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

  1. A balance like two countries constantly at war trying gain an advantage over the other.
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  2.  @jorgegwydirrangel3377  Earth rotates, and there’s a period of time when any given part is facing away from the sun called night. Energy sources dependent on continuous sun light don’t work during this period called night, so you either need massive batteries or back up generators. Unlike Germany you don’t get to buy electricity off your neighbors. Solar is going to be completely dominated by large land owners because they’re going to be the only ones with enough land to build the solar farms.
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  3.  @jorgegwydirrangel3377  it takes more than a thin coastal region to create the watershed needed for the kind of river system hydroelectric can use. Hell, y’all don’t even have enough water to drink. There’s a reason y’all have 30 desalination plants. YoU have no idea how radioactive decay or geothermal works. Even the natural reactors —they’re extremely rare, and I only know of one— barely put off enough heat to be above room temperature. Canada is a world leader in nuclear and have even developed their own type of reactor, the CANDU, which runs off of natural uranium. Australia is actually richer per capita, so if you put the effort in, Australia could develop its own nuclear industry. That nuclear sub deal might actually help start it.
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  4.  @jorgegwydirrangel3377  I know “renewables” quite well, including their down sides. I can’t find anything about “radio isotope geothermal”, so either you’re going to have to provide a source or I’m going to discount it as some nonsense you’ve made up. A limited number of hydroelectric dams doesn’t mean it’s a good option. “It is estimated that one per cent of the geothermal energy shallower than five kilometres and hotter than 150°C could supply Australia's total energy requirements for 26 000 years” and no source or any explanation of how they’re going to deal with obstacles. Who are y’all going to provoke? China? They’ve already demanded y’all subjugate yourselves to them, so being provocative is the right thing to do.
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  5. If they started 30 years ago, it might have offset some of the problems.
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  6. China has done everything but make wise economic decisions.
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  7. Even if their birth rate jumped by several times over night, they would still have the same problem. In the long run having more children is the answer, but in the short run they're going to have to bring people in from elsewhere and automate what they can.
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  8. It’s not the public. It’s a the cultists of the “green” cult will browbeat everyone into using coal, so they have great evil to fight and keep themselves relevant, rather than actually solving problems.
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  9. The EC is a bureaucratic mess, and UK left because of a cultural conflict between the English majority and the continental Europe.
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  10. AI has a come a long way, but it’s can only do so much.
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  11. Social science is tangential to his arguments.
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  12. 1) you give the US too much credit. We don’t have any kind of coherent plans. 2) you give the EU way too many credit. Most Americans don’t even know the EU exists.
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  13.  @jimboblordofeskimos  China has 5 allies —several only nominally so—, and most of their neighbors hate them.
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  14. That’s how you get world wars. I don’t need to tell you how bad those are.
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  15. Jasc Random, access isn’t just tariffs. It’s common to subsidize an industry so they can sell at a lower price. Another is quotas. The EU just like to it’s protectionism.
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  16. Jasc Random, only defense and agriculture get the kind of subsidies the EU gives, and the US doesn’t have quotas.
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  17. Jasc Random, in the US we’re capitalists, not mercantilists. Mercantilism doesn’t improve consumer choice. It just protects the status quo.
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  18. Jasc Random, yes, the US does some of the things the EU does, but not to the degree the EU does.
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  19. Stephen Jenkins, Russia and China aren’t threats like the Soviets were, nor will they be. Both have major geographic issues along with short and long term economic issues, demographics being one of the biggest. I never said the US was doing it out of a sense of generosity. The deal was simple: the US gives NATO money in exchange for fighting WW3 in Europe. The system has only survived after the fall of the Soviet Union out of shear institutional momentum.
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  20. erik2000, no we don’t. Our population is the youngest of the developed world and has a younger average age than Russia or China. We also don’t have a series of islands blocking us in, and our ports aren’t frozen in during winter.
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  21. erik2000, who knows.
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  22. First off, they would have to allow that kind of mass immigration. Second, China would have to be nice enough for people to want to move there en mass.
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  23. I’m from Texas, and there’s definitely a border culture.
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  24. Basically, all the Germanic language countries, with exemption of the UK. Go figure that a bunch of culturally similar countries get along.
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  25. Taiwan is pretty admit that they aren't part of the same country as the mainland.
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  26. I would go further and say it’s exactly the same. The same people, the same culture, the same land mass just about 100 miles north of border.
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  27.  @pullt  you basically say that about Canada as a whole
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  28. No, English speakers just don’t like being told what to do, which is why a group of English speaking nations makes sense.
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  29. You’re completely missing the point. If the climate was suitable for growing crops or grazing animals, people would have moved there and farmed/ranched it, just like the Midwest. The US has plenty of allies, Canada being one of them. We’ve just been putting out the extras to the curb. However, even if the was all alone and they could somehow get here, no one is stupid enough to fight the US in North America.
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  30.  @jimboblordofeskimos  that’s a terrible definition. That includes people who enlist into national militaries. It also means domestic soldiers for hire aren’t mercenaries. Mercenaries are people who have been contracted to fight a battle, campaign, or war but are not part of the military institutions of a nation. They’re contractors, not employees.
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  31. China is dependent on outside resources, and they can’t secure their trade routes. There are very few resources the US needs from outside our borders.
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  32. China isn’t powerful enough to just an take what ever it wants. They can’t even fully secure their trade. The PLAN mostly sticks around the Chinese coast. The US fights weak countries because they’re the only ones dumb enough to start a right against the US.
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  33. Wow, North Korea and Iran are acting the exact same way as they have been for decades. Europe is a land mass. The EU is a political body that can have relations with countries, and EU has a strange relationship with the US, wanting to act superior to the US but needing the US to keep the peace in Europe. However, the US actually has good relations with a number of member states of the EU, like the UK and Poland.
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  34. There’s a huge difference between a stable population with moderate population growth and out of control population growth. How does having fewer people doing economically valuable activities increase the the GDP per capita? If it’s only the poor dying or leaving, you might have an argument, but it’s just people getting old. The human population is larger than it has ever been, and we have more resources than ever before. There’s a saying, “many hands make light work.”
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  35. Not when there are fewer people working. Even if the population shrank promotionally, which it doesn’t, the best you can hope for is GDP per capita to stay the same.
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  36. Tusk, the problem for Russia is they have a shrinking population. In 20 or so years, Russia isn’t going to have the men they need to fight a major war.
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  37. Most of China’s neighbors hate them, and China doesn’t have the means to cut countries like Japan off from the Pacific.
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  38. American influence isn’t declining, and Canada sure isn’t going to replace us.
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  39. You seem to have been living under a rock. Trump pulled out most of the troops from the Middle East. Biden maybe reversing that, but leaving the Middle East in a serious way isn’t fantasy. Also, the US was a net exporter of oil by the end of 2018. Complete energy independence is just a matter of retooling, which is already underway.
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  40.  @pedrovascodeoliveiraveriss6293  having allies and selling weapons doesn’t we haven’t left. Iran has been fighting a proxy war against the US in Iraq for years, so Trump didn’t nearly start anything.
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  41.  @pedrovascodeoliveiraveriss6293  we’re not talking about what you think is best. We’re talking about what has happened. Also, you think Vietnam and the Russian invasion of Afghanistan weren’t full scale wars?
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  42. I’m not sure if you’re joking or don’t understand what is being said.
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  43. Canada got massively favorable terms in NAFTA. The new deal Canada had to take at US terms because they don’t have anything to offer the US.
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  44. Smaller economy with less specialization with fewer resources per person. Also, if you don’t have the population to defend your territory, you’re not going to have to worry about war because you’ll be conquered.
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  45. The reason three of those countries exist is because the fourth was happy to sail across the planet back when wind was the only way to move ships.
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  46.  @NewEnglandYankee76  that’s agreeing with me. The British crossed the ocean when it was much harder. It won’t daunt them now as they move away from Europe.
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  47. In absolute terms China has a lot of people, but it’s missing enough young people to support their aging population.
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  48.  @BigMac4459  you’re not getting it. Even if everyone in Japan decided that having as many children as possible was the greatest thing, that’s at least 18 years until they join the work force and 40 before they become tax positive citizens, and in reality longer. In that 40 year period, they need people to keep their economy going. Very few countries can support their modern populations at modern living standards without large amounts of resources from other countries.
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  49. Are you talking about climate or culture?
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  50. No, just the CCP.
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