Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1.  @answerman9933  Who is Tony Hawk?
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  2.  @A_annoying_rodent  They got nato to blame, and as for syria everyone is losing it. Or did you think the rebels are liberal freedom fighters lol? They literally used to be with Al-Qaeda.
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  3. Thanks for the update. Was rather disappointed he didn't cover any of the smaller nations. Cheers!
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  4. Man Caspian is really milking this war for all he can. People wanted coverage on the Ukraine war, and now it's practically all he covers. Also an ironic narrative to choose for this video considering that the Russian economy is holding up (with the central bank even bringing interest rates back down), Ukraine itself saying Russia can continue the war for another year and, most pertinently, CR itself having misjudged how events would play out in its pre-war video on how this war would play out. At this point CR is just telling his western viewers what they want to hear.
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  5.  @elessar947  They aren't his quotes. He just never provides credit or attribution. This one comes from Ludwig Erhard.
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  6.  @celdur4635  Africa has literally had its own empires. The Songhai, Ghana and Mali empires in the region covered here.
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  7. Depends on where you are. It's mostly around the capital that this holds, no so much the rest of the country.
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  8.  @talsapps  You must be new to this channel. He's done these book reviews since forever. And they cover a wide range of topics, most of which have nothing to do with Israel. So this vid is nothing special.
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  9. @Cruiser Nah. Something like this isn't covered not because the media is biased, but because it's just not sensational enough for them. This is from a policy report. Those things are important, but also very dry. And being dry / drab / boring automatically means the media, whatever their bias, won't cover you. They'd be too afraid of people changing the channel. Also what the guy above said^.
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  10.  @LaFonteCheVi  Per your logic, the US must be an even bigger disaster, since it's literally been in more wars than any country since WW2 (and still is in multiple currently), while China hasn't been to war in decades. Aggressive huh?...
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  11. sigh It's disappointing to see what's happened to Caspian off late. I used to watch this channel to learn about geopolitics in surprising places, conflicts and contests that don't get much coverage even if they've been simmering for generations. Nowadays though Caspian keeps singing the same tune - of the grand conflict between east and west - over and over again, in video after video, in order to pander to his audience. So much of it is repetition, and all of it has been covered aplenty in the regular media as well as all over Youtube. He isn't teaching people about the world anymore, he's just feeding them with what they want to hear. Tbf every so often there is a video of something else still (like the recent one on Rwanda), but it's soon followed with yet another video on China and Russia or the US and Europe that he's already done to death but keeps milking for more views.
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  12. If you think this is the end, you know nothing of Syria...
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  13.  @kameronjones7139  Did either of them ever touch the US? The closest it ever came to that was that one time the USSR put its forces on Cuba. Which still isn't the US, and it also agreed to back off anyway. Stop confusing your hegemony with your state. They are not the same. You never had to respond to anything happening elsewhere, you chose to get involved.
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  14. ​ @zekimelihmuti5501  More like Russia doesn't want to be surrounded by NATO. Russia responds to NATO getting too close to its borders? Apparently that's bad. The US embargoes and blockades Cuba for years for being friendly with Russia while close to its borders? Somehow good?...
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  15. Guys this isn't an dickwaving contest, so don't turn it into one. Like I said, countries usually have a lot more dams than you might think, even small countries for whom you wouldn't even have heard of any notable dams there. It's just a matter of rethinking one's image of what the typical dam is.
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  16.  @BluffyMoo  Europe can't handle Russia on its own unless it extends into Poland. The Baltic states will be a giant trap, and any attempts to cross via Finland will likely result in a literal firewall to stop it (which would likely tank the Finnish economy too, which heavily relies on lumber). Just the turf they have in Ukraine is the size of the 3 Baltics, so it'll likely be them just sitting and waiting there for a doomed counterpush that will be surrounded on 3 sides.
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  17. @John Grigg Gotta love seeing jingoistic war hawks on the internet lol!
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  18.  @oatmongen4263  What about all their military interventions and coups? Are those also unfair things to blame them for?
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  19. Just goes to show that all the money and advanced weaponry in the world can't beat a determined enemy with a home field advantage. The US should keep this mind when launching their next war. They've lost like this several times already...
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  20.  @TheReferrer72  India has already told the UK years ago that we don't want their aid. They send it to their own charities operating here for the sake of their domestic politics. It's never been significant for us.
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  21.  @roderickcampbell2105  The comment he was responding to was childish as well, yet I don't see you people taking that to task.
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  22.  @readmeat4vegans829  "Learn from history - so you do not repeat the same mistakes" - the people who launched these wars haven't suffered a thing, and in fact many have benefitted greatly from them either politically or financially (or both), so they have no reason to 'learn from history'. Cos as far as they're concerned, this wasn't a mistake, quite the opposite.
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  23. @J R He won't, because the quotes are all from other people. He just neglects to provide attribution.
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  24. They've experienced that before, and hated it so much that they overthrew it.
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  25. Wrong. There have been govt. programs to address affordability all over the world, including in Korea. None of them worked. It's never been about how tough life is. The poor have the toughest lives of all, and yet they have the most children. While the super rich have the easiest of lives, and yet tend not to have any more children for it. In Japan house prices even DECLINE over time btw. People have literally been polled about how many kids they want to have - the answers are almost always either 0, 1 or 2. The replacement rate is 2.1 fyi, and in the past families could be as large as ten or more. We also have a natural experiment that shows housing isn't the issue - all over the world orthodox communities have higher birth rates than their liberal counterparts of similar socio-economic status. The religion differs, but the one thing in common is that they all adhere to traditional gender roles. And the result is more kids, housing affordability notwithstanding. This is not being caused by house prices, it precedes it.
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  26. Drowning, not drawing. Apparently that's a west African proverb, according to google.
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  27. They aren't his quotes. He just never provides credit or attribution. This one comes from Ludwig Erhard.
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  28.  @leumatiello  Views expressed on Twitter or elsewhere is not the same as ideas expounded on in peer-reviewed journals, particularly in very quantitative disciplines like economics or sociology. Ideology won't easily get you past the scrutiny of your varied academic interlocutors. Not that the scientific community is perfectly rational - no community is - but it's still much more trustworthy than a sample size of just one persons' experiences plus a smattering of random internet comments.
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  29.  @tsubadaikhan6332  It was still better under him than what it is now. They made things a LOT worse. Also remember that they helped him earlier on, as part of their geopolitical games, so even if you want to criticize him, they're STILL responsible for this.
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  30. Did you seriously just make a geopolitics video about resources in order to promote a shifty investment offer? This is low Shirvan..
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  31. Russia has other options. India is also a friendly nation to Russia, and a rival of China. And there's no claims to worry about there. So they can always forge military pacts with both - with China against America, and with India to balance out China. Works for Russia against America and China, works for India against China, and works for China against America again. Meanwhile the only one of those that America can ally with is India, and that'd be against China, not Russia.
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  32.  @wlee9888  Hey, I can list nations too! Here you go, all of them have a rather interesting history with the US - Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Gautemala, Honduras, Iraq, Korea, Laos, Nicaragua, Panama, Sudan, Vietnam, etc. Oh, look who's list is longer!
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  33.  @bradleywang289  You people call anything you don't like bots nowadays. Even tho the guy was clearly just making a joke. The accusation has basically lost all credibility by now.
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  34. This isn't the Chinese naval strategy, apart from the first part. Most of this video is Caspian projecting his rather old fashioned take on what China intends to do. Old fashioned cos he seems to live in a world where nothing changes apart from China's navy getting larger and everyone is still fighting wars the conventional way. That's fine for 2030 maybe, but 2050 lol? It's like everyone is talking about the world shifting in a matter of days following Russia's invasion, but apparently nothing is going to change across several decades wrt China or the West.
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  35.  @MrErdem95  It was planned with self-driving pod cars in mind I suppose. Probably suggested by Kia and Hyundai...
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  36. @Sam Wallace “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." That quote presumably includes the average English voter. Churchill was very much a snob.
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  37.  @fearlessleader343  Those are internal issues, and that too fairly recent ones. Internal policies created them, and internal policies will attempt to deal with them. That in no way means America has dethroned China. Plus even if they fall through, it won't result in American companies coming back en masse. Meanwhile, Trump blockading China is wishful thinking. Blockades are an act of war, and I rather doubt America has the capacity or the will to engage in a protracted conflict with China right in its backyard, at least without some very strong provocation ala Pearl Harbor-style. Hell, they couldn't even handle far weaker nations in the Middle East or SE Asia. The American govt. will be forced to step back by both international AND domestic pressure long before the Chinese rise up in revolt against their own (just look how long Iran or Cuba has put with the same, and they both have far lower capacities) - it's not like the Chinese people are going to view this positively, they dislike the US probably far more than their own govt. If you think either the US establishment or public is going to tolerate such blatant and obvious swinging of the American dick around (pardon the language, but it conveys the impression well), then you've little appreciation for why Trump is so controversial even for his foreign policy - it's not because it's particularly different (it isn't), but because it's blatant and tactless. Meanwhile, plenty of countries have declining birth rates. China has more capacity than most to deal with that for a long long time - far longer than any period over which we can reasonably speculate the outcome, and certainly longer than both the current US administration, and even several of the successors to it. Hell, they even have millions of poor left to enrich who'll then buy more. There's plenty of room for incomes of the middle class to rise further as well, which powers further consumption. China isn't Japan or Germany - far from it (and even those nations are still doing okay, especially Germany). The reason China's domestic consumption is relatively low isn't because of its lowered population growth, but simply because the Chinese (like the Japanese, and unlike the Americans) save obsessively rather than spend more. That's a cultural thing, not demographic, and likely will fade over time as families get more used to being comfortably middle class rather than constantly stressing over their financial insecurities.
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  38.  @cpt191021  Other way around actually.
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  39.  @kameronjones7139  I didn't abandon it, it was just silly. A Mexican attack on the US would simply be rebuffed like any other nation does. My point was that the US didn't have to get embroiled elsewhere. As for Europe and Asia, that is my point - neither of them is the US. Whatever happens there doesn't force anything on you UNLESS you see your state and your hegemony as one and the same. This is what Americans don't get - they claim they want to stay at home, but expect to have the same level of global power while doing so. No you won't. You're always able to stay at home, but you will lose your influence on the world from doing it. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either stay at home and sacrifice your hegemony, or enforce said hegemony and don't whine.
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  40. ​ @accent1666  Yes I did forget that, because it mostly isn't a thing. Apart from the odd exception, as well as a bunch of former colonial powers, nations don't tend to fight wars far from their borders. Even today almost all wars not featuring the US are on or close to the nations' borders. The War on Terror is a very American concept, not something typical of wars in general. Nations don't tend to wage wars against vaguely defined concepts, they wage wars against other nations. Calling it the 'war on terror' just means America reserves the right to wage war on anyone as part of it, as well as lends it that pretty moralistic sheen Americans seem to love having so much. And 'nation-building' lol. That's just stabilizing a client state, similar to in Vietnam. Which you've now failed at. You killed Bin Laden in a special operation in a foreign country, which hardly required war. America fights for geopolitical reasons, dressed up in moral excuses, but that doesn't make it okay. "We've been in Iraq to depose Hussein" - lol, you don't even realize how weird you are if you think that's such a normal thing to do. Even the WMD excuse, or lies, are hardly typical. This is NOT how most nations today are - they DON'T get to go into countries just cos they don't like who's in charge. You had no reason to go there, which is why the war was roundly rejected as unjustified. You're taking American policy as the default standard, when in fact it's more of an exception. And 'peacekeeping' lol. There's already a global peacekeeping force, and it doesn't belong to America. China recent war was...in the 50s and 80s lol. You're just proving my point. And those wars themselves showcase the difference between China and the US as well. The Sino-Vietnamese War lasted a month and killed about 60,000 people on both sides. The US Vietnam War lasted nearly two decades and killed over 3 million Vietnamese. Vietnam is also on China's borders, but thousands of miles away from America. It had also not laid a finger on the US, yet you went to war there anyway. Yeah, real nice choice of examples. "because they aren't the world's superpower police" - yet another example of America taking itself for granted. First off, you're not the world police, there is no world govt. that granted you that mandate, you just like to style yourselves that way. Secondly, you also suck as 'police'. Police is meant to be neutral, and to preserve peace. The US has been far from neutral, and has been in more wars than anyone else. US foreign policy is riddled with hypocrisy and inconsistency, all only united by them all serving American interests. You claim to stand for democracy despite having autocratic allies and even having put dictators into power (Chile, for example). You claim to hate Islamic extremism despite having one of the most extremist Islamic nations on Earth as an ally. There's nothing 'police-like' about you, it's just straightforward pandering to US interests. Stop trying to paint yourself as the 'police' in order to pretend it has any legitimacy, cos it doesn't. That China hasn't done this is just as well, because it isn't a role that exists. Calling the US' bad behavior 'policing' only highlights how Americans will find any excuse to justify said bad behavior.
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  41.  @thebestevertherewas  Way to be pedantic. 😒I was talking about on the map. Now don't go claiming you don't 'see' any reserves on a map either, or we can sidetrack completely into 'map is not the territory' endless epistemological nonsense.
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  42. The problem with blockading the Malacca Strait is that it isn't just China that is affected. All the downstream and surrounding nations will be hit, hence none of them will be in favor of it. Just cos India and China are at war doesn't mean any of them will want to get involved. And that makes it a tricky maneuver to pull off. It's not like blockading the Sea of Japan, which only affects Japan.
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  43.  @user-fk8rq5vr9e  Egypt isn't their country, Palestine is. Which Israel is denying them.
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  44. If you think flooding tunnels is 'ingenious', you don't know much history. That tactic is nothing new, and we still build tunnels. We also build tunnels for dealing with floodwaters btw. Put those two facts together. It's not that easy to beat tunnel networks.
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  45.  @AW-zk5qb  Bruh, just ONE of America's wars this century has orders of magnitude more deaths than ALL of Russia's wars in the same period COMBINED. Literally, just look up the death tolls. For instance, the Donbass war had about 13000 deaths, while the Afghan war death toll is about a quarter of a million! And that's not a Russian number btw, but an American one lol.
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  46. This is normal? Whatever state has run Anatolia has been a major power for thousands of years, be it the Ottomans or the Romans before them. It's actually unusual for Turkey to NOT be flexing its geopolitical muscle.
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  47. Who tf is that?
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  48.  @CStone-xn4oy  And suffer the same fate as the USSR? Yeah the Americans would sure love that lol...
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  49.  Sanctus Paulus  Proportional to its size, Australia has killed a lot. Meanwhile, what's the biggest death toll you can level at China after Mao? Tiananmen Square? Estimates range from 3,000 to 10,000 on that. Those are rookie numbers compared to the death tolls western powers have racked up in the same period, thanks to their incessant wars. The west also has more people in prison than China (the US prison population is 2.3 million, compared to China's 1.6 million - and that's from a population a quarter of China's size!), and more deaths that it's responsible for (literally millions!) thanks to having been in so many more wars (China hasn't been to war in decades). The only reason you get to throw around scary words like 'genocide' is cos the west is indiscriminate with its devastation, unlike China's targeting of the Uighurs. So you get off by being equal opportunity killers lol! But there's still A LOT more dead Muslims thanks to the west than China.
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  50. Why am I not surprised that a European colonial empire had its hands in this mess too? Smh...
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