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

  1.  @Durnyful  Western governments aren't really swayed by their electorates either and no more care for what the majority of the people think than the countries labelled by them as autocracies. On anything that really matters the elites get their way, (barring coups d'état and the like).
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  2. He's not in charge. It's anyone's guess who is.
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  3. Such a terrible failure? Great education (free), universal healthcare (free), housing for all – no homelessness (free), no endemic malnutrition or starvation with low cost food (healthy diet). Oh, and not to mention a military that the elites of the West feared after it had destroyed the fascism that capitalism had created in response to the very appealing ideology of communism and the liberation of the Russian people (and Eastern Europeans) from monarchy and serfdom. It also provided much needed aid and inspiration to Global South countries throughout the world to such an extent that the wonderful capitalist (corporatist) role model that you presumably admire so much had to resort to fomenting coups and installing military junta which proceeded to kill and imprison millions of its own to impose the capitalist paradise (never a failed experiment, oh no, it's never described as such) that people like you admire so much. Ever visited a favela (slum) lately? Ever encountered a US-trained death squad? Know someone who was disappeared? People talk about Stalin's purges but signally fail to draw the obvious parallels with the purges of the Latin American peoples.
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  4. In what way?
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  5.  @thewesternworld9695  I thought China was communist or communist‐capitalist hybrid. And that it pumps out more professionals each year than the whole of the USA and Europe combined. And is the workshop of the world, producing most of the consumer products that the USA and Europe use. And Russia....
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  6. I'm sure that either jointly or separately Russia and China will prove themselves more than capable at suppressing undue interference from the USA in that country and, indeed, that region. Cooperation for mutual benefit between Kazakhstan and its neighbours is a much better proposition than any involving conflict or sanctions.
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  7.  @EnglishMike  incompetence... or expediency?
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  8. Interesting. Don't know how much of what you say is true but I wouldn't put it past certain elements of the military and intelligence apparatus of the USA to do this, those that are literally unaccountable within the regular system of governance and oversight.
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  9.  @HarryWolf  I don't know. Ask the OP.
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  10. I suspect the real powers behind the throne in the European Union deliberately want to foster the conditions that will make colour revolutions, coups and the like more likely, destabilising the continent and making the assumption to power of authoritarian right wingers like Marine le Pen governments much, much more likely.
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  11.  @danmar007  Define precisely what 'The West' is.
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  12. Those Covid shots seem to be making him more, not less, susceptible to repeated re-infection.
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  13.  @kiwikeith7633  They're probably a fake party created by US intelligence.
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  14. It would seem then comrade that a return to communism is what is needed. Under communism the average Russian and Ukrainian tended to be better fed and eat a healthier and more varied diet than their western counterparts. And could afford to eat! /$
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  15. Well, to be honest it was an unworkable arrangement to begin with and was probably designed as such by the British – dividing, if not conquering, to the last.
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  16. Isn't Canada just an extension of the USA? Canada needs to get rid of its current prime minister and his neoliberal cabinet and replace him with someone who is less of a globalist and more of a nationalist/nativist.
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  17.  @sheenytan1061  The threat of a good example.
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  18.  @sheenytan1061  The threat of a bad good example.
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  19. The USA wants to stand alone with a European rump as its satraps.
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  20. What would settling the Kurdish problem mean in reality? The Turks see the area inhabited by the Kurds as an integral part of Turkey and find Kurdish nationalism anathema, seeing it as conducive to separatism and the breakup of Turkey.
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  21. I think the Russians see Ukraine as basically an extension of Russia so fighting Ukrainians is like fighting themselves, almost like a civil war, so they don't want to alienate the majority of Ukraine's citizens any more than they have to, especially as the areas where they live will eventually be absorbed into Russia either_de facto_ or de jure in everything but name (like Belarus) and they'll have to live with each other when all's said and done. They also want as much of Ukraine's infrastructure left intact at the end of the war so that it will reduce the costs of reconstruction.
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  22. Blueish. Greenish. Yellowish.
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  23.  @zanshikaijin2709  I was joking.
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  24. Would be very demoralising I should imagine.
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  25. I doubt Britain has much more.
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  26. It takes money to maintain an empire so I wonder how long it will take for the USA to realise the implications of this when China and the world stop propping up the dollar. Perhaps China prefers to prop up the dollar until the bankers are in a position to replace the world's national currencies with a single international currency dominated by just a few countries, China amongst them.
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