Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Alexander Mercouris" channel.

  1. The European Union has shot itself in the foot regarding its energy policy. No doubt the USA has had a hand in persuading European governments to buy their gas at fluctuating spot prices rather than at a single, stable and guaranteed price set in advance by Russian energy provider Gazprom. I'm also given to wondering just how much of this energy crisis is due to real shortages and supply problems and how much of it is actually contrived through the deliberate creation of artificial scarcity.
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  2. Hopefully, sooner or later we'll see a sea change in strategic thinking on the part of the European Union as they realise that the USA cannot keep up with the growing economic power of China and the energy resources of Russia. The ease by which these resources can be accessed by Europe, together with their relative cheapness, will almost always be preferable to countries like Germany over energy from elsewhere.
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  3. The sooner this terrible war ends the better. Too many lives have already been lost and Zelensky prolonging the conflict will not change things one iota. A Ukrainian defeat is inevitable and surely all sane minds can see this.
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  4. How long can this go on for, because it seems to me that neither the European Union nor the USA want any settlement of this problem, at least not in the near term. The Europeans would rather it be used as an excuse to problematize the relationship between themselves (European Union) and the Russian Federation that solve the issue decisively and normalise relations between them.
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  5. When faced with pressure from Uncle Sam and John Bull (the biggest money launderers on the planet) threatening to reveal the corruption in Switzerland of its leaders as well as closing down its secret accounts that it gets a lot of its revenue from and sanctioning it I think they just caved. They did the same after WW2.
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  6. Countries should enter into negotiations in good faith and with realistic expectations as to what is achievable, as well as being in a position to give substantial concessions where possible and expedient. They should certainly not treat other major powers as less than there equals.
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  7. As I've said before and will say again, this war needs to end and soon. It is so sad that a people who are so alike should be fighting each other.
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  8. The USA has already implicitly admitted Taiwan belongs to China, it did this when it recognised China in the first place back in 1979.
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  9. Hopefully, this war will be at an end by this time next year if not sooner and Alexander can go back to talking about more mundane things. The sooner this carnage ends the better.
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  10.  @willrobinson9767  And it's poisonous.
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  11. It always has been pushing for a diplomatic and peaceful end to the conflict. It's the USA and its client states in Europe who have been engaging in brinkmanship and, indeed, still are.
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  12. The sooner the Ukrainian government comes to the negotiating table and engages in some serious negotiations the sooner all this unpleasantness will be over. And when all the smoke clears the rouble and the yuan will be stronger and we'll all be one step closer to that tripolar world that the world sorely needs right now.
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  13. Did anyone think differently, that NATO would fight over Ukraine?
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  14. 👍💯✔
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  15. Are Britain and the USA (becoming increasingly) out of step with the rest of the European Union, especially France and Germany? Is there a rift growing between the Anglo-Americans and the Franco‐Germans or are the differences within the EU relatively minor?
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  16.  @alhassangangu4357  Put simply, it's an arms race and the USA this time around is losing. An arms race with Russia or China on their own it may just be able to handle but not between Russia and China combined, especially as its so deep in debt and is possibly on the verge of hyperinflation or something similar. The USA simply can't afford another cold war, however, the neocons who apparently control the deep state don't seem to have realised this.
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  17. The West is basically the USA and that's it. Britain and Germany are more or less subordinated to the US in terms of their foreign policy (the French maybe less so) and no European politician or political party is allowed to be independent of the neocon‐dominated elite that sets American policies towards Russia and China.
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  18.  @honeybear9376  I wonder how susceptible India is to having its own religion, Hinduism, weaponised and used against it the way Islam was weaponised and used against its neighbour Pakistan. Indeed, I often wonder whether the right wing Hindu nationalist party with fascist leanings currently in power owes its existence at least in part to the USA or is an entirely indigenous phenomenon.
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  19. It would seem that, working together, the Chinese and Russians can force the USA into an arms race that it will find itself increasingly difficult to keep up with (assuming the USA doesn't change its ongoing support for the military).
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  20. The unaccountable deep state of the US government is more damaging to the nation's interests that either China or Russia. This is what happens when you put profits before people, the needs of a plutocracy before the needs of the rest of society, and when you allow bank managers and the CEO's of corporations whose main profits are from war to run the country instead of a more diverse range of people.
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  21. At the moment westerners don't really care. They are indifferent to the concerns of non‐western peoples unless it hurts their bottom line: profits. Two hundred years or more of having their heads filled with the idea of western cultural superiority has made them both complacent and hubristic towards others. I feel things are slowly changing though in this regard and that slowly, as western power wains and eastern power waxes and parity is reached between East and West, a more respectful relationship will develop.
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  22. Is Alex sitting on bubble wrap? 😂
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  23. The aim is not to win but to drain Russia's resources, pump‐prime the US military‐industrial complex, divert the attention of the EU and keep NATO together. The world is in a pre‐dollar collapse phase and this is one of the consequences of the USA getting increasingly desperate.
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  24. Especially if it succeeds in Syria as a well.
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  25.  @parallax9281  Yes. And in this case I think it's a case of China being mightier than the USA in its own back yard. Maybe everywhere else (except Russia) the USA'S might may reign supreme but not here, I'm afraid. All the USA can do is bluff and bluster.
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  26. And in clear violation of the Non‐Proliferation Treaty that clearly commits all signatories to work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
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  27. That's because NATO is not truly a representative organisation comprising the various nations of the European continent and has no genuine concern about the real threats facing Europe such as terrorism, religious extremism and radical ethno‐nationalism. Rather, it is an arm of the US government, an extension if you will of its military‐industrial complex. Indeed, the USA is behind much of the instability on Europe's periphery as the debacle in Kazakhstan as shown. You only have to look at Yugoslavia and Libya, as well as Afghanistan, to see how NATO is an offensive and not a defensive organisation.
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  28. I think it's finally sinking in at the White House that the alliance between China and Russia will place them at a serious disadvantage in the longer term. I think that this realisation will ultimately weaken the neocons, either making them less ideological and more pragmatic to the extent that they recognise the tripolar world we are almost in, or by them making a mistep which will show in no uncertain terms the limitations of US military and economic power and so discredit them that other political groupings will be able to remove them from influence.
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  29. I'd say it goes deeper than that. Taiwan/Republic of China has been a part of China since at least the Ming dynasty where Cuba was never a part of the USA. The people on both sides of the straits are culturally and ethnically Han Chinese. It's more akin to Texas compared to the Union.
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  30. He'll be calling them Russians next (which wouldn't be untrue as that is what they are). However, if they did they would be implicitly recognising Russia's legitimacy – protecting its own people in what historically until very recently was a part of Russia.
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  31. A wise choice given the circumstances.
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  32. They want combat experience and to gain military intelligence. That and prolonging this needless conflict.
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  33. What events specifically are you referring to? And where exactly is Europe, specifically Germany, going to get its energy from? Especially as the Germans seem hellbent on undermining their own domestic supplies of energy (eg. shutting down their nuclear power plants) ostensibly due to ecological concerns but I think that there some other reason that we aren't being told.
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  34. Or: We never left!
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  35. Shortly after NATO has been officially disbanded. Without NATO the raison d'être of the USA having a military presence in Germany disappears. As time goes on I see Germany pursuing policies that will diverge increasingly from those of the USA with regards its relationship with Russia. I think it's inevitable. Germany has been under the wing of the United States long enough and I think that maybe now it is mature enough to stand on its own two feet. Germany can act as the bridge between Russia and Western Europe.
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  36. But how much of India's GDP will used to alleviate poverty effectively? With all those trillions they should be able to give a guaranteed minimum income to every Indian and provide basic housing, education, clean water and healthcare for everyone. India has had since 1948 to have a standard of living at least equal to that of China yet has had comparatively lacklustre performance. India's leaders appear incompetent in comparison to their Chinese counterparts. I hope things will change and every Indian will have greater opportunities in the future.
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  37. The USA is going to go bankrupt. In fact it is already bankrupt and has been since the 1970's and it's just a matter of time before China or the international banking system gets rid of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. When that happens the government of the USA will suffer from a fiscal crisis unless some contingency plan has been planned in advance (and one which will probably require the cooperation of China and the rest of the world for its successful implementation).
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  38. ​ @mm8u9y7i  The USA was absolutely clobbered in the Battle of the Bulge... but Germany was still defeated (by Russia! ).
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  39. I think in the short term India will continue to source most of its energy by importing oil and gas from the Middle East by tanker or otherwise obtain it domestically rather than become too dependent on the Russians or Chinese for their energy needs, at least not until they are sure that playing off the USA against China and Russia is no longer a viable strategy.
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  40. India needs to remain neutral and the champion of the non‐aligned movement, developing at its own pace and keeping itself out of unnecessary foreign entanglements.
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  41. But that is what the Australian corporate ruling class wants. They want to provoke China to justify their own aggression by portraying them as being the aggressor.
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  42. In never stood a chance, though. And they knew it. It was just posturing.
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  43. 25:00 That's what the USA might want: turmoil in Europe. It's worked in the Middle East, might possibly work in Africa. Latin America is divided.
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  44. The government of the Russian Federation officially subscribes to the orthodox interpretation of the events of 11th September 2001 and as this channel is pro‐Russian and also does not want to be demonetized, banned or censored by the US‐controlled You Tube it will put out talking points that tend to favour the status quo on certain issues. That's my opinion anyway.
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  45. I'd like to see the Russian Federation using the same court to try and prosecute US, French and British troops using the excuse that war crimes were committed by their soldiers on the soil of a signatory nation of the ICC convention. A fortiori, Britain and France would be even less able to argue their way out of things because they are themselves signatories to the ICC convention, unlike Russia and the USA. But just like with Syria vis‐à‐vis alleged chemical weapons use by Bashar al-Assad against civilians and the downing of commercial airline flight MH-17 over Ukraine we would see a complete travesty of legal procedure and suborned UN officials sabotaging their own organisations on behalf of NATO and the EU.
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  46. I think Saudi Arabia might be the real objective. Saudi Arabia is the key to the USA dollar's dominance after all. It may also be designed to re-assert its dominance over Europe and possibly get it to do something that will weaken it and strengthen the USA à la the two major wars. fought in Europe in the 20th century.
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  47. The USA reminds me of the Ottoman empire during the late nineteenth century, the so-called sick man of Europe. Its demise was long anticipated but it held on into the twentieth century, much longer than anyone expected. Likewise, it's impossible to predict with any great degree of certainty when, or how, or even if, the USA will collapse in any meaningful way soon.
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  48.  @Carbuncle0168  You're in denial.
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  49. Looks like this sorry saga will go on for at least another year.
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  50. I doubt this will get much coverage in the MSM.
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