Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1.  @Ozgrade3  yet it's getting 44mpg at 20yrs old and outperforms a Tesla in cost to build, cost of ownership, cost to drive, longevity and resale value.
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  2.  @Ozgrade3  where I live, these buicks are highly valued for their reliability and are a dime a dozen. there are tens of them just in my part of town alone. " So it's only worthwhile talking about something that is built in 2023 and forward. " that is a BS argument. no bases for only discussing 1yr old vehicles. in fact older vehicles are MORE relevant to teh discussion.
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  3.  eblman5218  visiting Canada is one thing, moving there is something else. I am pretty sure he's just visiting.....
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  4. Russia is failing to adequately train, equip, and supply their troops since Feb 2022, adding more bodies to a strained logistics system is only going to make things worse. Russia is struggling to support their troops in the field so badly that they are buying basic ammunition from North Korea. They can't produce the equipment, vehicles, ammo, weapons, supplies, needed to win this fight. Adding 300k more bodies t the meat grinder wont help. But human wave tactics is all Russia has ever known since at least WW2, if not earlier.
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  5. Aluminum air batteries are best, but not rechargeable. recyclable, highest energy density.
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  6. same for wind.....
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  7. and why should US taxpayers be on the hook for a private company?
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  8.  @Trahloc  exactly, letting businesses not pay taxes, is the same as giving the businesses those taxes back. net result is the same.
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  9.  @Trahloc  "Besides, only people should pay taxes, not companies." why? I can see the appeal to that, but I'd like to hear why you think that is?
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  10.  @TheMrgoodmanners  has never stopped them from selling arms to other countries, including the US.
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  11.  @twostop6895  I get that feds control interstae commerce, but the point is that it's not up to CA then either, and the feds can FORCE california's compliance. But, CO, UT, AZ, NV all touch the water, and could drain it before it reaches the CA border, and thus the river would no longer exist on CA territory, and they'd no longer have claim to it. While feds control some of this (but clearly are not, as they are leaving it to the states to work out on their own), the water does exist within the physically boundaries of the respective states. and so long as they draw only from their side of state boundaries, it's technically not interstate commerce. Especially for CO if they drew from the river upstream where its banks are solely within CO.
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  12.  @twostop6895  colorado can
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  13.  @twostop6895  you clearly don't understand how messy the law really is. it depends Heavily upon how you approach it. And you're just not thinking about it creatively enough.
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  14. the greens hate nuclear @info88w11 
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  15. doubt it, Risk is more about luck than anything else.
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  16. couple years to get teh infrastructure in place? sure. 15yrs? no
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  17. modern doctors are snake oil salesmen for big pharma
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  18. much of the modern Western economy cannot function anymore without internet. Even gov agencies have forced a great many services to online-only. Credit Cards don't work without internet. We lost internet to the entire state of AZ for 3 days in 2015 and it was amazing. people were awesome, but money and business came to a near halt. only those of us with cash could still function.
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  19. no training, no equipment, no logistical support, lack of maintenance, lack of leadership, etc. Russia is struggling to produce the most basic of military equipment such as artillery rounds. 300k additional troops basically just brings their forces in Ukraine back to what they were in February 2022.
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  20. aluminum-air batteries exist in prototype stage
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  21. yup, he is spreading mostly lies in this video. I work in the datacenter industry, and I've worked with the guys who are partially responsible for inventing the first GPUs.
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  22. we're having a normal winter in my area. plenty of snow, plenty of cold. none of the overexaggerated storms and warm weather materialized. My area has had consistently colder winters for the past 3 yrs in a row now (according to the utility companies, as they track temps vs energy usage).
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  23. ESG is communism. It leads to inflation, economic ruin, blackouts, poverty, stress and anxiety, fear, loss of freedom, promotes incompetence, is anti-meritocracy, etc. No one who follows ESG will ever get it right or be successful compared to capitalism properly executed.
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  24. married women wouldn't HAVE to work if they actually pulled their weight at home.
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  25. Just like WW2. Army/USAF takes care of Europe, Navy/Marines takes care of the Pacific. With a little mixing in both theaters.
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  26.  @michaeldowson6988  for very short flights. There has been a 2 seat light electric on teh market for many years now. it's range is so limited I couldn't even fly to my next nearest airport and back on a single charge.
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  27.  @tech010101x  lied about what? if you're going to make accusations, you need to back them up with facts/evidence.
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  28.  @typhoon320i  even if it is true (I don't know that it is, and your word alone isn't enough) that Tesla uses no rare earths in the motor, the battery is LOADED with them. and as Peter pointed out, the Motors use FAR more copper too, and copper Also requires far more energy to process and produce than the materials used in ICE vehicles (steel, aluminum....).
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  29. And the Chinese military has patterned aspects of itself off of the Russians...
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  30. you didn't do anything. GPUs were invented for the datacenter industry first, and the GPUs gamers use are chump change compared to what datacenters use.
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  31.  @jwadaow  "They were invented for games exclusively. That was always the largest market for GPUs." wrong. the technology NVIDIA uses as the basis for their GPUs came from SGI, and SGI did not make nor sell anything for the gaming market, and this was before the days of widespread personal computers. (we're talking closer to the Nintendo and Atari era) "It was an expensive innovation to use them for anything else as there was no existing market. You do not know what you are talking about." Wrong, I work in the supercomputer industry, and worked with people who invented the core innovations that made the GPU possible decades ago, and designed some of the most powerful GPU deployments on planet earth. The biggest consumer of GPUs has always been datacenters and supercomputers. the gaming industry pales in comparison.
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  32. my 2004 Buick Lesabre gets 36-44mpg depending upon winter/summer. and I can drive it for cheaper than people charge their Teslas (I compared it to Tesla owners on youtube and their data).
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  33. In college I was given an assignment to see if we could design a Tesla Powerwall for less than Tesla was selling. Goal: lower cost, same capacity. Tesla powerwall was all the rage back then. it cost something like $17k back then. I designed a lead acid system, even oversized it to compensate for lead acid limitations, and used proper lead acid solar batteries. And I was able to do it for $2500.
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  34. good. green tech and climate change are a scam inflation reduction act is a communist inflation magnification act.
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  35. take the southern regions and crimea, and the remaining Ukrainian territories held by Russia will be within range everywhere from multiple directions. and russia can't sustain the pounding and losses indefinitely against a population that doesn't want them there. they will have to leave eventually.
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  36.  @cooldudecs  define an "expert"?
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  37. let china protect them......oh, wait
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  38.  @rfwillett2424  US has been dealing with this for decades.......cartel drug subs.....
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  39. too bad much of what he says is false.
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  40. still believing the hype and propaganda of the hypersonics? China couldn't even hit a known stationary target within 25miles. Hypersonic are extremely expensive, and you can't target what you can't see over the horizon in real time. Russia has this problem in Ukraine. Thy can fire at known GPS coordinates, but not at moving targets, and even then Russia's miss/failure rate is higher than the US TDR-1 drone from WW2. Russia can't observe in real time moving targets in Ukraine, thus can't hit them, just like China would need to be tracking the carrier in real time.
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  41. multiple studies in multiple countries have proven EVs are not better than ICE for many reasons Peter mentioned.
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  42. it's easy to win peace post-conflict, most countries just do it wrong.
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  43. we already had cruise missiles before vietnam, and we used armed drones in vietnam based upon those cruise missiles too.
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  44. wouldn't be the first time a dictatorship or tyrannical gov declared war to stay in power.
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