Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Europe's Global Gateway - More "Brussels Bullsh*t"? - TLDR News" video.

@jaybee4577 "use money to make Friends" I'm sorry, what? Have you not been paying attention to the faux pas after faux pas China has committed in the SCS which united most of the Pacific against them? Hello?
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@MrCoolbanna How does one spread prosperity to the rest of the world if the rest of the world does whatever the hell it wants? You'd need to force prosperity.
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@zeissiez In what way is the entire West exploiting Africa for decades that other countries, including African ones, aren't? Usually it boils down to "Western countries support X leader" or "Western companies get cheap resources from X country" but then dismisses how such leaders have international support, not just Western, and that any attempt to remove said leader would get cries of "Western imperialism". In short; there is literally 0 way to NOT "exploit" Africa to people like you. Also, you dismiss any Western help no matter what. It's a literal default. Also, US "oligarchy" is a helluva lot less oligarchic than like 99% of the planet. You're not waking anyone up, you're putting people to sleep with lies. Edit: Misread your last comment, so ignore my last statement. But still man, everything rises and falls, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be pushing for the best outcome.
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@zeissiez America prints not much more than other big nations, including Russia. It prints to its means; which is to say that it prints money because everyone values it as a method of exchange. That inflation doesn't literally go anywhere, and the petrodollar theory is as braindead as it has been for many decades now. Seriously, why do people like you need a reason as to why the US prints so much money when EVERYONE prints a fuckton of money too? Does Japan have a petroyen? The EU a petroeuro? Maybe China has a petroyuan? Iran never ever threatened to stop using dollars until relatively recently; long long after the US had sanctioned them. Ditto with Iraq and Russia. Hell, Libya never even threatened such a thing, it's just you making that up to sound smart. You do realize that Venezuela economically collapsed because it literally depended entirely on oil, right? And then that price of oil fell, thus the entire economy's basis fell? US sanctions on Venezuela's economy didn't occur until LONG after the economy fell; all sanctions prior were against specific members of Vzla's government. I should know, I'm Latin American and have buddies there. But Russia is there stealing oil unironically though, in support of Maduro. But that doesn't really fit your narrative, does it? Grayzone is literal extreme far-left propaganda, wut? May as well ask me to use Breitbart or RT for how utterly insane the reporting is. Seriously, it does nothing but bash the US and back every insane conspiracy theory in existence as long as its anti-US. Seriously, just a quick Google search on MediaBias and here we have: "Overall, we rate The Grayzone Far-Left Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, and consistent one-sided reporting. "
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@TheMagicJIZZ Don't bother with this guy, he unironically uses Grayzone as a source for information.
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@zeissiez What absurd troll logic. You realize that the US not having stellar healthcare doesn't equate to being run by corporate oligarchs, right? It has far more to do with culture. For example, by your example, we can prove that no other country in the world really has freedom since they can be arrested for having specific political opinions unlike the US with its far more liberal interpretation of freedom of speech.
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@zeissiez Dude. You use Grayzone as a source. That makes everything you say as believable as some Neo-Nazi trying to tell me to see "Greatest Story Never Told".
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@zeissiez Except that's literally what everybody says to convince themselves they aren't drinking the kool-aid, bruh. How are you any different? Grayzone is literally shit-tier far-left propaganda, but they're skilled in selling their lies. Like all good propaganda channels are. You can't talk about other people listening to MSM when you're listening to something even more disingenuous and full of BS. Or do you also think that the MediaBias report was lies as well?
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@zeissiez Assange who illegally helped break into US secret files and computers? Snowden who released secret files as well? You realize that no country can or really should accept it when whistleblowers release state secrets, right? It would destroy their intelligence networks and leave them blind to rival nations. Jesus Christ, you're far gone, dude. Imagine being such a shill to wealthy dictators and oligarchs that have far more power than any Western country can even fathom. Edit: And I hope you realize that does the same about Russia just straight up dies, right? Or the myriad people that "disappear" when they criticize the CCP in China? Like seriously, dude? Don't talk about "what you say doesn't matter" when people DISAPPEAR in the countries you're defending.
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@zeissiez ASEAN isn't a country, its an economic bloc. Idk why you're hailing from an economic bloc.
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