great Depression 2.0 first. Then war.
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  19. He's carrying out the US terror states standard game plan: attack soft targets – hospitals, clinics, schools, government offices, police stations, public transport, civil society buildings like trade/labour union headquarters — to disrupt civil society and destroy civilian infrastructure. In a word, terrorism. They perfected it in Latin America.
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  20. That's what empires do: use their client states as fall guys. Britain did it in both major wars fought in Europe and in India against the Japanese.
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  21. US intelligence basically sets the media agenda of the West. And they don't care how barefaced the lie. Gaslighting it would seem is a perfectly good psychological warfare technique to be used on western audiences. Like with 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination, western audiences will believe anything.
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  22. The economy of the United States of America is basically made up of the FIRE sector (financial and insurance services and real estate) and the military‐industrial-congressional complex.
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  23. According to the United Nations the Republic of China (Taiwan) is de jure recognised as being a part of the Peoples Republic of China, implicitly at least. The USA also recognises the ROC as belonging to the PRC, again, implicitly if not explicitly.
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  24. It was a false flag for sure. Probably the planners knew that the USA was running out of time and urgently needed to create the conditions for dictatorship because the country before then was too free for them to advance their agenda of complete corporate domination.
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  25. Sooner or later the USA will have to concede a multipolar world is the only viable option (if they haven't already and are colluding with China to divide the world into two poles like in the cold war with Russia being sidelined and becoming a semi-autonomous constituent of the Chinese pole, serving the same role as the Warsaw Pact did to Russia, as a buffer).
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  26. Probably still wants the advantage of being a citizen of the USA if things fall through in Thailand.
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  27. Can Karnataka afford to give your state the water? Using up all the ground water from a region's aquifers is not a good idea. Your state may use water‐intensive agriculture or industrial processes which would deplete Karnataka's water resources whereas their use of water is more sustainable.
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  28.  @morningstararun6278  Why do they do this?
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  29. Hopefully, China will be able to help them in this regard in the next couple of decades, giving them an alternative to US platforms. With any luck, they may even be able to develop their own platforms independently of both China and the USA.
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  30.  @putianren  But what if what he said is the truth, that Xi Jinping really is looking to secure his third term? If it's simply a statement of fact there is nothing particularly biased about that.
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  31. 1. They don't have to take on China directly. Just look at the Soviet Union as an example of what can be achieved over time by indirect methods. 2. If they are desperate enough, or greedy enough, or stupid enough then, yes, they could very well take us to war. If we consider accidental war, such as a nuclear missile accident, or war caused by an incident getting out of hand and escalating, as by miscalculation, then even more so. 3. The USA doesn't have to go to war with China, there are plenty of other countries that it and western European capital can destroy and parasitise. And there's nothing that China could, or would even want to, to anything to stop. Indeed, China would be just as exploitative.
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  32.  @victorcenac1247  The difference, if you haven't noticed already, is that the current client government was installed by a bloody coup d'état while the previous government wasn't. Also, the current Ukrainian government isn't even in charge, the Americans are.
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  33. But he's not poor, so he doesn't care.
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  34. The true patriot prevents their country becoming embroiled in foreign entanglements. Mmm... I wonder which American said that. 🤔
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  35. From what I've read Prigozhin will go into exile in Belorussia (where the Russians can keep an close eye on him) and the mercenaries comprising the Wagner Group will sign new contracts with the Russian government, Wagner being disbanded and its members joining new or existing units.
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  36. "Western corporate media has capture[ed] the power to manufacture truth." And I would add, the intelligence agencies of the USA together with their media and tech companies have captured the power to manufacture truth within the West itself. The deep state of the USA has monopolised truth and when we say 'the West' what we are really talking about is the US government and its corporate empire.
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  37. That was the beginning of in-your-face lawlessness, in my opinion. Before that the USA at least went through the motions of adhering, for the most part, to international law or some semblance of it where Russia's direct geopolitical intersts were concerned and took into consideration the likely response of Russia and its allies to American actions.
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  38. Certain western countries are having a hard time adjusting to the rise of China and the rest of the world more generally.
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  39. Eurasian integration is something the USA and the UK are against and will go to great lengths to prevent, even if it means their own destruction. Neither want a peaceful, prosperous Europe dominated by Russia and Germany.
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  40. Some say Marco Polo never got as far as China because he doesn't mention anything of the country or the court of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty.
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  41. I'm sure that the Americans will, perhaps after some initial success, ultimately end up failing, like they have apparently in Afghanistan, their successes being more apparent than real. Eventually, all this warmongering and desire to rule the world through corporate monopolies and banks may very well lead to the economic collapse of the USA and its transformation into a dictatorship whose fascistic tyranny is plain to see.
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  42. I think to be fair he may have been referring to the idea that, over the longer term, Russia may eventually lose, not TO Ukraine, but to the United States IN Ukraine (i.e. that the war is no longer a US proxy war between Ukraine and Russia but a more direct war between the USA itself and Russia; that the USA is now in it for the long haul, a war of attrition, terrorism, subversion, guerrilla war, insurgency, etc.) I think that what he might be trying to suggest is that this war, far from being over, is actually just beginning and that Russia should realise that what it's involved in now is the beginning of world war 3, a war, albeit undeclared, between the USA and the Russian Federation as well as the Russo‐Chinese axis. In other words, Russia may be interpreting events wrongly and making a grave strategic mistake in so doing.
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  43. The USA is sending itself – has already sent itself – into bankruptcy over its institutional inability to reign in its military‐industrial complex and its attempt to maintain unipolarity. How it will behave when the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency is anyone's guess, but it may be the only thing that acts as a brake on the USA's warmongering. Also, when that happens I fear the USA will turn into a full blown dictorship or at least an authoritarian semi-dictatorship like Russia and Japan where only one party/candidate gets elected.
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  44. Maybe the Chinese or Russians could invade the United States via Alaska and Canada, especially if global warming eventually makes the Antarctic/Bering Strait more hospitable/crossable.
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  45. Hopefully, by the closing years of this century the so‐called neocons and their ideology of neo‐liberalism, the driving force behind this evil quest to dominate the planet, will be a distant memory and the USA will have become a more peaceable nation that is far less militarist.
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  46. Or 1,500 kilometres a side? (6000 ÷ 4 = 1,500 kilometres or 932 miles approximately). So, a front line that extends 1,500 kilometres?
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  47.  @contempris2383  and the USA will do everything within its powers to sabotage any Russian efforts to do so, with the more than willing help of fascist collaborators in Poland and the Baltic nations.
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  48. I think he used that pseudonym only on his previous channel 'The Land Destroyer'. I don't think he uses it anymore or on this channel.
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  49. Erdoğan wants to go down in history as having decisively defeated the Kurds and enlarged Turkish territory at the same time, increasing Turkey's influence over the Turkic minorities in Central Asia and putting Turkey clearly on the map as a regional player.
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  50. ​@@DawnRazor-wy8uv Why should a communist care about private property, especially if it's been acquired by unscrupulous means, unfair exploitation and paying workers less than their labour is worth.
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