Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Russians In Space...Well, Maybe Not Much Longer || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Um, a deep space network (DSN) is actually totally different from the satellite communication networks that are used by the military and civilians. The requirements and physics are totally different. The fact is, Russia has no deep space probes I can think of (anyone?), so they don't need a DSN. No, these are likely the ground stations used by the military for their communication and surveillance networks. To be robust, a system has to have dispersed and disparate means of doing this. I have some experience with this. Is this another example of Peter picking up on a technical term to spice up his presentations? The funny thing is, while I find this a lot, and it is a bit irritating, the basic tenets of his writings and research are spot on. I truly value them. Some of the end game situations are playing out before our eyes in real time. There is no need for him to act like a military expert or a technical expert in some industrial field. Such things are irrelevant to his basic work. A thought just came to me. You heard it here first. Have you ever read the science fiction book "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov? Peter, George Friedman, and other similar geopolitical analysts are like the Psychohistorians. A lot of the details are not important, but the big factors are. This is why I get a bit frustrated by all the China analysts who live in the west who are Chinese, for example. They get into the details of who is doing what to whom in Zhongnanhai and insist that westerners can't really understand what is going on and how things will play out. For another example, just look back at the Kremlinologists. There are even lots of people today who will say that if you hadn't lived or traveled extensively in Russia you can't understand what will happen. As President Joe likes to say, come on man.
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