Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Geopolitical Economy Report" channel.

  1. ... The best way to destroy that prosperity (if they can't control it).
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  2. Certain monopolies when state owned and operated for the greater good of society tend to be better in terms of social wellbeing and are thus preferable to their privately owned, for-profit counterparts. I think the best system though is the one that manages to combine both private and public in a harmonious way. The private sector can cater to the wants of society while the state can cater to its needs.
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  3. All planned. From 9/11 on down.
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  4. India's GDP is not a reliable indicator of economic and political stability, much less social progress. It's only because capitalists and corporatists in the West love GDP because it allows them to portray themselves as progressive (and westerners are obsessed with the idea of progress). India's lack of a single, powerful centre with an overarching moral-ideological underpinning that its people can buy in to and that can systematically plan and implement a national economic plan the way the Chinese and Russians do will seriously hinder India. If India rises it will be in spite of itself.
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  5. The West is undergoing a new cold war and this time around is is the one that is losing. Like the the Soviet Union before it, the West, the USA in particular, can't compete with the productivity and rising living standards of China. They still have a long way to go but like the countries of western Europe during their rise it is only a matter of time. The West is also slowly losing the propaganda war because the Chinese model is delivering success while the western model is only delivering stagnation.
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  6. Will a digital currency still allow the United States to dominate the European Union and the world, or will it be just one powerful currency among two or three others? Will Europe Union and the USA create a single currency like the euro and create a dollar-preference area?
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  7. How would they react? Simple. They wouldn't. Beyond words and token gestures they are as supportive of an impotent UN has the USA, France and Britain are. They no more want to empower the UN than the Americans do because it could be used against them also. Only if they could wrestle control of the UN apparatus from the USA and coopt it would they change their tune. The UN is just a political football that the superpowers kick around to score points of each other and nothing more.
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  8. The wishes of the Ukrainian people evidently do not matter otherwise the USA and the EU would not have couped the Ukrainian government chosen democratically through elections, in addition to reneging on their subsequent commitments to ending the civil war between the central government and the breakaway republics of Lugansk and Donetsk.
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  9. Which Bible? And 'Islamism' is a creation of the USA, just as fascism is a creation of capitalism, both designed to counter threats to the political system of the capitalist countries of western Europe and the North America, the imperial core of the West.
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  10. Glad to hear you're not in the slightest bit racist or cultural chauvinist and that you support the States being taken over by the Hispanics and the Chinese, or a combination of the two. Nice to know that the Great White Replacement theory that some people have been talking about is not just a conspiracy theory after all. Keep being so welcoming and demographically speaking you'll be majority Catholic/Confucian atheist, speak Latin American Spanish, and have a population with predominantly brown skin: Blacks, Native Americans, Indians, Hispanics, Chinese and other Asians. In sure the Chinese and the Latinos (the latter with their apparent love of fascist dictatorships ready to step in to defend American capitalism) will absolutely love the freedoms of the USA.
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  11. More likely a slush fund for the deep state or a money laundering scheme for politicians and CEO's.
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  12. These parties are throughly infiltrated and compromised. Nothing can be expected of them.
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  13. Pepe, it's too early to say we are seeing a second wave of decolonisation in Africa. I think it is premature to make such a prognosis.
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  14. It serves its founders and will continue to exist as long as its founders exist; that's China, France, Britain, Russia and the United States. Every other member is just a co-voter of one or more of the aforementioned, supporting them out of self-interest or necessity.
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  15. @fun_ghoul  Irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that China as a nation-state co-founded the UN and will certainly not wish to see its demise anytime soon, especially as it can reasonably be expected to dominate the institution in the fullness of time or if can't, founding something that will be very similar in form and function.
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  16. Actually I think if such an unlikely thing were to occur China and Russia would probably be the ones launching a cold war. They would be the reactionaries.
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  17. If you see Christian fundamentalism in the USA in the same way you see Islamic fundamentalism, as something deliberately fostered by those at the top to divide people and to serve as the fanatical foot soldiers of elite corporate power, then you will see that the phenomenon is something that exists to preserve the status quo and serves an ulterior and quite secular purpose: to preserve Western global hegemony over both the domestic (USA, LatAm) and foreign populations (Middle East).
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  18. Europe is being Latin Americanised by the rentier capitalism of the USA.
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  19. ​​​ @tomtube1012  That's why China is in the crosshairs. It's already knocked the USA off the number one spot but because of statistical chicanery the USA appears to still be the world's largest economy. It's economic stats, like its unemployment and inflation stats, are a lie.
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  20. Not post modern ( post modernism ). Post modernism is against colonialism, imperialism, etc. and critiques it (one of the reasons it's attacked).
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  21. Such a strategy helped destroy the Soviet Union and bring to an end communism in that country. The greatest rival to the USA – political, military, economic and idelogical – was thus brought low by this method and the working classes in all countries suffered, and continue to suffer, as a result.
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  22.  @pfroudzdo  That sounds very plausible. Russia needs to keep the United States at at a minimum distance from its borders, especially regarding its nuclear weapons.
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  23. How much of the foreign and domestic policy of the USA crafted by the permanent government of the deep state as opposed to being crafted by political parties/ leaders? Makes one wonder.
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  24. But where will this communism come from? All the major countries, including China, Russia and India, all appear to be corporate-capitalist in character. I'm sure the fledgling bourgeoisie in Russia would fight tooth and nail to stop it returning, and the Chinese don't appear too keen on its return either. Such countries are more likely to form an alliance against a communist power than side with it. At best we will have two kinds of capitalist, neoliberal and non-neoliberal, arguing over who will get the bigger slice of the pie.
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  25. The problem there is if the US dollar becomes worthless then nobody will want to be left with money they can't spend. What's more, if the dollar crashes and there is high or even hyper-inflation, the USA is itself likely to become a dictorship. It's almost there already with a Congress and military‐industrial complex that ignores the needs of its citizens and only 2 factions of what is in effect a single party, with semi-rigged elections.
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  26.  @HarrySmith-hr2iv  But that debt would be repudiated during a war. And I don't think anyone believes for a moment that the USA can repay, or has any intention of repaying, that debt.
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  27. Neoliberalism (for the majority) doesn't work. Full stop. It ends up wrecking the economy.
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  28. Ukraine is just a vast money laundering, gun running, drug smuggling and people trafficking scam, in addition to being a gold mine for arms manufacturers, banks and corporations. That and the ushering in of a new cold war that leaves Europe divided and the USA's dollar hegemony intact.
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  29. Once the Chinese (or those with global influence) decide to use the Yuan (or whatever currency can serve as a substitute) as the new reserve currency. And not until! Trading in one's own currency is not the same as creating a new reserve currency. Also, the Chinese and Russians, Indians and Brazilians and all the rest are quite happy to go along with sanctions, especially if they come from the United Nations – eg. on Saddam Husseins' Iraq in Gulf War 1, on North Korea, on Muammar Quaddafi 's Libya, on Slobodan Milosovic's Yugoslavia, on Iran, on Syria and the Palestinians.
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  30. The West = the United States' imperium.
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  31. All this yapping about the end of US and western imperialism and neo-colonialism.... All I'll say is I'll see believe it when I see it.
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  32. That's probably because the USA demands that Europe does not use Chinese or Russian technology. Think Huwai. Think Cold War. Think sanctions.
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  33. Its demise is too slow for my liking and I'm dubious that whatever replaces it may not be that much better.
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  34. With the exception of Spain during the Middle Ages, I'd have to ask from which countries have the Jews been repeatedly expelled and could good old fashioned love- thy-neighbour Christian anti-semitism be to blame?
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  35. Is the appointment of all these neo-fascist warmongers a pschop designed like the Star Wars programme to convince the Chinese and Russians that the leadership of the USA is insane and liable to do hitherto unthinkable things and cross hitherto sacrosanct red lines if they don't at least meet the USA halfway (as by letting them genocide the Palestinians and allow the the creation of what amount to a second Puerto Rico in the Middle East)?
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  36. Intelligence agency guy, predecessor probably killed by the same mRNA bio-weapon they used in the clotshot masquerading as a vaccine. But like 9/11 and JFK, Israel versus Hamas, we'll never know until it's no longer important.
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  37. Not weird at all. Ben is comparing like with like. In the context of the video he is comparing China, an Asian country, with other Asian countries in terms of wages paid to workers. This is to confute the argument that companies go to China because of low wage costs rather than the real reason which is that they can produce virtually any product of the same quality as its American equivalent and in far greater quantities with the added advantage being that they can sell it at a much lower price.
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  38. She's a puppet of the USA.
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  39. Bilateral treaties between countries obliging mutual assistance (though not necessarily of the military kind) in case of attack could be a partial solution, whilst international organisations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) could serve as an alternative venue for the resolution of disputes, cutting out the need for the United Nations to get involved except a an observer.
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  40.  @michaelkatz275  I'd rather stay at home and have my government do the same. Britain has no business in Ukraine and shouldn't allow itself to be used as a pawn in America's great game.
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  41.  @michaelkatz275  You mean the man who tried to avert a war between the British empire and the wannabe nascent German empire; you know, the one that thought it could tell the Germans that the rules made by the then global hegemon Britain were set in stone and that, while we, together with France, could divide Europe up anyway we liked the Germans weren't allowed to. This time around there are nuclear weapons that can wipe out entire societies, if not humanity itself. Is all you can come up with a Neville Chamberlain (and using a whitewashed version of history at that, one that portrays Britain as some kind of pacifist saint bending over backwards to prevent war). Do you really want a war for the sake of the sick system of fascistic Anglo-American capitalism and United States domination of the entire planet?
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  42. That's still 2 camps.
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  43. But it can't. And it won't. We'll see.
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  44. That's why they undermine a democracy anyway they can.
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  45. The USA is spreading the risk to the whole world, globalising this systemic 'too big to fail' problem and making it a problem for everyone.
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  46. It was the fear of communist revolution combined with electoral gains by socialist parties and increasing union militancy that finally convinced certain members of the propertied class in the USA to give their (very qualified) support for American-style social democratic movements and reforms favouring the working class. Theodore Roosevelt among others was one such person. That's why they threatened him with a putsch in the 30's during the Great Depression. Maybe something like that will happen again; a member of the elite will see that it's better to throw a few loaves of bread at the mob now and stave off calls for root and branch reform than to continue to continue to sprinkle them with just the breadcrumbs.
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  47.  @zurinarctus1329  Probably because he wanted political and economic sovereignty for Libya and Africa and didn't want either Russia or China undermining that. He probably also wanted Libya to have the same currency dominance as the USA has with the Bretton Woods system. In the end he was too ambitious. Economic power not backed up by commensurate military power is very susceptible to being destroyed by countries that have both. Also, only by combining the aforementioned judiciously can you have political power and its political power that is what a country aspires to. Economic power and military power are the means, political power is the end.
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  48. He already has developed a strong military and paramilitary to suppress organised labour and political dissent. More to the point, the USA and certain countries in Europe have done most of the organising as he's merely the figurehead.
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  49. Jesus was a black man...‽ 😮🫨😵☹️😮😯😲🤫
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  50. The Chinese need to thwart the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) denominated in US dollars that will allow the United States to have control over people's money even more than they have now.
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