That is a myth - US military contracts are #1 incredibly strict #2 the profits are very very small even big companies like Boeing and Lockheed are only doing well because they are able to sell products to other countries - without that they would collapse. The US ship builders are some of the weakest in the world with almost no commercial ship building so they 100% depend on military orders. The US military complex does not exist it is totally a myth by people who are pacifists and dislike the idea of war but the problem is that war is often forced on you against your will. The USA was attacked in 1941 by Japan it was not a choice to fight. The USA was attacked on 9-11-2001 again it was not a choice. So if you want to defend your country and the west and stand against what China and Russia have planned for the future you need to build an army and the secret is that the USA is not doing well. China has a much larger navy and will soon have a more modern air force and even nuclear arsenal so the USA is clearly falling behind on all aspects except on strategy as China has not fought a war since it invaded Vietnam in 1970s. Yes, China also had a Vietnam war just after the USA left.
@@drscopeify We are in a new age of dictators, but recognise that the worst threat to a state is within and traitors are taking power on Monday. Watch and see.
@@drscopeify You're surely being humorous here? The military industrial complex is fed close to $1 trillion in public money. The tales of the absolute waste of money is legendary. The US has more bases and more money spent on it than any other country on Earth. And if you conveniently forget the covert and military interference in certain countries and the regime change wars to suit US interests, then yes, you're right.
Presidents like Biden always issue such warnings áfter (or at best just before) they leave. Until then they've done nothing about the problems they point out. So call me very unimpressed.
@marknieuweboer8099 Except that we don't know what he might have done during his second term, Mark. Perhaps if Harrison had won the Democrats could have done something to address these problems. But again, we don't know, and now we face an entirely different set of outcomes about to unfold. Most leaders (political, industrial, social or religious) who are either deposed, defeated, overthrown, or simply retiring before their time, usually have something to warn about. However, at least Biden’s warnings have been well voiced and heard.
Along with maths and English , critical thinking should be a compulsory subject in all schools . Otherwise this will get way out of control ,if it isn’t already
I’m a Democrat who voted blue down ballot. Democrats messaging sucked. Stop the everyday person on the street and ask them the definition of an Oligarchy? You’ll get a huh? Not once did I see any campaign speeches continuously explaining its full meaning. Well it’s too late to open the dictionary now folks. His opponent spoke in easy to understand language and it worked.
His opponent spoke in easy to understand language and it worked. You're right, the Trumpists sought a simple answer, were offered one... “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” ― H. L. Mencken As we used to say when people came seeking simple answers to questions like, "how long before we can get back into production?" - "Do you want me to tell the truth or would you like me to lie to you?"
The return of serfdom is coming your way soon, very soon. AI is coming to steal your job. Maybe you noticed the last PM was a Bot! Perhaps the present one is too (his chancellor obviously is).
The Supreme Court "Citizens United" ruling eliminated any practical means of limiting money in political campaigns. Of course Republicans cheered it on because winning national elections fair and square is not something they're known for. This left Democrats in a pickle: Get in with big donors like Republicans or "bring a knife to a gun fight" and take the ethical high ground. The results are still deplorable, but I can't blame the Democrats for doing what's needed to escape extinction. So the important point now is how to undo the damage that the Supreme Court is doing to what remains of our democracy. Can we get big money out of elections? Can be eliminate jerrymandering? Can we eliminate election rules that discourage minorities and poor people from voting? These are all things caused by what I consider the REAL scoundrels in this mess, the Supreme Court.
Rubbish. The Left have taken money from Soros for years without compunction. Harris received billions more than Trump in campaign contributions, she just spent it unwisely and ended in debt, a metaphor for the Left's political philosophy. Biden also failed to mention the tech billionaire who has done most to interfere in ordinary citizens lives, namely Bill Gates.
Ditto UK..... "then UKLabour Shadow minister SteveReedMP meeting with IsraelLobby billionaire Trevor Chinn pledged Labour to oppose BDS, promote IHRA definition of anti-Semitism" (Jews & Israel wonderful) in return for lots of ££££
You can't get money out of politics without a constitutional amendment. But unfortunately constitution conventions realistically tend to happen only at elite levels of power and influence.
You probably could not make any such speech in the UK. It is utterly controlled by the WEF, Soros, Gates, and hedge funds like Blackrock. Freedom of speech does not exist in the UK unless its aligned to those foreign influences. Speaking of foreign influences as we are here, ironically.
Well yeah, the tech industrial complex is happening all around the world. You tube is part of it, Murphy is using it here to spread his own message. I mean, who's fact checking any of this.
Years ago I noted that the financial institution I worked for was not employing its own standards against what it was producing. My thought then was if you don't use standards to critique your products, then you won't have standards before long. The same thing is happening with much of media. For instance, the BBC has been found to show bias in its reporting about the genocide in Gaza. So bias in that suggests that nothing else they are doing is worthwhile, which is a pity since people like Attenborough exclusively appear on its platforms. It's all very easy for Biden to say 'misinformation' but what did he do to stop it? Nothing as far as I'm aware. So the leaders of governments are just as guilty of the dismantling of media as any mere billionaire.
He participated in it. His United States Department of Justice was forcing the tech social media platforms to engage in rampant censorship of American citizens' free speech.
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It's always been a problem in the U S, from day one. The slavery aristocracy of the South, the land-grabbers on the frontiers, the robber barons, the various banking crises, many of the post - WW2 'wars of opportunity', the rise of the tech monoplies, etc.. We've always had an olagarchy, we just were (mostly) ignorant of it. Thank human nature that we are capable of self-destructive greed - the overreach of the rich and powerful, in our democracy, has always been their downfall (until we lose our democracy).
I haven’t seen that. I’ll look for it. I’d always thought Biden had done a reasonable job, but that his stance on Israel was beyond appalling. How he could call “Bibi” his friend makes by brain fizz with incomprehension.
@@johnwright9372 Actually it seems that Trump's the one who's had the balls to tell his lapdog (Israel) to heel (not that I'm a Trump fan). But I do think Biden was far more on the side of the working man than Trump, and he was a much better steward of the economy. Trump's going to wreck that and cause massive inflation while looking after the billionaires who fund him.
@@johnwright9372 You forget the China trade war policy, leniency for bankers, and being controlled by billionaire elites. Not one bit of difference between Biden & Trump on those points.
The U.S has over the years, failed and turned a blind eye, to tackle tech monopolies. In the 80's Regan broke up AT&T monopoly which had produced 7 nobel prize winners, and was a benign threat in comparison to the present day chilling powers of tech companies.
I fortunately forgot my facebook password and my phone ,for some reason didn’t have a record of it. Facebook said that they would send a code to another device, the other device didn’t exist anymore. So hay ho! No more Facebook!
He4’s spent the last four years benefiting greatly from industry, supported by billionaires. Now that he’s leaving office it’s all ‘different’ now. The hypocrisy is stunning. But you fell for it, apparently.
I believe any free thinking individuals who look and observe Trumps (I can't believe I'm actually saying this) second term in office as president will be worried about what's going to happen in the next four years or so.
having a dictator or few corporations having control over a person is the same thing. china russia has a dictator and america is corporate(tech companies and blackrock) controlling the government.
Just think of trump and elons spin if he did do anything before the election, 'crippling free speech' they'd have cried, 'they're trying to silence us'. Don't blame this on him, try blaming those who turned social media into hate spreading apps. Or perhaps you're a fanboi of theirs.
@@george11419 He wrote Corbynomics. He's definitely left. I agree on hearing both sides of the debate for sure, you can't form an objective opinion any other way.
I said it before and I'll say it again - WE should have our own public platforms. For example, a digital retail distribution platform like Amazon, with a nationalized Royal Mail for delivery, and a national cryptocurrency to facilitate virtually free transactions between individuals. Currently Amazon takes 40% of every sale, and Visa/Mastercard take 5p of every transaction that happens anywhere. Critical economic infrastructure is far too important to leave to foreign corporations and Broligarchs. Crypto fees are more like 0.001p. Why can't we have a national payment processor that works for the people?
Since FDR they've all been the same, Eisenhower was largely responsible for building the MIC of which he warned. JFK was an exception and those that followed got the message.
@Quagma-b2i no. He was genuine, apart from jfk and he wasn't all goodness and light there hasn't been anyone. Politics has been controlled beyond the ballot box for decades and for some part over a century.
@@stephenbermingham6554 My take was that Biden was just appropriating what Eisenhower said. I do not expect anything will come of it. I am not a Biden fan. We (the US) will continue to decline as we've been doing for several decades. I am 63 years old, and this country is barely a shadow of what it was. Younger people have no idea (no fault of their own, they just did not experience what was)
Totally different players in each complex. The military industrial complex backed Biden and co and the other backs Trump. Biden is simply criticising the segment which backs Trump, as the world switches to electronic and informational warfare.
"live peacefully together" - that is just never going to happen while there is political capital in stoking division and conflict. The Catholics and Protestants were white Christians who never lived peacefully together for centuries in Ireland under British rule because of the Divide & Rule tactics of wealthy British political elites
I generally enjoy and agree with your content and the message in this particular video, but I think it would be important to clarify at 6:05 which ones are built on lies and which ones are actual credible threats.
The ones that are built on lies are whatever the UK government tells you are lies. Everything else that the UK government tells you is true, is true. Richard is a mouth piece for the failing and disinformation laden UK state. I have watched a few of his videos now and have not heard a single opinion that differs from what the majority of UK civil servants and BBC bods would be pumping out.
Agreed. To say "no you're not" about threats from outside military forces is nonsense. You just have to look at what's going on in Gaza or The Ukraine Et al. to see this. Bit naive that tbh.
Maybe he didn't say anything because it was serving him well until very late in the game. Trump knows the game better than those who set the rules, or that's how it seems to me.
Lol. Nope. The Presidency is only a place for him to avoid bankruptcy and jail. Biden's hubris was to think he could control the Broligarchs because he thought they respected democratic institutions. He was wrong. They say that if you sup with the Devil, it's best you use a long spoon. That principle in politics and life, is ignored because of hubris. Trump knows how to get out of jail. How nice would be to have people in charge who shouldn't be behind bars, or whom I could allow them to give my very attractive daughter a ride home without worrying they might get assaulted. Instead, look at what you've got instead. The Slippery slope on legs. And I get it - magpies love nice shiny things, or operate in crowds where juicy insider info is easy to get, and politicians and law givers can't or won't resist temptation. But if we put up with that, then that's on us.
With all due respect Professor the same criticism might also be made against the largest monopolies of any country namely government bureaucracies and any misinformation/disinformation cover ups or ideology they might promote
"The Free Press?"I don't think there ever was a free press to crumble.Editors not there to support ruling capitalist double think or not able as once they were.That might be a good thing,though as always good is mixed with bad
@@jasonkirk7802 You raise a good point here. Not only does the average person not have the time nor money to conduct lengthy investigations, but they simply aren't expert enough to make sense of all the information required. Be it domestic politics, financial, military, we have to rely on, and trust, journalists that have experience with, and contacts in, their field of expertise.
@@robertdewar1752The average person seems to have plenty of time to parrot the bs narratives they are fed. That time could certainly be spent more wisely
No change then. The world has always been run to put power and money into the hands of the few. Labour came in and they are the same, enriching themselves, remember the free clothes and glasses, etc. Not more that i can add.
I like the message, but it can be a little irritating. We see this stuff, so we put these politicians in place to do something about it. The politicians we put in place to do something about it turn around and tell us to do something. That was why we put them in power. Right now these same tech people are doing it to the UK. We have put Labour in power. They should spread the word about interference in our democracy via tech and media and legislate.
Forget conspiracy theories. Think about motivation. Biden has nothing to lose he's leaving office at the tail end of his life. He's been on the inside, "whatever" regarding his presidency. His right on this.
everyday in the comments section we all say we must do something about this and that we never do we let it happen here we are....... its to late ..... one of your best blogs ... who can save us .... we cant ... the devil is to big .... i think we need a saviour anything goes but that ... are you sure we dont
Lol Biden didnt warn us about anything 😂 Doubt he has the capacity to process anything more than Matlock reruns these days. However, people like prof Yanis Varoufakis and Rick Wolff have been warning about this kinda thing for a while
Polititions are the law makers, the buck stops with them. The electorate are becoming more and more disengaged as meaningful change is never delivered and excuses mount up. One question why haven't economic text books and teaching been updated to engage mordern money after all these years. One mention on a bulletin after unbelievable pressure from macroeconomists by the BoE.
The English public have been gullible dupes throughout history eg. The Comber Letter, The Popish Plot, The Irish Fright, The Gordon Riots, The Jubilee Plot, The German Plot..
FB and X are a very useful honeytrap for the UK GCHQ and police services. They are happy to use it to entice people to make politically incorrect comments, then harass and attempt to fit them up with hate speech charges to boost their "far right" arrest figures. I understand most EU colonies have the same approach and like to use FB and X as a honeytrap. I therefore believe they will be kept on, as they are useful.
Tiktok has just been banned in the US. ( which you probably already know ) Be interesting to see if Trump overturns this though, he's knows fine well how many young votes that platform gets him.
My family works in biotech. It is a very volatile industry. The vast majority of companies live or die through VC funding. The few that successfully take a drug through an important phase are either sold to a larger pharm or have to raise more money to continue. It's a very brutal industry. I don't see any free passes.
The Best 7 minutes I've spent on TH-cam in weeks. However, after reading about a third of these comments, I believe you would have to communicate in more "Grade School" terms for the folks who don't know that the ultra rich that back Freedom and Prosperity for All...are Not the same as the ultra rich that are pushing Tyranny.
The problem of corporate greed is not limited to military and technology there has been a clear show by high level doctors to infleunce and undermine public health discourse for maxmimised profit. There have been cover ups after cover ups and at some position sanity must prevail. The specailist will frame their own importance above a general wisdom in discourse and this is perverse. The question can you or should you trust your doctor is very much how that doctors approaches health as a whole or profit as a solution. There must be protections in place and those willing to defend against bad actors what ever industry they are found.
@@george11419 I made a sweeping generalisation but for instance if there is a suggestion of a mental health issue but no diagnosis and an individual is unwilling to accept a prescription when no diagnosis is given or determined with any accuracy the mental health services will refuse to offer or support any kind of talking therapy without use of prescribed treatment. This is especially worrying if the warning on the prescribed medication states may cause suicidal thoughts. For profit medicine creates a dangerous divide for societies. I heard some where last week National health service private plans are to become an option for those that can afford. This is a situation that creates an ever greater divide.
Sorry, but this one earns you a “do not recommend this channel”. Maybe ask a Ukrainian about stopping Russian tanks; at least they can talk from experience. Such an utterly tone deaf and patronising comment
I completely agree. Even historically, it is a nonsensical point of view. Soviet tanks did roll into Czechoslovakia and Hungary in 1968 and 1956. The Soviet Union collapsed from within, but would it have done so without the overwhelming military and industrial power of the US?
Just remember that it is not the Scottish Nationalists who are the separatists and Isolationists. That would be the English Brexit and the English Imperial Empire, now the 3rd country and the EU's weakest link which is unwilling to allow Scotland's people to become a NATION again and join the EU.
I fear that your belief in diplomacy to solve all the problems between nations is dangerously naive. When you have dictators in power such as Putin in Russia, and the leaders of China, North Korea, Iran and other countries around the world, then diplomacy is next to useless. Diplomacy is fine if both sides are negotiating in good faith, but the lesson of the 1930's is that when one side is not negotiating in good faith, then war is a reality that cannot be ignored. In 1963, and again in 1983, the world came extremely close to World War 3. Fortunately sanity prevailed. But only the ill health and death of Andropov saved us in the early 80's as he was a paranoiac who saw war as necessary. Very few people know just how close we came to war, and diplomacy would have been useless in dealing with a madman. We need extreme good luck in dealing with China whose current foreign policy is uninterested in diplomacy over both the South China Sea and Taiwan. The lesson of Hong Kong is that China's word is useless. Of course you may be a pacifist. You have a right to that opinion. But I follow Theodore Roosevelt's saying "Speak softly and carry a big stick".. Having said all that I believe Biden was absolutely right.
As someone who’s quite familiar with the Russian psyche and power structures, I’m going to disagree with you on this one. Without a credible threat of finding out, Russia does tend to mess around, to the detriment of everyone around it (and often, its own populace). Much as I agree with the overall need to tax more and invest more in public services, a coherent pan-EU program of improving the military is long overdue. Finland is not a society of warmongers but look at how they’re spending their money.
I think Musk is potentially a very dangerous man. He's a genius, but he's also very strange and I think what he might think is good for the human race we may not agree with. He really is beginning to give off a James Bond baddie vibe. It should always be remembered that he is also unelected.
Hi Richard J Murphy, I feel I must step in here and correct one myth you mention, it was not the investment of the U S military during the latter stages of WW2 that led to the fall of the German fascist regime it was the expenditure of seventeen million Russian lives over the previous three years!, due to the woeful lack of military material the only effective obstacle to the German invasion was people! they stood there and absorbed the German ammunition until it ran out!. Many of those militia troops were armed with agricultural tools like pitchforks and scythes. I do understand that this reality is not well understood here in the west, in no small part because it does not conform to the delusions of military power based on the size and weight of the protagonist's hardware!. Cheers, Richard.
I don’t begrudge you for criticising our Mr Murphy. Having a debate is half the fun! But in fairness to him, much of the Russian weaponry came from the US, via the Murmansk convoys.
Stalin didn't care one iota about those 17 million and the "woeful lack of military material" wasn't helped by a lack of military officers... Ask a Pole, Russia was no better than Germany or are you also forgetting what they did post war!
@@george11419 Hi George, thank you for your response, in the same vein of open de=bate I must point out that as I wrote before the Russian troops were desperately short of hardware and had to resort to farm tools! and used cohorts of farm workers to clear mine fields, crossing the field shoulder to shoulder at gun point!. The Murmansk convoys were too few and far apartb to make much real difference and were only really a sop to Stalin to cover the long delay in the opening of the 'second front' in Europe that Churchill and the Americans promised in nineteen forty one but did not launch until nineteen forty four!, this delay was a result of bad management, lack of resources and a peculiar desire to see the Soviet Union destroyed by the german forces. The primary weapons used by Russian troops on the front line were automatic weapons made in Eastern Europe and Tanks and aircraft made in Eastern Russia, very large numbers of cheap reliable aircraft that were only just adequate but cheap and easy to maintain and tanks that were also numerous, cheap and easy but just about a match for the German Tigers, unlike the pathetic American Shermans!. I have discovered most of this information from a long tedious period of critical observation and sifting through many sources of information based on an early deep distrust of western propaganda, I clearly remember the progress of the Vietnam war during the late sixties and the very obvious fact that the South Vietnamese 'insurgents' could never be beaten by a foreign army, something which it later ti=urns out the Washington administration were made aware of before the end of that decade!, but they continued the futile attempt because tyrants will never admit to failure!. That critical suspicion had already been formed by the stories my parents told about life in England during the second world war, stories about how the authorities had rd crosses painted on the car factories converted to military production in Oxford, a town that was never bombed because it was one of many cities that were agreed to be left alone, like similar cities in Germany which we carpet bombed to bits. I do understand that some people on all sides committed various atrocities but it is only the ones that the county I live in that matter to me! and lying about it is even worse. Cheers, Richard.
@@jamonit7169 Hi Jamonit, thank you for this reply, in response I must assume you have direct personal knowledge of Stalin's mindset and attitude to life or you would not have posted such a definitive statement. I am also fascinated by your assertion that unlike the officers I know of on our 'side' the ones in Russian were somehow much better informed and competent, ever one of the war stories I am familiar with all repeat the same trope, about how a small cohort of highly motivated lower ranks, only sometimes led by anyone as high as captain, usually just one of the sergeants, manage to overcome numerically superior enemy forces with little or no help from the powers that should not be. The best any of them could hope for was to be hailed as heroes afterwards but that only to cover their competence of those responsible higher up, the one lesson never learned from history is any thing learned from history!, we keep on repeating the same lunatic ideologies not because they do work but because we cannot give up wanting them to!. I have also been indulging in a similar thread with George on this channel and posted much the samwe to him, the most important thing for me is to seek and find faults on 'my' side of the issue, that is where my responsibilities lie, the other side may be as bad or even worse but that is their business not mine or yours!. Cheers, Richard.
Yeah but, Elon's not bothered so much about profit, his mouth has probably cost Tesla a good 20-30% loss of car sales. Twitter's an unmitigated disaster financially. I think he genuinely and niaively thinks that if he gets more power, he can help us from destroying ourselves. Certainly a new whole world leadership might help and perhaps, in the back of his mind, he sees himself fulfilling this role in maybe 10 to 15 years from now. I doubt he will make old bones, he's not Dark Mirror proof, he's a fool and a genius, but I'm glad he's doing good and sad that he's doing bad. Thanks, by the way for your output, much appreciated.
Sadly I have to agree with most of this. We live in increasingly dangerous times and there are no signs that the widespread danger is being abated. If anything it is the opposite particularly with surging extremes of wealth, advancing neoliberalism, global warming, advances in AI and nuclear proliferation etc. We have even had some close calls in the past but at some point our luck will run out.
Is GDP growth not about innovation and productive capacity but just about how many immigrants are added to the population? Economists sometime seem to secretly believe that,
The world had a 400% growth rate the last 80 years and the next 80 will be lucky to be 10% of that. GDP has always been about increasing demand, immigrants legal or illegal add to demand, when 23 countries are going to lose 50% of their populations due to old age over the next 80 years, mostly European, not innovation or productive capacity is going to supersede that so it's not a secret, it's the whole reason.
@ China is one of those countries that will lose half, that is 5-600 million people gone, if the gross domestic value stays the same, say with inflation in that time, the GDP per capita will double while they produce zero growth in overall value so in this case GDP per capita could be deceptive. We need to have, in my opinion, growth mean that every single person has food, shelter and medical care, in the world and stop looking at how much a country increases production in a world that has stopped growing, almost. If the world is a business and the next 80 years there is 40% growth rate of customers instead of 400% over 80 years, then growth during a great settling that humanity seems to have coming is a wrong goal.
@ Well there is quite a bit in that of course but it is completely unclear (apart from a couple of high profile and influential individuals) whether the buk of tech sector's overarching interest is not with the rest of the business class and Biden. He is the politician most associated with Wilmington Delaware in which most Fortune 500 companies are based. He had to stop saying it due to massive pushback, but he does not think China is a future competitor to the US. Largely because in a considerable contrast to the US's, Chinas population is actually declining.
Thanks for your video Mr. Murphy. You seems a wise person. Three decades ago light dissapeared in the world. World changed to bestiality. Your reflection makes me rethink my reflection: who won with WWI and WWII? Why increase budget in defense? Buy weapons to who? Which is today the main weapon manufactuer country? Really, something is rooted in Danemark, and not precisely by Greenland. Saludos desde España de este pobre D. Quijote. 😊😮😢❤
Who won the WW2. Officially it was the UK and USA. Officially Germany lost. However by the late 1970s, the UK was a mess and completely bankrupt thanks to socialist ideas like Richard is spouting. Whilst Germany was the economic powerhouse of Europe and in charge of the EU with 26 nations under its remit. So we can all see who the real winners were.
I disagree with you on this fundamental point Richard. There will always be entropy, the slide from order to disorder, from peace to war. War is the normal state, peace is just the fragile and temporary gap between them! It is inevitable that war will always return. It's actually how nature works, what everything survives by! Realising other's weakness is your best guarantee of survival. If everyone was of the same reasonable, calm and compassionate disposition, without fear and worry, then peace would theoretically be possible. Of course this will never be the case. Someone will always take advantage of others perceived weakness! It's the law of the jungle and all animal kind. Most wars/conflicts happen for two reasons: fear and expansionism. Fear of others attacking you, so strike at them first before you fall victim to them, or because of empire building, greed and lust, those good old human vices! Peace is won by by strength. You have to have the capability in order not to have to use it! Of course your capability becomes someone else's perceived threat, and so the cycle continues. Stability breeds a careless false sense of security and so someone will take advantage and strike. The biggest threat can also be from within. America has just fallen this way and is about to plunge the world into chaos.
Excuse me Sir but concerning the fall of nazism in Europe all credits needs to go to Russians. I know as a British you find it quite hard to accept it but it is what it is.
Someone who has been feeding the military industrial complex from day one, warning of tech industrial complex.
Under Biden the USA was at war every single day of his presidency. But as he identifies as a leftist, the UK leftist stooges also back him. Pathetic.
That is a myth - US military contracts are #1 incredibly strict #2 the profits are very very small even big companies like Boeing and Lockheed are only doing well because they are able to sell products to other countries - without that they would collapse. The US ship builders are some of the weakest in the world with almost no commercial ship building so they 100% depend on military orders. The US military complex does not exist it is totally a myth by people who are pacifists and dislike the idea of war but the problem is that war is often forced on you against your will. The USA was attacked in 1941 by Japan it was not a choice to fight. The USA was attacked on 9-11-2001 again it was not a choice. So if you want to defend your country and the west and stand against what China and Russia have planned for the future you need to build an army and the secret is that the USA is not doing well. China has a much larger navy and will soon have a more modern air force and even nuclear arsenal so the USA is clearly falling behind on all aspects except on strategy as China has not fought a war since it invaded Vietnam in 1970s. Yes, China also had a Vietnam war just after the USA left.
I heard that Haliburton fuel and catering was great value for money!
@@drscopeify We are in a new age of dictators, but recognise that the worst threat to a state is within and traitors are taking power on Monday. Watch and see.
@@drscopeify You're surely being humorous here? The military industrial complex is fed close to $1 trillion in public money. The tales of the absolute waste of money is legendary. The US has more bases and more money spent on it than any other country on Earth. And if you conveniently forget the covert and military interference in certain countries and the regime change wars to suit US interests, then yes, you're right.
He says that only now that his rival is coming in office, but was more than fine with it when he was the one allowing it.
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Presidents like Biden always issue such warnings áfter (or at best just before) they leave. Until then they've done nothing about the problems they point out. So call me very unimpressed.
@marknieuweboer8099 Except that we don't know what he might have done during his second term, Mark. Perhaps if Harrison had won the Democrats could have done something to address these problems. But again, we don't know, and now we face an entirely different set of outcomes about to unfold.
Most leaders (political, industrial, social or religious) who are either deposed, defeated, overthrown, or simply retiring before their time, usually have something to warn about. However, at least Biden’s warnings have been well voiced and heard.
People of the new (R"USA") have the right to use their brain too.
@ George: except that what we don't know doesn't change the fact I pointed out in the least.
@ PerH: I can't remember me denying that.
@@perhansen3959The majority of voters chose not to.
@@VVVVV00 that's a misconception. Historicalky speaking too, dictators are never as popular as they appear to be
Delete lobbying.
No he should have said that at the beginning of his term, and done something about it.
The system is designed to enrich the few at the cost of many
Along with maths and English , critical thinking should be a compulsory subject in all schools . Otherwise this will get way out of control ,if it isn’t already
Damn right!
It's already out of control, because people believe things far too easily on social media without any cross analysis.
I’m a Democrat who voted blue down ballot. Democrats messaging sucked. Stop the everyday person on the street and ask them the definition of an Oligarchy? You’ll get a huh? Not once did I see any campaign speeches continuously explaining its full meaning. Well it’s too late to open the dictionary now folks. His opponent spoke in easy to understand language and it worked.
His opponent spoke in easy to understand language and it worked. You're right, the Trumpists sought a simple answer, were offered one...
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
― H. L. Mencken
As we used to say when people came seeking simple answers to questions like, "how long before we can get back into production?" - "Do you want me to tell the truth or would you like me to lie to you?"
Google the iron law of oligarchy.. leftist regimes.
Messaging? The reagan lite clintonite cabal abandoned their electorate.
It's the natural leaning of capitalists and conservatives towards aristocracy and away from anything open, free, fair, and egalitarian
That sounds like a quote from Liam Byrne's book The Inequality of Wealth.
Have you read it, if not then I suggest you give it a look.
Well luckily the UK is going all in with the tech and corporate worship, so it can't go wrong at all.
The return of serfdom is coming your way soon, very soon. AI is coming to steal your job. Maybe you noticed the last PM was a Bot! Perhaps the present one is too (his chancellor obviously is).
The Supreme Court "Citizens United" ruling eliminated any practical means of limiting money in political campaigns. Of course Republicans cheered it on because winning national elections fair and square is not something they're known for. This left Democrats in a pickle: Get in with big donors like Republicans or "bring a knife to a gun fight" and take the ethical high ground.
The results are still deplorable, but I can't blame the Democrats for doing what's needed to escape extinction. So the important point now is how to undo the damage that the Supreme Court is doing to what remains of our democracy. Can we get big money out of elections? Can be eliminate jerrymandering? Can we eliminate election rules that discourage minorities and poor people from voting? These are all things caused by what I consider the REAL scoundrels in this mess, the Supreme Court.
Rubbish. The Left have taken money from Soros for years without compunction.
Harris received billions more than Trump in campaign contributions, she just spent it unwisely and ended in debt, a metaphor for the Left's political philosophy.
Biden also failed to mention the tech billionaire who has done most to interfere in ordinary citizens lives, namely Bill Gates.
Ditto UK..... "then UKLabour Shadow minister SteveReedMP meeting with IsraelLobby billionaire Trevor Chinn pledged Labour to oppose BDS, promote IHRA definition of anti-Semitism" (Jews & Israel wonderful) in return for lots of ££££
You can't get money out of politics without a constitutional amendment. But unfortunately constitution conventions realistically tend to happen only at elite levels of power and influence.
It's a lot easier to talk when leaving office than actually don't commiting a genoslide when you are in charge.
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One could make the same speech in the UK!
You probably could not make any such speech in the UK. It is utterly controlled by the WEF, Soros, Gates, and hedge funds like Blackrock. Freedom of speech does not exist in the UK unless its aligned to those foreign influences. Speaking of foreign influences as we are here, ironically.
Well yeah, the tech industrial complex is happening all around the world. You tube is part of it, Murphy is using it here to spread his own message.
I mean, who's fact checking any of this.
Our worry is AI.
@@george11419 "Our worry" who is the we in this context may I ask
Years ago I noted that the financial institution I worked for was not employing its own standards against what it was producing. My thought then was if you don't use standards to critique your products, then you won't have standards before long. The same thing is happening with much of media. For instance, the BBC has been found to show bias in its reporting about the genocide in Gaza. So bias in that suggests that nothing else they are doing is worthwhile, which is a pity since people like Attenborough exclusively appear on its platforms. It's all very easy for Biden to say 'misinformation' but what did he do to stop it? Nothing as far as I'm aware. So the leaders of governments are just as guilty of the dismantling of media as any mere billionaire.
Maybe he should have done something about it since he was in power the past four years rather than just warn after he supported it wholeheartedly.
Well said.
It has happened on his watch.
He participated in it. His United States Department of Justice was forcing the tech social media platforms to engage in rampant censorship of American citizens' free speech.
Yes, the message is more important than the medium.
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Though I'd just point out, for those who seem not to understand this, being a hypocrite does not make you wrong.
It's always been a problem in the U S, from day one. The slavery aristocracy of the South, the land-grabbers on the frontiers, the robber barons, the various banking crises, many of the post - WW2 'wars of opportunity', the rise of the tech monoplies, etc.. We've always had an olagarchy, we just were (mostly) ignorant of it. Thank human nature that we are capable of self-destructive greed - the overreach of the rich and powerful, in our democracy, has always been their downfall (until we lose our democracy).
Old joe just sore now his tech bro"s have gone off with another. It was all good last year, eh joe?
I believe so
Managed Fascism by Biden or full on fascist by Trump.
Mehdi Hassan did a good policy comparison and it's surprising how similar Trump and Biden were.
I haven’t seen that. I’ll look for it.
I’d always thought Biden had done a reasonable job, but that his stance on Israel was beyond appalling. How he could call “Bibi” his friend makes by brain fizz with incomprehension.
On foreign policy ie Gaza, yes, but in almost all else, no.
@@johnwright9372 Actually it seems that Trump's the one who's had the balls to tell his lapdog (Israel) to heel (not that I'm a Trump fan). But I do think Biden was far more on the side of the working man than Trump, and he was a much better steward of the economy. Trump's going to wreck that and cause massive inflation while looking after the billionaires who fund him.
@@johnwright9372 You forget the China trade war policy, leniency for bankers, and being controlled by billionaire elites. Not one bit of difference between Biden & Trump on those points.
So the :"tech industrial complex" takes over from the press barons
They're just part of the same continuum.
The U.S has over the years, failed and turned a blind eye, to tackle tech monopolies. In the 80's Regan broke up AT&T monopoly which had produced 7 nobel prize winners, and was a benign threat in comparison to the present day chilling powers of tech companies.
Not to mention the Koch brothers and other billionaires
Pretty sure if he thought is was a actual problem he'd have done something about it.
Just like the other problems of the USA?
It's almost as if there's something preventing that. Gee, what could it be?
Did he do anything about Gaza? Apart from providing the weapons to destroy it?
Biden enabled it. Who do you think it was pushing these social media to censor anyone speaking out about the pandemic procedures, Gaza, and Ukraine?
Time for people to delete their FB account.
What about TH-cam.
I mean, who's fact checking this channel?
Already done so. Musk is a dangerous lunatic.
@@billB101good point.
@@billB101no need, he contradicted himself from the start 😂
I fortunately forgot my facebook password and my phone ,for some reason didn’t have a record of it. Facebook said that they would send a code to another device, the other device didn’t exist anymore. So hay ho! No more Facebook!
He4’s spent the last four years benefiting greatly from industry, supported by billionaires. Now that he’s leaving office it’s all ‘different’ now. The hypocrisy is stunning. But you fell for it, apparently.
I believe any free thinking individuals who look and observe Trumps (I can't believe I'm actually saying this) second term in office as president will be worried about what's going to happen in the next four years or so.
having a dictator or few corporations having control over a person is the same thing. china russia has a dictator and america is corporate(tech companies and blackrock) controlling the government.
Pity he didn't mention it on his inauguration day speech in 2020.
We weren't past the point of no return then.
I hear you and agree with you wholeheartedly
Riiiiiiight.... Funny how he just now realized and not during the literal years of his presidency.
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Just think of trump and elons spin if he did do anything before the election, 'crippling free speech' they'd have cried, 'they're trying to silence us'. Don't blame this on him, try blaming those who turned social media into hate spreading apps. Or perhaps you're a fanboi of theirs.
Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex in the 1950s.....didn't change a thing
Thank you, Richard. Keep up the good work. Stable political perspectives are not easy to find these days.
I suspect Mr Murphy is a lefty. But I still watch his videos to help formulate my opinions. I always like to hear both sides of a debate.
@@george11419 He wrote Corbynomics. He's definitely left.
I agree on hearing both sides of the debate for sure, you can't form an objective opinion any other way.
Stable?
This drivel is unstable political rhetoric at its worst - Factually inaccurate misinformation.
Love your videos! 🙏
I said it before and I'll say it again - WE should have our own public platforms. For example, a digital retail distribution platform like Amazon, with a nationalized Royal Mail for delivery, and a national cryptocurrency to facilitate virtually free transactions between individuals.
Currently Amazon takes 40% of every sale, and Visa/Mastercard take 5p of every transaction that happens anywhere. Critical economic infrastructure is far too important to leave to foreign corporations and Broligarchs. Crypto fees are more like 0.001p. Why can't we have a national payment processor that works for the people?
He's been using it!.. Just doesn't want to face it himself!
Since FDR they've all been the same, Eisenhower was largely responsible for building the MIC of which he warned. JFK was an exception and those that followed got the message.
Anyone listening to Joe Biden needs a wide berth.
Anyone failing to listen to (or read) his words and apply fact-checking and critical thinking needs to engage a brain.
@davidmcculloch8490 fact checking? Like the fact checkers who check the wrong facts?
Would you say that about Eisenhower also?
@Quagma-b2i no. He was genuine, apart from jfk and he wasn't all goodness and light there hasn't been anyone.
Politics has been controlled beyond the ballot box for decades and for some part over a century.
@@stephenbermingham6554 My take was that Biden was just appropriating what Eisenhower said. I do not expect anything will come of it. I am not a Biden fan. We (the US) will continue to decline as we've been doing for several decades. I am 63 years old, and this country is barely a shadow of what it was. Younger people have no idea (no fault of their own, they just did not experience what was)
You read my mind.
Ike was originally going to say The Military-Industrial-Media Complex, but Media was dropped at the last minute.
Biden doesn't know what planet he's on.
The question begs; are some nations more gullible that others and if so, why?
Liberalism is a grift thankfully most of the world saw right through...
Totally different players in each complex. The military industrial complex backed Biden and co and the other backs Trump. Biden is simply criticising the segment which backs Trump, as the world switches to electronic and informational warfare.
"live peacefully together" - that is just never going to happen while there is political capital in stoking division and conflict. The Catholics and Protestants were white Christians who never lived peacefully together for centuries in Ireland under British rule because of the Divide & Rule tactics of wealthy British political elites
When settlers take your country it usually causes some hatred. Jews and Muslims were good until Europeans started claiming land.
even a broken clock is right twice a day. I wouldn't give Biden that track record
Joe Biden has blind spots on a few issues, but he is right on this.
Tood bad he didn't figure out what millions of people already know, on day two in the office.
Blind spots... he is a wreck. Worst president ever, and a the dems are a fuckijf joke
Didn’t stop him taking millions in donations thou 🙄
Only because he knows how much they do, and has benefitted from it, knowingly. Now about these "few" blind spots..?
Blindspot? That is putting it lightly.
Its destroying the biosphere, source of all life.
was convenient when the mic worked for them...hypocrite
Don't buy from them or use their devices or social media!
I generally enjoy and agree with your content and the message in this particular video, but I think it would be important to clarify at 6:05 which ones are built on lies and which ones are actual credible threats.
The ones that are built on lies are whatever the UK government tells you are lies. Everything else that the UK government tells you is true, is true.
Richard is a mouth piece for the failing and disinformation laden UK state.
I have watched a few of his videos now and have not heard a single opinion that differs from what the majority of UK civil servants and BBC bods would be pumping out.
Agreed. To say "no you're not" about threats from outside military forces is nonsense. You just have to look at what's going on in Gaza or The Ukraine Et al. to see this.
Bit naive that tbh.
Its not a warning when you are the one enabling the activity. Its a confession without worry of punishment more than anything else.
Yeah, he's right...but that particular horse has already bolted.
Maybe he didn't say anything because it was serving him well until very late in the game. Trump knows the game better than those who set the rules, or that's how it seems to me.
Lol. Nope. The Presidency is only a place for him to avoid bankruptcy and jail. Biden's hubris was to think he could control the Broligarchs because he thought they respected democratic institutions. He was wrong. They say that if you sup with the Devil, it's best you use a long spoon. That principle in politics and life, is ignored because of hubris. Trump knows how to get out of jail. How nice would be to have people in charge who shouldn't be behind bars, or whom I could allow them to give my very attractive daughter a ride home without worrying they might get assaulted. Instead, look at what you've got instead. The Slippery slope on legs. And I get it - magpies love nice shiny things, or operate in crowds where juicy insider info is easy to get, and politicians and law givers can't or won't resist temptation. But if we put up with that, then that's on us.
With all due respect Professor the same criticism might also be made against the largest monopolies of any country namely government bureaucracies and any misinformation/disinformation cover ups or ideology they might promote
Economic power is political power
Warnings, yes, but more like predictions.
"The Free Press?"I don't think there ever was a free press to crumble.Editors not there to support ruling capitalist double think or not able as once they were.That might be a good thing,though as always good is mixed with bad
That is below the bare minimum for what he could have done.
The most important thing is for people to investigate things for themselves.
That would be quite an expensive undertaking, both financially, and in terms of time.
Expert in everything are you?
@@jasonkirk7802 You raise a good point here. Not only does the average person not have the time nor money to conduct lengthy investigations, but they simply aren't expert enough to make sense of all the information required. Be it domestic politics, financial, military, we have to rely on, and trust, journalists that have experience with, and contacts in, their field of expertise.
@@robertdewar1752The average person seems to have plenty of time to parrot the bs narratives they are fed. That time could certainly be spent more wisely
The problem is for many people that means simply Googling a few souces that agree with their point of view - helped by the algorithm.
No change then. The world has always been run to put power and money into the hands of the few. Labour came in and they are the same, enriching themselves, remember the free clothes and glasses, etc. Not more that i can add.
I like the message, but it can be a little irritating. We see this stuff, so we put these politicians in place to do something about it. The politicians we put in place to do something about it turn around and tell us to do something. That was why we put them in power. Right now these same tech people are doing it to the UK. We have put Labour in power. They should spread the word about interference in our democracy via tech and media and legislate.
I don't like the term neo fascist. Just say fascist. That is what they are.
I yawned, then fell asleep.
I'm going to puke listening to this. Long live X
Forget conspiracy theories. Think about motivation. Biden has nothing to lose he's leaving office at the tail end of his life. He's been on the inside, "whatever" regarding his presidency.
His right on this.
Your Russophobic comment is as ridiculous as it displays a grave ignorance of geo politics.
@casca5853 Never mentioned Russia has for geo politics tec Giants want influence over our day to day lives outside the political Arena.
@casca5853 bot
He's nothing to lose because he's already lost it all.
everyday in the comments section we all say we must do something about this and that we never do we let it happen here we are....... its to late ..... one of your best blogs ... who can save us .... we cant ... the devil is to big .... i think we need a saviour anything goes but that ... are you sure we dont
Lol Biden didnt warn us about anything 😂
Doubt he has the capacity to process anything more than Matlock reruns these days.
However, people like prof Yanis Varoufakis and Rick Wolff have been warning about this kinda thing for a while
Polititions are the law makers, the buck stops with them.
The electorate are becoming more and more disengaged as meaningful change is never delivered and excuses mount up.
One question why haven't economic text books and teaching been updated to engage mordern money after all these years.
One mention on a bulletin after unbelievable pressure from macroeconomists by the BoE.
The English public have been gullible dupes throughout history eg. The Comber Letter, The Popish Plot, The Irish Fright, The Gordon Riots, The Jubilee Plot, The German Plot..
Neoliberalism post WW2...
I assume that FB and X will be banned in EU. Them spitting out misinformation is simply too dangerous. The fairness doctrine must be reinstated.
FB and X are a very useful honeytrap for the UK GCHQ and police services. They are happy to use it to entice people to make politically incorrect comments, then harass and attempt to fit them up with hate speech charges to boost their "far right" arrest figures. I understand most EU colonies have the same approach and like to use FB and X as a honeytrap. I therefore believe they will be kept on, as they are useful.
Not before time, ban them, who cares about the tech bros?
Facebook is for children. I’m an adult and I would be embarrassed if anyone knew I was on there.
Tiktok has just been banned in the US. ( which you probably already know )
Be interesting to see if Trump overturns this though, he's knows fine well how many young votes that platform gets him.
@@Yorkshire-z5v FB has s 3.07 _billion_ monthly active users, it's hardly for the children.
Well…that diplomacy worked brilliantly with Putin, didn’t it…let’s sit down and talk pally pally with him…works every time, right?
When was that conversation
but biotech gets a free pass
My family works in biotech. It is a very volatile industry. The vast majority of companies live or die through VC funding. The few that successfully take a drug through an important phase are either sold to a larger pharm or have to raise more money to continue. It's a very brutal industry. I don't see any free passes.
Read: The Anxious Generation. by Jonathan Haidt
it'll give you a little more insight into why the tech industrial complex is so dangerous to children.
So true and thank you. Joy and peace is the way forward.
The Best 7 minutes I've spent on TH-cam in weeks. However, after reading about a third of these comments, I believe you would have to communicate in more "Grade School" terms for the folks who don't know that the ultra rich that back Freedom and Prosperity for All...are Not the same as the ultra rich that are pushing Tyranny.
The problem of corporate greed is not limited to military and technology there has been a clear show by high level doctors to infleunce and undermine public health discourse for maxmimised profit. There have been cover ups after cover ups and at some position sanity must prevail. The specailist will frame their own importance above a general wisdom in discourse and this is perverse.
The question can you or should you trust your doctor is very much how that doctors approaches health as a whole or profit as a solution. There must be protections in place and those willing to defend against bad actors what ever industry they are found.
Are you referring to GPs in the NHS? If so, I’ll be careful with what they prescribe. If their prescriptions are for profit, we should all worry.
@@george11419 I made a sweeping generalisation but for instance if there is a suggestion of a mental health issue but no diagnosis and an individual is unwilling to accept a prescription when no diagnosis is given or determined with any accuracy the mental health services will refuse to offer or support any kind of talking therapy without use of prescribed treatment. This is especially worrying if the warning on the prescribed medication states may cause suicidal thoughts.
For profit medicine creates a dangerous divide for societies. I heard some where last week National health service private plans are to become an option for those that can afford. This is a situation that creates an ever greater divide.
@george11419 even if paid for in a subsided fashion that does not mean that a treatment is not for profit or perhaps we would see cures instead?
Sorry, but this one earns you a “do not recommend this channel”. Maybe ask a Ukrainian about stopping Russian tanks; at least they can talk from experience. Such an utterly tone deaf and patronising comment
I completely agree. Even historically, it is a nonsensical point of view. Soviet tanks did roll into Czechoslovakia and Hungary in 1968 and 1956. The Soviet Union collapsed from within, but would it have done so without the overwhelming military and industrial power of the US?
As a Ukrainian.
Just remember that it is not the Scottish Nationalists who are the separatists and Isolationists. That would be the English Brexit and the English Imperial Empire, now the 3rd country and the EU's weakest link which is unwilling to allow Scotland's people to become a NATION again and join the EU.
Wtf does this have to do with the tech industrial complex?
@@billB101nowt
EU's already told you it's not interested in Scotland joining, take the hint nobody wants you 😂
I fear that your belief in diplomacy to solve all the problems between nations is dangerously naive. When you have dictators in power such as Putin in Russia, and the leaders of China, North Korea, Iran and other countries around the world, then diplomacy is next to useless. Diplomacy is fine if both sides are negotiating in good faith, but the lesson of the 1930's is that when one side is not negotiating in good faith, then war is a reality that cannot be ignored.
In 1963, and again in 1983, the world came extremely close to World War 3. Fortunately sanity prevailed. But only the ill health and death of Andropov saved us in the early 80's as he was a paranoiac who saw war as necessary. Very few people know just how close we came to war, and diplomacy would have been useless in dealing with a madman.
We need extreme good luck in dealing with China whose current foreign policy is uninterested in diplomacy over both the South China Sea and Taiwan. The lesson of Hong Kong is that China's word is useless.
Of course you may be a pacifist. You have a right to that opinion. But I follow Theodore Roosevelt's saying "Speak softly and carry a big stick"..
Having said all that I believe Biden was absolutely right.
Not sure Biden was ever right about anything in his life
Yes.
He may have been right but in which end?
It’s class war.
Bye now
As someone who’s quite familiar with the Russian psyche and power structures, I’m going to disagree with you on this one. Without a credible threat of finding out, Russia does tend to mess around, to the detriment of everyone around it (and often, its own populace). Much as I agree with the overall need to tax more and invest more in public services, a coherent pan-EU program of improving the military is long overdue. Finland is not a society of warmongers but look at how they’re spending their money.
I think Musk is potentially a very dangerous man. He's a genius, but he's also very strange and I think what he might think is good for the human race we may not agree with. He really is beginning to give off a James Bond baddie vibe. It should always be remembered that he is also unelected.
Hi Richard J Murphy, I feel I must step in here and correct one myth you mention, it was not the investment of the U S military during the latter stages of WW2 that led to the fall of the German fascist regime it was the expenditure of seventeen million Russian lives over the previous three years!, due to the woeful lack of military material the only effective obstacle to the German invasion was people! they stood there and absorbed the German ammunition until it ran out!. Many of those militia troops were armed with agricultural tools like pitchforks and scythes.
I do understand that this reality is not well understood here in the west, in no small part because it does not conform to the delusions of military power based on the size and weight of the protagonist's hardware!.
Cheers, Richard.
You think that the military equipment supplied by the USA is a Myth, yet believe the Nazis were stopped by pitchforks?
I don’t begrudge you for criticising our Mr Murphy. Having a debate is half the fun! But in fairness to him, much of the Russian weaponry came from the US, via the Murmansk convoys.
Stalin didn't care one iota about those 17 million and the "woeful lack of military material" wasn't helped by a lack of military officers...
Ask a Pole, Russia was no better than Germany or are you also forgetting what they did post war!
@@george11419 Hi George, thank you for your response, in the same vein of open de=bate I must point out that as I wrote before the Russian troops were desperately short of hardware and had to resort to farm tools! and used cohorts of farm workers to clear mine fields, crossing the field shoulder to shoulder at gun point!.
The Murmansk convoys were too few and far apartb to make much real difference and were only really a sop to Stalin to cover the long delay in the opening of the 'second front' in Europe that Churchill and the Americans promised in nineteen forty one but did not launch until nineteen forty four!, this delay was a result of bad management, lack of resources and a peculiar desire to see the Soviet Union destroyed by the german forces.
The primary weapons used by Russian troops on the front line were automatic weapons made in Eastern Europe and Tanks and aircraft made in Eastern Russia, very large numbers of cheap reliable aircraft that were only just adequate but cheap and easy to maintain and tanks that were also numerous, cheap and easy but just about a match for the German Tigers, unlike the pathetic American Shermans!.
I have discovered most of this information from a long tedious period of critical observation and sifting through many sources of information based on an early deep distrust of western propaganda, I clearly remember the progress of the Vietnam war during the late sixties and the very obvious fact that the South Vietnamese 'insurgents' could never be beaten by a foreign army, something which it later ti=urns out the Washington administration were made aware of before the end of that decade!, but they continued the futile attempt because tyrants will never admit to failure!.
That critical suspicion had already been formed by the stories my parents told about life in England during the second world war, stories about how the authorities had rd crosses painted on the car factories converted to military production in Oxford, a town that was never bombed because it was one of many cities that were agreed to be left alone, like similar cities in Germany which we carpet bombed to bits.
I do understand that some people on all sides committed various atrocities but it is only the ones that the county I live in that matter to me! and lying about it is even worse.
Cheers, Richard.
@@jamonit7169 Hi Jamonit, thank you for this reply, in response I must assume you have direct personal knowledge of Stalin's mindset and attitude to life or you would not have posted such a definitive statement.
I am also fascinated by your assertion that unlike the officers I know of on our 'side' the ones in Russian were somehow much better informed and competent, ever one of the war stories I am familiar with all repeat the same trope, about how a small cohort of highly motivated lower ranks, only sometimes led by anyone as high as captain, usually just one of the sergeants, manage to overcome numerically superior enemy forces with little or no help from the powers that should not be.
The best any of them could hope for was to be hailed as heroes afterwards but that only to cover their competence of those responsible higher up, the one lesson never learned from history is any thing learned from history!, we keep on repeating the same lunatic ideologies not because they do work but because we cannot give up wanting them to!.
I have also been indulging in a similar thread with George on this channel and posted much the samwe to him, the most important thing for me is to seek and find faults on 'my' side of the issue, that is where my responsibilities lie, the other side may be as bad or even worse but that is their business not mine or yours!.
Cheers, Richard.
Yeah but, Elon's not bothered so much about profit, his mouth has probably cost Tesla a good 20-30% loss of car sales. Twitter's an unmitigated disaster financially. I think he genuinely and niaively thinks that if he gets more power, he can help us from destroying ourselves. Certainly a new whole world leadership might help and perhaps, in the back of his mind, he sees himself fulfilling this role in maybe 10 to 15 years from now. I doubt he will make old bones, he's not Dark Mirror proof, he's a fool and a genius, but I'm glad he's doing good and sad that he's doing bad. Thanks, by the way for your output, much appreciated.
Sadly I have to agree with most of this. We live in increasingly dangerous times and there are no signs that the widespread danger is being abated. If anything it is the opposite particularly with surging extremes of wealth, advancing neoliberalism, global warming, advances in AI and nuclear proliferation etc. We have even had some close calls in the past but at some point our luck will run out.
One word response: HIPOCRITS.
“Hypocrites”
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@@tamrielspirit3285 - pendant....
@ In medical terminology, the prefix 'hypo-' means "low" or "below normal". I guess you fall under low and below normal, congratulations.
You trust Bidet? 😂
Is GDP growth not about innovation and productive capacity but just about how many immigrants are added to the population? Economists sometime seem to secretly believe that,
The world had a 400% growth rate the last 80 years and the next 80 will be lucky to be 10% of that. GDP has always been about increasing demand, immigrants legal or illegal add to demand, when 23 countries are going to lose 50% of their populations due to old age over the next 80 years, mostly European, not innovation or productive capacity is going to supersede that so it's not a secret, it's the whole reason.
GDP per capita should be the real growth metric
@ China is one of those countries that will lose half, that is 5-600 million people gone, if the gross domestic value stays the same, say with inflation in that time, the GDP per capita will double while they produce zero growth in overall value so in this case GDP per capita could be deceptive.
We need to have, in my opinion, growth mean that every single person has food, shelter and medical care, in the world and stop looking at how much a country increases production in a world that has stopped growing, almost.
If the world is a business and the next 80 years there is 40% growth rate of customers instead of 400% over 80 years, then growth during a great settling that humanity seems to have coming is a wrong goal.
@ Well there is quite a bit in that of course but it is completely unclear (apart from a couple of high profile and influential individuals) whether the buk of tech sector's overarching interest is not with the rest of the business class and Biden. He is the politician most associated with Wilmington Delaware in which most Fortune 500 companies are based. He had to stop saying it due to massive pushback, but he does not think China is a future competitor to the US. Largely because in a considerable contrast to the US's, Chinas population is actually declining.
Thanks for your video Mr. Murphy. You seems a wise person. Three decades ago light dissapeared in the world. World changed to bestiality. Your reflection makes me rethink my reflection: who won with WWI and WWII? Why increase budget in defense? Buy weapons to who? Which is today the main weapon manufactuer country? Really, something is rooted in Danemark, and not precisely by Greenland. Saludos desde España de este pobre D. Quijote. 😊😮😢❤
Who won the WW2. Officially it was the UK and USA. Officially Germany lost.
However by the late 1970s, the UK was a mess and completely bankrupt thanks to socialist ideas like Richard is spouting. Whilst Germany was the economic powerhouse of Europe and in charge of the EU with 26 nations under its remit.
So we can all see who the real winners were.
I disagree with you on this fundamental point Richard. There will always be entropy, the slide from order to disorder, from peace to war. War is the normal state, peace is just the fragile and temporary gap between them! It is inevitable that war will always return. It's actually how nature works, what everything survives by!
Realising other's weakness is your best guarantee of survival. If everyone was of the same reasonable, calm and compassionate disposition, without fear and worry, then peace would theoretically be possible. Of course this will never be the case. Someone will always take advantage of others perceived weakness! It's the law of the jungle and all animal kind. Most wars/conflicts happen for two reasons: fear and expansionism. Fear of others attacking you, so strike at them first before you fall victim to them, or because of empire building, greed and lust, those good old human vices! Peace is won by by strength. You have to have the capability in order not to have to use it! Of course your capability becomes someone else's perceived threat, and so the cycle continues. Stability breeds a careless false sense of security and so someone will take advantage and strike. The biggest threat can also be from within. America has just fallen this way and is about to plunge the world into chaos.
I neglected to say that I agree with pretty much everything you said. My quibble about Democrats is really a quibble.
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Yes he was right about them, but so so wrong about Israel.
Excuse me Sir but concerning the fall of nazism in Europe all credits needs to go to Russians.
I know as a British you find it quite hard to accept it but it is what it is.