Russian Breakthrough in Donbass II Alexander Mercouris
foreign everybody and um here I am doing my next live stream can I just say first of all um because we still have this vexed question of what's happening to the videos the follow-up videos um I've been having various discussions um it does look as if the problems are the ability of the platform to absorb these very long videos that I do so I'm trying to find a way uh that I'm working in fact on a way to answer questions in a somewhat more shortened format and I think you should be seeing the results of that shortly that's just to say that you know this isn't something that's gone away although I'm forgetting about it's uh something that I will be working on and in fact working on all the time so let's press forward because obviously we've only got 90 minutes down it's 1200 it's good to see you how am I um I am well I call it cold but it's only a mild cold cold this time nothing else in London in England Coles I'm afraid I'll come in the Autumn is it just me or is Rishi sunak brain farting on his China as the new enemy that's my I like the expression speech when trade with China is one of the few things the U.S UK has going for it at the moment I think brain farting is a wonderful way of describing it I was an extraordinary speech by the way very typical of Richie sunac in that it appears to say one thing and then it actually says something slightly different you have to pass it very carefully he clearly understands the importance of maintaining trade relations with China at the same time he also understands that the political imperative at the moment is to be as tough with China and Russia by the way as possible so he makes these various convents which he thinks will buy him political space and in fact what they actually will do is they will box him in it's going to be much more difficult as this pressure to harden the stones on China continues to actually do otherwise so brain farting it describes it very well so um let's continue bullockov these expressions of incredulity coming from Europe regarding the war profiteering being conducted by the United States is truly laughable who exactly do they think it was that they were getting into bed with I'm not going to add any comments to that and we'll look off you put it beautifully I think you've got it exactly right zarielle good to have you back Saturday are the new local administrations in Taiwan likely to affect the political landscape around the South China Sea and how influential were outside forces as opposed to internal forces in bringing about this change in other words to the Taiwanese people regard their potential liberators as the greatest threat or was the change brought about solely by domestic issues I do not believe that it was brought about solely by domestic issues in a situation where you're living in a country which is at the heart of a massive geopolitical crisis to the point where the Chinese military was actually rehearsing a blockade of Taiwan obviously geopolitics foreign policy had a decisive impact as to the way people voted what difference will it make though I don't think it's going to make any difference if by difference you mean creating a move for an improvement of relations between the West between China and Taiwan and a distancing of Taiwan from the West on the contrary my own feeling is that very much like zelenski's victory in the 2019 elections in Ukraine when he won overwhelmingly on a peace platform what these elections will do is that they will harden The Stance of the hardliners in Taiwan and in Washington even more and unfortunately we could easily see how they will accelerate the crisis in Taiwan which undoubtedly is coming um um and Ross imperialists continuing for another published follow-up videos on my point about mad being the most Humane and life-saving concept of the 20th century it was actually a loose quote from Mikhail leontiev rosneff's spokesman and the meaning was that the concepts say millions of lives in my opinion under impartial logic Soviet intelligence and scientists that managed to produce the device to counterbalance American ones should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize well I'm not going to disagree with that my own personal view I've discussed it I think in a recent program uh might have been the one no it wasn't I can't I did discuss it in a recent program what the cold war did by establishing a balance between those two great superpowers was it it actually created a system a structure which established a kind of stability over the world now we didn't appreciate that at the time but I do remember the climate the political and international climate on the second half of the Cold War the 60s the 70s the 80s and yes there were ups and downs and problems in relations but overall it was more stable more peaceful and people felt more secure much more secure than they do today and Ross imperialist goes on to say no weapon can be strictly speaking called Humane weapons of mass destruction least of all that the creation of the situation where no sign is using said weapon can be and mad was and still to some extent is just that a situation of balance well there you go preventing not only the usage of nuclear weapons but also major conventional confrontations between the adversaries yes and Zara says welcome to the code club and the live stream with Gonzalo was fantastic well thank you very much and thank you by the way for being a moderator on that uh um and uh near the fusion you're very welcome and thank you for your kind words sad state is the use SG behind media calls to free Assange the USD US government I wonder um I don't know um all I will say is and I I um so angry about the Assange Affair angry with my own country with Britain for the way that's been managed I'm angry with the British government angry with the political class with a labor party and of course with the British court system um all I will say is if the US government were to make that decision uh well I would be relieved for Julian assange's sake but I'm not putting any money on it I don't expect it I I suspect this was just virtue signaling from some of the media the merry Democrat as Ethiopia is in the headlines after the truesome to gray I would like to expand on the name being seminal for Africa the name has to do with the myth of feather who asked Elios to let him steal the Chariot which pulls up the Sun every day as uh um goodness I've just moved forward suddenly sorry as as Helios had foreseen faithon failed and failed fell on the earth Africa that is this explains my watch of Africa is Desert and why its inhabitants are colored well that's the Greek mythological explanation Ethiopia comes in the two Greek words Ethel and Ops and then literally means bird face I didn't know that well thank you for that um very Democrat you are always as a sort of fun of knowledge about these things that one I did not know of course the story of faith on trying to drive the son's Chariot is one of the most famous stories in Greek mythology teach at 1200 in your serial analysis you excluded that the US in Syria still wants control of Syrian oh oil fields and so removing itself or letting turkey exercise control will be resisted so I'll say you no I I agree with that I mean we couldn't cover every angle it's impossible in videos but actually I agree I think the Americans will not want to lose control of serious oil not because it's important as oil that of course some people benefit from them but because from from those old Wells but because of the leverage it gives the United States towards Syria and in the Middle East January so they will cling on to those oil wells for as long as they can and they will resist any and every attempt by the Turks by the syrians by whomever to try to take them from from them very to neuter so it looks like the seizure of the farmer's land on Holland is going to go ahead absolutely the reasons for this seem very Sinister but could it be replicated in other countries yes it's the short answer um of course it's very Sinister but we are seeing Sinister things happen all the time and every day I mean look at what's happening now with um the way in which the European commission wants to seize Russian assets and he's talking about setting up a war crimes Court in order to somehow justify doing so in early in legal terms let me reiterate again if the what I've said on other occasions if the European commission if European governments start making laws which have a retrospective effect they allow the possession of assets which have been already seized then that is not law making that is plunder and what we see in Holland well it's in the Netherlands it's different but not that different in my opinion and the legal Machinery to do this exists in many countries in Britain we already have compulsory purchase for example now it's supposed to be subject to Administration by the courts but who trusts the courts anymore so yes it is Sinister and it can be replicated in other countries Irish parties aren't great to have you here danics 1200 what do I think if the German deal with Qatar for supplying LNG to uh at Germany for 14 years beginning in 2024 isn't it too little too late well of course it is yes and in fact I was reading a fascinating piece in the financial times of all places when it turns out that 17 of the LNG that Europe has been importing is coming from Russia so I wonder is how that's going to work out and apparently they still plan to import LNG from Russia irrespective of what happens Russ imperialist and Irish partisan are agreeing that things are calm in their capitals Minsk the cap places where they live Minsk and Moscow and absolutely I spoke to someone recently who was in Saint Petersburg um a Russian acquaintance that he told me the same was the case there and Carol seven very great to have you um now here we go merry Democrat I have noticed that also the Duran fought of the fallacy the technology equals chip manufacturing that is obviously wrong and even the claim that modern technology is impossible the seven Micron ships was equally ludicrous I would like to reiterate that since 2006 to chip technology is essentially stagnant the bulk of all chips uses use lithography lithography processes larger than 130 microns and all processes below 28 microns are ineffective now that's very useful and remarkably coincidental that you said that to me very Democrat because I have had an extraordinarily interesting email very very long and very detailed from an individual I'm not going to name this person or identify him in any way but somebody who is directly involved in the technology a scientist in front and he made exactly the same points that you have done correcting me by the way about this in exactly the same way and he um basically said that in terms of military Technologies chips um that the the most advanced ships that you need need only be 60 microns and the Russians have been making those for quite a long time and in fact he went exactly the same point that you did that um um going below um a certain level 28 microns well he said set anything under 7 microns it's just marketing that was according to him and 28 microns is about as advanced as you need for pretty much all applications and he also said exactly the same point that you made that the technology really is quite stagnant so it's a very very interesting article by the way uh that a rather email that he sent me and I'm afraid it confirms very much you said now he was talking very much about Russian production of microchips and things and it was very very interesting what he said and he basically confirmed your belief in mind that the Russians are self-sufficient to all intents and purposes in this area and he said also something which I haven't fully understood but which I'm you'll be explaining to me in more detail that the Russians have a lead in something called low-level programming over other a technological powers and low-level programming is extremely important for the uh it is in fact in some ways more important than the power of the microchips themselves and that um what has happened in the west is that because people have had access to hyper and microchips they have been neglecting low-level programming which would be in some respects more um technologically useful anyway I I'm summing up his this email I just wanted to say it it conforms very much with what you said and Mary Mary Democrat goes on to say as it's typical of defense and Aerospace products a high reliability availability and resilience against electronic counter measures can only be attained by proven old lithography processes therefore all this talk about tsmc and their chip manufacturing is a psychological warfare narrative wow okay thank you down it's 12. you're at time on Election analysis seem isolated to two major facts one nearly every Chinese family in Taiwan has either a relative or a family member working on the mainland and two China's China is taiwan's number one trading partner how say you I don't disagree I accept both points entirely I didn't know the first but you know I don't dispute them at all it makes complete logical sense all I would say about that is that again we weren't looking at the causes of the vote so much as the geopolitical circumstances around it and um another point that we made is that the media focusing on these scattered minor protests in China and is regarding these local election results in Taiwan looks to me to be straightforward about it and exercise in misdirection very Democrat more about chips chips don't win Wars it's good or or of it's good old physical brutality delivered by explosives and bullets the U.S idea of alleged Force multipliers is all but a selling point and be aware that The Narrative of allegedly decisive Precision strikes delivered by intelligence is also psychological warfare narrative the slaughter of the adversary must be perpetrated on an industrial scale such as the stochastics kick in in war size and numbers do matter by all means I don't have any doubt about that I think fundamentally you are right I will simply say this though I will say this I think Precision weapons have been shown over the course of this war this conflict in Ukraine to be important it is what has made these Russian missile attacks on Ukraine so deadly and so if effective one can't say that Precision guided weapons therefore have no utility just as of course to say that would disregard these sort of grander conflict between the superpowers which is conducted at the levels of icbms and you know all that kind of very high technology and and uh um Weaponry but you're absolutely right if you're talking about the battlefields if you're talking about the kind of battles that are going on in donbass just now Mass matters that is indisputable the fact that according to Alexa zelenski spin doctor the Russians outnumber the ukrainians by a nine to one factor in tube act artillery in the battles around Bachman and are therefore able to pile on masses of shells on the Ukrainian forces there that is what matters and that was what wins those sort of Wars so you know we're not in disagreement but I would actually just add that particular nuance um so Saturday does Ukraine have significant numbers of diesel locomotives in order to deliver new weapons to the battlefronts and to recover its damaged artillery for repair it does have some I'm not going to tell you how many it has but it does have some diesel locomotives but um in fact the disruptions to the railway system and the Ukrainian Railway system is largely electrified is apparently now having an effect and I'm starting to read that there have been complaints from uh military commanders Ukrainian military commanders and Soldiers on the battlefronts that because the train system is now so disrupted they're not getting all of the weapons and supplies that they need uh um spring spirit is about dogs uh I meant you mentioned on your last hostility to dogs unfortunately seems a global Trend my dog was killed by poison oh my godness my goodness thrown around on the street by dog haters and it happened in Moscow that was always very much a dog City well I am very sorry to hear that I'm sorry for your poor dog I've heard of things happening like that in London by the way there's a park where we used to walk our dogs and we were told not to do so because some unknown person likes to put food out which is poisoned in order to kill dogs so I'm afraid there is an awful lot of hostility to dogs in more and more places and as somebody who has two dogs um I have to say I found that both horrible and incomprehensible because for me they are lovely creatures I I I love them very much that's all I will say a monkey 12 says that Ukraine doesn't a few Soviet era diesels in service toilet saw says the Germany wants to sue gas from for the rising gas prices well good for them let them try as Putin would say um so um so Matthew ch um discussion read the discussion with decent sackwell was Russia's attitude towards ending the Cold War perhaps comparable to the British attitude towards granting Independence through the 50s 70s EG not seen as a defeat well I think there was a fundamental difference and that is that the the British tried to tell themselves that it was not a defeat and you know rationalized it they talked about the end of Empire as something that had happened because the British you know had come to this nice realization this good realization that all these nations needed to be freed the reality this simple reality was that by the 1950s Britain had become weakened to the point that unless it had had the unqualified support of the United States in holding on to its Empire it had no realistic choice but to let most of it go so they first did that with India and then gradually steadily they had to do it over the rest of the Imperial possessions that they controlled and the more of the Empire the more of the Empire the law they lost the less logical and more difficult to justify it became for them to cling on to of the remainder so if you're talking about the British Elite I don't think they were happy about dismantling the Empire at all if you're talking about the mass of the British population working class Britain I want to say this they were never very keen on the empire in the first place from their point of view they carry the burden of Empire they had to go around to all of these places uh um you know as soldiers or whatever and do the fighting there and they saw very few of the benefits which tended to go upward so there's a different mentality a different Outlook now Gorbachev towards the end of the Cold War when he was talking about you know peace in half time and all that um I think he did not expect we were talking about new thinking he did not expect that the Soviet Union was about to collapse he didn't understand the implications fully of what he was doing that's my own taken on him and so I think that he was being much more idealistic than the British were in the 50s and 60s um Nestor machno 1917. that's a name to conjure with um rust imperies worry will tell us much more about Magna than I can but as I recall he was a Anarchist um leader in Ukraine During the period of the uh Russian Revolution and Civil War and quite quite a quite a colorful character from what I remember so anyway I read in the past how American soldiers made a difference in World War One in part because they were fresh is this an unexpected result of the quick turnover of Ukrainian soldiers no I don't think so I think that maybe you know the fact that the Americans came in fresh from a country that had not been involved in the war up to that point that was brimming with exuberance and energy and which was essentially in its own domestic circumstances of Peace well maybe that didn't happen that kind of an effect on the mood and and did have an impact on the outcome of the first world war I'm not an expert on the first world war so I can't say one way or the other for certain but I know that you can make them parallel with Ukraine Ukrainian societies become retired it's becoming uh it's it's experiencing a progressive economic collapse many many Ukrainian families have lost their sons and brothers and fathers in some cases and I don't think that there's any freshness about the quick turnover of Ukrainian soldiers I would say oh the country that um it's something that far from invigorating Ukraine is probably demoralizing it even further as more and more people more and more people are sent into what priguration called the Mead grinder I hate the word but I can't think of a better one star eight where the de-industrialization zooming forward are the full green policy being accelerated before our very eyes how could this possibly possibly fail in the near future is its inevitable outcome overrated making us all think we don't have a chance well we do have a chance we always have options if we push back strongly enough we can prevent the industrialization taking place if we not only elect parties to stop the industrialization but try to hold those parties to account well we can make a difference unfortunately people are not all organized in that way and I have to say this up to now in every Western society that I know of when a process of de-industrialization begins to take hold it proves up to this point it's proved irreversible now that's not an iron law that's not set down in tablets of stone but that's been the reality up to this point so quick answer how can the West African States break out of the French currency control can they start a new Regional National or an African Union pan-african currency perhaps they can do all of these things perhaps they will uh um I would have thought there's a fair chance now that they will um I by the way have known about this currency for a while and I was a little surprised to read somewhere that most people outside Africa had never heard of it but then of course I had contacts with France I even lived there for a short time and um the extent of French interest and control in France of West Africa um and the importance of that two fronts should not be underestimated and I'm talking about the psychological effects as well so if West Africa breaks away from France in that way it will be a big event it'll be a big event I think personally a liberating effect in France itself as well but anyway put all that aside yes the Africans can do all of these things they can set up their own currencies they can do it through the African Union a pan-african currency I'm not sure that would work very well they have huge differences between African States and I wonder how effective or successful that could be or they could have their own National currencies and perhaps their own National payment systems like Swift might continue to use the European system all of that I suspect is going to happen right okay and capitalism um is talking about oh this is about the uh explosion of the Ukrainian Embassy um um and capitalism is talking about the fact that he's afraid because there's several Ukrainian churches and is worried that there might be problems there I wouldn't worry too much by the way I think that this particular letter bomb Affair was probably um some rather unhappy person um sending a letter Bob I don't think that this is that there is any Mass intention of targeting Ukrainian centers or facilities anyway I hope not so uh Saturday do I think the Russians will soon be fitting fighter jet chips into washing machines It's a Wonderful Joe thank you um you know I'm going to be a little bit um I'm going to take that a little seriously which is to say this I think that as the Russian chip industry evolves and progresses and this person who wrote to me this long email showed to me how that is happening and predicted that by 2030 the Russians will have the whole range of Technologies chips whatever that they that exist pretty much everywhere in the world but anyway as the Russians develop more of this industry well why shouldn't they use some of that chip technology that's been developed for the military increasingly their civilian Technologies I I'm sure that was that's what will happen and Ross Imperials came back to that question by Matthew CH about British attitudes the end of Empire and Soviet Rosenberg says similar I guess if you strictly compare those two events the dissolution of the Soviet Union however as a separate matter as it's seen as a catastrophe if anything it's more alike to the man of Scotland gaining independence I don't think we should push any of these analogies too far and I I think that um the Soviet Union the British Empire Russian Empire were profoundly different things I don't think we should force these analogies um too strongly so um why username says um low-level programming is called assembly programming I had it in school nowadays my kids look at it and understand nothing wow okay I'm not going to pretend I understand many of these things but as I said this person did say that this was something that the Russians excelling and which we've lost the skill for in the West so let's see um I have to read this this is about the um inserting fighter jet chips into washing machines resident Bedouin says clothes dryers three settings delicate tumble dry and afterburn thank you for that uh quick man Sam have you any analysis on the pipe dream East African Federation it was intended I did it was an intended idea of federalizing a handful of East African States but faded to Oblivion sometime after 2010 can this be revived well I don't know I mean I I think that there's been actually many many attempts to create federations and groupings in Africa and of course the African Union um was part originates from the um a 1960s drive for African unification which of course never came about so I'm not saying I'm not going to say that these things will never happen perhaps one day they will but it's going to be take a long time and I think the obstacles in the way are huge can I just say if we're talking about the one East African State Ethiopia well already that is a state made up of many different ethnicities and nationalities and overall I think it's fair to say they they live together pretty harmoniously but they've been enormous many tensions they've been Wars and conflicts and I thought it would wonder whether an attempt to create some bigger Federal entity um might not magnify those problems rather than solve them and John g59 thank you for those um kind words and Ireland has many things to be proud of by the way um one of the most beautiful of countries I should I should add and if you want to see Natural Beauty on on a level that is magical the west of Ireland is extraordinary um um right well again let me let's let's move on um and Socrates Detroit says that um this is about the diesel and locomotives that Ukraine might have he says well it's decided all the Russians need to do is to hit the railroad track and the train can't go railroad tracks as I understand they're quite easy to repair and can be repaired quite fast what I think might eventually come I mean I mean there are you know bigger Railway facilities which you can destroy and that will destruct disrupt the railway system more comprehensively and of course remember also diesel trains need attention and repair and all kinds of things but ultimately I think and this is my own View but I think that eventually we will see a strike against the deeper Bridges and those are the critical nodes through which the railway system functions there's also I believe an important railway tunnel in the west of Ukraine and if that's destroyed well again it all becomes very problematic and Socrates Detroit says that Greece is the most submitted NATO State sadly yeah my somebody who is Greek I I can't disagree and Mary Grossman says what is low-level chip programming I remember not geoprogramming I think it's something different actually low-level programming I remember in electronic s assay we had Ram ROMs epoms Etc I am the last person to be able to answer questions like that and uh jjhw going back to that other joke about fighter jet chips in washing machines says I don't think afterburners would be very good for my washing um quite uh monkey 12. how close do you think France is to panic now Marley has told them to
leave French nuclear power is entirely dependent on African uranium where the Russian musicians replacing French military presence uranium extraction and the colonial control through currencies looking very insecure what do you think macron will do to protect 75 percent of the French power assist at power generation the answer is I don't know what he's going to do but I can tell you one thing he is seriously concerned very very angry and very very despondent about all of this he he understands all the points that you've made about the Power Systems and the importance of uranium and he also is I think he's vanity makes it very very difficult for him to accept that this collapse of France's West African position is happening on his watch whilst he is in you know president of France well what is he going to do I think if he sends the French army for example to try to control these countries well I don't think for instance society would support it I don't think the French army would support you and I think it would be a it would be a disaster I think the French would get bogged down in West Africa and it would be a Calamity for them I think most likely what the french will do is what they have always done they will try and activate whatever assets they have they will use their currency position their economic interests to try to unbalance these countries to the extent that they would can they will call on their friends in the United States to try and help them to do all of these things and in other words they will try to undermine all of these new governments which are appearing and which are trying to take West Africa in a different direction and if that creates chaos and War in the process well I'm afraid the French pretty ruthlessly will accept that price in order to achieve whatever objective it is that they hope to achieve anyway Ross imperialist this is all about these microchips in the the from the fighter jets in the washing machines for an old joke yesterday at four o'clock in the morning the Chinese attacked a peaceful Soviet tractor the tractor repelled the treacherous attack with heavy Rockies and machine gun fire after which it turned on its main engines and it disappeared into near Earth space I can remember that kind of joke so by the way I should say Russian humor to those who don't know is highly developed it's one of the great humors of the world the Russians have a brilliant ability to create jokes uh the Soviet period I have to say this also was a very fertile period for uh Russian humor as well uh very Democrat replied to replying to my remarks on Precision strikes the added value of the Russian missiles is their long-range strike capability I doubt that the Precision itself is also important I think they're both important obviously the long-range capability is enormously important the ability to strike anywhere in Ukraine is tremendously important that the ability to strike accurately is what makes these weapons so deadly and so it's the combination of the two Jay listo uh thanks be from my analysis do I think Poland will make an intervention in West Ukraine I read in uh RT Warsaw plans to submit weighty restitution to monster kiev for the 1943 for linear massacres the uh chief of Russian intelligence or at least the svr has now said that the Ukraine the polls are putting the finishing touches to plans for occupying Western Ukraine well I'm not saying it won't happen um I think um a possible polish intervention in Western Ukraine is indeed possible but I'm not 100 sure that it will happen I think the Russians would oppose it I don't think the Russians would agree to a partition of Ukraine in that way and I think the polls realistically could only do it with the support of the United States uh that might be difficult to justify if the government in Kiev which the U.S says it's supporting opposes it so I think from there are certain indications that the polls might indeed be thinking about doing something like that but I wouldn't say it was certain and we'll just have to see whether it happens and monkey 12 suggests that the reparations the polls might be seeking might be take the form of territory well we'll see but as I said I think that the Ukrainian government I'm going to call it regime uh at the moment it's very very committed to Clinging On to every millimeter of territory that they say is Ukrainian and I think that surrendering territory to Poland was fighting for every millimeter of territory against Russia might not be easy to justify foggy analysis uh it says earlier you mentioned the Germany admitted they knew who was responsible for Nordstrom and wouldn't disclose it do I have a source for this I have some skeptical chat friends who are challenging this I actually saw this I saw there was a German Minister I'd have to try and track down who it was that was some weeks ago but a German official uh and I think it was somebody a ministerial rank actually came forward and said as much um I I have no doubt that the Germans the swedes that they all know uh so quick learn Sam do I think Russia May refrain from moving on Odessa to avoid causing it damage it's an interesting point instead if they do intend on liberating the city they would do they were they would do so after the collapse of the Nazi regime in Kiev handing the city over to Russia well that's a very good point actually by the way I mean it is apparently a beautiful city it's one of those great 19th century cities which is preserved its architecture and its character and I think the Russians would be deeply mortified if it was destroyed in the way that say man you pull or Bachman to one of these places is destroyed so I I think that the Russians will try to avoid seeing that happen and you may very very well be right they may wait for a Ukrainian collapse to happen before they march on Odessa I don't know what Russian plans are um it has been pointed out by a number of Russian channels that when the Red Army recaptured Odessa from the Germans during the second World War they did so after there'd been a big breakthrough in the central regions of Ukraine in other words if I remember this correctly after Kiev itself had been recovered by the Red Army so the the the the Advance on Odessa came from the north from as it did for rehearsal region as well by the work for us on the city of hearthstone as well and then he came after the full rather The Liberation of Kiev so it could be that that's the ultimate plan the very very Democrat again no we're starting the importance of Hardware software is decisively more important than chips when push comes to shove I think that's basically what this long letter I got told me so it is worthwhile to mention that Russia has her own operating system called astral Linux it's available both in a commercial and a military version Russia possesses a reliable technological foundation for all her weapon systems and again that's exactly corresponds to what this person who sent me this email said he said that the Russians are able to do all the things that they need to do by the way he basically said that you know um the super Advanced chips the ones below seven microns even chips below seven microns chips below 28 microns uh they're basically they're used for leisure activities they're not even necessary for powerful computing that's what he said so that's it our edible edible bugs appearing in British supermarkets yet and if so have you eaten any I have actually eaten any edible bugs but not in a British Supermarket I did this in a restaurant in China I tried to see what it would be like and well let's put it like this I have no interest in repeating the experience I've not seen them in Britain on sale in Britain I don't expect to I think things will be really catastrophically bad before you can get the British people to turn to things like that but as I said on that live stream I did earlier today with Gonzalo lira eggs poultry the almost impossible to obtain now in London um well foggy analysis you're asking whether to whether to preface with mention or question or both um I leave it to you I think you could do either actually um um that's fine Mary Democrat what do I think about the following observation a war cannot be won by proxy but it can be lost by proxy I think it's an excellent observation oh it's entirely wrong jjhw the British Empire actually cost Britain money well you know the lady not pal made that point many times his view we didn't just cost Britain money but that it cost Britain energy that the the Life Force if you like of the British Isles was expanded on trying to maintain this Empire which at one time I believe brought together a quarter of the Learned surface area of the of the world and 20 of its population so it was a huge Empire that had to be kept together by this very small country at the center but the point I was getting the point you always understand about the British Empire is that it might have been a liability for Great Britain not at all times I suspect perhaps towards its end but within Britain itself there were extraordinary beneficiaries I mean some individuals a group of individuals the British oligarchy if you like made themselves incredibly rich as a as a result of it very Democrat says that he's seen bugs as processed food in Burgers well there we go gosh um and Didi HD says they started serving edible bugs in Welsh schools as a trial I think that's revolting oh my goodness I hadn't I didn't know well there we go a Socrates Detroit this is about the fresh American soldiers and the comparison with Ukraine and this is a good comment uh the Americans were fresh due to inexperience the first ones took lots of casualties America did not have a large army in April 1917 when it entered the war but by summer 1918 when huge numbers came over it was clear the U.S troop tidal wave would wash over Germany so Germany agreed to an Armistice on November 11 1918 the lines were still in France and Belgium right gosh well thank you for that so um Mr machno um says it's not just the way I think uh why being different to others that does not make the world better this is about about expats I think this is a line of questioning that I missed I'm afraid so I I can't really comment about this sorry but um quick man Sam do I think Colombia has achieved any semblance of independence from America with the election of their left government they have been mending their relations with Venezuela any hope that I don't know I get to say a few things about this I've had an email by the way from someone in Venezuela who says that the present Venezuela well the Venezuelan government the Maduro government is um moderating its criticism of the US um is is actually taking steps like making RT for example less accessible in Venezuela does not strongly support Russia over Ukraine so if that's the case and the Maduro government is indeed involved in some kind of soft or approachment with the United States this person also said by the way that the dollar has largely replaced the Bolivar of the Venezuelan currency for most retail transactions if that is the case then the new government in Colombia improving relations with Venezuela might not be that great Act of defiance against the United States that one might think it is so I have to say I inclined to that kind of view to that sort of more cynical interpretation I don't think there's been any fundamental change in Colombia at all that's my own view anyway um monkey 12 responding to Merry Democrat on um Russia's the fact that the Russians have their inoperating system uh uh monkey to us is the biggest asset is the technical skills to develop and maintain the software Russian China have these in-house NATO company countries are highly dependent on U.S companies for manufacture and development absolutely that's completely right JJ jjhw says Gorbachev thought the USSR could be saved but the Turning Point had already been passed in the 1970s now I know some people who think otherwise but jjhw has a big complex subject about which I'm not an expert and I know that is the more consensus View so let's see um so this is a good question but what I can't really answer foggy analysis can I please bring this up to date on the situation in Pakistan I can't because I haven't been following it very closely my understanding is that Imran Khan is still active despite the assassination attempt has still been massive protests he's still leaving a protest movement the present government is still Clinging On though and the country seems to be in a state of General crisis but that's all I can say and I think that I would need to revisit the whole question of Pakistan and look more closely at what's going on there much more closely to be able to answer that question properly uh so let's see oh yes and jjhw about bugs says that he hasn't seen any nor have I but they are pushing plant-based Foods virtually no one buys them and yes that is absolutely true um I learned about nobody buying them but certainly now you will find them in every supermarket and um they're they're very widely distributed across Britain nowadays um let's see what other people have been saying I'm afraid it's jumped again um so here we go I'm sorry for the brief Interruption but I hope it won't be long here we go okay rust imperialist and says that he's the seeds of decay in the USSR was served by Nikita Khrushchev well that puts it back to the am I uh visible again um I hope so I don't know what happened there I think there was a power cut um can anybody can can people see me um I think they can yeah is it as as is is everybody able to see me again gosh um I think I think we had a brief power cut well we are we are in a strange uh situation here but there we go there we go um let me see if I can uh return to the questions that I was going through and um I hope everybody can see and hear what I'm saying but anyway um something clearly um clearly went wrong and I suspect as I said that it was connected in some ways to um the collapsing electricity system here in Britain now let me see I'm trying to find my place now and uh Russian period is here we go Ross imperialists had told us about um about um the seeds of Decay for the Soviet Union having been laid in the 1970s uh and rather in under in the time of Nikita who's Jeff and well there we go I could very well be true um so quick that's um do I think the high suicide rate amongst U.S troops ever increasing since World War II has it has any relation to the fact that each War America embarked on since was less and less Justified and more obviously um imperialists and against far weaker and in some cases almost defenseless opponents absolutely I would add this that you know the second world war people who were in the military in the United States knew what they were fighting for at least they believed they did they were fighting for because Japan had attacked the United States there's been this Pearl Harbor moment and Germany had declared war on the United States I think that in all of these other Wars American soldiers are not really sure why they are fighting they're fighting far away from their homes they're not fighting to defend the United States some of them are forced to do all the terrible things that are always done in every war and I think that many of them come from this with deep psychological traumas so um to continue National machno says that the turnover of troops is horrendous in Ukraine and my I made some good points excellent points before well thank you for those kind words bring Spirits speaking of Ukrainian Society it seems that the activity of Ukrainian trolls in the Russian internet is increasing and already bordering on hysteria could be a sign of desperation if you ask me absolutely can I say that Russian telegram channels are full of people who are their threads who I think are are probably um trolls and quite the many from Ukraine and I personally believe that it would be wise of some of these channels to basically close their chat functions I have one in particular one in one in particular in mind which is slavyan grad I think that reading the threads on Slovenian is an incredibly depressing exercise foggy or nervous um says it would be really nice if this information was written down somewhere on this site there is an FAQ for example that doesn't get any information about how to participate in live charts okay right jjhw Zimbabwe has started issuing gold coins to allow people to save their money I didn't know that that's interesting monkey 12 Gaddafi wanted to establish a gold-backed African currency look what happened to him absolutely true very very true uh and um let's see Loyola just staying on American soldiers uh and their suicide rates says that it responds to quick when Sam you're absolutely correct troops come back with PTSD after killing girls the civilians and realizing what they've done how it blackens the soul they're also vaccinating the troops into Oblivion they are nothing more than guinea pigs so pug body do the Russians stop at the Nipper when they begin their offensive it seems counterproductive to their goals to do so as it allows the remains of the Ukrainian Army to organize along a shorter front along a major defensive barrier with shorter interior lines of Supply I think any analysis of the coming Russian offensive needs to consider that they need to breach the NEPA River as soon as possible not simply reach the Eastern Bank my thoughts right well I think I'm going to make a number of observations about this the first is of course that what I have to make which is that the Russian military leadership the general staff General Sullivan do not share their plans with me that's the first thing I think I'm going to say that's the first thing I I must say now the second thing I have to say is I don't think the Russians will stop at the NEPA because I don't think that Ukraine will do the only thing that might persuade the Russians to stop at the NEPA which is to negotiate a piece so given that that is so I don't see any incentive for the Russians to stop at the NEPA I think they will want to push on now my brother who unlike me takes a huge interest in military history said that in 1943 the Red Army had no difficulty crossing the NEPA the the Nipper is so long we're talking about such a huge expanse of river that they were able to find a place they could cross obviously the Germans resisted there was Heavy casualties but they were able to push across the deeper and he believes and I'm sure he's right that that the Russians will be able to do this as well so that they will push beyond the deeper but I'm going to make a third point which is you to talk about Ukraine possessing interior lines of Supply bear in mind that the further the Russians advance from their bases the more extended their own supply lines become so following again the pattern of what happened during the second World War I suspect that when the Russians do reach the NEPA as I'm sure they will they will pause to build up their supplies to build up their infrastructure to support whatever Advance across the neighbor they may be planning and somebody who I discussed this with who I'm not going to just disclose who this is but who has a more of an insight into these things than I do thinks that the push across the neeper will probably come around zaparosia the major Target will be zaporosia City Once that's taken the Russians will push across the deeper technical pull and crevoirog and perhaps near property and push up towards Kiev from the south that was what this person thought I'm not saying it's right I'm not saying it's wrong I just pass it I just I just convey it we're so Michael morcock drifting from his fantasy novels wrote a lovely Grand historical series the payat quartet that includes Ukrainian history it's where I learned to Magno Etc well okay I learned Mac Miller University and um very interesting man as I said very colorful there and perhaps less well-known than he should be um um and National merkno says that this is goes back to the question of um the Soviet Union and its collapse the cynicism present in Soviet Society towards the end was profound a cautionary tale that is very true and can I say it's a cynicism which persisted well past the Soviet collapse and has been in my opinion the single factor that held Russia back it's been very very difficult to rebuild trust and confidence in society um I think that we're closer to that point than we've ever been but I think that's been one of the great problems that Russia has faced coming out of the Soviet experience Russ imperialists on the collapse of the EU in the one of the videos published today my comment is one of the old Russian sayings better a horrible end than a horror Without End yes I agree with that I completely agree with that too um I I think that is exactly true I'm not sure which video it was but I know remember the one you're saying if it has to end let it end quickly prolonging this thing would be a horror uh and jjhw this is again about U.S troops Mass PTSD plus being discarded after they leave the military is pretty miserable for many sadly gosh up to happy four uh um says it was nice to hear my voice on the Gonzalo show I'm glad people enjoyed it I'm sure we'll be doing more together by the way and um quick man sir the ethics of beauty by Timothy petitsus addresses the issues you brought up the blackening of the soul in Warfare very well you may find it interesting I will certainly look it up actually uh quick about Sam if the war is won by Russia will the disgraceful split between the Orthodox Church in Russia and Ukraine or soon to be Western Russia be undone and reunified what if any are the long-term damage to the faith I think it will be I I think I mean I can't imagine this uh um creation create confected Church surviving a war in which Ukraine and Russia are you reunified and one where Russia is successful in this war so I mean I cannot imagine this church which doesn't apparently have much traction with Believers anyway surviving but it will continue to create do huge damage first of all it's highly likely one has to say this that there will be some people in the west some ukrainians in the west that will continue to adhere to this church well we can ignore those but what has happened is that there has been a major crisis in confidence in the confidence in the in the position of the ecumenical patriarch in Constantinople the Russian Church I think will find it very difficult to reconcile itself with him and I think that's something that this uh Affair well we're we're going to see the implications of that the consequences of that play out over many decades yeah so um dark Parrot Key 01 what are the names of the most important humanitarian organizations that will eventually help Ukraine and most important mode of transportation they will use what would be their biggest obstacles getting this Aid to most vulnerable ukrainians my own straightforward answer to that question is that the only organization that can go into Ukraine and provide help to the ukrainians that most need it is the Russian government I think the aid has to come from Russia and it has to be distributed by Russia I think if you're looking at saving people in Ukraine itself Western interference is not going to resolve these problems Western agencies are not going to resolve these problems they're only making the problems worse and spring Spirit speaking of religious aspects of the war did I see the video of Polish Crusaders burning the Orthodox Bible I absolutely did I was always horrifying and the Schism is very rapidly developing too with persecution of priests absolutely that also and raids on churches and harassment of uh religious leaders all of that as well I have always said it's a religious war and I'm not glad to be proved right and I agree with you completely wholeheartedly on the last Point um end capitalism from you my opposed with Alex earlier today regarding tutakia planning to storm the Kurds in Syria does this mean that Syria still won't be able to regain their rights to their own land will they ever that's a very good question my own personal view is that we're starting to see the outlines of a deal I think the Turks have the priority to smash the Kurds and I think one way or the other they will do it and I think the syrians will not the Syrian government will not be entirely sorry if that happens then the idea is that there's a deal done these territories are returned to the control of the central Syrian government in Damascus in other words to ursan and Assad then does a deal or series of deals with erdogan which will then establish Turkish economic and political influence in Syria and the Russians were broker this deal and the latest talk by the way is that the venue for a possible meeting between Assad and erdogan has now been changed and instead of it happening in Kazakhstan it will happen in Moscow which is quite a big quite will be quite a big event if it does take place so Lada ym thank you for your tip uh do I think the turkey and most likely will enter Northern Syria or less likely and it's all a bit of a bluff on erdogan's side I'm afraid I don't think it's a bluff I think it's meant in entirely seriously after all that is what happened um back in well I think it was 2016 after the uh coup attempt in Turkey when the Turkish High command was removed um erdogan did begin to move Turkish troops into Syria so he's always wanted to do that and I don't think he's bluffing I'm afraid on this occasion I don't think he is so um toilet Source Molly banned all ngos that have any connection to France France in turn Cuts Aid good for Marley I know how Western Aid programs work food aid for example comes from heavily subsidized European Farmers with which the farmers in the country would receive the aid cannot compete in price this is a big opportunity not just for Mali but for all francophone Africa but can the government in Mali pull it off well that is the big question I mean the African people the peoples of the many different peoples of Africa have been fighting against this kind of Western extraction and exploitation our wealth and centuries but perhaps they're closer to winning now than they have ever been we'll see they do have friends I mean the Soviet Union was there back in the 60s just trying to help them 70s but of course it couldn't provide the same kind of economic support that the West in those days still had I mean the West dominated the world economic system today things are different so perhaps countries like Mali for the first time have genuine choices um the resting period says that my point about likening Scottish independence and dissolution of the Soviet Union was that Belarus and Ukraine and parts of Kazakhstan for example are very much seen as part of Russia and splitting it apart was something unimaginable for the most yes that's completely true but do remember that Scotland not only had an independent identity a distinct identity from England which it does but of course for most of its history and it's a very long history it's been independent of England it's been separate from England there's been a kingdom of Scotland there's a long line of Scottish Kings Scotland has its own history and that does make it different from I think the Belarus Ukraine Russia connection also and for what it's worth and I think it is worth a lot by the way remember that the Scots the English I mean the Scots are Celts there's a Celtic culture they may speak English but they feel different if in some ways from the English in way and are different from the English in ways that I personally find Russians ukrainians better Russians are not there is a much closer connection between the Slavs than there is between the nations of Britain I don't want by the way to say that um these these differences are you know I don't overstate these differences in Britain and I want to say also that though I personally think that Scottish independence is inevitable at some point it is something which I personally would also regret I would not I do not relish the thought of seeing the disintegration of Britain but I realize it'
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