Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1.  @andreasweber7828  An alligator that has been cut down to size by little drone boats near Ukraine. An alligator whose only functional tooth blows it's own head off if it ever attempts to use it.
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  2.  @Blackjack701AD  I personally do not like Biden, and Trump far less, but one thing I do know is that you have no facts to back up your opinion. Unless you consider lies to be facts.
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  3. I tend to agree with you, but know that I shouldn't. One thing that history and even current events and especially the market demonstrates with such blinding proficiency that most are actually blind to it, is that NOBODY knows what the future actually holds in any meaningfully actionable detail -- some AI directed logarithms seem to come close in their high frequency arbitrage of the market or game play, but even they miss all the time in specific trades or moves. In the media you have a hundred voices that make various predictions based on diverse yet extremely limited perceived variables and then only the one or two voices that guessed most correctly are reported and remembered to any noteworthy degree. That's in the case of the actual future: in the many possible imaginary futures: predictions are easy because what "would have happened" is a non-result with a faulty equation used as a rationalization for it's generation. Nobody knows what -- would-have-happened-- if. And there is absolutely no way to confirm it one way or another. That's why it's so easy for us to think we are right about such imaginings. As an example: how many of our great planners and strategic thinkers predicted in the sixties that of all the populations on earth the communist Vietnamese would hold Americans in highest regard? Or that the Chinese, whom were so backward that they were attempting to produce steel as cottage industry and experiencing such famine that the people had stripped the bark off of trees for food would be a technological powerhouse? Or that some dumb-ass from Texas would destroy the American economy by attacking a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 based on manufactured "evidence", and trying to nation-build in the stupidest place to try to nation-build on earth (Afghanistan) so that his handler's former corporation could get those juicy cost-plus contracts?
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  4. Invest in the development of medicinal psychotropics like psilocibin, and mescaline. Two substances that apparently Peter needs to use desperately in order to clear up his vision on illegal recreational molecules.
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  5.  @michaeldavis3819  That is not true. The real evidence lies in the policy that Switzerland adopted. Certain areas of the USA have tried decriminalization and it has been a fiasco, that is because they thought that all you had to do was make the use of illegal drugs a non-offense to use. That was naive. You need the whole program that was successful in Switzerland. But strangely enough, though Calvinism and the more known attitudes of Puritanism originated in Switzerland, the population has evolved beyond such draconian ideals and viewed the problem objectively, unlike the knee-jerk reaction represented by your own comment. It works -- punishment does not work, it only corrupts the police and alienates people who are caught up in the system -- many of them being framed to advance the careers of bad cops. Also note that since MJ was decriminalized in Sweden the teenage use of it has fallen off a cliff.
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  6.  @abhishekprasad000  Wasn't there also something about the way the projects were financed being bled by corrupt officials and middlemen who really had no interest in them being viable?
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  7. The paywall is making PZ largely irrelevant, despite his pleasant voice.
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  8. For "Cuban upper class" you should substitute the term "mafia connected" cause that is where all the real money came from in pre-revolutionary Cuba.
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  9. The whole point of any of the power elite, no matter of what flavor is to dupe the public into thinking that their whole point is something other than than increasing their own personal power.
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  10.  @willywonka4340  True that. I can't remember who said it but the quote is, "If progressives do nothing to control the situation at the border, people will elect fascists that will."
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  11. TSMC has just started to move again in the last month or so after a prolonged dip and sideways sleep. Could it be that when the world's supply chains are mucked up that Taiwan is effected no matter what the covid policy was? They are also building two huge fabs in Arizona . So they are going to both reap the rewards of manufacturing in the USA and being able to survive any Taiwanese situation that may arise.
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  12.  @warfarenotwarfair5655  That doesn't make any sense. The USA has a voluntary military now, so what's your point? Everyone who doesn't enlist is avoiding military service? Yet your fearless leader says that anyone who served and lost his life fighting tyranny was a "loser".
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  13. Pete has obviously bought too many pairs of sunglasses as is hurting financially, Anywho, The Economist has started making daily intelligence reports on YT, and in my opinion they are better than Pete's, and free.
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  14.  @paulkelly9250  Half of Europe's electricity is now produced by wind and solar.
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  15.  @jamesparker1071  We are still the biggest oil exporter on the planet. We were not energy independent before Joe. So in one sentence you managed to be wrong twice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production
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  16.  @veronicamaine3813  As a percentage of Teslas net subsidies are hardly relevant anymore. Far from China ending their subsidies on EVs they have just passed new ones. Tesla will only qualify for this if they lower the price or release a special edition low cost EV in China. Despite this they remain number one in China, Europe, and America by so far that it isn't even a contest unless you skew the data, like including hybrids in BYDs totals to make it seem like they are on a par with Tesla, while without subsidies BYD would not make a profit on their EVs, in fact none of the Chinese EV OEMS make a profit on any of their cars EXCEPT Tesla and Tesla makes a profit on each unit second only to Mercedes. The media is thirsting for Tesla to start paying them ad revenues, so much that they distort and amplify everything about Tesla, while it has in fact in reality out-preformed by every metric constantly for years. EVentually the truth will win out over the Wall Street short players and the coercive and distorted media thrusting for the billions like they get from all the other OEMS.
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  17.  @carlosandleon  Yes really, the Greeks established cities all along the Black Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_colonisation
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  18. fHe's also wrong about China disappearing in seven more years. And lots of other stuff. But he does know geography.
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  19.  @ThePorkchop1787  Taxed top incomes at over ninety percent during Ike's administration for one thing.
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  20. I'm sure dozens of comments have mentioned to you that kinzhal is not a hypersonic missle as they are defined by the US. It is a ballistic missle like many midium range surface to surface missles. But even real hypersonic missles, have to slow down so that their targeting systems work in the final stage of flight.
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  21. You are insulting the intelligence of the Jack Russell.
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  22.  @nwj486  That is hard to believe since we produced almost 13,000,000 barrels in July. Over 1/4 more than second place (Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production
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  23. Well there is some truth to that, but only some. Payment can take many forms.
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  24. Coca Cola is already a drug due to its sugar content.
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  25.  @mattayele1906  It may work somewhat to impede illegal migration, but it will not decrease drug smuggling one bit, not one ounce. There is too much profit in illegal substances, too much corruption of enforcement, to much money and sophistication on the criminal side of the equation. There are literally hundreds of was to smuggle drugs that are not, cannot and will not ever be stopped by such rudimentary simple minded ideas. And the southern border is not the only route into the USA.
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  26.  @mossing234  Also somewhat positive on Argentina, although I don't see anything in Argentina's future that I don't see in Chile's horrible past under the influence of the Chicago school of economic misery.
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  27. The USA refused to sell f-35s to Turkey because of it's procurement of Russian SAMs. That would be one example of the USA refusing to sell arms to allies. It has also refused to sell F22 to anyone, even the counties willing to bankroll the redevelopment of the assembly lines. There are actually scores of weapons systems that the USA hold for exclusive use.
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  28. Bro you have previously claimed that one in every four Russians suffers from a form of TB that is antibiotic resistant. Is this really true and if so what does this portend for the people that are inviting them into their communities? By the way, I am happy to have finally found your real YouTube channel.
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  29. 3911 TOTAL tanks in storage, at present, according to the same source.
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  30.  @powershift2025  With good reason, processed foods alone supports our medical and pharmaceutical industries, which are counting on Americans eating carcinogens (like hotdogs) and becoming chronically ill at an early age, and wondering Y.
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  31.  @DK-ev9dg  Well I don't believe China will cease to exist in seven years either, but it is certainly not the happiest, healthiest, richest , or cleanest , actually it really isn't any of the things you claim, and the evidence is readily apparent if you actually have access to the facts. Denmark or Norway are the happiest depending on the year. USA is the richest and most innovative and most powerful by far, and obviously the most influential. Japan is the healthiest. Norway may be the best managed but that is a parameter that is difficult to determine. Just because you have been lied to and believe your claims doesn't make them true. Do some research with some actual facts, if you really have access to them.
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  32. If you know of any house set on fire because a Tesla was parked in the garage please let me know.
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  33.  @andrewpolito9244 Unfortunately: probably more true than we wish.
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  34.  @benweiss4956  It basically came into existence to a significant degree because of the professionals that the GI bill generated after WW2.
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  35. To live in "interesting times" is of course a Chinese curse. So I am supposing that your comment is ironic, even though that does not come through in it.
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  36.  @smileygladhands  Or actually find out what they believe and you will find they are more crazy than the pedestrian kindness of their public face portents.
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  37. How anyone could have lived through the biggest concentration of wealth in human history, that moved worker financial power into the hands of banker and market elites in a manner that makes the gilded age look tarnished and say what you are claiming beggars my credulity.
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  38. Things are not worse than they used to be, they are very much better in almost every regard. But social media and political AHs have many bears of little brain believing things are getting worse.
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  39. At the time of the American Revolution approximately ten percent of the US population was German. That is the reason English was not established as the official language. During the American Revolution more Continental Soldiers died in British prison ships harbored in the Hudson Bay than on the battlefield. Probably due to the love and kindness of the Empire for it's "kid". Today the largest ethnic group in the USA is German. For you to think that the USA is a scion of Great Britain as opposed to a radial rebuttal of everything it represented is a ludicrous example of megalomania. The USA had more to do with the shaping of the UK than the opposite. What is hard to understand about an undeserving people having their asses saved twice by a former colony that they abused? The biggest mistake the USA ever made was entering WW1. If the Americans had allowed the Germans to win after Russia collapsed: no Hitler, no WW2, no extermination of Jews and probably Ukranians, and an end result quite like the EU today anyway. Stupid, Stupid decision. But it did prove Edward Bernays theories about the processes of influencing the masses on an unconscious level when his Council on Foreign Relations turned America from firmly antiwar to prowar in a matter of months.
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  40. "chic" does not mean what you think it does: chic /shēk/ adjective Conforming to the current fashion; stylish. "chic clothes; a chic boutique." Adopting or setting current fashions and styles; sophisticated: synonym: fashionable. "chic, well-dressed young executives." Similar: fashionable Original and in good taste or form; stylish; in current fashion, fashionable. Similar: stylish. You mean "chick" which is short for chicken, not chic which is pronounced sheik.
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  41. Most of the health care dollar goes to the business side of healthcare and middle men. Though it is true that when I was a teen, the average income for an MD was 25k, now they all expect to be millionaires. France did it right and increased the number of docs by allowing more into med schools. We did it wrong by keeping the docs in short supply and importing them form third world countries.
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  42. Actually: that is: in reality, you would fall asleep faster and deeper if you removed your socks at bedtime. The human body needs to decrease it's temperature in order to fall asleep. This all was covered in excruciating scientific detail in Huberman's videos on sleep.
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  43.  @WJdad  Good to hear. I am so sick of tribal groups declaring some mountain "sacred" or some such nonsense. Either everything is "sacred" or nothing is. The enlightened man sees the Buddha in a piece of dung -- or so I have heard. Time for beliefs based on nonsense and sentimental emotional blinders to disappear from the face of earth. They have enslaved the minds of the dullards who in tern shackle the actions that are necessary to aspire to our golden destiny among the stars.
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  44.  @mfawls9624  LOL, Things often seem paradoxical if you believe the MAGA FUD, and are then given a peek at reality. Cali is mecca for the homeless and street people, they come from all over the country. But Cali is rich rich rich, and huge huge huge, far bigger and richer than a few minute places where the news media likes to focus.
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  45.  @tsubadaikhan6332 Which "they" are you referring in your second to last sentence? I wish the macro situation would trickle down to our local Home Depot parking lot. Maybe then you could get some decent semi-skilled and casual labor for less then $35/hr. Unfortunately such is not the case where I live, and there is no shortage of Help Wanted signs outside of local industry, advertising starting wages for compete nubes in the low to mid twenties per hour. In short, if the robots don't show up, grandma's roof is probably gonna leak unless she is wealthy.
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  46. Call me old fashion, butI love a pundit that "breaks it down" instead of "unpacking" raw data.
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  47. It doesn't matter how many times you say the USA is an empire -- it isn't and never was. It just means you don't know what an empire is or have a skewed view of history.
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  48.  @garybest In India at Jamnagar (the world's largest oil refinery) the Russian crude is blended with other foreign crude and refined into gasoline, diesel, and other products that can be legally bought by American companies.
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  49.  @SkylerKing  But in WW2 Russia was richly supported by shipments of arms and materials from the USA. A major point of Russian amnesia. Without this support they would have lost.
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  50.  @elinope4745  You can easily start -- unskilled, and make mid twenties in east central PA, if you are willing to live in the hard coal region, you can buy a near mansion for the price of a mobile home. If you have to live in the farm country or outside the region, it's still only about triple that. I do not live there but if you are an off road enthusiast the coal region is like a 24 hour enduro. And you can drive your ATV unlicensed on the streets in places like Shamokin PA.
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