Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1. The French Foreign Legion aren’t mercenaries. They’re a branch of the French military. They don’t fight for whomever will pay them. They fight for France, and occasionally their own interests in France.
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  2.  @Freshbott2  renewables aren’t cheap or getting cheaper, and nuclear is looking at a renaissance, with companies like Terrapower, Terrestrial Energy, Elysium Industries etc.
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  3.  @ChineseKiwi  the price for the equipment is dropping, but associated costs are going up because it’s destabilizes the grid, as shown by the examples of Germany and California. We only have a few gen. 3.5 and no gen. 4 reactors built right now, and the cost of gen. 3 going up is entirely do to politic obstacles, mostly from environmentalists.
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  4.  @Freshbott2  the price for the equipment is dropping, but associated costs are going up because it’s destabilizes the grid, as shown by the examples of Germany and California.  Nuclear has only gotten more expensive because of obstacles from environmentalists and others, and mass production of gen. 4 reactors promises to lower the cost massively. Also, the claim nuclear will never pay back it’s costs is just flatly untrue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY&t=343s
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  5. What’s the problem recognizing that Mexico lives in natural sphere of influence of the US?
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  6. Argentina has a large area with high quality growing land with navigable rivers that connect to the ocean and plenty of resources. Brazil has poor quality growing land and and rivers that aren’t navigable.
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  7. It’s not that they just go away. It’s that their hands’ get weaker with time while the US’s gets stronger.
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  8. China’s population is rapidly aging because of the one child policy.
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  9. The US would lose some ships at worst, but all the US really needs to do is blockade China.
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  10. Art Man, DC was only planned in the sense that the roads and where a few of the original government buildings, and Brasilia is a terrible place to live if you don’t have a car.
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  11.  @Freshbott2  nuclear gets a fraction of the subsidies of renewables, nor does it need batteries. The only thing you got right is that the loony environmentalists aren’t going away, but we can ignore them.
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  12. Yeah, Canada is a lot like the US: major cities on the costs that are more alike than the area between them.
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  13.  @ContraVsGigi  You completely missed my point on the US economy. You asserted that the US economy only grew to the size it is because of the US ability to protect power. However, the US has had the largest economy since the 1870s; proving your assertion wrong.
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  14.  @ContraVsGigi  you’re making some bad assumptions. The first and worst is assuming the US got rich/maintains it’s wealth by trading with other countries. The second is that a more powerful military means you automatically have more negotiating power.
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  15. Rule of law means that force will only be use under clearly defined conditions, rather than a whim. There’s no contradiction.
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  16. chf gbp, China was trying to control the market. Of course, people were going to try to change that. Not that the Opium wars were justified.
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  17. China was a engaging in unfair trade practices because they held a monopoly on a number of goods. Of course, other countries were going to retaliate. This doesn't make the British response right, but there was always going to be a response of some kind.
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  18. China knew the west didn't have large amounts of silver but demanded that trade be conducted with silver only. I don't know any other word that fits better than unfair.
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  19.  @789know  phones aren’t made in China; they’re assembled in in China. The high end parts like the screens are made in the US, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Also, the US is replacing China with places like Vietnam and Mexico for stuff that can’t be automated because of lower labor costs. For the stuff that can be automated, it’s coming back to the US.
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  20. Sure but the rest is coming with us too.
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  21. The US has rare earth elements. It’s just that buying them from China is cheaper with the US regulatory environment. China does a lot of the final assembly of electronics, but the US and other countries still make a lot of the higher end components. So what if India is becoming a new technology center? We have our own that are more than enough to support the US. Unless the EU actively causes the US problems, we don’t really care. The only interest the US really has in the Middle East is it’s effects on the world order. If we don’t want to keep the world order, we have nothing to care about in the area.
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  22.  @ChineseKiwi  that still doesn’t make your arguments true. Moreover, renewables are going to be in a state of perpetual construction, so that’s not really an argument against on multiple levels.
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  23.  @Freshbott2  load fallowing is something all power sources have to deal, and we haven’t been using energy storage. So you assertion is just wrong on its face. Moreover, there are other ways of dealing with changing demand. Nuclear desalinates water, so when electricity demand is low, nuclear can be desalinating water, which is particularly useful for places like California. And it’s not just water. “The subsidies renewables receive are irrelevant when we're looking at projected costs not current spending.” what does that even mean? Renewables are never going to be cheaper than coal or gas. California and Germany are great case studies on why. France, with 80% nuclear, has the cheapest electricity in Europe.
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  24.  @Freshbott2  load fallowing is something all power sources have to deal, and we haven’t been using energy storage. So you assertion is just wrong on its face. Moreover, there are other ways of dealing with changing demand. Nuclear desalinates water, so when electricity demand is low, nuclear can be desalinating water, which is particularly useful for places like California. And it’s not just water. “The subsidies renewables receive are irrelevant when we're looking at projected costs not current spending.” what does that even mean? Renewables are never going to be cheaper than coal or gas. California and Germany are great case studies on why. France, with 80% nuclear, has the cheapest electricity in Europe.
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  25.  @jorgegwydirrangel3377  Australia is a rather flat dry country, so hydroelectric is out. Australia is also a geologically stable continent, so geothermal is out. Biofuels are a net energy loss; unless you’re talking about burning wood pellets, which is obviously terrible and a stupid idea for a country that’s mostly desert. Most hydrogen is made from natural gas, and what isn’t is a net energy loss like biofuels. Wind has the same problem as solar: inconsistency, and no, batteries aren’t good enough. Currently Australia has one of the largest battery packs in the world, and it’s only good a for smoothing out the demand curve in a lightly populated area. Then there’s the cost of batteries. Most people in Oz live in cities in the habitable costs, so even though the cities have a lot of suburban area, the the city centers are going to need more than solar panels on the roof. Steel mills and the like run best when running 24/, and just on mill/factory can use as much electricity asa small city and need the lowest costs the can get, which is anything but unreliables and batteries. Nuclear on the other hand is consistent, and molten salt reactors, in particular, are the perfect source for industrial heat. Even the current reactors naturally desalinate water, which would be really useful for Oz. Australia is the second largest producer of uranium, so nuclear would actually improve Australia’s geopolitical position by making it energy independent. Moreover, most solar panels are produced in China, solar makes you dependent on China, which is just a stupid geopolitical move.
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  26. The US economy was the largest in the world long before the US become the global hegemon. Also, the US oil industry will easily survive this market. The only part that was really hit was the extraction, and that area is particularly easy to restart in the US.
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  27. It’s not, but It’s probably the single biggest reason
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  28. I like cookies, because it doesn’t work anymore. The US was happy to pay other countries to keep the Soviets in Eastern Europe. We aren’t so happy to keep paying for something that doesn’t do anything for us anymore.
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  29. I like cookies, we aren’t paying that directly. We’re paying with easy access to our markets, which isn’t reciprocated, and military funding for NATO.
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  30. Only Spanish speakers have that problem.
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  31.  @guilegameche3810  I’ve dealt with some Spanish speakers who are pathological in refusing to use English conventions when using English.
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  32.  @jimboblordofeskimos  I did, and like I said, it’s a terrible definition.
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  33.  @jimboblordofeskimos  no, it’s a dictionary definition, and dictionaries are often terrible at defining things.
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  34. Hessian Of the Saxons, no, a baby boom needs prosperous conditions and usually coming out of a war or other kind of hardship. Russia is just not doing well enough for a baby boom. Furthermore. A baby boom wont save Russia because they will still be missing the generation ahead of the boom.
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  35. The US already offers Japan most of that, so there's not much reason for them to go talking to Russia about more than a couple of those.
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  36. You've got to be careful of selection bias. The Japanese people traveling of pleasure and studying abroad are already people with an eye to outside of Japan. With that being said, Japan has a tendency to treat foreigners, even people who have been living in Japan for years or decades, as guests who will return home eventually.
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  37. How many years of brainwashing did it take you to get that crazy?
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  38. Why would Indonesia care about what the power source of Australia’s subs is? The Philippines will break to the US side.
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  39.  @cliffordnelson8454  you wouldn’t know what a logical fallacy is you had a red fish smacking you in the face. Oz buying new and more capable weapons and ships is a direct response to Chinese aggression, the same aggression China has used against Indonesia, so again, what is Indonesia’s problem. If I was Indonesia, I would be very happy to let someone else do the work of dealing with China.  The Philippines is a long standing ally and former territory of the US. Their money is even pegged to the USD. Duturte tried sucking up to China, but that was just him.
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  40. Non-perishable bulk goods are always going to be shipped at the lowest cost point. Small high value goods get shipped by air. Goods that fall in between get shipped by rail. You can’t run an economy the size of China’s off of middle.
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  41. Until Trudeau does stupid shit like inviting the Chinese military into Canada.
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  42. History has shown that to be untrue. At best, that’s true for some places at particular times.
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  43. It literally takes generations to fill out a declining population.
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  44.  Symon Mailhot  under international law there’s a strong case that the Northwest Passage is an international sea route
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  45. Canada is always going to be broken up and it’s provenances and territories turned into states.
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  46. Tell that to sub-saran Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and the United States.
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  47. The US is too German without being German enough to get along without friction with Germany.
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  48. Surrounded by possible enemies and easy to invade.
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  49. Nationalist, the US fought WW2 for less, and we have the weapons to fight the apocalypse.
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  50. What are you talking about? The US would have 13 new territories as we fix the difunctional governments.
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