Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1.  @Green_Moon77  I think India is just needing the oil.
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  2.  @sandwind123456789  The Taliban originate from the madrasas in Pakistan and Al Qaeda are funded via the brotherhood in the middle east. Not complicated.
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  3.  @sandwind123456789  Al-Qaeda were a brotherhood funded organisation that came much later. The Taliban are most certainly sponsored by Pakistan. Both groups may appear the same but they most certainly are not and have different agendas. The Taliban thought they were being smart by hosting the brotherhood assets before 911 but the US would never allow that to take place hence why they swatted them like flies. The Taliban are effectively manned by Inter-Services trained operatives and the Taliban would use the ambiguity of the border to form cross raiding parties. Mujahideen was never a singular group and was a term that got used to describe the opposition to the soviet invasion. It routinely then gets rolled over into describing Al-Qaeda is not accurate.
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  4.  @sandwind123456789  Cook was a left wing socialist that seen the world through left wing eyes. He was a proponent of Nuclear disarmament and more or less blamed the west for everything. Not for one moment did he talk about the slaughter that communism committed and prefered to blame the west through that whole period. Al Qaeda was born out of the greater Salafi movement and its philosophies are pure Sayyid Qutb and the Society of the Muslim Brothers. None of this is really groundbreaking or even contested and was not created in the Afghan invasion either and goes back much further to the 1920s and even further back than that. Cook like Corbyn would not even class the Brotherhood a terrorist organisation that is how much he really cares about the issue.
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  5. At one point aluminium was a very rare earth metal and very expensive but once industrial processes started to innovate it became cheaper to the point it is now all around us. At one point it was more valuable per weight than gold.
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  6. German industry is massive and its potential outputs in war would just be enormous. The other side of that is that Russia has nuclear weapons.
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  7. People do not want large systems built near them.
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  8.  @alfaeco15  On a small scale yes but not for a complete national build out.
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  9. It takes 60 years to build that sort of industry. It is not something that can just be wished into place.
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  10. Not just the cost of the insurance but the actual cost of operating on the seas. Having a fleet of ships is going to be very expensive.
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  11. Are they assembled or are they completely manufactured in America. Obvious certain special materials so on might be from outside.
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  12.  @lahabitaciondelatrapado4621  You are truly clueless if you believe that. The PM of Finland recently said that Europe would not exist without the US propping it up.
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  13. If Russia had of adapted the free market it would be very wealthy and with its nuclear weapons not open to invasion anytime soon but they did none of that.
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  14.  @julianbryantjb  It does not matter if we hate them or not they are a failing culture and will get desperate as time goes on and may end up doing dangerous desperate things.
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  15.  @Ea-pb2tu  Where do you think this export market is going to be gained from?
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  16.  @Ea-pb2tu  None of those candidate have a developed consumer market like the US has. About 20% of Chinese exports are US based but that only makes up about 1% of US trade. And that 20% of Chinese exports does not account for technical support from US industry.
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  17. It is called United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement that came into effect in 2020 and had provisions that came in after and some are to be fully implemented. There will probably be a few more negotiated items to be put in there at some point. Just depends on what the US needs and what the other can achieve.
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  18. Nobody has hypersonic missiles they are a myth.
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  19. The counter offensive was built on millions of tons of US aid.
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  20. The current inflationary expansion has nothing to do with the monetary system. SO no amount of interest rates hikes will cause credit and capital expansion to affect the price in the marketplace. Until supply is able to get in line with demand nothing is going to change. The biggest danger with this inflation is that it could start a series of recessions and depressions that may be not that easy to get out of. And even if they could then get inventory and supply back in order there maybe no demand.
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  21.  @brianponcelet3529  Those are not things a president can control. SO if you look at history you will see events that no president can actually do anything about.
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  22. The US never lost its confidence with Vietnam. The US killed over 2.5 million Vietcong and lost about 50,000 troops which is about the same number it lost in Korea a decade earlier. The US won militarily in Vietnam but the congress was not willing to then have the US stick around.
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  23. The problem canada has as well is its immigration is too focused on highly skilled workers. That means the types of people that are attracted are college educated with 10 to 15 years post college work experience. Well guess what that is not young immigration. Canada needs to change its immigration to take in lower and medium skilled workers that are young and motivated to succeed. They need to lower the requirements so as to attracted 20 to 25 years olds that want to make a life in Canada. That also means they need to be single with no family back home.
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  24. Russia could not take Kyiv the first time but second time it may try with a mind set of complete destruction. People cannot be complacent in regards to this war.
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  25. What do you mean by not realistic?
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  26. The alternative is complete run away inflation that your portfolio will not allow you to by anything. Imagine a normal every day car cost $200,000 when your portfolio is worth $500,000.
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  27. That is a nerd move and not something that will happen in the general public.
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  28. That would then feed into the Russian narrative of the West arming Ukraine.
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  29. It depends if it is warm and wet or warm and dry.
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  30.  @JonathanRootD  Nobody is making that claim.
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  31. Russia may lose power and not be able to project power but that does not mean Kaliningrad is going anywhere soon but may do so in the long run.
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  32. There is this thing call head phones. You should give them a try.
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  33. 99% of Americans are not polarised.
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  34. The US is trying to take Iran out of the influence of Russia probably for other reasons.
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  35. How is OPEC going to change the supply infrastructure coming out of Russia? Can OPEC replace those several million barrels of oil per day at the same price to Europe?
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  36. Multi party systems do not work. Every country that has gone down that route has created political failure. The UK experimented with in at various times for it to be abandoned each generation.
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  37. By tech workers what you are really talking about is service based workers that are really glorified technicians.
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  38.  @dm1943  Those STEM workers as you call them are just running technical systems for corporations with fancy titles.
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  39. How did germany move out of Russian gas?
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  40. What is there to lose?
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  41.  @JurekOK  Scotland never had a vote to stay in the EU the UK had that vote.
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  42.  @AndreasDelleske  Scotland voted once and that is he way elections go do not get to keep repeating them for the right result that suits you.
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  43. That is the problem for people who decided that the EU was a good place to keep their money. European markets had a very short history for people to be so confinement in them. The UK on the other hand has centuries of banking history built on good and bad times experience. The ECB is an avalanche waiting to happen. All the snow has built up and all it will take is somebody to burp and it all comes crashing down.
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  44. The US Navy role will change it will not be reduced in capabilities.
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  45. Not at all.
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  46. Not even in the same league as US production
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  47. Demographic instabilities, energy crisis, capital crisis, unstable currency, ECB that is useless and you want to call that challenges. Who are you trying to kid?
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  48.  @heartofodds  He can take advantage.
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  49. Each region has a difference in their price pressures.
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  50.  @johnwallace5284  So you are talking about Australia.
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