Comments by "Archangel M127" (@Archangelm127) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. And once the French have that data, I see no reason for it not to be passed around like dip at a party.
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  2. To be clear, for a state acting within their own territory, there's no need to physically cut the cables. All you have to do is seize the shore station where they come in and turn off the routers etc.
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  3. "The party's over." Cute. 😂
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  4. I believe the technical term is the "Dollary-doo." 🤣
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  5.  @eriklans8139  No, because the Cherokee only ever controlled a tiny part of it. Perhaps "former British colony"? ;)
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  6. There HAVE been catastrophic accidents. Several of them. Ask the folks on the Black Sea coast.
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  7. I want to get Peter together on a stream with Sal from "What's Going On With Shipping" to talk over the Jones Act, the US Merchant Marine, and also this whole mess.
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  8. In other words, the sky is blue and water is wet.
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  9. I really want to sit you down with Dr. Sal from What's Going On With Shipping and have a no-holds-barred debate about the Jones Act. ❤
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  10. I like the term "bag-of-dicks diplomacy." Very descriptive and visceral.
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  11. Okay, interesting. Do all these technical details invalidate his actual point here? If so, how? Please use small words; my expertise is in IT, not heavy industry. :)
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  12.  @intractablemaskvpmGy  Firstly, I don't believe Peter referred to any specific instance. I can think of several accidents and "accidents" within the past few years. Secondly, "Houthi." It's not that hard.
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  13. More to the point, all the fake drains
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  14. That can never be diverse enough. The problem is that Peter's clarity of expression rather spoils you.
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  15. Sounds good! We can start by sending Mr. Musk on an indefinite vacation to Leavenworth.
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  16.  @keyboarddancers7751 Nah, they're metal. But there's just bare dirt under them. Seriously. There's a zillion videos.
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  17. What about them? A navy is the helmet on a nation's willy, and exists to be waved around. However small said willy actually is.
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  18. I don't know about Bitcoin specifically, but the NFT/blockchain market has completely collapsed. Good riddance.
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  19.  @LoganChristianson  If I'm not mistaken, a thermonuclear device relies on a fission detonation to trigger the fusion detonation.
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  20. I can always count on Peter for positive, uplifting news. Or failing that, interesting news. :P
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  21. Maintaining civilization, in this case.
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  22. It'll either be him or you. Either way, I'll be laughing. ❤
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  23.  @Skyberg21  He tends to be skeptical about how quickly bleeding-edge technologies can be deployed at scale, and whether things that make impressive tech demos will work well on a widespread basis. Generally a sensible position. It takes time for most ideas to propagate, and even more for them to be implemented... where they can be.
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  24. You say "itty bitty states," I say "reasonably sized states."
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  25. If you have a mastery of the material, extemporaneous speaking like that isn't actually as hard as you'd think. It takes practice, of course. I do this every day in my job as a technical trainer (albeit my subject matter is FAR less interesting). :)
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  26. ​ @michellelewis3063  He obviously puts a lot of thought into the topics and his backgrounds, and he has a performative streak, but as far as I can tell he really does shoot these things by himself on his phone. If there's signs I'm missing I'd be obliged if you'd lay them out. :)
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  27. If you're going the Patreon route, fine. Shut up about it. All the regulars know by now. Anyone who hasn't subbed by now either can't or won't. Put the info card at the end of every video and that's it. Constantly e-begging is a bad look. Trust me.
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  28. I assure you, the average skull thickness is just as high here in the USA.
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  29. Look on the bright side: fusion power is only 20 years away 🤣
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  30. You do realize he's not the one entitling and uploading the vids, right? He has a whole firm for his consulting stuff, this is just an arm of that.
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  31. We did. We won. Nobody cared, as it turns out.
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  32. The terms "right" and "left" are always relative and ever-shifting.
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  33.  @protorhinocerator142  Weeellll... it is a finite resource. We do keep finding more of it, but only so many critters have ever lived and died in the circumstances required to create the stuff. What we really need is to establish a genuine alternative to fossil fuels before we actually start running out. We have much longer than we previously thought, but at the end of the day our petrochemical supply is indeed finite.
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  34.  @geekstradamus1548  Not just gold and diamonds. South Africa is one of the great geological treasure houses of the world.
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  35. This absolutely came out of the WIV. That said, I do not believe it was intentional in any way, shape, or form.
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  36. This is starting to sound like the plot of some cheap dystopian novel, where one region (North America) dominates the world, and everybody else is basically just screwed and impoverished. Speaking as an American, I don't actually like the sound of that.
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  37. Sustaining operations. How long have they been there and how long will they stay? That will be the measure of whether Peter has been correct in that assertion.
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  38.  @Penta_Penguin_237  If you are a firmware dev as you say then surely you can toss up some links to (non-classified, non-proprietary) papers or what-have-you so we can see how correct you are? Seriously asking. :)
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  39. It would have cost us money to dispose of most of this stuff, so giving it to Ukraine actually saved a small shitload of money.
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  40. I think it may be time for some mysterious explosions in various Russian ports. Big ones.
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  41.  @fathead8933  I think this is a case of the old adage that "no unit fit for combat will pass inspection, and no unit fit for inspection will survive in combat."
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  42.  @aurorajones8481  I believe there are both software and hardware ways to cut somebody else out of using a comm satellite you own. Also bear in mind that a satellite's bandwidth is much lower than a landline, much like you can get far faster data transfer at home with a Gigabit or 10Gig ethernet cable vs even the latest wireless. (Is 802.11ac still the latest? I just realized I'm not sure.) Anyway. This is more of an issue for civilian users than government or military ones (who would naturally get top priority on the smaller-bandwidth satellite backups), hence Peter's talking about the service element of the economy etc if I'm not mistaken.
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  43.  @intractablemaskvpmGy  Wow. I don't know or care how old you are, but maybe grow up a bit.
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  44. Looks like you're a loyal cartel customer 🤣
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  45. Nevermind the far future. What matters is what Taiwan, West Taiwan, and the USA can build and deploy to the AO by ~2027-2029
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  46.  @saltminedevelopment  Not all of these are filmed the day they're posted.
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  47. Kessler Syndrome is hardly forever, but it can do a hell of a lot of collateral damage and can persist for quite some time depending on various factors. Or so I understand.
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  48.  @solarsailor1534  Beat me to it.
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  49. Stop e-begging at the beginning of every video. It's pathetic. Just whap the slide at the end of the video and put the Patreon link in the description.
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  50.  @joelobryan1212  You give the missile a geographic "basket" to look inside. In wartime, countries post notices telling people "we have naval operations going in [huge geographic area]. If you're in this area, expect to be sunk." It's called a Maritime Exclusion Zone, if memory serves. So I'm not so worried about what you describe because a) the missile is only going to look in the designated area, and b) everyone not shooting will run for the proverbial hills.
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