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

  1. That is nonsense. The US did not tell Germany to invest its most critical energy structures into Russian economy nor to have no children.
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  2. If you think China and Egypt are stable then you are living in a fantasy. What Peter Zeihan has said is so obvious that a child could understand it.
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  3. Millenials are free to go out and build their own economy. They can start the next microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Nike and so on. No point crying about it and just get out and do things.
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  4. But it will still take 70 years for it to play out.
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  5. You are just making stuff up.
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  6.  @naitruan  Joe Rogan would reach an even wider audience.
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  7.  @ggg21201  Peters view points would most certainly be something Rogan would be interested in. All Peter would have to do is make contact with Rogan's production. There are many people that do not know of Peters work and as it becomes more well known he will start to get those invites. Him being on Breaking Points will help with that. I suspect what he would really need is a documentary production based on his work. Rogan gets requests all the time and turns most of them down.
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  8.  @danieldpa8484  I am not convinced that China has the ability to learn. I think they believe their own hype.
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  9. Systems can already automate the structure of programming hence why modern interpreters have the ability to correct for potential errors. But that does not change the fact it requires humans to programs sequences to deal with complex information.
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  10. But who are Russia going to counter? I have my doubts that Russia does not have enough warheads that are active for full intercontinental exchange with the US. I do not think a low yield weapon will make Ukraine surrender and if Russia goes high yield I suspect that Ukraine will do something crazy as well. There is also no guarantee that Ukraine does not have high yield nuclear weapon that they never handed over in the agreements.
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  11.  @LRRPFco52  All Ukraine would need is the raw materials from the warhead to build their own active system. Ukraine has industry and was part of the USSR industrial military output. The idea that we can guess exactly what exists and does not exist is a fantasy. You have no more clue than what I have in terms of what really happened and what did not. We have no idea what Ukraine is capable of or not. Most certainly if Ukraine is attacked by nuclear warheads they will respond with dirty weapons that is a given.
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  12. Nope towards Ukraine.
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  13.  @QuizmasterLaw  Russian missiles have been terrible and that has nothing to do with western mobile equipment. Even the Russian air force has not dominated the airspace. It was speculated that they were hold their air force back for another battle.
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  14.  @QuizmasterLaw  Before this war it was all speculative as to how it would perform at scale.
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  15. Social capitalism? What on earth does that even mean. Do you mean just capitalism?
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  16. What?
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  17. The main bulk of the party has but there is a small element that are pro Russia for what ever weird reason they have.
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  18. 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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  19.  @Tyrant_13  This is a classical case of you not listening to what Zeihan is saying. He is saying it is zoological and not engineered. The evidence at this stage points towards zoological but he is not saying it did not come from a lab as it may well have done so. We have no evidence for anything at this point so wild speculation about claims of an engineered virus are really just the plays of entertainment among conspiracy theorists. Maybe they are correct and it is engineered but they are just guessing.
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  20. The Challenger is not a more advanced than an M1 Abrams. It is more advanced than the Leopard.
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  21. Cotton can be important for clothing so if Australia can actually lower their cotton production but then focus that cotton on value added products that can be were they really gain economically. Australia does not produce enough cotton to meet the demand world wide especially when other countries fall of the map.
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  22.  @jrmint2  It is bad for business but that was the case before WW1 and WW2 but that as a reason did not stop wars from happening.
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  23.  @Bug0xF4  I am afraid Russia cannot do everything the US can do. If the US had of invaded Ukraine it would have been over in 3 days.
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  24.  @TheLastCrumb.  The US has 1.4 million professional military personnel. There is no other country on earth that has that. Conscripts do not count.
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  25.  @gorgon__soup  The vast majority of people in the US are not snow flakes. The US military has 1.4 million personnel and they are not snowflakes.
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  26. You had it good compared to today generations who have not had a good economic ride.
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  27. You are not making much sense.
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  28.  @007kingifrit  ".but they have already industrialized" Then why would they need to go to war over water?
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  29. It could destroy Ukraines future food security and while it would hurt Russian supplies it would do far more damage to the civilians.
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  30. 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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  31. If Europe increases its interest rates it will impact many of its key demographics. And cause political unrest and economic instability.
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  32. Germany over the last few decades has not embraced US policy. Post WW2 Germany embraced America style market principles and the UK rejected them and it was Germany that prospered and the UK that declined. Germany for decades has been all for controlled market space through EU management. Which was one of the reasons Germany embraced renewable energy and other insane German policies backed by taxpayers. It is going to cost Germany almost a trillion Euros to build out their renewable energy system that will not provide energy for their needs. All while their policy pushed them into the sphere of Russia. You cannot blame the made up term "neo liberal" when Germany has been doing what it does best which is to blame others for their problems. Problem is there are no jews this time to blame.
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  33. And what if it does the opposite and pushes the mood of the nation towards war as they feel they have nothing to lose?
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  34.  @ForrestDweller  They have thousands of nuclear weapons and a population that could for a military's that is several million strong. All it takes is a series of events to set this all off.
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  35. We are assuming and guessing at this point.
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  36. The distance from Warsaw to Ankara is 1600 km and th distance from Warsaw to Tokyo is 8500 km. Does it seem realistic that they could form a confederation that would somehow challenge the US?
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  37. 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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  38. The only way to conquer inflation is high interest rates so as to cool the demand money. The US also has another problem in that external demand for dollars is going to drive inflation higher. Hence why they have to try and cool the whole thing down before it starts to get out of control.
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  39.  @wilhelmheinzerling5341  " that is a lie" That is a very vague statement.
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  40. But not at the scales required to fill in for the other markets who fall off. Somebody pointed out that Australia is a major producer but that will not fill in the gap either.
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  41.  @1adamuk  Not to people that actually get to live.
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  42. It depends on how Moldova views Transnistria if the Russian cultural empire collapses.
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  43.  @jps0117  Jobs, cost of living, culture and so on.
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  44.  @philiphall4805  Russia does not dominate the air above Ukraine so your arguments do not hold much sway. Russia simply does not have the industrial base to develop those Upgraded weapons that you think exist. Russia cannot even do simple cars, microchips, control systems, networking or an aerospace industry.
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  45.  @philiphall4805  Micro Control systems.
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  46.  @madhouse8301  So did David Brent have the worlds larges Gas, Oil, agriculture and production outputs?
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  47. Nonsense. The US has a far higher degree of willingness to fight. Right now the US has about 1500000 professionally trained troops. Even whiny leftists would actually serve against a foreign force that is threatening the US. The US could easily get a force of 40 million professional troops in a world war.
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  48. Who are you trying to kid with all of that. Robotics as in industrial automation can make products it cannot buy them and consume them. China simply has not automated its industry.
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  49. Zeihan level of serious is more to do with the structure of society not whether some corporations make losses or a recession.
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  50. You are just as bad with the thorium obsession.
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