Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "RealLifeLore" channel.

Lake Eyre is pronouned "air" not "eerie".
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Welcome to CCP economics
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Other facts wrong about geology this time. The Precambrian ends at the start of the Cambrian Period, which was 539 million years ago, not the 1.5 billion years mentioned (although Australia has quite a bit of geology that age), which is in the Mesoproterozoic era. Precambrian is a rarely used word in geology journals these days, referenced instead to the Proterozoic and Archean eons. Also the last extensive glaciation did not just occur in the Carboniferous period, it mainly occurred in the Permian period (in line with evidence elsewhere in rocks on continents other than Australia for that period), including Australia where Australia back then was close to the South Pole and the supercontinent of Pangaea had formed. Note, in central Australia, the Petermann Range or Petermann Orogeny was an extensive mountain building occurring there in the Carboniferous. So get your facts right about mountains as well. However, no new mountain ranges since the Mesozoic era. That is true.
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The capital of the UK resides in London, Middlesex, England. Not Edinburgh, or Cardiff or Belfast :-D
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Monitoring Russian nuclear submarines in the North Atlantic in the region between northern Britain, Iceland and Greenland is virtually impossible on the surface; the North Atlantic is frequently lashed by polar storms and fog. The Russian submarines rarely surface unless near their bases. The only way to monitor their movements is to have your own submarines there, listening in, and it's a lot of ocean. Adding Greenland to US territory does not enhance any capabilities in detecting Russian submarines that are passing through there.
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Twenty-first century wars? You've forgotten the upcoming World War 3 when China militarily invades Taiwan. This is a war that the US has to become involved in for straightforward economic and technological bottleneck reasons. One pre-eminent chipmaking company in Taiwan in fact; TSMC. Wars in the twentieth century have been fought over petroleum resources (the United States being pre-eminent in many of them). The twenty first century wars will be fought over supplying silicon chips (silicon wafer integrated circuits were invented in the 1960s in the United States). Silicon chips will be the oil of the twenty first century, on steroids. EVs rely heavily on chips, and so do the military. Chips made in Taiwan now supply up to 60% of the main processors in your mobile phone and computer, in the United States and worldwide. If you want to make missiles for warfare, as well as drones, components all throughout warplanes and warships, and even in military vehicles like tanks, trucks and night vision gunsights for your soldiers, you will need silicon chips that Taiwan and South Korea currently makes. This makes the security of these countries vital to the interests of the United States, and indeed much of the world in general as well (outside mainland China).
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The Holy Roman Empire DOES exist, and it was created or "resurrected" as the European Common Market, appropriately enough at the treaty of Rome in 1957 (so we get the Roman in there). Now it is called the EU, again a confederation of states, with a common currency and it's capital is Brussels (which may have fallen into the borders of the Holy Roman Empire, historically). Europe now no longer lives in the world of feudalism (the actual kingdoms, like the UK and Denmark, are constitutional monarchies) so only the "Holy" bit has to go.
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Aboriginal population of Australia in 1788 (pre measles and smallpox pandemics) has been estimated more likely to be up to a million people by archelogists, although census obviously back then was never taken.
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I agree. The downfall of the United States will come from within, not from any external enemies outside the United States. For example, erosion of your political and legal system. In January last year, Donald Trump in his desperation in holding on to power, did just that, he was near treasonable to the constitution of the United States in his devisiveness. If the United States falls to a dictatorship then it's not only the end of the current economic and military power of the United States at home and abroad, it will throw the world outside the United States into an intensive frenzy of chaos as countries in Eurasia, Africa and South America start warring intensively over resources, territory and shipping lanes (yes, I know there are people that claim that the US is a main instigator of the chaos, but it don't agree much with that assessment over a long time span since 1945).
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Australia was granted independence in 1901, not 1931
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At least 25% of China's population live under the extreme poverty line of making US$1.50 per day. This is not a wealthy country like Germany and the United States. The bright spot for the Germans in energy supply, particularly in natural gas (it's a feeble ray of sunshine, I know) but China's economy is collapsing now, with further recession as Xi Jinping remains in power, which is highly likely. This frees up global supply of LNG in the medium term. Further, this frees up LNG ship imports to Germany, which would work if they built at least one loading terminal to receive the gas. Better to have expensive energy, than none at all.
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Seems that they will have to build railways out of Odessa to the North & West, with foodstuffs being moved around the clock. The change of gauge (in EU countries) might work by adding in a third rail, but of course that all takes time to add to hundreds of kilometres of track in Ukraine, in peace time without the added pressure of war. Also moving masses of food by rail does invite the Russian air force to bomb trains, and static choke points like bridges, that the Ukrainians will have to defend with SAM batteries. All very complicated :-(
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Guess what, Irish people are still emigrating to far flung places like Australia, despite it's demographic aging like most other countries in Europe. Ireland has had a very long history of emmigration to Oceania, ever since the late 1700s. I've met quite a few Irish immigrants myself, usually young people under 40 working in both blue and white collar jobs. What attracts them to Australia? A similar mainstream culture, good English language skills and relative ease of entry as skilled or semi-skilled immigrants, and higher pay than the same jobs in Ireland, and lastly but just as importantly, little historic anti-Irish attitudes from the established population (which afflicted the United States, and also probably England, in earlier times). It's estimated that up to 30% of all Australian immigrants orginating from Europe, or with some or all European ancestry (especially those who can trace ancestry back to the nineteenth century) have Irish ancestry (a higher proportion than the United States), including some of my own ancestry.
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Well, to make the Covid19 deaths worldwide pale into.significance, i'm guessing that at least 250+ million human beings worldwide will become malnourished soon. Many will die of starvation if their fragile and corrupt governments hoard the remaining food in that country for political, economic and criminal reasons. Welcome to 20 past good years gone in the 21st century, and the real harrowing existential dystopia that possesses it; propelled by politics, war and climate change for the remainder.
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A lot worse for young women to attempt escape from North Korea. Often they full into hands of criminal gangs in China & are forced into prostitution and/or slave servitude. Or they are forced to be partnered and get pregnant to a person whom they don't wish to be with.
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Haven't you heard of the new Cold War between China and most of the rest of the world? Started with Trump being made President in 2017 and intensified with the accidental release and coverup of the Wuhan flu (a.k.a. Covid19) almost certainly by a biolab leak there, turning into the current pandemic, by the CPC in 2020.
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Spain's demigraphics, particularly in the city/countryside divide, strangly echoes Australia's in some ways. There are some similarities between these countries. Spain is a large mainly semi-arid country with poor fertility soils. Australia is similar, but much bigger with substantial dry hot deserts. Spain & Australia's large cities are burgeoning with immigrants from overseas. Much of Spain and Australia is warm temperate semi-arid climate with mediterranean type agriculture, with some irrigation, often practised. Farms are large and mechanized, but small towns in these wheat-belt regions do not typically support high populations anymore, as manual farmhand labour is little needed in comparison to the past. Very few immigrate from overseas go to these small rural communities because of lack of services, and these towns get lack of services from governments and commerce because of lack of population which work into a negative feedback loop.
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Next major war; over water resources, starting on major river channels like the Mekong.
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The climate arguments and topography was well explained, but u got one or two facts wrong that can be easily checked. The actual largest populated city in the North of Australia (north of Tropic of Capricorn line) is Townsville, Queensland, followed by Cairns, Queensland. Darwin, Northern Territory is actually the third largest city (by population) in Northern Australia and by Australia standards, even these aforementioned "cities" are small (compared to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne etc.). Fun fact. There are only about one million Australians living north of the Tropic of Capricorn line. That is a population smaller than Western Sydney (a portion of Sydney).
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It's an interesting massive damming project that would (hopefully) positively affect part or all of the coastal regions of the following countries (other than the Netherlands); Belgium, France, England, Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Finland. I hope I haven't forgotten a small European North Sea and Baltic sea bordering country in there? Also, who would reclaim these drained lands behind the giant dam? Would the median cadastral point between these (previously coastal) countries be the country's new land border? How would the economies of (previously) port cities like London, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and so on, be affected by the dam (need to build shipping canals through the new reclaimed lands to them)? Thinking of a network of dozens of canals able to transport large cargo and petroleum tankers. I think the construction costs of 500 billion Euros would blow out way beyond this.
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Get your facts straight. Canberra was founded in 1913, not 1927.
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Why not widen an existing canal (Panama canal). Surely this would cost less. The CCP (sorry every mainland Chinese company IS the CCP) have been strenuously trying to get a contract to build a shorter canal across the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand. This is so cargo ships can stop sailing around the bottom of the island of Sumatra (much further south) but secretly, so the Indian and US navies cannot as easily blockade Chinese ships entering the Indian ocean in the event of war (which seems more and more likely). The Thai government has changed their mind away from this proposal, for now.
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