Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Economic Disaster is Already Here - Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. He is not saying Brexit is bad he is saying Brexit with no clue what they are doing can be bad.
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  2. That is not close to being true. Sweden has a better birth rate in their culture as does Ireland and several other countries. It has nothing to do with immigration which really does not move the needle.
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  3. It is much tighter. You are confusing people slipping in over the southern border which will really have stopped in about 10 years time and will be a trickle.
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  4.  @Aiphiae  The same way German tried to rely on solar energy generation. Fantasy.
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  5.  @mrmr4622  Sweden for about a decade was near to a birth rate of 2. It tends to have gone up and down in sweden but by and large it stays around 2. You cannot just look at a short period of time it has to be assessed over decades. I am not for one moment suggesting Sweden is going to be some massive success story.
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  6. World population is 7.7 not 8 billion.
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  7. You are living in a fantasy Pat he is telling you what the world really is and you do not like it. He does not care.
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  8.  Morgan Allen  Islam only makes up 2% of the swedish population as a religious ethnic demographic factor. Even with that higher birth rate in Islamic communities it simply cannot impact the current population structure in a significant way. Swedish women have a lower workplace participation to that of men with there being a 20% difference in the levels which is the real factor in the birth rate.
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  9. It depends on where you are from. Each country will have its own challenges while some will flourish others will stagnate and then some will collapse. If you are from New Zealand or Australia there is not going to be a collapse there. If you are from Ireland or Uk there is going to be a stagnation and that will probably be the case for France as well. Countries like Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, China and several other countries are going to face varying degrees of collapse. That does not mean it will be mad max style.
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  10.  @sjames304  Most of south America is going to experience a population collapse. Mexico at some point is not going to allow people to pass through to the US and will want to use those moving through to man their own factories. None of this is to say that a open border policy of the previous several president has been a good thing for the social fabric of certain states.
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  11.  @syddog44  Because you do not understand what he is talking about.
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  12.  @syddog44  The truth is there if people go out and find the information. Take unemployment for example people get that confused with workplace participation level. Female workplace participation in Sweden is at 57% and for males it is 69.2. Which means the male participation rate is at least 20% higher than female rate. The problem with a pure raw unemployment rate is that it only takes a view of those seeking work.
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  13. You are talking crap.
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  14. Reality speaks otherwise.
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  15. You do not understand what he is saying. If Germany stays with the nato strategy it will get no energy from Russia and if it opposes NATO strategy it will get the energy but be out of NATO. There are no other options if you think you know one then get it out for people to hear.
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  16. British Navy collapsed and is not what it once was.
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  17. You are living in a fantasy. Once that population imbalance starts it means economic decline. So the very engine that would drive progress to enable a country to deal with the issues runs dry and becomes very unstable. For Germany, China and Russia to come out of this they would need to start having lots of babies right now and then in 60 years time things would start to look good.
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  18.  @funnyguyinlondon  Since you brought up those sages what is their solution to population collapses and how are they to solve Germanys energy problem. Remember it was you that brought them up.
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  19. He is trying to entertain in an age that is all about entertainment. He is trying to get people to listen without switching off.
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  20. Why do you find it far-fetched? They have already gone after Ukraine and they think the west is weak minded so why would they not attempt to go further.
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  21.  @mrmr4622  They are going to crush Ukraine and that is just a reality that is going to play out. The west is trying to get the conflict to slow down hence why they have backed it. They are trying to buy time to arm up the other regions. This is going to become a force numbers game and firepower of the raw form is going to matter. The west has been too slow to act on this and really should have turned Ukraine into a poison pill.
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  22. Piracy as it is presented today is a modern phenomenon.
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  23. It depends on who we is?
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  24. No he is not saying Brexit is bad he is saying without a plan it is bad.
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  25.  @justingrove5190  He is not saying that at all. If you follow the greater body of Zeihan work he will explain in detail how the EU is a failed project. When he talks of Britain he is talking about inaction such as taking years to sort things out that really should have been achieved in months. That indecision is costing Britain and could end up at a point of no return.
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  26. For half the worlds population the end of globalization is going to be brutal.
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  27.  @noodlyappendage6729  It is the US air force that keeps Europe safe. Everybody knows that to be the case. There is no point pretending that is not the case. The US is the only super power and you can live in a fantasy but that is the reality.
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