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Obama is a war criminal and Nobel peace prize winner as well...like the guy above said, everyone expect Carter. Maybe, “prizes” are just a sham puppet show to keep the oligarchs feeling good in front of the masses of sheep who are incapable of understanding empire. Idk. Maybe.
@@btsarmyiscringeaf7220 ok. Refute it with some sorta...idk...evidence...but great highlight by a state run propaganda machine like VICE (run by Disney and Soros management fund).
Bourdain is a leftist shill, Kissinger had nothing to do with what happened in Cambodia. What happened in Cambodia is that they were sold down the river to the Communists by Prince Sihanouk, but the Cambodian people can’t bear to blame him, as a continuing national symbol, so they blame Kissinger. I don’t hold it against them, they lost a third of their population to bloodthirsty Communist lunatics. However random Americans with this viewpoint are mostly brainwashed leftists themselves, hating on one of the great Cold Warriors we’ve seen
@@benjaminfranklin4760 he’s now in bed with Communist China the way all of America was for too long, but it hardly matters as he’s not in power anymore. But the first Cold War he was as consummate a Cold Warrior as they came, pursuing aggressive anti-Communist action around the globe. So many naïve people hated him for it, even then, but most of those people were, and are, leftists themselves and the very idea of geopolitics is foreign to them.
@@TheLocalLt As much as you're right about Kissinger not being responsible (he opposed the bombing of Cambodia), you're a little ignorant of how much USA bombed Cambodia. It's one of the most bombed countries in history thanks to the Vietnam war. Don't think USA's hands are clean.
@@cageybee7221 pretty sure they are Bangladeshi or Indian in the context of say past 200 years ago and migration considering their look it and are Muslim And the Burma people are Buddhist for thousands of years but I understand the violence happening but always good to get information from a young Stalin
@@sunburnedshirts3724 besides blame your leaders or the Soviets. If they didn't try and turn you guys Soviet in our back yard, none of this would happen. We aren't sitting around and letting Russia gain influence here. Its our interest.
@@apexcrypto01 sustaining a market that is based off of the exploitation of south americans is more important than their political sovereignty i guess. because actually, the most that were truly influenced by the soviets were 2-3 nations, most of them just wanted to kick out the american businesses that were driving them out of their own land and taking their food.
It was for killing 12 million iraqis . And to those nutjobs calling out this figure to be wrong . Yall really think that the US government is gonna tell you .allright we just killed 12 million iraqis for nothing .oh wait it was for oil. Use yo brain maggotminds .
@Messy To be fair, it seems to be an American thing, not particularly an Obama one... Bush dropped a similar number of bombs during his presidency, Trump somehow managed to do double the bombing than either of them in half the time... I think USA has had like a decade of peace in its entire existence. Think that's the issue.
You would be adding future accountability to the prize winners. A responsibility to keep doing good might be unsustainable. How about adding an asterisk to those that horrible fail the honor of being chosen?
+Rick. *As a Norwegian I would just like to tell you: NO!* Nor will slavery be taken out of our history books. Nor will the aspect that our ground law was anti Jewish for a given amount of years. Nor our positive and negative history with the Soviets (Russians today). Nor our only nuclear reactor turning out to be a science scandal. Our 25 billion US national loss investing in fracking in the US. Nor the aspect that a hippie Viking who refused to shave until he had joined Norway into one nation did so with mostly threats and violence. Humanity isnt all song and dance and we learn more historically from the negatives, I would argue... The "flaws" of the Nobel Peace Prize comity setup is actually not a flaw, but more of a feature. It is not controlled by the government, in turn it some times make strange decisions. Including some that isnt in my nations best interests ether.
@@littlebearoverlook FFS, Stalin never got a Nobel peace prize. Another aspect is that ANYONE can nominate ANYONE. Even Satan himself could be "nominated" for a peace price if enough citizens backed it. In short, being Nominated doesnt mean anything. It is NOT the "Oscars". Interesting people will be nominated and only nominated people can be chosen, but being nominated is as "hard" as buying a losing lottery ticket.
"We felt we should give a hand so he could strongly effect international affairs" Yeah. The President of the United States needs a hand effecting international affairs. I would say that is literally the person in the world who LEAST needs help in that regard.
Don’t be a coward. Say it as it’s is. All these prize winners are picked by the West foreign policy makers to facilitate their agenda. Butchers knows butchers.
@@WhoIsAmaze It was more about drone strikes in Pakistan/Afghanistan. He also authorised the sale of weapons to rogue states like Saudi Arabia in their campaign Yemen, as well as intervening in Libya/Syrian wars.
@@GodsWheat I played the Ketchup song once on Spotify and for the rest of the week all the ads I got were in Spanish. Like... I will definitely by your product cuz I totally understand what you're saying.
@@supremelyeducated3273, pretty ironic that you are named “Supremely Educated” when you only say that the genocides were only done by the west. I mean look at Myanmar.
Dynamite is mainly used in mining, quarrying, construction and demolition. Acting like dynamite is only used for war is like saying a kitchen knife or pickaxe is only good for killing.
@@deepstariaenigmatica2601 You might want to look at that one again, the programme is sadly riddled with corruption. money was siphoned off to arms traders and terrorists. Many large western nations pressure the UN so that funds to develop sustainable farms in these improvised areas never get approved because they have large industrial farms back home dependant on supply contracts. Workers faced sexual assault, abduction and worse. food is diverted in some countries and sold to people with means, never reaching the people who need it, bribes in the millions are paid to corrupt people and reform seems impossible because you've got one side trying to use these problems to scrap the program altogether and another side which has determined that the best way to move forward is to downplay the problems and act like everything is fine.
@@deepstariaenigmatica2601 various sources but you should many stick to the UN reports on the issue as they cut out the bullshit and focus on the difficulties of the situation in context.
@@arminius6506 yes and no. Kissinger endorsed Pakistan’s purge of educated people in Bangladesh and prolonged the Vietnam war, but Obama is responsible for countless civilian lives in the Middle East and failing to deliver peace there for 8 years. They are both evil in their own right. Ironically, Trump (who everyone seems to hate) is the first president in a long time to not start a war.
@@eliknight8711 I don't want to defend Obama in any way (profoundly dislike him myself), but Kissinger was way worse, bc not only was his body count way higher, but also he, unlike Obama was imo. much more acting on his own accord, whereas Obama only ever saw himself of a "manager" of the vested interest and existing foreign politics and was a total coward towards breaking with the national security state consensus. Kissinger on the other hand was a vile power-worshipping opperative, who was in full awareness of his doing and willing to sacrifice millions of lives as mere bargaining chips to advance his own position. Case and point being the Vietnam war, whose peace talks he and the Nixon campaign intentionally sabotaged (simply in order to win against LBJ electorally, a domestic political matter!) and later even expand bombarding and mass murder into the neutral Cambodia, costing countless soldiers and civilian lives more. Also the subversion of the Chilean democracy and how exactly Kissinger orchestrated the deposing of high ranking officials such as René Schneider, who stood in the way of the subsequent coup was not only in breach of any moral code and international law/convention but also the U.S. constitution itself. Guy was a full-on criminal and should be directly compared to Nazi mass murderers.
As a Vietnamese, I figured out the reason why Le Duc Tho refused to take the Nobel piece prize. (wonder who? It's the man who defeated Kissinger and claimed Vietnam independence-in-law)
@@litjay7073 Trump didn't get us into any new wars, got us out of wars or reduced our presence in them and this year has brokered 5 historic peace deals in the Middle East, along with a couple other peace actions in a few other countries. He legit deserves the Nobel Peace Prize this year but doesnt really matter, the Nobel Prize is a fucking joke anyways.
@@Azerez01 they kind of saw him as above any "Laurel/Prize". Go read the statements given by the core committee as to why he wasn't given a Nobel Prize.
@@aadrath1236 That's BS. Gandhi wasn't given the peace prize because he was a threat to the western forces who wanted to leave India but wanted to continue controlling it. In fact, they got him killed so that they wouldn't have to recognize him like that.
Worst part is, Kissinger never made a secret out of being an opportunist of the worst variety. He only puts as much though into morals as you pay him to do so.
i was going to make the "Obama started heaps of wars, trump hasnt" remark, but my flameproof suit as at the cleaners today. i havnt watched the video yet, does it call him out directly?
The problem isn't with the Nobel Peace Prize, it is with the committee that awards it to any high profile person for the smallest of things. Long gone are the days where you had to do or achieve something for incredible for Peace to get a Nobel Peace Prize. The Noblest of Awards has been tainted.
"We will never have a perfect record" Well you could have a lot better of one if you revoked the Prizes of those who passively or actively commit war crimes.
This is why I believe that as far as politicians go, the peace prize should only be awarded after they have served office so that you could assess the legacy and impact of said leaders on promoting and bringing about peace.
@@christina7171 i comment this before i saw that guy comment, im not us citizen or conservative leaning either. Just point out he hypocrisy of nobel peace prize. Funny thing is, bobel in literature is turned out to be a bigger joke, very indo-european languages bias. I think the most objective nobels are physic, chemistry, medic/biology. Other than that is politically and culturally bias.
It's sad because to Colbert and Obama that was just a joke but to the people who care it's true. It makes me sad seeing Colbert fawning over Barack, Colbert Report was so much better and more vital to society than his useless talk show
What was honest about Snowden exposing the truth? Was it wanting Snowden sentenced as a traitor? Or was it Obama continuing to get rich off the more people he bombed?
He seemed pretty embarrassed at the time. He knew he got it purely because of his popularity in Norway. "Peace" is such an absurd, subjective term, anyway. The Allied soldiers in WWII killed huge numbers, yet they contributed more to international peace than anyone ever. Truman, by dropping 2 nuclear bombs, set an example that greatly reduced the overall number of deaths had an invasion been forced, prevented WWIII and greatly reduced the number of war dead over time.
@@Christobanistan Yeah, I might not have used the US nuclear bombing of Japan, itself arguably a war crime due to mass targeting civilians, to send a message to the USSR as an example of peace making and not a fairly explosive signal of the Cold War beginning in full swing. Especially since it's contribution to Japans unconditional surrender continues to be intensely debated, and potentially only being an additional concern on top of the Russian's, with their revolutionary record of chopping off imperial heads, invading Manchuria and with eyes on Hokkaido. In general, probably a very poor example, a war crime that signalled the beginning of US-USSR competition in earnest that would reap millions and millions of deaths in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and indirectly funded the devastating Cold War conflicts in Africa that the continent still arguably has yet to recover from. No, the nuclear bombings don't stand for peace but mass murder, death, and military chauvinism.
@@theboysvault2757 Technically he was a chemist, who sold explosive chemicals. But is disappointed by it's users and people's opinion on him as a weapon dealer rather than being a chemist. I mean chemist always gets a bad rep for inventing deadly stuff but come on! Physics made nuclear weapons and they get off scot free.
@@horsestaple3546 In defense of physics, it never quite had the pro-war camp of Chemistry. Even those who worked on the Atomic bomb were against it’s use. There were no Bosch’s gleefully making chemical weapons in physics. Even Werner Von Braun is let off the hook for his work on the US space program after the V2.
@@ZeteticPhilosopher In further defense of chemistry, it's just coincidence that all types of modern weapons contain chemicals, from guns to poison gas to flamethrowers to explosives and such... But sometimes they make bullet proof vests!
@@japhethj.3752 This is not speculation, this is fact. Please go watch the tonnes of videos on what's happening in Ethiopia now. Abiy didn't start the war, but he's sure as hell determined to end it.
+mehdi. I live in Norway and have read enough local articles on the subject both in modern times and when it happened. The main reason Obama got the Nobel peace prize was because of what he ran on and that people really thought he was the type of change the US needed. A "FDR 2.0" type guy and in turn the comity, under the leadership of Thorbjørn Jagland which is a bit eccentric even if he is a decent politician, gave him the prize as an attempt to have him lean more and harder towards the policies he ran on and start to play a bit more hardball etc with the senate and such to get things going. - Obviously, Obama turned out to be a red herring that in turn didnt do enough and ironically got Trump indirectly elected.
@@Lobos222 They obviously didn't know a thing about Obama, including the illegal tactics he used to win his Senate seat, then barely showed up for his Senate office before he started running for President. Isn't the peace prize suppose to be for real accomplishments? Seems like the committee was doing nothing but projecting there "hope and change " onto Obama.
"... we in the West treat it as a moment when we sort of decide perform OUR VALUES as the West... who do we think is doing good in the world?..." This quote basically summarizes what the nobel peace prize is about.
@@deepstariaenigmatica2601 but what does that symbol actually mean in any real, material sense for the people that are actually doing the work and working in the pit of suffering? A shiny medal to make them feel good? "Every single problem in the world has been solved, let's wait until next year to do it all over again! 😋" It *is* nonsense
@@comeawaywithme It's not non sense although it is another conversation worth having. it's easy calling everything pointless and non sense sitting at the comfort of your home.
Why are you guys stabbing nobel in the back so hard? He made dynamite as an alternative of pure tnt. Since dynamite didnt have such a high shock sensitiviy after adding some soil to tnt. He also invented it for mining and clearing roads
hhhahahahhah Nordic countries really tough, they are just reaping of the benefits of turmoil more like sailing onto it steering in their best interest because they are nothing without turmoil nothing to stay neutral in or be the observer of. They may have science, technology, and money but where does it really come from conflict, war criminals, criminals and corrupt business,corporations while you and I are just gears in this chain of clockwork we call reality.
1:20 No, no, no, wrong. Sorry but as a chemist, I cannot listen to this. Alfred Nobel was NOT the inventor of TNT. First of all, you don't invent chemicals, you discover them and second of all, he invented dynamite by storing nitroglycerine in diatomite. TNT, or it's proper name, trinitrotoluene, was discovered by Julius Wilbrand.