U.S. obstructs Iraq's efforts to join China's 'belt-and-road' initiative (Part I)

On March 30, 2024, while visiting Baghdad, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Hussein Barood, the elected spokesman of the Iraqi Movement for the Belt-and-Road Initiative. For years, the movement which Barood represents has advocated for Iraq to become a fully-fledged participant in China's Belt-and-Road Initiative. Although there has been progress in deepening Chinese investment in Iraq, the U.S. government has sought to obstruct Iraqi development by controlling the oil and gas revenues upon which Iraq critically depends.

[@arimagoo4687]

Enjoying your very educational videos! Thank you 🙏 Dimitri!

[@barneyboomer8737]

Very informative conversation, keep up the good work Dimitri.

[@mesah2227]

brilliant reporting

[@syed32701]

Thank you you’re good work

[@Mimicry161]

These are fantastic! Learning a bunch.

[@robgoogle1364]

Absolutely brilliant assessment.

[@ramatgan1]

What he said is true. Iraq's oil revenues are currently deposited in the American bank accounts of JP Morgan and Citibank, with payments received in dollars through the US Treasury Department. Also. A 2004 protocol signed between Iraq and the US binds Baghdad to sell its oil solely in dollars.

[@MDA985]

Executive Order! At the discretion of the ruling regime.

[@Jafito1336]

Thank you for this post, most informative conversation I have heard about Irak. Thank you.

[@akumaali5798]

Love your content.

[@user-cu2zn9dr5i]

We need more of your reporting from everywhere

[@revertinthemaking]

Interesting that I could only find him on Facebook. Definitely followed.

[@samuelhpardew751]

Salaam and salute to you and Hussein Barood! Great reporting from Dimitri Lascaris!

[@roccoboy32]

Perfect and timely subject matter.

[@CAFEVENUS]

This video is an eye opening very informative and uptodate. Graet work .

[@MDA985]

Excellent interview.

[@georgecitizen7405]

Dimitri thank you.

[@aksh9300]

You need a better microphone Dmitri. Thanks for these reports. Valuable work.

[@revertinthemaking]

Please elaborate. Im a pretty irritable person and I am not triggered by this at all. When he is outside that is when I have a problem listening.

[@aaronlopez717]

in the moments When he whispering !

[@siamajidi2761]

I love your hard work! You are loved ❤

[@CommunistConsensus]

A measure of how far off course we are resides in our self delusion, fantasy abstractions not being sequestered, and from our concrete external experiences, and our desire for a healthy society being sequstered from our willingness to make politically sociopathic choices. The failure to distinguish and separate identity ethnicity from religious identity, personally, culturally, and legally is a gas-light of self identification. Whether done as an attack toward or by someone, or as to gain political/social capital is still and injustice to the society and all who interact with the members of that society. This behavior sets the stage for inequity and conflict in all matters of permission. Religion is never an ethnicity, regardless of culture. Corruption and war is what happens, over time, when political sociopaths are afforded adult authority in a society. Political sociopathy; a willingness to do harm for the sake of opportunity, social capital, hierarchy, profit and/or pleasure.

[@MakePeace123]

❤❤❤

[@caitcantillon3062]

amazing work you're doing - thank you!

[@luztissaoui3032]

Take the info to the ICJ court.

[@dotagedrain7051]

Africa , Latin America...

[@kimmaguire9875]

Thankyou

[@bb-nq5qc]

Bravo Dimitri. These Truths you bring to the western table are imperative.

[@user-df5sg4bk6n]

Good in depth reporting. Thank you Dimitri

[@zionismisterrorism8716]

Iraq should be in BRICS and the BRI.

[@oceejekwam6829]

Great show Dimitri, thanks for throwing the spotlight on current issues affecting Iraq.

[@jonathanvince8173]

I like you a lot thank you for what you are doing.

[@WorkingNomad368]

Very interesting conversation, and intriguing information. There is no doubt that there is opposition to BRI, not just in Iraq, but in lots of other regions as well. The US sees China as an economic rival and there is an economic Cold War underway at the moment. Unfortunately, the Iraqi people have suffered for a long time, first it was under Saddam, then the sanctions, the wars, occupation. Now they are being controlled to the point where they don’t even have control over their own wealth. It’s obvious who is in control. There is a nexus between the Wahabi kingdom of Saudi Arabia, other regional countries & their Super power friends to keep Iraq in bondage.

[@khunmikeon858]

It’s obvious….it’s the USA

[@MDA985]

The Count's ball is over!

[@Dr_MKUltra]

It would be nice to use Bluetooth mic’s for both yourself and your guests 😊

[@jeffrandell4228]

Excellent, thank you, love learning new things. Please, I know you are being very careful, but they do not value other people's life.

[@khunmikeon858]

👏👏

[@bedardpelchat]

Great interview. There are so many aspects of life in Iraq under US control more than 20 years after the 'invasion'. Mr Barood goes back in history talking about the Wahabites but he failed to remember that the map of the Middle East was drawn by the French and the British in the late 19th and early 20th century. Every country has borders that are drawn with a ruler and a pen on a map. In any case the situation is politically worse than I thought. I don't see how anything could be resolved in this century or even the next at the pace it's going.

[@EliteExpat]

Unsure what this guy is talking about. Suspicious

[@nancyborusiewich4821]

Dmitri, please get a sound person or at least a consultant or a book ("how to record interviews on the hoof") or something. So much great content as you travel around, so painful to listen to. Thx!

[@jonesconrad1]

That fly ,

[@11md]

36:36 Mr what dairies? What was his name?

[@estherroman9292]

Thanks Dimitri following your month long sojourn with keen interest. Gen Soleimani was martyred on 4 January 2020

[@josesegura5227]

It wasn't an attempt but an assassination...

[@zenpai5998]

And what happens when China puts Iraq in a situation like in Afghanistan and Pakistan where people attack Chinese workers??

[@11md]

People in Iraq are more civilized because they are shiite, unlike the sunnis extremists in Pakistan or Afghanistan

[@Wedi-Newie]

Respectfully to Mr. Barood, Eritrea does not support "Israel" in it's genocidal conquest against the Palestinians or house their, and by extension, any American presence in our land. There are many migrants from Eritrea in "Israel" so the government (that has been struggling against western hegemony and sanctions since it's independence) cannot speak as loudly as it wishes against the genocide.

[@aaronlopez717]

by the way i am in cofunction hopeless to heard the u-justice Oh poor humans under suffering etc . Here in the other side of the Ocean Media info / catastrophic This man is like be in the park on Sunday afternoon .

[@bobandrighetti4612]

Too much noise

[@kaboom362]

Tell your guy that the occupation will never end until he drops the us VS them mentality. It was their movement that put the nails in Saddam's coffin. Same goals same initiatives they just made themselves a proxy of Iran rather than unite and struggle as a nation

[@Capital2x]

CIA narrative. I hope you work for the CIA, please don't tell me that your doing this FOR FREE 🤣 I sure hope you're getting paid otherwise that would be a real shame 💯

[@kaboom362]

We are 7 minutes into the video and this guy has already debunked himself

[@rcmrcm3370]

Did he go kaboom?

[@kaboom362]

@@rcmrcm3370 His, is a generic so hard done by story, RCA. I'm the one that goes kaboom. But I can only do it once.

[@george00110]

@@kaboom362 You have so much wisdom. You should write it all down somewhere and give it to your mommy.

[@kaboom362]

@@george00110 Ask yours if she'd mind. Simpleton

[@Putins_shirt]

It's not about religion. It's about energy, imperialism, hegemony of sea & land trade routes, economics, exploitation and control. BTW: Dimitri, Russian channels are reporting the Russians are in control of the Suez Canal since their warships entered the Red Sea 2 days ago. If true, it's a geopolitical game changer as the Suez is the most crucial waterway for global trade! Do you know about this?

[@MDA985]

🎯

[@lahillsm3]

Yeah they don't believe that shit.

[@Putins_shirt]

@@lahillsm3 Who is "they" and what shit don't they believe

[@elsonck2523]

Yes, Israel has had plans on the back burner to build a canal parallel to the Suez Canal along the eastern border of Gaza from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. This is likely why Israel is already constructing a highway through the middle of Gaza to hook up with the US's supposed floating "aid" pier. Google "Ben Gurion Canal" which was envisioned as far back as the 1960s after the Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956 and took its whopping trade revenue out of the hands of former French and UK investors.

[@Putins_shirt]

@@elsonck2523 As I said 🥱, "It's not about religion. It's about energy, imperialism, hegemony of sea & land trade routes, economics, exploitation and control." What's your dysfunction?

[@beesmonk]

✊

[@brandedtokill]

A perspective that I would not hear, if not for your work, Dimitri.