Youtube comments of Geopolitical Economy Report (@GeopoliticalEconomyReport).
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15:31 I otherwise agree with your analysis, but I strongly disagree with the idea that NATO is a "liability" for the United States. The point of NATO is that it keeps Europe united and subordinated to US imperialism. It prevents Germany from remilitarizing; it keeps the French military weak and subordinated to Washington; and it prevents Europe overall from having better relations with Russia (and China).
As you acknowledge, if NATO disappeared, in a matter of mere weeks many former NATO states would suddenly improve their relations with Russia, and begin to distance themselves from Washington, maintaining a more balanced and independent foreign policy.
In that sense NATO is not at all liability for the US empire. On the contrary, it is a relatively cheap investment that Washington uses to keep its trans-Atlantic imperial alliance together, ensuring that Europe is subordinated to and dependent on the US and antagonistic to Russia (and China).
The last thing the US empire wants is an independent Europe. It wants more dependence -- political, economic, and military dependence -- because this ensures a consistent market for US corporations.
And in this sense too, of course, NATO guarantees consistent markets and contracts for Western (largely US) military equipment from corporate contractors in the Military-Industrial Complex, which have bought off most of the politicians in Washington (the US learned long ago that it's no longer considered corruption is you just legalize it).
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The division and ongoing violence between India and Pakistan was not a "failure" of the British colonialists, but rather precisely the goal. The British empire wanted South Asians divided, so they would be distracted fighting among themselves and would not unite against imperialism.
The vast majority of Indian Muslims did not support creating an independent Pakistan in 1947. Partition was supported by the British empire and by the elite landowners of Punjab (the same elite Punjabi landowners who still dominate Pakistani politics to this day).
Nehru was a socialist and became a leader of the anti-imperialist Non-Aligned Movement; under Nehru, India had a progressive socialist government that leaned more toward the Soviet Union. Pakistan, on the other hand, was a reactionary, right-wing, theocratic state that would act as a reliable proxy for British and subsequently American imperialism in the region.
During the Cold War, Pakistan became a crucial US ally to wage proxy wars against the USSR and its allies (eg, the genocidal US/UK/Pakistani war against the Bangladeshi liberation movement, which was supported by India and the Soviet Union; or the US/Pakistani/Saudi proxy war in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980s).
Again, Pakistan's creation was never supported by average, working-class South Asians, including most Muslims. It was a project of elite capitalists and imperialists.
And unlike Pakistan, India was not theocratic. Nehru was very clear: India was not a Hindu state; it was a secular state. (It is only now with the rise of the fascist RSS — which supported British colonial rule! — that the Indian government is moving toward abolishing secularism and instituting official Hindu rule.)
It's not a coincidence that Pakistan was created, with British colonial support, in the same year that Zionist militias launched a murderous war to establish another theocratic colonial proxy state in the Middle East. Pakistan is the Israel of South Asia.
The division between India and Pakistan was not a religious dispute; it was a political and class dispute, supported by British imperialism.
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This channel has become such blatant Western/NATO propaganda. At 10:40 he says that a bunch of countries that just so happen to be Official Enemies of the US State Department are the ones waging hybrid warfare, but he doesn't mention the master of hybrid warfare, the United States, which is waging hybrid war right now, as we speak, on China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Cuba, Nicaragua, and more.
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This is right-wing capitalist propaganda, which is unfortunately common on this channel (which is in love with neoliberal dictator and Western puppet Paul Kagame). George Ayittey is a conservative apologist for colonialism and imperialism who has lived and worked in the USA for decades and has long been paid by Republican Party-backed think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Hoover Institution.
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Obviously no government has ever been perfect, anywhere at any point in human history, but the countries in Africa (and other parts of the formerly colonized world) that had socialist revolutions against colonialism ended up with more equal societies, with high rates of poverty reduction, literacy improvement, healthcare access, gender equality, and more opportunities for the majority of poor and working-class people. On the other hand, the countries in Africa that didn't have socialist revolutions, on average, have been more unequal.
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The most obvious proof for this is the past 30 years. Since the rise of the neoliberal capitalist era and the overthrow of the Eastern Bloc, most countries in Africa have adopted neoliberal capitalist reforms. And the average African has gotten poorer, with inequality increasing and social services being cut more and more every year, while a small tiny handful of elite capitalists get richer and richer.
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We always hear about the supposed "failure" of socialism, but what about the obvious failure of capitalism?! We're living in one of the worst economic crises in world history right now, caused by decades of brutal, totally unrestrained capitalism.
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But this channel NewAfrica never mentions the contemporary effects of imperialism and neocolonialism either -- such as crippling Western sanctions on African nations like Zimbabwe, or Western-backed coups to overthrow governments that don't serve foreign corporate interests.
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This channel New Africa acts as though Western colonialism ended with the national liberation struggles in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Yet colonialism has transformed into neocolonialism (look at AFRICOM's explosion for instance), and the US and European powers still exploit African nations, control their resources, and overthrow and destabilize African governments to install neoliberal puppets who will private their economies and allow foreign corporations to exploit them.
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16:06 The average person in so-called "authoritarian" China has a significantly higher quality of life in every way than the average person in free-market capitalist and so-called "democratic" India, Haiti, Honduras, the Philippines, Ghana, Kenya, etc.
This argument at 16:06 is purely ideological, not empirical, and certainly not historical. People who repeat this talking point invariably compare the living standards of wealthy imperialist countries that developed through colonialism, slavery, and war to those of formerly colonized, poor countries in the Global South. But instead of comparing apples to oranges (Cuba to France), you have to compare apples to apples (Cuba to Haiti, or China to India).
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This is just anti-Russian, pro-NATO, US regime propaganda disguised as impartial geopolitical analysis. It repeatedly cites so-called "Ukrainian intelligence" and Ukrainian analysts to accuse Russia of aggression, without a shred of skepticism or evidence.
This video makes zero mention of the many Ukrainian violations of the Minsk Protocol, and it totally erases the most important event to understand the conflict: the US-backed 2014 coup in Ukraine, led by neofascists, which is what caused this crisis in the first place. Nor does it even acknowledge the significant presence of far-right ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine, and especially in its armed forces (such as the Azov Battalion).
The video also conveniently leaves out the substantial Western sanctions (ie, economic warfare) on Moscow, not to mention the fact that NATO has surrounded Russia, violating the agreement that it made with Gorbachev not to expand eastward past Germany. And the video doesn't mention the series of US-sponsored "color revolutions" that overthrew the democratically elected governments that had been allies of Russia, installing NATO puppets.
This absurd video even attacks Germany and France for supposedly being too soft on Russia. That is an insane view that only Ukrainian ultra-nationalists and American propagandists would hold.
If we wanted to hear such a biased one-sided perspective, we turn to the entire Western corporate media.
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