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

  1. Zelensky is a puppet; he's not in charge. A committee of arch neocons who apparently don't want to negotiate.
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  2. Yes, I tend to agree. Outstanding in my very humble opinion.
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  3. I thought so too. šŸ»šŸ°šŸ¤Ž
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  4. I thought I was the only one to think that the wallpaper wasn't the best, aesthetically speaking. I agree, a new, brighter wallpaper is needed.
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  5. Could go both ways.
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  6. The eurocracy are clearly determined to force the issue over whether drivers go over to electric powered vehicles.
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  7. Or they could take the their Jews back (many of them come from Russia). They even had a Jewish SSR under president Stalin I do believe. They could have one again.
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  8. A nation state defending its borders from foreign aggression (and colour revolutions, hybrid warfare, paramilitary invasions ARE all forms of aggression) orchestrated from thousands of miles away is entirely legitimate.
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  9. "Always took the wrong side"...ā€½ Beating Russia in the Russoā€Japanese war was, I would argue, hardly a case of taking the wrong side. Au contraire, it put Japan on a par with the major European powers of the day and earned it immense respect and prestige. Neither was the Meiji restoration that preceded it in so far as it forestalled Japan from becoming a vassal state of the Europeans or the USA in the way that its much bigger neighbour did. Japan's war in the Asiaā€Pacific region with the USA and the European colonial powers of Britain, France and the Netherlands was also a legitimate war to protect Japanese economic interests from attack by the West. After all, if you aspire to be a successful modern country you need an empire and colonies to exploit and parasitise. That is how the West became successful and if you're going to emulate the West then, naturally, you should get yourself an empire.
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  10. Ā @SuanLuangĀ  They are doing exactly what the USA does in Latin America and did in Vietnam and Iraq: deliberately attack soft ā€“ that is civilian ā€“ targets, a crime under international law.
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  11. It's a combination of carrot and stick. It's a case of getting the balance right.
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  12. The USA will find itself increasingly unable, even by proxy or by attacking third countries, of dominating the world outside its near abroad such that by the end of this century China and Russia will be the dominant powers with France and Germany playing second fiddle.
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  13. 1. The Russian Federation is not demanding a return to the preā€1990 status quo for NATO, it is merely demanding no further expansion eastwards and in particular no attempt to bring Ukraine, Belarus or any other country bordering the Russian Federation into NATO. 2. The nuclear weapons of the USA do not need to be based in Europe to be effective therefore there is no need to station them so close to the borders of the Russian Federation. To do so is a provocation. 3. The expansion of NATO is unnecessary as the Warsaw Pact no longer exists and the Russian Federation is not a threat. However, as an antiā€Russian military alliance led by the USA, a nonā€European country, the continued existence of NATO is an ongoing threat to the Russian Federation and creates unnecessary tension between the countries of Europe by threatening the peace and security of the whole continent.
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  14. What in your opinion would be reasonable?
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  15. Client states more like. And not even necessarily reliable client states.
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  16. The deep state in the USA and Europe, in collusion with big agro and big pharma, are doing this.
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  17. Australia an island...? I always that it was a continent, albeit the smallest of the continents.
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  18. The same goes for fascism. Words like neo-Liberal and neo-Conservative, or hard right are used instead of the word that should be used, (neo-) fascist.
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  19. I second that! šŸ‘
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  20. Are there any channels where one can still watch RT, or has it been closed down completely everywhere in Europe. Apparently my RT channel feed on YouTube has been discontinued.
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  21. Ā @ivanfreely6366Ā  Thanks.
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  22. "Therefore America requires regime change." Unfortunately for the USA, Ukraine is turning out to be a failure in this regard. The only question is what, if anything, the USA can salvage from their debacle in Ukraine.
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  23. A missile that he's never likely to ever possess... except when it becomes totally obsolete. The Russians and Chinese are as complicit as the USA and its minions in Europe of keeping the North Koreans poor and freezing the Korean conflict indefinitely.
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  24. An excellent summary of the situation, if I may say so. Russia wants concrete guarantees that are legally both under international law and, more importantly, under the laws of the United States itself (not that it means much these days). I'm not too hopeful the Russians will be successful in their aims though as the continued existence of NATO - a major pillar of US hegemony in my opinion - depends on expansion. It's a case of expand or die unless it can transform into something bigger like a Global Treaty Organisation or something of that sort, maybe combining with the Quad.
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  25. The Cuban missile crisis 2.0?
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  26. NATO is made up of independent sovereign states and the USA needs them all to be on its side and to consent to its proposed actions. That is, it operates by consensus and if there is none (and there certainly is none here) the USA cannot hope to use the organisation in the event of Russia resorting to military intervention in Ukraine.
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  27. Stop it with the damn adverts, Alexander! It's ridiculous.
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  28. The political and economic reforms she ushered in have placed Britain in such a weakened position that if the Argentinians were to invade today Britain would be hard put to stop them without putting a strain on the military and the economy.
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  29. If she is unpopular in her own country how did she manage to get where she is. Who voted for her or was she simply appointed without consultation?
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  30. Ā @thinkingaloud5379Ā  What role did the electoral college play in Biden's victory?
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  31. Ā @tinatang1Ā  If only one could go back into the past and show the presidents of the USA what would happen if they created the Federal Reserve, the CIA and the FBI, got involved in world wars 1 & 2, the Korean war, etc. maybe the world would be a better place. Come to think of it, if we could go back into the past and do this with all the world's leaders....
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  32. Whereas in the 1980's it was the USA playing off China against Russia, today it's both playing off each other against the USA. ā€” Sinoā€Russian cooperation can only grow in the climate of obstructionism coming from the USA.
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  33. Triā€hegemony (global hegemony shared between the three of them) with maybe India joining some time later as it progresses in the technological, scientific, and economic fields, gaining parity with other three almost in spite of itself.
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  34. Ā @elmersbalm5219Ā  Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well.
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  35. Ā @topixfromthetropix1674Ā  Britain would come a close second. Britain and America are like two peas in a pod.
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  36. But GDP & GNP aren't the whole story. There are other metrics by which an economy can be measured and some which are not amenable to strict mathematical or statistical analysis. In economics everything is measured in money, but money isn't everything.
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  37. I think that some of the more sophisticated weaponry initially left being has subsequently been destroyed by air raids and drone strikes and that much of the rest is unusable due to lack of spare parts and proper maintenance (which the Taliban lack). Also, the majority of the weapons left behind tend to be old or obsolete. In other words, a good percentage of the weaponry captured is more or less useless or will become so in a comparatively short space of time and the rest is largely made up of smallā€toā€medium arms with a smaller number of heavy weaponry such as tanks, artillery pieces and mortars.
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  38. Gaza is a concentration camp and however humanely you treat the prisoners they're still prisoners destined for genocide.
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  39. Or replaced by a Russoā€Chinese Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)?
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  40. The UN hasn't a reputation worth its name; it's just a place where superannuated grifters go.
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  41. Keir Starmer is basically doing what Scholz did: debilitate the German economy for the benefit of his masters in Washington DC.
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  42. And the fact that, at least in Britain, there is no industry to "crank up". Private for-profit banks should be abolished throughout Europe, as should the charging of compound interest. At the very least they should be regular debt 'jubilees' where debts are cancelled. The countries of Europe should each concentrate on maintaining energy and food security by pursuing a policy of economic autarky as well as nationalising strategic industries and services so that they can be used for the public good and for the building up of public infrastructure rather than for private profit.
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  43. The simplest reason is practical: from a military point of view the USA cannot win any war with China over Taiwan; if China wants to take Taiwan it can. The other is moral: imperialism and colonialism are deemed by most of the world as outdated and evil and the USA interfering in another country's affairs are no different from Hitler's Germany. If it's bad for Germany it's bad for the USA, no?
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  44. Russia and Ukraine are at war, therefore this is an act of war by one state against another. Terrorists are non-state actors, often domestic, (though often backed by states) that carry out militant activities.
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  45. So polluting the lands of indigenous people and damaging their ecosystem so the rest of (white) Canada ā€“ or at least its corporations and those of its neighbour ā€“ can have lower priced gasoline to driv your car is okay?
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  46. Let us remind ourselves that the so-called Pivot to Asia (that saw the hardening of the USA's stance towards the People's Republic of China and was tantamount to a declaration of cold war) was begun under the Obama presidency and not that of Trump. Also, that its the MICā€Pentagon combo that decides these policies and independently of any sitting president.
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  47. Maybe these sanctions were never primarily designed to crush the Russian economy, rhetoric aside, but more to crash the economies of the European Union and even the United States itself, in so doing creating the crisis needed to usher in the Great Reset and shore up US hegemony in the West.
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  48. We can but hope.
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  49. Let's see if China and Russia can protect Pakistan the way they have protected Turkey by preā€empting the USA's attempts at regime change by leaking its plans to Erdoğan.
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  50. Neoliberalism (rentier capitalism) is leading to the West to eat its own. Indeed the West, with the United States being an integral part, appears to be fracturing with the Americans seemingly intent on going their own way and treating western Europe the way western Europe treats eastern Europe (as inferior junior partners). Western Europe may soon find its privileged position within the USA's hierarchy of nations to no longer exist, the USA treating them in exactly the same way they treat all other (nonā€western, nonā€white, nonā€Christian) countries. In fact, the USA may actively seek the breakup of the European Union and the weakening, even balkanisation, of the continent similar to what it's done in the Middle East.
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