Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. The problem with saving the good tanks for last is that they won't be manned by good crews. What's the point of fighting NATO with the good tanks by mobilizing the homeless, prisoners, and hiring dudes from India and Nepal?
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  2. Serial passage through humanized mice.
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  3. The US wrote the book on defeating Soviet/Russian AD. Then tossed it at Saddam in 1991.
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  4. The strait is harder to cross with these electric drones, a combustion engine and fuel tank would be required. Ukrainians can pose as Russians and drive with cardboard in their trunk to get close enough to launch. Russians have difficulty posing as Ukrainians so they need long range Iranian drones.
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  5. They have volunteers still waiting to get processed and sent to bootcamp. That's why some countries are announcing that they're sending instructors to train Ukrainian men in NATO bases.
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  6. They weren't goaded into anything. We were willing to overlook so much of their BS it's not even funny.
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  7. ​ @perhapsyes2493  A few years ago an article was published about it but in Swedish, I think. It was about male idle thought, and when women ask us what we're thinking of we'll just say "uh, nothing" but the author realized we're actually absorbed in our thoughts. This went mostly unnoticed by the English speaking internet but another woman picked it back up and wrote "ask your husband/boyfriend how often he thinks about the Roman Empire" and all the women and girls followed the trend and realized it was a common thing.
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  8. Increase in demand will surge prices if there's no increase in supply.
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  9. ​ @Lora_Lynn the Chechens are a national guard unit that's used to intimidate those who oppose Kadyrov. They don't have a large tank force or heavy weapons. It would be like collecting all the small town SWAT officers in America and sending them to fight a real war without armor, artillery and aviation.
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  10. False. They shot at completely random ships. They were heading to unrelated countries, I remember one if the first to be attacked was headed to Italy. Then they shot at a US Navy helicopter, which returned fire with Hellfire missiles. The Houthis were performing indiscriminate attacks from the start and they engaged US military assets first.
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  11. Don't see how that's related to the CCP and the financial structures holding up their rise through the ranks.
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  12. Nope. Top Secret clearance takes 6 months to a year to get. It's extremely common.
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  13.  @nd15music73  By the admission of North Vietnamese generals, they were defeated in the Tet Offensive but lucked out in the public support for the war plummeting in the US. The Vietcong were nearly wiped out and had to dbe replaced by NVA regulars. That's how bad they got beat.
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  14. Everyone we dislike joining the losing team... sounds like a win.
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  15. ​ @MilanVVVVV  you know that using the word "mercenary" flags you as a Russian propagandist, why use it at all?
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  16. Still works as deterrent, not as coercive means.
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  17. I don't think Prigozhin has that ambition. He wants to be the teacher's pet, not the dean.
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  18. ​ @HiwasseeRiver  Russia started the war because Yanukovych was pressured to join the EU by his own campaign promises. Cope harder.
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  19. And they all move West at the first chance they get. Weapons isn't a prestigious job in Russia so their MIC is lead by old guys almost in retirement age with no apprentices to get the knowledge passed down
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  20. Luka Leaks
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  21. ​ @cowboybeboop9420  many people who fled abroad are returning. People are living as normally as possible despite the air raids. Remember, London was also "blitzed" during WWII.
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  22. They've been manufactured decades ago.
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  23. ​ @geneoh5048  All the Russian economic figures are presented by Rosstat, the official Russian government statistics.
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  24. Do you watch the videos? The shovel joke falls flat when the advacing troops put the muzzle on their own head or shove a live grenade into their vest. Turns out people can get gibbed like in Quake multiplayer in real life.
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  25. ​ @kkpenney444  Iraq won in Desert Storm?
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  26. ​ @darthkek1953  Their logistics are still hindered by the mid 2022 massive ammo dump explosions. The Russian army's logistics will never catch up to their intended expenditure rate due to the threat to close dumps and losses in their transport forces.
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  27. ​ @bobcruz2826 True that. But the number of people who come here within 10 minutes of an upload to talk shit are something else.
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  28. By negotiating, you're accepting that nuclear blackmail works. After that, why not demand more? It works.
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  29. ​​ @jeroenstrompf5064 eah let me arrive sweaty at work (no showers where I am employed), and waste an hour of my life to do a 10 minute trip. t. Person who depended on public transport all his life and got a driver's license at 28 and is beyond fed up with busses and trams
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  30. "Ay Tone, I simply do not believe everyone in the Siberian Orchestra is trans."
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  31. Amazing how every time something happens, it's to cover up everything else. And these cover ups keep happening all the time. Makes total sense.
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  32. It's not 190k plus 300k. After the initial invasion Russia "shadow mobilized" a ton of men. There's maybe a hundred k and fifty k mercenaries hidden between initial invasion and mobilization.
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  33. It's difficult to look at China's rise and think they were "exploited". They were compensated fair and square, to the point we fed steroids to what would become our number one enemy. The fact that they fumbled the bag is solely on them, not us.
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  34. ​ @markrobinowitz8473  SARS-1 was traced back to the cave where the bats lived. This one wasn't.
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  35. ​ @SillyBillyOneHundreadMilly  Go read how Russia got the Caucasus region.
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  36.  @gavindy_Sv2  But cashing in how? You're expecting me to believe Zeihan looked at the youtube gig and thought he could get a lot of people who he enticed with free content to fork over 750... usually there's extra steps like selling merch, then going for the books, etc to make sure the fish are going for the hook. The data simply isn't there to make this look like a plan.
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  37. They wouldn't have the Permissible Access Link that allows the nuke to function.
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  38. Russian artillery covers entire fields in craters. More artillery doesn't mean more hits, it means more fires. Fires that don't hit don't produce casualties. Also, Russian shelling has reduced significantly.
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  39.  @WeknowhoUR  The Minsk accords broken by the attack on Debaltseve and the start of the Second Battle for Donetsk Airport?
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  40.  @estonianman  You're not answering the question. Yes, I am different from Zs. I'm not allowed at the Ukrainian front so that's a useless argument. Focus. Answer the question.
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  41. Why? They're Soviet era.
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  42. ​ @ningen7736 He can't. Ukraine found foreign volunteers to be worse than useless and asked them to go home. The only way to volunteer now is to have combat experience (they won't call you back if it's War on Terror experience) or a specialized skill that they can't easily train. Otherwise, they have locals who know the language and the land. Random foreigners only hinder them.
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  43. Yes. Both Sig Sauer and Heckler & Koch had legal troubles for selling weapons that were diverted from the supposed buyer to evade import/export restrictions and sell German made weapons in Central America. Some weapons with Israeli technology are also blocked by Israel. Breaking end user agreements can ruin a country's future attempts at arms import.
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  44. ​ @haroldfarquad6886  a lot of stuff can be repaired if you can get the parts - but we demand our products to be light, thin and fashionable so there's fragile connectors everywhere and pieces which need to be set in place by machine before oven soldering.
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  45. Japan had a massive economic crisis in the 90s. It wasn't sunshine and rainbows for them.
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  46. The pipe and steel guys got mobilized. Also, it was Westerners running the show prior to February.
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  47. Oh God they're gonna attempt the Odessa landing...
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  48. Rail can be repaired. When Ukraine targets Russian rail it's with the understanding that they're buying 24 hours of breathing room.
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  49. That could work. If that plan was put into motion 20 years ago.
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  50. ​ @s.flanders Because it's a neat way to regulate older cars out of existence.
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