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

  1. Or quite possibly humanity's end game.
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  2. But... that would be communism. Putin would then be called a fascist and a communist tyrant by the West. — Joking aside, the Russians are keen to be seen as a country that honours its contractual obligations, quite apart from any legal or political ramifications that such a move would have. Of course, in the areas the Russians intend to keep they could, presumably, buy out foreign landowners (or use eminent domain) and then sell or give the land to its own citizens, or possibly keep it as public land held by the state.
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  3. Military keynesianism.
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  4. Ben probably supports the so‐called state capitalism of China, seeing it as preferable to that practiced in the USA and (western) Europe, basically falling into the trap of 'the-lesser-of-two-evils-ism'.
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  5. Hope you're right. Though economic, cultural and political war has already broken out, indeed, has been waged since 1917 (Russian revolution) and intensified after 1946 (cold war). More than a hundred years of hate caused by capitalists and corporatists.
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  6. I read somewhere where these banks were sent into bankruptcy deliberately to deter banks dealing in crypto currencies by being denied access to certain credit facilities that are allowed to regular banks.
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  7. Capitalists. That they may help the consumer is largely incidental. That's trickle-down for you. Like in Hitler's Germany or NATO during the cold war, the capitalist only cares about the consumer (working class) when threatened. Communism did this in Hitler's Germany and in western Europe from 1918 up to 1991. But communism is no more and the USA's steady infiltration and subversion of the West over the last 50 years by its alphabet soup of intelligence agencies, astroturf NGO's, combined by corporations control of the mass media, schools and think tanks, along with colour revolutions, coups and supranational organisations like WEF, IMF, UN, EU work very hard to make sure that communism and socialism never make a come back. That's why we see the rise of the right/fascism: the working class have nowhere else to turn. Fake political parties and fake democracy is all the West has. They are portrayed as moderates and centrists guarding democracy from extremism.
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  8. ​​​​ @sharkybrickfilms99120  Korea invaded itself...‽ ~ Get your facts straight: it was the United States of America that invaded Korea together with the usual bunch of western European imperialists under the figleaf of the United Nations. It did this when the brutal caitalist-fascist, pro-Japanese and collaborationist puppet regime of the South fell. Same with Vietnam, another country that was attacked and bombed back to the stone age for having the audacity to invade itself.
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  9. I'm noticing big blank spaces between comments. Is anyone else noticing this?
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  10. It's cultural. India and China are completely unalike.
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  11. The simple answer to the question posed: China is a rival and rivals impose constraints upon rival hegemons. The USA, as the rival hegemon does not like constraints imposed upon it.
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  12. The USA is intending to destroy China/Russia like it did in the cold war. A long drawn out attritional war of economic sabotage, cultural subversion, terrorism and insurgency. It took about 75 years to destroy communism as a political, economic and ideological system practiced in places like Russia and China — about 3 or 4 generations — and the military-corporate leadership in the United States think they can have a repeat, despite the change in circumstances, this time destroying the state capitalism as practiced first and foremost by China with Russia as the secondary target.
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  13.  @77Bardem  🌹🙋‍♂️
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  14.  @fun_ghoul  Really‽
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  15.  @fun_ghoul  And good bye to you too.
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  16. Until China decides to pull the plug.
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  17. Human beings like stability and traditionalism embodies that, as does conservativism. That said I think that there should be a cut-off point of between 40 and 60 for people to hold positions of political power. At the very least a quota system should be introduced to dilute significantly the number of old people who are involved in politics ranging from politicians to members of the judiciary, legislature, executive, armed forces and police.
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  18. The president of France is already unpopular with a significant proportion of the French electorate (or so it would seem from the recent demonstrations) so any perception among French voters that his policies vis-a-vis China are having a negative effect on the French economy will make him even less popular, especially if he's seen as pandering to the USA at the expense of his own country.
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  19. Stop shouting! (You're hurting my eyes) 😵 🙈 🙀 🥺
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  20. The "boomers" as you call them had — and have — no more influence on government than any other generation before or since. It's silly to blame an entire generation, millions of people, for the actions of a few. A "boomer" is merely a person who, through no fault of their own, just happened to be born during the good times of late stage capitalism immediately after the wars in Europe and Asia when the economy of the USA went through an unprecedented and never-to-be-repeated boom caused by the unique conditions prevailing then. For approximately 35 years from 1945 to 1980 the economies of the West experienced rapid growth that allowed them to prosper, but that all disappeared when the corporations and banks (monopolists and rentiers) came to power from 1980 onwards. So you should blame them, the neo-conservatives and neo-liberals and those who put them in power, the lobbyists, for your predicament.
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  21. Like with Africa before and after the fall of Gaddafi, there will be a before and after moment with South East Asia. Maybe it will be the Philippines that will have to succumb before missiles are allowed, maybe Indonesia, but however it turns out, just like Libya had to succumb before the rest of Africa fell in line, so the USA will keep pushing until it finds an Asian domino to push over.
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  22. ​​ @70newlife  A dictator like Hitler might and a more efficient one like Stalin certainly could. It would all be about disciplining the workforce and lowering their expectations and living standards in the case of the right seizing power, disciplining the workforce and increasing their expectations and standards in the case of the left seizing power. Think Brazil or India versus China or Russia.
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  23. ​ @davidgmaloof  So failed harvests compounded by the lack of proper data is an atrocity. Like, the Chinese government just woke up one day and said let's kill a couple of million of our own people... just because. You know what are real atrocities? Enslaving people and genociding them based on their ethnicity, two policies that were deliberate and not excusable on grounds of bureaucratic incompetence or maladministration.
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  24. If you're an elite member of the Bank of International Settlements — thus definitely know what you're doing — the same logic applies. To wit, if you can rig the system in your favour then, yes, what you say is true.
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  25. And then they'll accuse the Indians of stealing their jobs.
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  26. The NSA has a monopoly on open source intelligence. Wow! No wonder the Chinese and Russians want to develop their own internet and search engines. And it's not Bezos and co. rather it's the government of the USA. These ostensibly private monopolies are in fact state monopolies in disguise. The likes of Geoff Bezos and Bill Gates merely give the illusion of capitalist free enterprise. Without the state creating it – using public money and public universities – the 'capitalist' internet wouldn't exist.
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  27. Watch the video from beginning to end. Several times. Then you might get it.
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  28. And add "corporatism" and "plutocracy".
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  29. When the Ottoman empire fell and the USA took over, placing their military bases on Turkish soil, destroyed the Turkish left during the cold war, and imposed on the country corporate fascism – neoliberalism – via the debt bondage of the IMF and World Bank. Ever since then the rulers of Turkey have been nothing more than a westernised compradors class, parasites put in power by western-backed coups á la Latin America.
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  30. That's next.
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  31. That's why China (in so far as it can be considered socialist or communist) cannot allow the type of parliamentary or liberal quasi-democracy practised in the English-speaking world and neither could the Soviet Union before it. To do so would be like a small family-run business going up against a corporation, votes doled out according to wealth and power, not merit and integrity.
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  32. They accuse others of things that they are guilty of.
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  33. It's one of those dog whistling euphemisms for niggas. Western elites have made it taboo to use race as a method of classifying peoples into superior and inferior so they have took to using vague geographic terms like sub-Saharan, Global South, Third/Second World, etc. The euphemisms change from time to time – like Negro became Black, then African-American and then People of Colour; Chinaman became Chinese – but the intention behind it, even if not admitted to, is to divide the world into a hierarchy of the worthy and the unworthy; the good and the bad; the 'free' world and those they enslave, with 'The West' as the only real civilisation.
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  34. How many poles, 2, 3? If there are only going to be 2 or 3 poles then that will be just like the 2 or 3 political parties in so‐called western democracies: there will be little to no difference between them. Under such a system no one should expect a Chinese or Russian pole to come to the rescue of the oppressed and exploited in a US or European Union pole. Russia for instance is capitalist-corporatist so will have no qualms in joining the United States in preventing a resurgence of communism. Ditto China .
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  35. "Laws and rights" are still values, values which are ultimately derived from moral reason as held by the rulers of any given society at any given time.
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  36.  @Nikoya73  I am sorry but I am having trouble understanding the distinction you are trying to make between a moral value and the legal codification of that moral value. ¤ Is not a law merely the expression of a moral sentiment. Society believes 'X' is morally right or morally wrong and the law reflects that. Society, for instance, may believe that murder is wrong and thus the law says it is wrong; society says that theft is wrong and, again, the law does too. ¤ Is it not society — based on inherent moral concepts of right and wrong — that decides whether or not someone should have or be denied certain rights, together with what those rights should be in the first place?
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  37.  @Nikoya73  Okay. Nice talking to you. 👋
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  38.  @Nikoya73  Okay. Nice talking to you. 👋
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  39. Or turn to communism or socialism. In the USA the interests of about 5% of the population take priority over the other 95%. The American system of capitalism is shamelessly gamed in favour of the ultra rich and it is no way to run an economy, much less a society. The citizenry of the USA are being cheated of the better quality of life that is possible under some form of state/public control of strategic sectors of the economy that are not just those related to maintaining a war economy. Take China as the example. Look what can be achieved.
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  40. The neo-fascists of the USA (neolibs, neocons) think that by simply redefining something they can change reality. However, they can only change the perception of reality, not reality itself.
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  41. How does using athletes to spy on other athletes work? Do they share the same changing rooms and eavesdrop on conversations? Do they pick the locks of other athlete's lockers and search them? Surreptitiously take drug swabs from athletes or their clothes?
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  42. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has its critics.
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  43.  @fun_ghoul  Ignoratio elenchi.
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  44. The attempts of the United States to recreate the conditions of the cold war and retain its hegemonic status are having a deleterious effect on its finances and the more it spends on trying to maintain unipolarity the greater is the damage to American society. The USA needs to become a 'normal' country, content to play the role of regional hegemon in its hemisphere but not the role of the hegemon of the world. A hegemonic role like China and Russia, content to stay within their borders and trade with everyone, persuading by example and primarily with soft power instead of using force.
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  45. That was pre-1945 before the US puppet Konrad Adenauer was put in power as Germany's first post war chancellor and its school text books (especially those concerning history and political science) and national curriculum, as well as its mass media, were brought under the control of the USA and made to teach a pro-NATO, pro-EU, pro-cold war meta-narrative supportive of US hegemony.
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  46. She's got a good career ahead of her in one of the many think tanks and shady organisations that influence the world.
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  47. Like NATO, the EU serves US interests. It was set up that way. Indeed the whole of the post war European and international political-economic system, such as Bretton Woods, was specifically set up to benefit the USA first and foremost. That is now under challenge. Merely by developing and diverting their resources to serve their own needs is a threat.
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  48. ​ @kflashcarr1992  The only problem with that is that international shipping is not under threat. So unless the USA creates pirates on the high seas the way it creates terrorist organisations on land and uses that as an excuse, there is no need to police the high seas with the US navy, the coastguard of littoral countries can do that.
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  49. Rent seeking – the enemy of capitalism. Adam Smith warned against it, as did Karl Marx. Is this the 'late stage capitalism' that some people have talked about?
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  50. Good for some and bad for others.
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