Comments by "Tim Bucks" (@TimBitts649) on "Hezbollah’s Mistakes Are Already Backfiring | David Friedman" video.

  1. Peter Zheihan had a recent video on food in the middle east. Arab countries are completely dependent of foreign food. Very vulnerable, so whoever controls food, controls the middle east. Peter Z also had a video on Ukraine. Rich black soil, the richest in the world, grows enormous crops....feeds much of the world, such as Egypt. Is that why we are in Ukraine? Then there is my high school history teacher Mr. Biggs, who taught us all the rivers in Russia flow into the Arctic Ocean, which is clogged with ice. The rivers don't flow east-west Biggs said, making economic integration between Russia & the rest of Europe historically much slower than the rest of Europe. The rest of Europe distance is smaller, between nations, more rivers in lucky places like in America. Western Europe is smaller, more near the coast often, making trade between European countries much easier to do, than with Russia, which is a very long ways off, over a vast European plane.....with Russian rivers mostly clogged up with ice, most of the year....making trade near impossible. Napoleon & Hitler found that out, lost because the cold and distance beat them. Mr. Biggs noted that the one real year round port is on the Black Sea, which connects to the Mediterranean. I guess that's why we don't let them have one port, when they only have one year round port: to keep them poor, so we can control Russia, by controlling the export of Russian trade with the world...keeping them poor. I'm in favor of rich, not poor. For everyone. Not just Christians. Not just Jews. Not just Muslims. Geography matters. As Bill Clinton might say, updated: It's the geography, stupid. If the Abraham Accords have taught us one thing, it is that helping people have good lives through trade often reduces human aggression against countries like Israel. Why does this work? I once pissed off my girlfriend, saying something dumb. Luckily we had a trip planned to Hawaii the next day. By the third day she forgot the dumb thing I said, she was happy on the beach. 🏖Maybe Donald Trump isn't as dumb as some people thought.
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