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

  1. AMerican has already started the process of manufacturing again.
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  2. The information is out there when it comes to infections and their impacts.
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  3. 6 month break for the Chinese economy is a big deal. Especially in a just in time economic market place.
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  4. China does not have the ability to project power that far. The local players will have far more say in that. Russia may not collapse everywhere and still may have resources to target certain individual regions for the foreseeable future.
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  5. Georgia were tricked into making a movie by the Russians. You can call it a false flag or what every other term you want.
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  6. Only a small proportion of Russia is actually lived in.
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  7.  @Kolumbus123  Not at all bizarre. When China goes into decline it will fall apart and the destruction will be extreme
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  8.  @piotrjasielski  Are you claiming that Poland has given Ukraine more artillery and field equipment than the captured from Russia?
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  9. The amount of guns, artillery, weapons systems and so on is larger than what Ukraine received. He did not say the number of tanks.
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  10. They are trying to keep Iran away from the Russians.
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  11. Russia is most certain a collection of cultures held together by force and 20% of Russia is not ethnically Russian and is made up of a series of cultures. Russia most certainly is the very definition of an actual empire.
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  12. I do not think he omitted them but just wanted to discuss those countries in particular.
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  13.  @korayven9255  Putin is not a conservative and people need to stop throwing these terms around just to suit their political attack labelling. Orban is not a conservative either so people need to stop throwing the term around him.
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  14.  @DrSQUIRRELBOY12  The outcome of all of this will be dictated by the depth of Russian military forces.
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  15. It depends on how Moldova views Transnistria if the Russian cultural empire collapses.
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  16.  @1adamuk  Not to people that actually get to live.
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  17. Stolen? It was all sabotaged when the US left. Do not even try to pretend what Russia did was similar to what the US did.
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  18.  @danieldpa8484  I am not convinced that China has the ability to learn. I think they believe their own hype.
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  19. Turkey has a habit of sticking their fingers in peoples eyes and then later own down the line making amends for it in some fashion.
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  20. PZ does not predict exact micro problems. He has always stated that it is unknown exactly how the Russian military would perform. Most experts expected Ukraine to fold militarily and for Russia to then be bog down in an occupation war. Russia still has not declared war on Ukraine so we will need to wait and see.
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  21. A lot of those places do not project power Argentina may offer support but that is it. There is very little trade between the regions.
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  22. When decline happens it can be very rapid.
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  23. But they have to survive as a country to be a superpower.
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  24. Russia may lose power and not be able to project power but that does not mean Kaliningrad is going anywhere soon but may do so in the long run.
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  25. Putin would have to get a declaration of war into place but hard to know if there is a stomach for such a move in Russia.
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  26. That is always the danger but before they and he would do that they probably would declare war and send all of their troops into the regions and saturate it.
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  27. ? He is saying it is unpredictable on many levels.
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  28. Nonsense.
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  29. That is not what he said.
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  30. Nope that is not even true. Stop making stuff up.
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  31. A lot of addicts end up in the prison system because they commit crimes and that is where the treatment should be starting. Until prisons get rid of common areas and start having one prisoner per cell and not allowing them to mix it will not change.
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  32. It was a joke but clearly people who are easily offended do not get it.
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  33. Organized crime would just try and make them cheaper and probably a lot more dangerous.
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  34. You missed what he was talking about when discussing Trump. The wall that Trump built required roads for construction of the wall so that contractors, machines and materials could get to the point of the wall construction site. That meant those very inhospitable places that were in effect desert that were very difficult to cross all of a sudden had a road system running through them that smugglers could use.
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  35.  @pierregibson6699  The Cartels took control of the drug trade in the US. It is common knowledge that they are the biggest gangs in the prisons and on the streets in many cities. That does not mean there are no other gangs but they do not have dominance. This is not about norml crime like burglary, violent assaults and so on. It is about street gang culture. And it is one of the reason groups like MS13 were never able to fully control the streets.
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  36.  @SolzhenitsynBoogie  The media has just put the idea out there about her.
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  37.  @wilhelmheinzerling5341  " that is a lie" That is a very vague statement.
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  38. Trudeau is not a fascist. He is most certain left in politics and may be a socialist (have to guess that one).
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  39. Who are you talking about?
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  40. What will Russia do if it does become chaotic is the biggest question. How long does the current regime have considering their age and what comes next?
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  41. When cultures collapsed before it was never on display for the world to see. This is a first time.
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  42. Saddam used them against people in Iraq that were not a military force. Most of those that died through those weapons were civilians to include children, elderly and women. Saddam and the Ba'ath party would have killed far more people with conventional weapons in their ethnic cleansing.
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  43. They are technically not European as they are not part of the continental land mass. The distance between dublin and Munich is 1700 km. That should put things in perspective.
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  44. Will not help at all.
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  45. The economy is forced to.
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  46. We are joking right?
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  47. Russia will still exist with nuclear weapons that will protect it from invasion but who knows what would happen if Russia was to completely collapse Mad Max style.
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  48. No the countries will vanish and they will either be part of another country or they will start all over again.
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  49.  @joebonsaipoland  They also allowed Jews to hid their money from the Nazis.
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  50. Britain is not part of European Mainland hence why he has not really covered it. His focus is on continental Europe.
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