Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "HasanAbi" channel.

  1.  @redsun7223  Trying to contain China. Ultimately, their reasoning from being aggressive (in South China Sea + Taiwan) is because of American imperialism. They are acting pro-actively, specifically in anticipation of the US finding an excuse to hamper their economic development or blockade them. Blockade them how? Through either Taiwan + Japan, or through Indonesia's Malacca Straits. The US has shown a willingness in the past to attack countries on false pretenses if they threaten their economic dominance. Frankly, if China already had Taiwan (or, for sake of argument, another island not blockable by a US ally) they'd probably have no reason to be aggressive. The US simply doesn't have that issue, because its only worry is Cuba, and otherwise it is surrounded by open ocean
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  2. When the Ohio memes go too far
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  3. ​ @colorbugoriginals4457  This is precisely why a TikTok ban would be so harmful. It's the only app whose CEO isn't allowing US Gov policy to influence how the app is run, speech-wise.
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  4.  @Frank-DuxVanDamme  Erdogan?
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  5. You're stawmanning-- NATO expanding just means that NATO us expanding-- it is an organization, not a nation-state, so there isn't a forceful expansion. This doesn't change the fact that it's an extension of US military power, and that it represents a fundamental threat to the other, few, sovereign states around the world.
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  6.  @keiolge  Bro... Chechnya attacked first. August 1999. Fucking Yanks. Also, unlike Western countries, Russia has largely respected the native cultures which it encountered. Europe has none left to speak of (Langue d'Oil, Manx, Pictish, Prussia, all extinct, Irish language almost extinct, Basque and Welsh barely recovering). And the US is even worse-- a few Native reservations on garbage land, no opportunities, pretending like they're nations and refusing to find them properly... Russia has native Republics, and came to genuine compromises regarding autonomy in the 1990s. Entire regions have mandatory schooling in the native languages. I'd say Russia, relatively speaking, was the most benevolent in terms of encountering natives. No encomienda system, no Manifest Destiny, just align with Moscow and be left alone.
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  7. but without the actual training of the military
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  8.  @coaldoubt2879  True, but they actually are trained regardless of how low-skill their war crimes end up being Even Uvalde was stopped by a national guardsman, 1hr after the police showed up and did nothing
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  9.  @maxmensch8910  "Good". No, not good. It's led to censorship and becoming the very thing you claim you're not. "Just like it was political orthodoxy to support the Soviet Union against Hitler" It wasn't. "Better Hitlerism than Bolshevism" was a common phrase leading up to the war. Henry Ford and Prescott Bush (Bush Sr's dad) did business with Hitler during the war. The US didn't pressure companies to leave then, lol. Coca Cola started Fanta to keep selling in Nazi Germany.
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  10. Precisely. I think the interview debacle was a fake-out, they'll just "reset relations" like they did in 2000, to focus on China before circling back around in 10-20 years.
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  11.  @sten260  The entire energy grid is connected, I think there will be interruptions of service to power homes
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  12. Nobody would. The US is too big to fail and it knows it
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  13. We're in the middle of an information war, where Kiev has real live ghosts and grandmas can shoot down drones with pickle jars. We will likely never known the full scale of either sides casualties. Even after the fact, it is a matter of pride and 'supporting our team'. Ukraine will never admit the number of dead and neither will Russia.
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  14. in the short term, if it does not affect your gas prices too much, a giant bag of rice is usually cheap in bulk, cheap calories
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  15.  @xblade11230  1 gunshot is enough to incapacitate him, kill if it exits through the left side. 60 is overkill, and btw the police have these things called bulletproof vests. If they're this scared of a single suspect when they're armed to the teeth then they're too weak to be cops
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  16.  @ernestov1777  He's a black man, homophobia is pretty common in that community. Idk, after Suge I don't think anyone's gonna care
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  17.  @dudeanderson2401  trucks incoming
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  18. @Meghan M. who exactly? you'd go down kicking and screaming if it were my pfp, or china, and no other country could really take the reins of such a large entity... india maybe?
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  19. Historically, that would have been cities- but since those were razed in the 1950s to make room for highways.... it's a miracle that the 60s even happened (the last place in the US explicitly designed for people to congregate, colleges- so it's no wonder that the civil rights ideas culminated there).
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  20.  @mynewcolour  Plenty of them (i used to go to one), but they are far fewer in number and they generally feel, due to their faith being overriding to other 'earthly' matters, that a pro-church candidate winning is still preferable to one who doesn't hold religion in high regard. Interestingly enough, some interpretations of the Biblical canon (especially if you take the Talmud, Jewish oral tradition + law, into account) suggest that things are not 'alive' until they breathe, pushing the date for viability to just before birth lol The Talmud even has a story where a woman accused of adultery is taken to the Temple to drink a 'potion' which effectively poisons her fetus and makes her body expel it. Dr. Richard Carrier (fringe opinions, but interesting) has a few good videos on it
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  21. You're refusing to invest in a long-term strategy and putting your own safety over future queer people. If we keep acquiesing to the Democrats by voting for them (and then they inevitably do nothing when Republicans roll back your rights), you will NEVER have someone fighting for you. Remember that all the social degradation that's happened over the last 4 years happened WHILE BIDEN IS PRESIDENT. Obama had a majority in the House and Senate, but went with a watered-down husk of universal healthcare. Having a blue President is meaningless. Don't you get it? The Democrats will NEVER fight for you. You're just delaying the Republican march to the Handmaid's Tale if you vote Biden. If you want someone to fight for you, scare the Democrats into thinking they'll NEVER win another election EVER AGAIN, until their mainstream figures start pressing for issues that actually matter.
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  22. Even if there was an alliance— Stalin found out in May about Hitler's plans to annex Poland, from Rudolf von Scheliha (iirc) a double agent working in Berlin. The choice was clear: either work with Hitler and minimize what he achieves, or let him take the entirety of Poland. Had he chosen to do nothing, there is a good chance that Polish people simply would not even exist to air their grievances today.
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  23. Time goes forwards, not backwards. You cannot expand NATO, provoke a reaction, and then say "see, this is exactly why we needed to expand NATO!" Chomsky and many other have been clear on this: you try to control any country, "put [leader] in his place!", you will get bad results. Treating Russia like shit post-collapse was a recipe for resentment, continuing to surround it especially given its history of Western coalitions (Crimean War, Cold War) doing exactly that, was always going to end badly. Essentially, the West wanted unconditional surrender from Russia, bowing to their economic and political system in order to reconcile. Russia refused those terms, and here we are. All could have been avoided with an independent, pan-European security architecture.
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  24.  @ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588  Russia saw the writing on the wall. People love to insist that "Ukraine joining would never happen, despite NATO Secretary de Hoop Scheffer (in 2008) explicitly saying that they would. This itself was a compromise, because Washington demanded putting them on an immediate path to membership in 2008. Corruption, rule of law nonwithstanding. Which calls into question the reason behind wanting them to join, since neither were qualified and the public in Ukraine was not at all interested (according to polls).
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  25.  @anatole7728  ""Explain that" lol, that line is straight from a kids show I am aware of that, but the protests evolved from being just about corruption (the last-minute switch to Russia's trade deal over the EU Association deal), into a general protest about being pro-Western and expelling Russian influence from the country. Not to mention, NATO's Secretary announced in 2008- 6 years prior- that Ukraine would become a part of NATO. This was despite the fact that most of the Ukrainian public in 2008 wasn't interested in doing that
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  26.  @anatole7728  "Nobody seriously considered joining NATO is Ukraine, and especially in the alliance." "We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO." "MAP is the next step for Ukraine and Georgia on their direct way to membership." -Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer That wasn't Bush, that was the leader of NATO speaking. At that time, there were massive protests in Kiev against the application. In Ukraine, there was very little public interest in joining. But that did not matter to Washington, they would simply wait for a pro-Western government and then get them to sign a contract to bring them in closer and closer.
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  27.  @anatole7728  Also, the "Bush said something, so what?" mentality is typical. You will lie and go back on your word anytime it is convenient to you. Secretary of State James Baker suggested to Gorbachev in 1990 that, in exchange for Germany to be re-unified, NATO's membership would not extend past Germany. I guess it's true- Baker said something, so what? If you are not willing to honor verbal agreements, do not be surprised when others copy you (Russia did not honor the Budapest Memorandum, a verbal promise to Ukraine).
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  28.  @anatole7728  Lol, you ignored the whole comment, you were so completely wrong that you couldn't even respond to it, and now you're changing the subject))) And no it wasn't cowardly, it was just opportunistic There is a difference in living standards, but that doesn't mean that the US didn't also try to add Ukraine for its own benefit. Ua has lots of resources and the US has a long history of economically controlling other countries I wasn't talking about the EU, you are desperately trying to change the subject)) Both your comment and mine was about NATO, and I showed you directly that they wanted Ukraine to join, even though the general public in 2008 didn't want to, and there were protests in Kiev against it.
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  29.  @jansettler4828  I'm glad you admitted it. But I ask you then, why do Westerners claim that their values are "universal" when they only apply them where convenient? They are not willing to suffer the results of true justice. So what, the economy collapses? It happens every 10 years anyways, might as well teach the US not to bomb Middle Eastern countries as a bonus
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  30. There's a genuine chance that he croaks if by some miracle he gets elected again. Scary shi
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  31. @NukesBeGood Never gonna happen. Anyone who tries that will be turned into nuclear ash. Cope and seethe. Also... will you say the same for the US? Even if Russia is a "prison of nations", at least it's not the executioner, like the US is. Russia have native Republics, with actual autonomy, meanwhile the best the US has done is reservations on the worst land, and the Natives are dirt poor. A Chechen would be appalled at the way a Navajo is forced to live. Transcaucasia lives comfortably compared to any tribe. So tell me, should we also destroy the US and the white colonial government, to free the Natives and black Americans? Should all US military bases be emptied and burned, the US Balkanized, for the betterment of humanity?? Or is it "different" somehow??
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  32. Nah, this is just what the rest of the world has always felt. Americans are finally getting a little dose of the same instability they deliberately cause in other countries.
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  33. The hope (in a political vacuum, devoid of whatever Trump's personal motivations might be) is that the increased prices on foreign goods will force consumers to buy locally-made products instead. The issue with that is 1) not everything has a US-made substitution, and 2) prices across the board will rise (US goods have less competition, and foreign goods have tariffs). Unless Trump invests MASSIVELY in building out industrial infrastructure, basically pouring money into it until it reaches a critical mass of efficiency and scale to compete in price with Chinese goods— until then, everything will be more expensive for Americans.
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  34.  @westhoodqualzini7884  No, Duke hates Jews as a people. We just hate Israel, the state. American Jews, Russian Jews, anti-government Jews in Israel, they're all fine.
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  35. Say what you want, but between Nordstream and now this, Russia seems to produce the most crazy speculation scenarios. It is never clear cut and anyone's guess
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  36.  @HunterTracks  That's the excuse of someone who's already done their dirty work, and doesn't want anyone else to benefit
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  37. Well... clearly it was, because the US 'liberated' it a few months following. Doesn't that validate Russian action, then? I mean, the Maidan revolution overthrew Yanukovich after an economic deal was rejected in favor of closer ties to Russia.
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  38.  @markfelt5650  ...What? No, that's simply wrong. In fact, it's because the Soviets didn't have long-range missiles that they chose to station their short-range missiles in Cuba. Otherwise, they would have no leverage against the US, while the missiles in Turkey could easily strike Moscow. Where tf are you getting your facts from? Not only were you wrong, you were the complete opposite of right.
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  39.  @michaeltnk1135  Yeah but Rosa fought for rights that people alive in 2005 got to enjoy. There was a direct relationship-- even if impersonal, between her struggles and the rights that black people have as a result The Queen didn't provide much if anything to Britons, besides existing as a symbol of state power
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  40.  @matrix91234  Saudi Arabia us attacking Yemen, and Israel is attacking and settling Palestine. There is no other explanation for why the US has tossed some aside and not others: it allies with you for as long as you ate useful to them. Lucky for you, the US hates Russia and loves Ukraine's black soil, so the are unlikely to stop unless it is taken over entirely
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  41. They're gonna win anyway, as humiliating as it is, this is the best outcome for the West Either make concessions and stop them now or let them keep going and they'll decide their own terms once Ukraine's army completely collapses
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  42. ​ @nfzeta128  Pyrrhic? Mediazona can only reliably trace ~100,000 deaths, let's say 200,000 to be generous. That's still nothing compared to past conflicts. And against a peer military, no less. You can cope all you want, but Russia performed well this time around. It quickly learned from its mistakes and is clearly winning. Why else would everyone be talking about negotiations (even before Trump came to office)?
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  43. ​@monaxiá48 Let's spam that same comment under his videos when DFW goes up in flames. If they're already playing dirty, might as well get licks in. Being principled has gotten us nothing. If the other side only understands the language of force, then let's speak their language. Get some people to feel hurt and maybe they'll start to self-reflect.
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  44.  @thinkharder9332  Then look at Switzerland. They're armed to the teeth, and don't have mass shootings. Why? Because there's heavy regulation about who can have a gun and what kind. You need a license to own one, take a test every few years to prove you're capable of using it safely, and need to register any new guns you get. Even the ones like heirlooms from a family member. They treat it like the skill of driving a car. Both are potentially deadly, for different reasons. But regulating it makes the citizens more responsible when owning one, If you want to own one, you'd better know it inside and out. Can't just be some backwoods hick or some suburbanite thinking that letting their 9 year-old wield a semi-auto is a good idea.
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  45. ​ @GothboiKenzy  Once the loans are paid off, I will
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  46. Well in the absence of unions the only thing consumers can do is boycott.
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  47. I've been tempted by the nuclear option too, but the immediate (and even long-term) consequences would be too big. For one, billions of people would be outraged and it would cause a regional conflict to erupt. Second, ethical violations— if you eliminate all actors, you're committing genocide. If you give them time to leave before bombing (ha, relevant), they'll both come back and keep fighting. Not to mention the nuclear fallout, right next to the Suez Canal, affecting every single passing ship. It's just not feasible.
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  48. ​ @mimi-xx  Then maybe you'll see it differently after learning that Ukrainian restaurant owners in the US got countless death threats just because their names sounded Russian. When Artyom says villanizes Russia, he isn't just talking about the government. Americans hate us as people. I don't agree with his other points, but russophobia is a real thing.
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  49.  @Bea-jl9lt  Or i didn't waste my time reading the entire thread lmao
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  50.  @muslimmetalman  Wow. I was always under the impression (from right-wingers) that they believed it was anti-state (protection against government tyranny and all). Are you sure the Amendment was written that way? It seems more likely that Jefferson's priorities were avoiding another King George III before establishing a military.
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