Wolff Responds: Why don't we try Peace? (6/12/2024)
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Why don't we try Peace? Ask those military complexes.
Peace is not profitable and conflict is in our human DNA.
peace..... the west cannot imagine Peace... it's not in their blood
Wonderful speech Mr Wolf, much needed in our times.
not going to happen.
Gosh, you are a wonderful social commentator!
@@TacticalMayo A warmonger's view!
@@adamiskandar5107 For the Americans, war is a business sector. They will event a new war whenever they want.
"We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?" ~ Emma Goldman
Why don't we try peace, simple answer. There's no money in it, although most people of the world want peace. Wouldn't that be an amazing gift for humanity!!!
Ever heard about the American greed what is it all about 😂😂😂😂😂
you mean no money for the MIC ?
Yes, that I agree.
With Peace country can develop, infrastructure can grow and money can be made -- non violently.
There is money to be made in peace time, they'd just rather have us all living in constant fear and groveling at their feet. This place is truly sick.
May I say again.
You are Brilliant,
You speak the truth, and most important show where peace can be achieved.
Excellent comments We need peace.
Not going to happen.
@@TacticalMayo Yup - not when "the most warlike nation on earth" continues to exist.
@@George-k6o9t It's not 'warlike', it's a business for the Americans.
@@JohnBeerschoten If niot "warlike", it is "warmongering" then. See my further comment below - the U.S. has become so addicted to the use of war to solve any dispute that it is indeed, "business as usual", a most wicked government system.
@@TacticalMayolet's hope there's peace. Because I can't take of this war in Ukraine. Putin has gone way too far doing this. This is unbelievable.
Violence begets violence, well said Prof Wolff
Those are cash cow to all these unscrupulous politicians.
They know very well that they are not paying but the taxpayers.
Thank you Prof. Wolff for fighting for peace! ☮☮☮
Mr.Wolff, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter declared in 1968, that "the U.S. is the most warlike nation on earth. Out of its 245 years of existence, the U.S. had only 17 years of real peace." The U.S. has become so addicted to the use of force through wars that it cannot see any other way around it - not when its major war industries depend upon the constant oiling of the gears of its war machine to keep turning.
Carter indicated the US is run by an Oligarchy.
I wholeheartedly agree... Give peace a chance!
All we are saying!
That's not even an option
Tell this to Biden, not to me!
Ya mean jenaside Joe 😂
Good narratives, Prof. Wolf. I've always enjoyed your podcast. Please keep going and inform the world at large about this troubled world. Give peace, harmony, and shared prosperity a chance.
Thank you Dr. Wolff for your wise, efficient, and timely words.
Thank you Professor Wolf 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Professor Wolff! ❤ PEACE for the whole world! 🙏☮
LOVE WHAT YOU SHARED PROFF.
TRUTHFULLY. EVERYTHING GOES UP, WILL FALL IN DOWN FINALLY.
THE WORLD IS WATCHING IN REAL LIVE AND CLOSELY
MAY CHINA AND RUSSIA CAN LEAD AND BRING STABILITY AND BALLANCE OF POWER OF THE WORLD TO STOP HYPOCRISY AND WARMONGERING MINDSET
Your missing the big picture....open borders just brings in cannon fodder....crashing the economy gets people agitated....blackrock says yeah bb....more cannon fodder.....ww3 😂😂😂
*Making money is an action. Keeping money is a behavior, but "Growing money is wisdom" I just saw this quote🔥*
I am surprised that this name is being mentioned here, I stumbled upon some of his clients testimonies on CNBC news last week..
The very first time we tried, we invested $1000, and after a week, we received $6,500. That really helped us a lot to pay up our bills
Honestly, our government has no idea how people are suffering these days. Imuch feel sorry for disabled people who don't get the help they deserve. All thanks to Mr Bill Ackman, imagine investing $10,000 and receiving $54,000....
Alright thanks for the recommendation, but how do I reach him?
He's mostly on Telegrams, using the user name
Many wise words spoken from Richard Wolff
Thankyou Prof. Wolff.❤
"White men speak with forked tongue".
Thank you for the impassioned call for peace. The US and its backers must come to peace with not being number one.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being better than your former self.
China is working on One Belt One Road , on Trades & Infrastructure projects .
China is working very hard w/ Europe , Central Asia & South East Asia countries on Railway construction .
The US is working on One Bomb One Road , on Heavy Dumb Bombs & Bad Mouthing China .
The US Military Industrial Complex is working very hard to ship Weaponry to Israel & Ukraine .....
Mr. Wolf:
You are not addressing the root cause of these wars which is the fact that the over-financialized, deindustrialized US economy is failing relative to those of China and other Asian countries. The US is no longer has the economic capacity to maintain hegemony over its global empire and so it is resorting to military means via proxies in order to retain its dominance. Once you understand that fact, everything else follows logically.
It’s been going on for decades. I think that’s the point he is making.
I don't think you need to lecture the Professor on these matters.
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I think that I do because fixing this longstanding stupidity without a war is a lot more complicated, difficult and painful than Mr. Wolf makes it out to be.
The American people do not understand the magnitude and scope of the difficult underlying economic problems that are driving these wars and, what is worse, do not want to try to understand them. They want Ronald Reagan (or a similar demagogue) to tell them that there is nothing to fear and that they don’t have to do any work or make any sacrifices. That ain’t gonna fly anymore.
When the American people finally understand that they will have to make sacrifices and accept less than what they currently have, they will refuse and demand war instead, even though war would make them even more poor and extremely miserable.
That is what is missing from this discussion.
aWARerica (MIC (Military Industrial Complex (CIA))) has owned America since their conception Bcame a reality in l8 40's. Imagine if America politicians served their voters ¬ the capital donators. Imagine if America spent their cash in on infrastructure, housing and medical. Imagine not having a stupid debt, inflation or abundant crime. Imagine all that money was self invested, instead of foreign wars. #ImagineThat
The real Q is, how long will Americans allow their society2 suffer the lifestyle that aWARerica consistently serves them?
wise man. no one will listen.
I love Professor Wolff, but I don’t think he answered the question to my satisfaction. He accurately summed up certain realities. But can we delve into how this relates to capitalism, and the abysmal need of the military industrial complex to perpetuate these conflicts to maximize profits? How executives from arms companies gain cabinet posts? We are headed into a dark era indeed.
the u,s amurica is holding back mankind from going forward, while China is trying push forward to the future.
What a dumb question. Peace is dependent on two sides being happy. Its not about weapins or outside countries but like a marriage, about the two individuals in it.
It is disingenuous for Wolff to expect anything else. Hitler taught us that peace comes after war not appeasement.
Appeasing your enemies is a sure route to slavery and not for Wolff or Biden or anybody else to expect a victim of aggression to accept.
i dunno, maybe Russia could just withdraw their troops from Ukrainian territory
Professor Wolff is a true patriot and human being. Respect! 🎀
🇫🇮❤Wolff & all those with knowledge, wisdom & integrity speaking against corrupt & evil warmongers.
Who needs peace initiatives when one is both prosecutor and judge, and the Legislator!
What the US created another war in Taiwan and SCS within Philppines?
Peace.
Always good to watch you ❤
Well said sir. Isn't it all about money for the MIC and saving the dollar from extinction?
Of course it is! The MIC discovered how much money they were making during WW2 and the Korean War that saved them from the 1930s depression era that they never want to go back to those days ever again.
WELL STATED!!
I hear that there is a resolution in Congress to take the words "cooperation" and "diplomacy" out of the dictionary due to lack of use.
Operative word, "negotiate." Does not appear in the U.S. diplomatic lexicon.
"Negotiate" doesn't appear in the U.S. diplomatic lexicon" - nor do the words, "compromise" and "mutual respect".
Taiwan and Philippines, please look out.
The obstacle is the ideological stubbornness of the American public, it is hard to reach an entrenched believer in whatever it is they think they trust.
Great sobering accurate speech
Many IFs, the biggest is politicians rediscover their conscience.
If the politicians have any to start off with, they MAY rediscover it but not IF they don't have any, such those who are sociopaths.
Prof thk you kindly🙏🌱for your efforts (pleas) unfortunately your🇺🇲❤ "D & D"........especially towards💯indigenous defenseless & poor folk is better you drop a next strategy
Peace is not lucrative for the USA.Trillions of dollars-10 to 12 Trillion from Ukraine.Around 3 Trillion a year from the Middle East.Much more than 100 Billion expense.
Thanks Richard, For more sensible advice. Nato has 1billion people inc the 7 richest countries. Russia 140 million people with a developing economy. Who should be worried.??
Isn't it ironic that one of the world's most gifted singer, music and song writer of the 1960s - 1980 who was dedicated to the spreading of peace in his songs, would die a violent death in New York City in the United States. John Lennon - RIP 8 December 1980.
Thé Professor..sensational as usual..a thorough understanding of what's truly happening around us on the global scene.
A true Think Tank .
Many thanks, Professor Richard, for your time and effort in educating the masses, giving them a perspective that adds up and makes perfect sense.
🎉🎉🎉
This guy knows what's up.
REALLY think about why no politician or member of the media speaks with such unabashed truth.
Freedom should be the right to choose your form of government. Yet when colonized, oppressed people choose communist military aid to free them from the shackles of western colonialism, this doesn't sit well with the U.S. who labels them an enemy. Modern day U.S. colonialism still exists in the form of indebteding 3rd world countries then making demands on those countries for repayment in U.S. dollars. It's not surprising that those countries have turn to Communist China ifor financial relief via the ongoing movement for BRICS membership.
Please give an update on the US housing market. Is there a 2007/2008 collapse in the immediate future? Thank you.
Thank you Richard!!!
One of the most insightful analysis of U.S. foreign policy since the Second World War is the 1984 book "Endless Enemies," written by Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Kwitny. There is an important lesson provided by the history of the British Empire, which is that empire's are very costly and the cost is invariably absorbed by that portion of a nation's population least able to shift the cost to others. Wars of territorial acquisition have always been fought to gain control of desired and needed natural resources as well as an enslaved or nearly-enslaved labor force.
Western military strategy over centuries is "war first peace later on terms dictated by the victor". Chinese philosophy is " peace first, and war is the last resort".
Despite China's military might it has not invaded the Philippines although the Filipino government is urging its people and fishermen to fight over a few small islands, which the fishermen don't fish there. This is in fact a normal tactic supplanted by the US (CIA). The previous Filipino government was good friends with China, but the current Filipino president is the son of the late president Marcos senior, who was known for widespread corruption, with billions of US assets held and are still held within the US territories. Something is going on behind the scene because the president was not anti-China when campaigning during his election but has changed completely against China since.
If a small country were to annoy the US persistently for a long time it will bomb that small country into pieces already. China is patient and tolerant whether you agree or disagree with their claim of those islands.
Thanks Richard, fully agree. I am Belgian, studied there, at age 21 left to go and work in South Africa in 1982. Married there with a beautiful Xhosa lady, then went back to Europe with her between 1997 to live and work, before retiring in 2019 and returning to sunny SA. I really see similarities between evil practises, then by the apartheid regime and now in the US and find with both nations that the real violent core are stupendeous, outrages RELIGION based believes. My last 11 years in Europe, I worked at UNODC in Vienna Austria, which was a great place as my colleagues were from the US, Russia, Ukraine, Palestine, Libanon, Iranian, Eastern Europe and many more. Just a simple bit of empathy and respect towards 'other' people would actually help tremendously. J'aime votre ton de voix. Sie sind einfach ein sehr kluger Mensch! Wish you well!
Thank you Prof. Wolff!!! ❤❤
Simpke answer. Surprised a prof doesn't know and has to ask. Peace doesn't make money for us. War does. Loads. Always lots of unaccounted extras. 😂
Totally agree. We don't need to wait for the future to look back to all the horrible things the USA has done. It's really horrible to be part of an criminal country.
Why is common sense and advocacy for peace so difficult to find these days? What is wrong with these violent political policies? It’s truly alarming. The hate and wars in this world have made me in a state of shock.
Thank you for being a voice of reason .
2 of 2: *This is how you always need to vote:*
We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans.
For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide.
Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either.
You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete.
Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
real libertarian hours in here, if voting could take money and power from the rich they would've outlawed it by now.
@@diagorasofmel0s That’s not true.
100 billion spread out to only the 50 states. Wow… with contingencies on the use… like infrastructure and health care.
Vote green, Vote Peace. then PSL is who I plan to support once we have Ranked choice voting from the green party. or they gain more momentum.
Kudos for the topic, Professor. I imagine there is pressure to emphasize Gaza for purposes of attracting eyeballs and revenue. But the unfolding genocide in Gaza, tragic and heart-braking as it is, is on a scale of tens of thousands of people whereas the rapidly escalating crisis in Ukraine is on a realistic scale of nine billion dead and nuclear winter. So thank you for being an internationalist, a 21st century socialist and a compassionate human being for emphasizing this moral imperative. BTW, I caught you on the Zero Hour with a similar theme and it reminded me of an unrelated question regarding FDR's first term. I have heard you say more than once something to the effect that a small coterie of leftists (Communists, socialists & trade unionists) engaged with FDR early on and persuaded him that the best way to avoid revolution was to promulgate the New Deal. With cursory searches, I have failed to discover any pertinent documenattion. Could you kindly recommend sources or search terms to learn about this lobbying effort?
Peace doesn't generate money for the neocons and weapon industrial complexes. complexes.
Why? Because weapons are about the only thing being manufactured in our country anymore.
Prof, can I ask a question ?
Why US want to spend money on wars that don't benefit the US ?
It’s a shame people like yourself are not in politics in America because the world would be a better and safer place to live in 🇮🇪
Garland Nixon discussed the Rand corporation report on Russia years ago iwhich laid out plan to make it a focus of interest and create the situation we are in now
Would be a good item to discuss how corporations influence on policies for resources like blackrock and the economic forum
Thanks!
The answer to that can be found in an old Three Stooges short. “There's no money in peace.” Of course, that's not true, but interesting it was talked about over 80 years ago. Remember when Dennis Kucinich proposed a Department of Peace? The media had a field day with that.
Maybe we need some sort of international body dedicated to preserving peace; a united nations, but with enforcement power.
Thanks
Professor Wolff, I hope you can look into the auto generated captions issue and fix it. Like most other channels when we click the setting button it shows Auto Generated. Then we click that it shows a list of languages including Chinese Traditional. We click that and nothing comes out because it doesn’t work. On Google people call it a bug.
However recently many travelers vloggers in China have auto generated Chinese subtitles that actually work. Sample vloggers include Sun Kissed Bucket List, Ken Abroad, Two Mad Explorers.
I’m sure millions of Chinese students and scholars alike wish to watch and understand your lectures. The subtitles will make a huge difference, probably help to solving global warming.
in a rational world the translation would be voice to voice.
USA could use 100 billion USD to make peace.
There has to be agreement for peace. Wars affect people in US and the world with no winners.
wow. this is insane. You are OK with one country (Russia) just invading and taking over another? What's the "rule" when it's ok for a country to just invade another country?
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Spot on prof Wolff👍
Thank you 💞 your effort much appreciated 🙏
Those who wish for endless expansion cannot fathom the word "enough".
Russia has resources the USA needs for Industrial Production.
The US appears to be attempting to take them.
These violent delights will have violent ends, for us all.
Excellent message.You are a conscience keeper of the world.
they are waiting for their pockets fill up first.
1 of 2: *This is how you always need to vote:*
We must fully resist and _always vote_ against (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, the justice democrats, & all other democrats.
For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide.
Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either.
You can always _write-in_ an anti-authoritarian person if no candidates for a position fit that bill. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies. Until our task is complete.
Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
It is an unfortunate ill of the world that true peace makers are never appreciated but are more often than not, vilified for being "soft". Hence, stalwarts for peace and common sense like Bernie Sanders, will never ever get the majority support that he needs and have asked for several times in the past.
Here, in Australia, we have a hew Prime Minister in Anthony Albanese who have advocated a "more gentler, civilized" way of politics and foreign policy - and has been constantly attacked since, for "being soft" and "not manly enough" to be a leader. Around Europe, you find firebrand extreme right wingers getting the popular vote over the liberals, even as Trump, a now convicted felon, still gets a majority vote as he spews volumes of vitriol in an attack dog fashion.
Where is peace to be found when the public flock to the "Rambo" types and give them their support? Given our propensity and almost homicidal liking for violence, if Jesus Christ is to come again, would the crowd call for Him to be crucified once again?
Theres no profit in peace for arms producer's
Wolff moved to a new place... wonder where
But how would the big weapons corps. survive without these wars? Follow the money.
And war is the mother of invention ☝️
@@pluto9000 inventing what killing people more efficiently ?, this is such bs, peacetime has also created novel inventions
Thank you, Mr. Wolff, thank you.
Hate is not propogated in Buddhism practice...
It may not but it has still not been able to quench the demon in all humankind - eg the Tibetan Buddhist monks who cruelly enslaved their people from the 7th-10th century onwards, the Japanese invaders of China and South East Asia and subjected the people in the conquered lands to some of the worst acts of depravity were all Buddhists, the persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar by Buddhists, etc.
Gautama Buddha preached not to have hate in our hearts and make peace and so did Jesus Christ, often called, "the Prince of Peace" but do their followers actually follow what they have been told to? Some of the greatest crimes against humanity were committed by "religious types" using their religion as excuses to commit wars and hate on their neighbors. No matter what their religions and philosophies say, if their so-called followers do not do what they have been called to do but still continue to claim that they are Christians or Buddhists, they are all nothing but hypocrites and we have seen so much of this already.
Thank you Professor !!
Private school thinking 🤔 lol 😂
Great video professor, you are spot on
TULSI GABALD IN HER SHOW REFERRED THOSE POLITICIANS AND OFFICIALS AS 'ELITE CABALS OF FEAR MONGERING, WAR MONGERING."
She's a Zionist.
Because there’s no money in peace
One would think that a nation that professes to be the champion of democracy would want peace, but the United States (US), by its own actions, does not. The fact of the matter is that the world considers the US as the biggest threat to peace. Major General Smedley Butler’s book WAR IS A RACKET, and President Eisenhower’s final speech tried to warn the American people about that. The US’ proxy war in Ukraine, and the US’ unconditional support of the artificial colonial settler state of Israel’s genocide against the indigenous people of Palestine have proven their warnings to be true many times over! The US does nothing that would benefit 100% of US citizens. That is why 38 million Americans live today in poverty, while 9 of the 10 richest men in the world are US citizens. That is why the US has refused to comply with 42 United Nations’ (UN) resolutions demanding that it immediately return Puerto Rico’s sovereignty to the Puerto Ricans.
The UN will hold its annual Puerto Rico decolonization hearing on Thursday, June 20, 2024, but the US’ “free press” won’t tell you that. The US does not want you to know that it has been committing a crime against humanity in Puerto Rico for the past 126 years. The UN will again issue another resolution saying exactly the same thing as all the others. The US will surely ignore that one too, because it is really an oligarchy. Oligarchies never want peace!
The REAL genuine receiver of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter declared in 1968 that "the United States is the the most warlike nation on earth". It has been in more conflicts and wars during its 300 years of existence than in years of peace, has 900 military bases in foreign countries and 12 super aircraft carrier fleets, any one of which would have been able to reduce a medium sized country into rubble. Like Ancient Rome that enforced its "Pax Romana", they brought hell on earth and called that, "peace".
☮ peace and love, man! ☮
Not even an option tankie.
@@TacticalMayo All we are saying is give peace a chance!
Well said
Thank you for your videos.
Even woman joining mafia😮