Battle of Chernobyl

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

dude, I'm afraid you kinda miss an adequate sense of perspective on the matter: when BP had the massive oil spillage happening on the US coast, they shelled out 21 billion dollars (!!!) without the blink of an eye.. you know how many countries' debts you could fix with that amount of money?!

Who says any country should pay just debts of another country. Who derived the benefits from the debt, who made the debt. The indebted country should be responsible for it's own debts.

Governments bow in front of these giants, allowing them to do what they want. That's the real issue, the true nature of capitalism is one where there's no rules nor control.. capitalism is wild and has no mercy, man..

Not true, government doesn't do anything it doesn't want to do. Capitalism is an ideology and there are as many variants of capitalism as breeds of dogs.

Capitalism isn't the problem. The problem is governments don't use their ability to stop abuses, or they wink at them. The media and the governments will point at capitalism, fascism, etc. as the problem. Governments always take the back seat, but they are the movers and shakers that allow or inhibit ideologists of every sort.

The ideologists (environmentalists) don't want a Canadian pipeline into Texas refineries. Government is going along with the ideologists and the Canadians may end up building a pipeline to western Canada and selling the oil to the Chinese.

The ideology isn't the problem unless government doesn't do it's job in restraining it.

No question ideologists influence governments, but government can make it's own choices regardless of the influence. Government has the power to do it's own will.