Comments by "" (@Josh93B93) on "CGTN"
channel.
-
11
-
10
-
9
-
6
-
6
-
6
-
5
-
5
-
5
-
4
-
4
-
4
-
4
-
3
-
3
-
3
-
3
-
3
-
3
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
@Sean-giang Not in the short run no, it would take decades for the benifit of dropping the dollar to be realized, but in the immediate the harm would and has been greater to the US than to those poor nations themselves, this is called cascade effect, the less value a given currency holds, the less incentive there is to use it in trade against a currency with gaining value, you have now repeatedly made the same point without elaboration as to why it would be harmful to nations already forced into economic subservience because of the dollar, you are looking at the risk of what ditching the dollar holds without weighing them against the harm that the petrodollar's monopoly already causes. In that context I have to disagree, dedollarizing will help countries with fragile economies and governments so long as they can prevent the consequences of doing so, as Americas usual answer to smaller nations that stop trading with the dollar is economic blockade and military intervention to protect its hegemony, when the options are subservience to US exploitation or utter destruction, or everyone ditching the dollar and watching the western empire collapse, I humbly choose the latter.
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
@piotrtrebisz6602 Hey I'm not about to hide or excuse the neonazi's in the ranks of Wagner group let alone the russian army, percentage wise it's no where near as bad as the Ukrainian army, cant help but notice that these far right groups have only sprung up in eastern europe over the last 30 years with the fall of far left governments and the liberalization of politics in the region, followed by the ultimate corruption of said administrations. To say that Russia hasnt lost doesnt mean I'm in full support of Putin, he's a capitalists oligarch that's using the conflict for his personal gain via stock interest and arms sales from Rostek. This is a proxy war between two capitalist giants, both sides have allowed pervasive elements onto thier ranks because capitalist will always need thier useful fools. I wish russia never had to intervene, I wish ukraine had respected the peoples of donbass' legal right to referendum instead of declaring them terrorists and starting a civil war, I wish Ukraine hadnt violated the Geneva convention by cutting off all fresh water access to the Crimean peninsula in a direct act of aggression towards russia, (when you commit a war crime against the people of a sovereign nation, you tend to piss them off) The entire conflict could have been avoided, but that outcome isnt profitable for either Rostek or General Dynamics.
1
-
@piotrtrebisz6602 Collective punishment is a war crime, there is no other fresh water route to Crimea, it cost Ukraine more money and resources just to cut water access off as opposed to not building a dam just to deprive civilians of drinking water, both Poland and Finland have sent military aid to Ukraine since said crime was perpetrated. Until the matter of the illegal coup that usurped power is resolved said elections cannot be considered fair while the government was in a state of war against a third of the population. If Cuba stopped letting US ships take water to guantanamo, the US would be pretty pissed too. That's what the Russians are saying. Try to see things from thier viewpoint, as your one sided bias isnt going to resolve anything, furthermore Ukraine considers Crimea an integral part of Ukraine, and its population to be made up of Ukrainian "terrorist" so by thier own standing, aside from russia's, it's still a war crime, one amongst many that made the conflict inevitable.
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
@storm7090 "An illegal COUP financed by the US (Namely Victoria Nuland providing 5 Billion dollars to far right extremist groups" took control of Ukraine February 24th, 2014. They then declared that anyone in opposition to the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government to be a terrorists, then forced anti-russian legislation at gunpoint on camera, the subsequent enforcement of which led to a campaign of pillaging and massacres as was witnessed in Odessa and Mariupol, forcing the regions that were populated predominantly of people of russian decent and those holding duel citizenship to respond to these acts of agression, leading to homogeneous uprisings in both Donetsk and Lugansk where popular referendum was then held and the people voted to leave Ukraine, the referendum was overseen by international observers and there was no evidence of fraud ever discovered. The people exercised there democratic right to referendum in an act of self preservation. In response the regime in Kiev began a military operation to crush all descent against the coup, beginning with artillery strikes against civil administration buildings in both Donetsk and Lugansk, in response disaffected policemen and military veterans formed vostok battalion in April to defend the fledgling People's Republics, taking arms from two military depots containing retired arms and equipments from the 90's and the Afghan war. At this time no russian material or financial aid had arrived, the first arms transfer from Russia would not arrive in Donetsk until the end of June, two months into Ukraine's military offensive in the Donbas. Russia held friendly relations with Ukraine prior to the 2014 coup in Kiev, protest broke out calling for the removal of Viktor Yanukovich and that he agree to a snap election, which he knew he had no chance of winning, Putin recommended he resign. He agreed to the elections and was prepared to concede defeat, the protestors got everything they had wanted, but the US ambassador urged the leaders of Svaboda and Right Sektor to agitate thier followers into taking more radical steps and adding further demands, moving the goalpost so to speak, and as such making a peaceful resolution impossible, because a peaceful resolution that left Ukraine politically and financially tied to Russia was not in the interest of the US or NATO.
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1