Comments by "18rabbit" (@18_rabbit) on "Econ Lessons" channel.

  1.  @bodasactra  duh it's a process, u can't eliminate huge factors in european economics overnight, ti's been a gradual process over the three years. Duh.
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  2. yes esp. when it's massively bigger & doesn't even have to account to/for his own ppl.
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  3. YEs!!! brilliant idea to join with Jake Broe!!
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  4. We Yanks are deeply angry and sorry about this! We're now pushing WH/congress to defend Ukr. We're enraged tbph! (to be perfectly honest) and we are in our first internal gvt-forced cultural--revolution ever in the 250 years of history, now 6 weeks underway, so it's very complicated and gvt has been partly dismanteled for first time in 150 years of civil service system! So, please be patient IF u r relying on the US; bcuz our functionality as a system of sorts, is questionable. WE love Ukr!
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  5. bravo!
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  6.  @didobill  reality is that keen minds like his were not smoking hash or any toxic crap
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  7. yes! but i'm not sure western society was regressing until quite recently and part of it really IS caused by a combo of things including antiwestern and antidemocratic disinfo pushed in sophisticated organized ways by actual gvt's including the CRINK nations. I am middle aged and have dealt with this topic directly, including studying the topic, and studying with foreign nations from some of those nations. And at a school of reknown that attracted such foreigners.
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  8.  @Delgwah  not in same universe of numbers! Ru has extreme rates of no indoor plumbing, over half of households! US, a fraction of a percent
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  9.  @petersinclair3997  yes, which is why serious econ sanctions and techj-specific sanctions will be necessary WITH monitoring. Ru/federation so plainly violated international law, norms and human-values that they risked part of their soverignty and now they will not have full sovereignty going forward IF we apply the logic of ajudicated international law, much like was done at close of 1945, but not seriously enough.
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  10. So true! THAT is the entire point and perogative of the application of international law. There cannot be a modernization of the russian military and there SHOULD be a partial or even full demilitarization of its external reaching military capabilities. This is a no brainer, it MUST be done. The risks are too high to neighbors and free-states far flung such as mine, these United States of america (which btw, the liberals of among us including myself, are becoming increasingly concerned about the now open-intereference in our affairs as well as those of European nations of heft (DE, FR), and eventually if the world does not contain Russia, we yanks and europeans will literally fight russia IN ANGER after being very patient since the 1930's till now. Ru is a ticking time bomb and needs containment. Anyone who is middle aged to old, knows this. Many young ppl are too naive or ignorant to grasp the basics of this.
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  11.  @aaronmicalowe  actually, not really: bcuz now the US is a net oil exporter. But yes, super heavy consumer too.
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  12. of course he's correct. Ru has a history of not being skilled at managing economics. An actually well-organized society with enough mutual cooperation does not have problems as dysfunctional as russia since the 1850's. they are stuck in pre-modernity and are literally a medieval thinking society.
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  13. yes indeed, it IS stressful: but together we Yanks will defeat this. March 14 is a big march on DC and/or in state capitols. We must show up big time! make it historic bcuz this is our last chance probably!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  14. i adore Italy and italians
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  15. yes this is part of a human personality factor called things like 'defeatism', 'traumatized status', etc that leads to various forms of confusion about one's own tribe visavis other tribes, e.g. the wealthy west.
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  16.  @Puleczech  thank u for pointing it out. Btw, my slovak friend is one of the most docile passive ppl i have ever known. Putty in the hands of bullies
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  17. he's actually implying indirectly that the entire history of the dollar's stregnth is tied to the fact that after 1945 the US was literally the funder, guide and beacon of freedom, and then economic growth over time. That is an indisputable fact. The US, without a history of strong industrialization, become a deeply skilled creator of businesses that grew this planet's entire economy , thru networks with OTHER free nations. Only in the past thirty years have the unfree nations glommed on and parastically drawn from teh world's wealth, including these Bric/Clink nations who've grown dramatically.
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  18. temporary drain on Western munitions, not resources/military overall, and in fact the opposite, as we finally get to simulate peer-to-peer war, and major war, with actual data for the first time EVER. It's actually a boon to the allied militaries, if they study hard,and if the allies organize and get smart about equipment needs and production.
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  19. yes, in Germany, the Reich built really trashy structures with facades, for the non-military sites. In the military sites, some of those are the most unimaginably strong thick concrete structures ever built in the world and are there to this day, though some damaged severely by bomb hits. They are incredible to see, on those Nat Geo shows. Northern French coast has that port/docking site for ships that is probably the strongest concrete structure of all
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  20.  @EconLessons  awesome!
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  21. yep, honestly that is actually part of the issue: DJT and his types are jealous of how Canada can pull off such a prosperous society with universal basic healthcare. Yet we yanks spend 2-5X on healthcare, and its not universal and our overall health outcomes from care are worse. Jealousy is a powerful thing...(and yes i'm severely aware of the slowness of some procedures access in Can.)
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  22. yes, same for many of us americans. Hope u also found Silicon Curtain here, which is the first treasure-trove about Ru and Ukr affairs, on such a broad yet deep level, it has some of the most interesting dynamical series of related topics i've ever heard, wrt history, culture, everything. My background was International Affairs/politics, in D.C.
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  23. indeed, i concur as an american who is not young and knows a bit about it
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  24. couldn't agree more! great analogies! And the Kursk situation really is fascinating and a tremendously bad sign at this extended time frame, for Russian overall military capabilities. Imho, Ru seems to be so slow at learning how to fight in particular formats, that it took them two years to start to do better in the main area, i.e Donetsk. It simply takes them too long overall.
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  25.  @comatoseps1382  that's not how it works. As usual u r another 'low-information' person bcuz u didn't pay attention in school enough.
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  26.  @thorthunder6336  yeah and surrendered in such a way as it was 'total'. Comparing post war DE to what Ru will be when it loses in Ukr, is not possible: No country will ever want nor be willing to occupy or control Ru like DE was. So sanctions will have a far great role to play, and playing true hard-core hard-ball will be required. Ru is a ppl who are out of control of their country and of the worst among them. This is basic sociology and there is no way around the fact that Ru will be contained, one way or another. This shit-storm was allowed too much barbarism from the 1930's until 1989, and the gig is up. RU will never be tolerated again to grow into a menace.
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  27. unfortunately in Japan, for about 25 years that had/has already been a trend or mixing w/ trends that have the same outward appearance. After the '89ish crisis of finance, it's been tough.
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  28.  @rwtindall  there's only so much tighter the canadian border can be within specific rapid timeframes! Same for our own approach to mexican border. We yanks have to import so much canadian stuff bcuz things like our own food production in the past decade has become exorbitantly expensive and inefficient (that's what happens when we have a chaotic socio-economic system where work-life is not stable bcuz ppl can suddenly go into bankruptcy/threat due to health problems. We americans have lost the plot overall, slowly over the past thirty years. We have done this or allowed it to happen to ourselves. It's time for centrists and liberals to unite and lead the nation out of this unbelievably antiamerican WH/admin/situation.
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  29.  @Joe_the_Dude  it was fairly obvious for 8 yrs running that Orange julius/geeenie-us was alligningn w/ russian interests, mercantilist insantiy
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  30.  @majorrgeek  exactly! now Ukr will have possibility to get really good aero equipment from Sweden, which should feel it wants to now give it all of its technology IF it feels Ukr has a fair chance, ie so it wont have that equipment captured by Ru.
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  31.  @majorrgeek  i agree as an american centrist (quite conservative, a bit liberal in other ways too)
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  32. precisely! As a middle aged man who formally studied a lot of this & got to mingle with old dipolomats in the '90's, there is no question that a deep form of influence has happened in western ultra-conservative/right-wing entities/individuals and they've essentially combined allignment of 'values' with old-cold-war unconscious thinking that condescends to Ru by accepting its claims and internalizing those claims as truth, when they are literal facades and gaslights by Ru since the 1920's till today. Not even one thing has changed for the Ru's since the 1920's. Not one.
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  33. yep, violent ppl. I forget who it was i was watching, who'd been living there in the '90's and when he or another foreigner complained at the hotel desk, the clerk drew a pistol and pointed it at him. Incredibly pathetic personalities in so many russians then and now
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  34. lol. Same arguments since '77ish. ROFLMAO.
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  35.  @stepannakamura9669  exactly the opposite, it is accurate wrt macro 101, 110, 220, etc
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  36.  @hansjoachimdammer1255  ? what is 'our moving bank on the hotel elevator'??
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  37. damned correct. Rubio is so unfathomably out of his depth
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  38. but the $300B..sum is rightfully owned by and MORE needed by the Ukrainians than the Ru's, in every sense. Ru has constant income still now, in huge numbers that can keep their ppl fed. In contrast, Ukr is struggling and needs at least $200B to just survive for the next period while the economy starts running better going forward.
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  39. your ru-style humour is so 'common' that we can smell ya thousands of miles away! (hint: it's the condescenion)
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  40.  @andyhurrell  less psychopathic than Pootin.
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  41. the econ future is not predictable, but human behavior/social is, ie light prevails. Duh.
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  42. great points
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  43. NOT insane, purely stupid. Literally the definition of stupidity for them to keep believing
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  44. wow, i didn't realize that! awesome!!!!!!!
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  45. no, the world economy is now big enough to withstand the US econ falling, and that is a slower process usually now even here in america, ie downturns.
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  46. correct
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  47. the idea is complentary, fitting into eachothers' systems, but only bcuz DJT is less intelligent & has ultra ultra thin skin.
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  48.  @EconLessons  want to hear more!!
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  49.  @jonno27  true. AND the mil help generally also maaaasively benefited US mil capabilities/learning as well as intelligence/data on the Ru's. We yanks made out like bandits in terms of risk-reward. I studied this crap in great detail at a great uni and have read over time about such things.
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  50. bingo!
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