Comments by "" (@manofsan) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. It's Captain Smug again, ready to shill for the Biden gerontocracy and toe their line. The guy's been claiming forever that the Russians are on death's door and ready to throw in the towel. Yet his climbdown continues with each passing week and month. In regards to this guy quickly chiming in with the other shills -- Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much -- something shady in all their simultaneous squawking.
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  2. What a shill. Equating Trump with senile Joe Biden? Seriously? Ridiculous. One guy is sane, while being a Washington outsider. The other guy is a senile mentally deteriorated lifelong politician-kleptocrat. Shill Zeihan tries to smear Trump without being specific (how typical of Zeihan). The only reason Biden has made it so far while being senile is because of the legions of sycophant-shills like Zeihan who've continually kept plugging him. Beyond pathetic. Media collusion in suppressing Hunter Biden laptop story was a "clean election"? Only for corrupt shills like Zeihan. Political shills like Zeihan are part of the problem, not the solution. What a despicably corrupt preacher of delusion.
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  3. What the Ukrainians do to others can be done to them. All kinds of infrastructure can be blasted in Western Ukraine or even Poland, without even having to conduct overt military strikes.
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  4. This guy is a shill -- increasingly a shill for WW3. Disgusting. There's no way for Ukraine to beat Russia, and targeting bases on Russian soil just brings us all closer to WW3. The West backing Ukraine with missiles and increasingly advisors, just means the US is sneaking into WW3 like a camel nosing its way under the tent. Ukraine doesn't have the manpower to defend, let alone mount offensives. Zelensky no longer even has a figleaf of a mandate. But that's what Washington likes most - supporting corrupt banana republics in the name of "freedom".
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  5. stop blaming for not spending on defense, and make peace instead
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  6.  @courtneyadkins1580  - I think there are also many people who hope to sucker Americans into doing all sorts of silly things while stroking their egos. The best way to keep yourself ahead is to not be overconfident in assuming the future is in the bag.
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  7. ​ @Arthur Peters - his arguments are hollow and smug. He avoids looking at the more relevant metrics and always tries to hide behind shaky demographic estimates. It's good to criticize oneself in order to reap improvements. Hollow pride won't keep America strong.
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  8. It could be "ISIS" (keep the quotes on that) We'll know for sure that it's "ISIS" when media mouthpieces all begin insisting so in unison, even before an investigation has been done
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  9. That's good, because Scandinavian countries look to be experiencing demographic collapse at least as quickly as Russia.
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  10. Zeihan is full of whining blather again -- nothing I'd pay for. Russia has stated its policy, and whether or not it's bluffing is something that could only be ascertained by trying to cross its newly stated redlines. If they're bluffing, then he can have a laugh. But if they're not bluffing, then even hiding in Wisconsin won't save Zeihan.
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  11. What happens if everybody else, including Israel's enemies, starts using this tactic? Do Israelis not use consumer electronic devices? Sure they do. They may have just opened a can of worms. When every other conflict in the world spills over into supply chain antics, then will the United-States-of-No-Credibility be alternately condemning & averting its gaze? What happens when such attacks start happening on US soil? Consumer markets are one of the few things the US has left - will those now desert it too?
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  12.  @edmondwhite6683  - Foggy Bottom seems to be represented by foggy heads (like "Honest" A.Blinken)
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  13.  @plrt6794  - her answer is not to answer - which tells us what the real answer is
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  14.  @BasePuma4007  - because her govt has blocked the release of names of those who served with the Nazi forces and later gained entry into Canada. It's worth asking who she's protecting and why, including whether this includes her own grandpa.
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  15.  @BasePuma4007  - she was originally a journalist at the Financial Times with a focus on bashing Russia. That's why she's been ushered up the Liberal Party hierarchy. The Deep State has its preferred allies to suit its agenda. Those who show up uninvited like Trump, get smacked with Russia Collusion hoax investigations and inquisitions.
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  16.  @zeusvalentine3638  - no, Melanie Joly is the Kamala waiting for Trudeau's handlers to hand over the reins to. Chrystia Freeland is more like Victoria Nuland, preferred by the Deep Staters for her anti-Russia pathological obsession (which is totally normal in Zeihan's world)
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  17. surrre - just like they didn't benefit from blowing up Nord Stream?
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  18.  @rtqii  - Biden was worse by far - the walking dead. Every time I saw him just standing there with a blank look and his mouth open, the darkness inside that mouth made him look like an undead zombie.
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  19.  @Leftatalbuquerque  - when you use the state to make your opponent a felon, then felon becomes a badge of honor. Next you'll tell me you won't for any guy who lives in a tower wearing an iron mask.
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  20. Kharkiv isn't defensible - only shows why Ukrainians have lost so many lives. They've got more hormones than sense, unfortunately.
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  21. Zeihan & Co are a circle jerk for American Empire -- not what the constitutional founders had in mind.
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  22. India's reticence about alliance with the USA stems from America's longtime support for Pakistan and China, India's two main adversaries. America's myopic shortsighted backing of Pakistan's irredentism and jihadism led to disastrous blowback, but only after inflicting lots of collateral damage on India. The China problem now represents the dropping of the other shoe.
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  23. Don't be ignorant and fall for Zeihan's claptrap. "Ukraine" never existed before the breakup of the USSR. Before WW2, there wasn't any "Ukraine" - there was just Eastern Poland + Western Russia in its place. The people living in the eastern part of Ukraine are Russians who have always lived there. Kiev tried to wipe them out, and so Russia invaded. So Putin isn't the hardliner in this case - the Russian people actually think Putin is a wimp for not pounding Ukraine harder. So certainly there's no shortage of Russians queuing up to go fight. It's not "another country" for them -- you're just badly misinformed thanks to fools like Zeihan, and that's why the war isn't going how you imagine it should. Echo chambers are dangerous things.
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  24. He's a lot smarter than you give him credit for
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  25. That is a really loud tie -- where's the Hawaiian shirt to go with it? :person-turqouise-waving:
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  26. Elon Musk says we'll do it all with automation. What do you think those humanoid robots are for? They're so that the rest of us can sit around on mountain-tops sipping lemonade, while the machines do all the work for us. I don't think they'll be able to automate Zeihan's mouth though - it's got some kind of perpetual energy source that never runs out.
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  27.  @Uofijustin  - BRICs is proposing a basket of currencies that will take over from the US dollar. You need to understand that others will not put up with having the value of their holdings diluted and stolen away from them by Washington kleptocrats and their crazy credit card addiction.
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  28.  @pepperVenge  - BRICS wants a basket of currencies to replace the US Dollar. Don't think that everybody's just going to sit idly by, while Washington kleptocrats steal everybody else's holdings out from under them.
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  29.  @mikebracco890 - You sound like Louis XIV - "L'Etat C'Est Moi/" BRICS is proposing a basket of currencies. So a US dollar replacement doesn't have to be just one particular currency. Once upon a time, people used to invest in particular stocks, but later they moved on to funds, which represent a basket of stocks.
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  30.  @mikebracco890  - you don't understand - Washington politicians are literally ("transparently") spending all the money that belongs to dollar-holders. Washington is nakedly ("transparently") confiscating the assets another country entrusted to them. Nobody will put up with that kind of kleptocratic behavior. Nobody. You want to uphold kleptocracy, so you say "Tough luck, I'm the only game in town." Nah - the world won't be ripped off - others will find a way to emancipate themselves from the shackles of Washington kleptocracy. The situation is untenable.
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  31. lousy on geopolitics but heavy on travel
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  32.  @theprovost  - China has used North Korea to proliferate missile tech to Pakistan. But China was able to proliferate N-bomb tech directly to Pakistan (instead of via NKorean intermediary) because this was before China signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Now that China has signed that treaty, it has to work via intermediaries like Pakistan or NKorea if it wants to proliferate (ie. doesn't want to get its own hands caught directly)
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  33. It's a rigged political system, and so is Thailand. That would never work in the US or Western world.
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  34. @ 4:04 - "federal govt exists to serve the people" - and what is the mechanism to ensure they serve the people? There has to be a way to fire them when they don't. Otherwise, as Musk has rightly said, it's a Bureaucracy not a Democracy.:hand-purple-blue-peace:
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  35. Fucked is the new normal So is De-Dollarization And soon mass poverty
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  36.  @chetpomeroy1399  - Stalinist move - a ploy to create tensions for divide-and-rule, by Stalin (who was Georgian, not a Russian, contrary to misconceptions)
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  37.  @NorthernChimp  - "just because it wasn't Ukraine doesn't mean it was Russia" -- so why are your Ukrainians fighting for it then? Crimea isn't theirs, and there's nobody in Crimea who wants to be with Ukraine. Ukrainians aren't in control of their policy, they're stuck under Zelensky who's Washington's puppet. That's why Ukrainians are trying to run the hell away from their country, because they don't want to be cannon-fodder for Washington warmongers.
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  38. America: always the distant stranger going into faraway neighborhoods to make neighbors fight each other (aka. "National Endowment for Democracy") It's called Global Hegemony and Full Spectrum Dominance
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  39.  @TokyoTaisu  - I'm just saying that every "analysis" from Zeihan likes to point out someone else's declining demographics relative to the United States. And of course, if another country does have more favorable demographics, then he'll find something else to put them down on.
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  40.  @theyux1  - the world will accept a basket of currencies. LIke investing in a mutual fund as a basket of stocks, instead of taking the risk of investing in a particular stock.
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  41.  @be4unvme  - well, WW3 is almost here, thanks to schemers in Washington. So it's another turning of the page.
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  42. That's what we keep telling the Zeihanists at home
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  43.  @lubricustheslippery5028  - the Russians all want to defend themselves, and Putin is no different.
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  44. Fed was created to exercise control over people's money. It gets to control the value of people's money all the time, by lowering or raising rates, mainly to control their spending behavior. This kind of control is doomed to deteriorate into corruption. The Fed kept rates too low for too long, while its political masters wrote lots of blank cheques, spending money on whatever pleased them. This has created massive inflation, and the Fed is now having to suddenly tighten in a very sharp way, while the politicians continue to spend even more money irresponsibly. This has created a crisis in confidence in the value of the US Dollar, and talk of de-centralized finance, so that the Fed-worshipping central control-freaks are now desperately scrounging for a new gimmick, like a new digital dollar that they can force everyone onto, in order to gain new control over their lives (even while ensuring that any alternative digital currencies are banned)
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  45. ​ @Gary Graham - "those roads up to doors in western japanese mountains packed hi-tech gear for kim's silos" - what gear? What are you saying the Japanese have? Never heard anyone talk about this before.
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  46. ​ @devalapar - but Japan has not been neutral toward Russia/USSR. So any such statement would be false.
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  47. ​ @devalapar - cautious when? Russo-Japanese war featured major aggression by Japan (fully supported by the US, of course), with surprise attacks.
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  48. Was that a nerf gun, or a squirt gun? Or what?
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  49. Zeihanism seems to be an apologist for terrorism. :body-green-covering-eyes: This guy is a fool - yet again.
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  50. Impossible. The small and mid-sized banks won't be able to last in this high-interest environment. Think of Silicon Valley Bank. There'd have to be more bailouts and/or consolidations.
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