Daniel Balan

Are you for real?? Article 5 has only invoked once in NATO's history and that was after 9/11. Did Sarkozi push Gadaffi to mass slaughter & torture his own people? This is hilarious. Gadaffi got what he deserved for torturing and killing his own citizens. The war on Iraq was worse because the US invented bullshit motives to control the oil reserves of Iraq. Because up to 500k people were killed because of the US. In Lybia the West hasn't done anything remotely as horrible as they did in Iraq. In Lybia the killing that insued was because of the savage nature of Lybia's political landscape, it was organic, they killed eachother, but in Iraq the 500k lives lost were all because of the US troops did that killing.

@Lyubov Regarding Lybia and Serbia interventions I'm totally behind the west here. It would have been preposterous to let the Serbs massacre the Kosovo and Bosnia muslims. The Nato bombing of Serbia is the most humane and right thing the west has done since WW2. Also Gadaffi, his regime killed and tortured his own people. Big thumbs up for the west for getting rid of his regime. That is something I call proper policing of the world. Unfortunately those 2 instances were the only times the west behaved with moral superiority.

Also it is plausible since the CIA has done over a dozen of coup d'etats since the end of WW2. So it is not entirely out of the question. But since the maidan revolution lasted like 3 or 4 months of continuous protests and street violence, since the sitting president left the country on his own volition, I doubt that the Maidan Revolution was actually a coup.

I just wanted to understand how this conflict is from the Russian POV. And what better way to understand it than delving deep into the very conspiracy that started the war. Russia started the war in 2014 precisely because they 100% believe that the Maidan Revolution was a coup d'etat. Putin told that dozens of times in his interview with Tucker Carlson. Putin genuinely believes that the current leadership at Kiev is the consequence of the 2014 coup d'etat.

@Apparition of Jack obviously no one is gonna sanction the west, but why isn't the west sanctioning itself? The west should give a lot of humanitarian aid to iraq for all the mayhem caused there. The west should help the Iraqi people to build roads and bridges for free as a way to say we were wrong and we want to repair our mistake.

Capitalism ain't no scale. Capitalism is the way humans have done business since we walked on all four limbs. But there is capitalism without rules and capitalism with rules and regulations.

@Apparition of Jack we expect Russia to behave barbarically, since they have done so all their history, but the US? We expected much more from the US, what they have done in the middle east, especially in Iraq is preposterous and asinine. The Iraq war is the biggest and most heinous stain on the West's reputation.

Amen to that!

So then whe should use both systems according to our goals and needs. But my question was mainly about the big sectors like steal and coal, electricity, energy etc, should the state nationalize those or shout the private sector deal with these facets of the economy?

I watched this unbiased and very informative video. But the problem is that there is no definitive answer. What is better? The nationalised state planned economy of the former Ussr, today's China or the economy of the west? I'm asking this question because after the collapse of the Soviet empire and its satellite states, the economy was totally ruined when the state privatised everything. 90's Russia and Eastern Europe was much much worse than in the 80's. The economy totally collapsed when those countries moved to a market economy. Every industry such as steel and coal and all the factories have collapsed totally once they were privatized.

This is not true. Canada and Mexico have entirely different political perspectives and the US has never tried to install puppet governments in neither of them. The US would be more justified to invade Mexico for how much drugs and how many migrants enter illegally to the US than Russia is justified for invading Ukraine with their "Perceived threat" myth. Regarding the evil that the US has done, sure It is a bad look for the west that the US hasn't been punished severely for the huge mess they've done in Iraq. What they've done in Iraq is preposterous and has no excuse.

@Karmadhi well for starters when the US invaded Iraq, it didn't invent 1000 years of false history where claiming that Iraq is not a true state, that it is an invented state, that the US invented and created the statehood of Iraq and that the Iraqi identity is bullshit and that in fact Iraqi identity is a direct result of a NKVD coup d'etat that wanted to separate it to its original identity which has always been American.

Honestly I don't think that is the case. I bet that the audience that reads the blog regularly must be lower than a 1000 people.

Are you for real, do you think someone malicious hacked your blog, or this is just a jab at the stupidity of JP's daughter?

@Apparition of Jack Thank you for the kind words! 🖤 I really appreciate it. In some ways it is bad, I mean the life is very physically demanding and the one thing I don't like about this lifestyle is that every year is the same, always working the fields just to get some food, there isn't anything novel. But on the other side I don't have to pay any rent, I love the nature and the rural landscapes, I have a lot of fresh air and serenity and silence and the best part for me is that the population density is really really low! I hate people and I can't stand crowds. I am a loner and here I can enjoy myself to the fullest extent without others bothering me with their shit. Also I'm not imprisoned here, I could move to western Europe or to other big cities within my country at any time, in fact the car I have I bought it with money earned in Germany, so yeah city life is cool too, but I decided that for my peace of mind, for my serenity, living in a remote rural area is for me like living in a dream. The silence is so loud, so addictive. The forests will keep singing forever.

Give me your thoughts

@Husseinisdoingfine Thanks a lot for the love. I love you too brother!

I live in a remote area in the country side. There is one timber factory in a city that is like 30 km away but is already full with workers, doesn't employ anymore and other work opportunities are very scarce and very few. I'd love to work with a contract but all those jobs are largely occupied. So I work at whoever needs some help in construction, agriculture, taking care of cows etc. And at home I have animals myself and I have potatoes, so I have food. The money I earn is to pay electricity and internet and to repair my car so I can commute. Note: I'm just explaining this to you guys because you were curious. I don't want you guys to feel sorry for me or to view me as some sort of a poor man that needs compasion or a hug, how I live is how most of the peasants in Eastern Europe or Russia live, it is very normal and nobody is feeling sorry for himself, that is how life is supposed to be in a rural area. We live off the land.

I never worked with a contract. Always worked under the table. I have 0 days worked with legal contract where I pay taxes. If I earn 20$ a day, If I were to pay taxes on that I'd have 10 dollars a day to eat and pay for shit.

I've always worked under the table. I don't have enough money to buy health insurance no matter what. And regarding retirement I will probably never retire.

Bro I'm literally 25 and I never worked a day legally. I have 0 money put aside for retirement. If I injury myself I go bankrupt, I have no health insurance. I work at whoever needs something done. Like bucking wood in the forest, construction work and agriculture work. I litteraly go to farms to shovel cow shit for 20$ a day. And I never complained or bitched or moaned for the government to give me a handout. I am happy the way I am. I don't expect anyone especially the government to help me. I help myself. I think welfare is more than needed, but not financed from deficit spending. Welfare should be financed solely from tax money. Not from public debt. Public debt should finance subsidies for large sectors of economy such as infrastructure, energy etc. Debt should be used to build factories and businesses that generate revenue, not to give UBI to lazy individuals.

@Princess Arabia Likewise 🖤🥳

@Princess Arabia Thanks a lot for the kind words! I really appreciate it. I also love your way of defining your own worldview. Always stay loyal to your character! I prefer being lost in falsehood and being true to myself than being a champion of truth but being untrue to myself.

Yes you make good points but look at France, Italy, The US, The UK, Germany etc. Those countries have trillions upon trillions in public debt. At some point you can no longer sustain welfare when it is all financed via deficit spending. To have a strong welfare you need high taxes. Much higher than today's taxes. France has one of world's most robust welfare system. It is great to have such welfare, but look at its public debt, look at the giant deficit spending every year, look at the out of bounds inflation. In the end inflation will hurt the people more than the welfare can help them ease their life. What is the point of having a cool welfare state if you have to work 3 jobs just to have money for rent and groceries? I'd rather have no welfare and the grocieries and rent to be as low as possible than to have welfare and have 0 free time for myself because I have to work non stop to keep up with inflation to be able just to survive.

When it comes to post-1989 Romania and post-Soviet Russia, the reason these countries went through such hardship in the 1990s compared to the 1980s is that, once COMECON collapsed and their economies were suddenly exposed to the global market, once they shifted from a centrally planned economy to a market one, the curtain was lifted. All the illusions and lies of central planning were laid bare at once, like ripping off a bandage from a wound. The bandage was COMECON itself, along with the repression, propaganda, and dictatorship that had kept the illusion alive.