Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Dialogue Works" channel.

  1. What Scott doesn't seem to realise is that Israel is basically a colony of the USA, so it's actions tend to be those that favour US geostrategic interests. In other words, it's the USA that's behind much of what's going on. Also, the European Union is an American creation. Like NATO it was designed to influence Europeans and it's worked.
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  2. Went do you say overpopulated? The entire population of planet Earth could fit comfortably into the state of Texas and there would be enough food to feed them thrice over. It's not population that's the problem but access to resources.
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  3. Money laudering is all it is.
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  4. The deep state in the USA has spent 70 years perfecting the MICIMATT complex (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank) and at this stage it has compromised the formal institutions of state power and reduced democracy to mere formalism where appearance is more important that substance.
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  5. So telling the truth is something that should not happen? He's merely pointing out that the king has no clothes. According to you freedom to criticise is something that we should only have in theory (so we can look superior to the communists and fascists) but should never try to exercise in practice. It is irrelevant whether or not a person can or cannot say certain things in another country, one can (at least for now) say these things in your country and can point out wrongdoing and wickedness when it happens.
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  6. Is Michael suggesting that the current system is more or less based on the personality of Putin? What happens when he's gone?
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  7. Bullshit! Afghanistan was in no way responsible for 9/11 and its people, who suffered the most and are still suffering terribly from the actions of the USA, certainly didn't do 9/11. The attack on the triple towers was an inside job that was conducted by elements within the US military-security establishment itself, almost certainly with the collusion of elements of from within the military-security establishment of Israel. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Osama Bin Laden were just the fall guys. Plans were afoot long before 9/11 to attack Afghanistan. Another thing is that you don't just go in an demand, without a shred of evidence, that a country just hand over another country's nationals, especially if it doesn't have an extradition treaty with you. If there was a country that actually warranted an attack it was Saudi Arabia (if you believe the official story that the hijackers being Saudis working for Bin Laden, a man known to be dying of kidney failure and who was long dead before he was allegedly killed by the USA in Pakistan and who always denied the charges against him). You also aren't supposed to just bomb other countries without the approval of the UN Security Council. The United States its also not the sole superpower as events in Ukraine and with China vis-a-vis Taiwan are showing. Tibet, by the way, is an integral part of China, as is Taiwan. The USA is a genocidal monster and saying that this is how its always been is not an excuse. If such an excuse wasn't good enough for the Germans and Japanese back then it certainly isn't an legitimate excuse now.
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  8. And capitalism — a mass black enslavement, native genocide and (Mexican) land stealing machine? More people have died as a direct or indirect result of capitalism than they ever have under Soviet and Chinese communism, which both saw increases in net population and general standards of living.
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  9. I would imagine that the Finns are not as susceptible to a colour revolution as the Ukrainians were. They may not be as keen on neutrality as they once were but I don't think the majority of the Finnish population want to alienate or antagonise the Russian Federation to the point that they could go to war.
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  10. Ritter's ideas on making the USA relevant are a non-starter in my opinion given the USA is the one causing most of the problems in the first place. For instance, what if China says nothing short of complete surrender by Taipei (more realistically, the implementation of a two-systems-one-country form of governance á la Hong Kong) is the only thing that's acceptable and that, regarding Ukraine and elsewhere – Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. – the United States will not stand in the way of China creating a transcontinental transportation and energy corridor that will unite Asia with Europe (á la Mackinder's heartland theory) and allow, ultimately and over the longer term, a Eurasia more or less completely dominated, at least economically, by China with which the USA may not be able to compete?
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  11. Not the dismantling of the Soviet Union but the dismantling of the Warsaw Pact. I don't think anyone in the Soviet Union thought that it would lead to its breakup.
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  12. Civilisation is too broad a term when applied to an entire continent. Only countries, societies, can possess civilisation.
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  13. The very concept of international law is a product of the West and was always designed to serve the interests of western capitalism.
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  14. There is no such thing as a Judeo-Christian because they are two distinct religions. You either have Jewish values or you have Christian values. The word 'Judeo-Christian' is like the word fascist-communist: an oxymoron. There may be a certain overlap bergen the two, but that notwithstanding they still remain separate and distinct religio-theological belief systems.
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  15. The British economy follows the American model so it's only natural that they should be effected by the same problems. Neoliberalism has been a disaster for the vast majority of working people and ultimately for the economy because it privileges the FIRE sector over the STEM sector (industry and manufacturing).
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  16. It's a collection of vassals. A captive market for the USA.
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