Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. Not enough to take over the system in the next 10 years though.
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  2.  @oatlegOnYt  It is pure fantasy.
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  3. Does not have a low carbon footprint.
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  4. You must have a terrible foot print with the battery system that is being employed.
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  5. The batteries and the life span of the panels will not justify the short and medium term gains that people perceive.
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  6. Batteries are chemically based and those molecules have a lifespan that is subjected the the laws of thermodynamics.
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  7.  @TheHigherVoltage  Converting electrical energy to mechanical is extremely in efficient. Batteries are the only meaningful mechanism that can be used. Hence why batteries are being used. You can live in a fantasy world and pretend that is not he case. Hydrogen is not realistic due to the storage issues and the fact that the process is not efficient.
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  8.  @TheHigherVoltage  Batteries are the only meaningful way of storing photovoltaic solar energy
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  9.  @alfaeco15  On a small scale yes but not for a complete national build out.
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  10. People do not want large systems built near them.
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  11.  @briandorsey6437  You think the Chinese who rule with an iron fist can over come centuries of bad blood in the middle east. Yes it is fantasy.
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  12. Religion can shape a country but it will never allow that country to completely define the world or the conditions that the world are in. Religion can allow an individual country to form a morality or set of cultural values.
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  13. The options the fed and legislators had are probably several years ago and not today. All it took was the pandemic to put a massive block in the pipeline. And by the time they get that block removed their maybe several ruptures along the pipeline. Nobody can really say what is exactly going to happen but we will get a clearer picture over the next 18 months of what direction things are going.
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  14. Nope. Automation is a myth spread by those that want to introduce government welfare handouts. Most of the jobs lost in the west in manufacturing were done so by outsourcing to other places. The amount of companies that have moved their production to markets that use traditional labour is astonishing.
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  15. The current inflationary expansion has nothing to do with the monetary system. SO no amount of interest rates hikes will cause credit and capital expansion to affect the price in the marketplace. Until supply is able to get in line with demand nothing is going to change. The biggest danger with this inflation is that it could start a series of recessions and depressions that may be not that easy to get out of. And even if they could then get inventory and supply back in order there maybe no demand.
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  16.  @mr.factoid105  He is not a political expert and does not pretend to be that but his point would not be unreasonable really. I just have a feeling that DeSantis is building momentum at a base level. Most republicans like what Trump has to say about many things and they lent him their vote in the party but it is not a given that they will do that again.
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  17. I think he may be wrong about the republican primaries but we will need to wait and see how that works out. I think DeSantos will have far more based republicans votes than Trump has. And the problem with Trumps campaigns is that it has no ground game.
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  18.  @greg2502  You are just fantasising. Trump will never be president again. He lost last time and his actions with Jan 6th has totally destroyed his image and independents will never vote for him again. You can claim wilting all you want but DeSantis is more stable than Trump and will stand good chance against Biden.
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  19. Multi party systems do not work. Every country that has gone down that route has created political failure. The UK experimented with in at various times for it to be abandoned each generation.
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  20. 99% of Americans are not polarised.
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  21. Nope that is just nonsense. Really a democratic party political tool. Republicans have their own political tools that they use through media as well.
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  22. Oil that the US did not use. Iraq had under Saddam and the Ba'ath party killed hundreds of thousands of people and was involved in terrorism and aided the leader of the first attack on the trade center in the 1990s. Afghanistan was a training hot bed for terrorism.
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  23. The US nation was not divided under Bush it was only the media pushing that.
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  24. Nothing wrong with supporting Israel.
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  25. Nonsense. The US government is made up of three branches. Even within an administration there are branches. It really depends on the backing the president gets and how good they are at the job.
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  26. The US could not afford at that point to have a series of terrorist attacks post 911. It would have sent a signal worldwide that America was weak.
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  27. Building 7 was probably damaged and either fell through that damage or was taken down on purpose. I suspect it was probably natural damage through the event. People think of the trade towers as being above ground but the have a large deep basement layer that was part of a system.
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  28. Nothing but conspiracy theories. Same sort of nonsense republicans peddled about Obama, democrats about Trump and now republicans about Biden.
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  29. The US literally had no other option after 911. Iraq sponsored terrorism including the original trade tower attacks. Saddam was getting older and more dangerous, Ba'ath party was becoming more bloodthirsty and America had to send out a message after the 911 attacks. You may not like what happened but there was very few options after 911 to deal with what had happened. The world of dictators was watching closely and a message had to be sent out. They were under the impression that they could clean those places up by offering them what the west had but the blood feuds and culture runs so deep in those places that it was not an easy task.
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  30. George jr was raised in Texas.
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  31.  @brianponcelet3529  Those are not things a president can control. SO if you look at history you will see events that no president can actually do anything about.
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  32. The media pressure of that job would make even the smartest people look like an idiot. If a person is not good in front of a camera at times it can become very overwhelming. Trump, Obama and Clinton never appeared overwhelmed on Camera but behind the scenes who really knows.
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  33. The whole Dick Cheney thing is a left wing fantasy and a tool of politics. Cheney played an important part but was not in control of a figure head.
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  34. Modern media is terrible.
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  35.  @erikcastillo2454  You do not think Mexico is about to face a crisis?
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  36. What do you mean spreading thin? The US is not spread thin not even close.
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  37.  @sandwind123456789  Cook was a left wing socialist that seen the world through left wing eyes. He was a proponent of Nuclear disarmament and more or less blamed the west for everything. Not for one moment did he talk about the slaughter that communism committed and prefered to blame the west through that whole period. Al Qaeda was born out of the greater Salafi movement and its philosophies are pure Sayyid Qutb and the Society of the Muslim Brothers. None of this is really groundbreaking or even contested and was not created in the Afghan invasion either and goes back much further to the 1920s and even further back than that. Cook like Corbyn would not even class the Brotherhood a terrorist organisation that is how much he really cares about the issue.
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  38.  @sandwind123456789  Al-Qaeda were a brotherhood funded organisation that came much later. The Taliban are most certainly sponsored by Pakistan. Both groups may appear the same but they most certainly are not and have different agendas. The Taliban thought they were being smart by hosting the brotherhood assets before 911 but the US would never allow that to take place hence why they swatted them like flies. The Taliban are effectively manned by Inter-Services trained operatives and the Taliban would use the ambiguity of the border to form cross raiding parties. Mujahideen was never a singular group and was a term that got used to describe the opposition to the soviet invasion. It routinely then gets rolled over into describing Al-Qaeda is not accurate.
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  39.  @sandwind123456789  The Taliban originate from the madrasas in Pakistan and Al Qaeda are funded via the brotherhood in the middle east. Not complicated.
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  40. Not at all.
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  41.  @superiordelivery4256  I am not convinced that any of this has anything to do with MAGA or left wing politics. People have concerns because the media are doing a terrible job of communicating the reality of the world. The fact you would even call house republicans commie loving is beyond a joke even with their being a left wing presence in the democratic party there is no love of Commies there either. I doubt there are no Russian puppets in the US political system just as the claims of their being Chinese agents embedded with democrats which is nonsense.
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  42. They lack knowledge of the overall situation. By keeping Russia busy in Ukraine it stops them from expanding into Europe.
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  43. Britain as in the UK post WW2 decided to focus all of it resources becoming a welfare state and decided that it would value things like the NHS over its naval forces. From that point onwards Britain was never going to be able to field a naval power that would allow it to rule the world's oceans. The decline was so bad in military force that the UK was getting the point that it may not be able to form a naval expeditionary force. Britain has now realigned its military to be capable of forming an expeditionary force meaning it could wage target naval warfare anywhere on earth but it has limitations and is nothing like the past.
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  44.  @Fsegment1Test  The EU has been a disaster of epic proportions. A Common Market with a permit based immigration system would have been a success. With that there would not have been vast numbers of people moving around so it would have worked. Even with the free movement of people today large numbers of Germans, Italians and French to not move around Europe.
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  45. The EU as a a trade zone as it was originally planned was more effective. Within that their could have been a Nordic, Germanic and Latin alliances. Those regions could work on their strengths and weaknesses. Even movement of people which was more streamlined throughout Euro zone could have been achieved. There does not tend to be large numbers of Germans, Brits, Italians, French or Spanish moving around in the EU anyway.
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  46.  @QuizmasterLaw  Let me guess Putin would be in charge of that harmonious economic community that would be the new Russian Empire. So how did that all work out if you do not mind me asking?
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  47.  @andrewj4426  Ukraine did not lose anywhere near 100,000 men. The reason Russia have lost more is due to them being the attacking side trying to enter into Ukrainian areas.
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  48. Russia does not need anything like that even though it is not beyond their ability to stage in a really obvious fashion. Putin has the ability to call for war but while he may have the back of the elites in Russia there maybe a refusal throughout their system.
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  49.  @progrockmorelikefrogc0ck157  There is no evidence of that at all. There never been a single case of a demographic economic collapse that then resulted in more children. When there is a demographic economic collapse what follows is pure chaos and a culture of war lords. What examples are you talking about of a demographic economic collapse that then resulted in more children. Do not confuse pre industrialized cultures with large birth rates that were as of a result of landed peasants working the fields with of an demographic collapse.
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  50. People cannot read anything into this period as next year it could be freezing cold.
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