Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Russia After Russia || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. I always wonder about the phrase Peter uses at the beginning of the video. It is (paraphrasing) "what do we have to worry about?" I know this is a bit pedantic but, in almost every case where I see that used in terms of what is going on in another country my internal response is "nothing". In most cases there is little our government can do, either to prevent it or to encourage it, depending on the situation. I guess my main issue is with the "worry" part. We need to consider the situation, and plan for it, at least in terms of possible effects on us and our allies, but I don't "worry" about it. I would use the word "consider". As for this whole situation in Russia, it happened before (the breakup of the Soviet Union) and that is something we wanted and encouraged. We didn't "worry" about it, we cheered it. This next level of breakup was always going to happen. The Russian Federation is one of the last traditional empires. I have seen videos from people in the region that go into great detail about how it could collapse into a series of warlord run states. They even go into names of the leaders and regional makeup. I believe this is the most likely. There is no democratic history in this territory. The period of democracy after the breakup of the USSR was very short. It was comparable to what happened in the early 20th century prior to the Bolsheviks taking over. On top of that, the Russian people are basically serfs. I once read a book by Nikolai Gogol titled "Dead Souls". It was written in the mid 19th century and reads like a description of contemporary Russia. So, don't worry, be entertained. As an old Cold Warrior this will just be a continuation of something I saw, and wished, coming for decades.
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