Comments by "Diego Yanes Holtz" (@diegoyanesholtz212) on "Econ Lessons" channel.

  1. I watched an old documentary about the Soviet Union from the 1980s, is exactly, things will only get better, and the future is bright for the USSR, I thought thinking in 6 years the Soviet Union wouldn't even around anymore, it had become history. Watching this propaganda documentary on YouTube shows how the Russian government lies. I think this subject should be taught I US schools, how to identify propaganda.
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  2. Just say it, Russia is a banana republic that snows and has 5 thousand nukes.
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  3. You can grow your economy through demographics or productivity, and the best economic growth is productivity growth, not demographics.
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  4. Do you see the Northern Caucus Republics will declare independence from Russia, and what about Tatarstan, Barshkortostan and Tuva? I see Republics in Russia wanting to separate from Russia.
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  5. After the war, Ukraine needs a Marshall Plan, but the good news is that the US could share the burden of this new Marshall plan with NATO allies countries.
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  6. Crimea, Donbas, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya should be withdrawn first, Russia should pay reparation to Ukraine and Ukraine should join the NATO alliance so this never happens again, that is a fair deal for Ukraine. The rest is unfair.
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  7. Is the same thing Venezuela is going through, resource curse.
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  8. Juan Domingo Peron closed Argentina’s economy, he created a government institution called IAPI Argentine institute for the promotion of Trade, that pretty much closed off Argentina to trade and crippled the economy.
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  9. Probably this collapse will be worse than the fall of the Soviet Union.
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  10. There are quality of life index called HDI, human development index.
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  11. There was hope that in the 1990s, after the USSR collapsed, Russia would be more liberal and democratic and less despotic and violent, unfortunately, it didn't happen.
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  12. They should auction the oligarch yacht, in San Diego harbor, there is a huge Russian Oligarch yacht and the US government has to the maintenance, I thought just auction and give money to Ukraine.
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  13. One thing I found dumb is that MAGA is they love classical liberalism and hates neoliberalism, and an economics professor said the difference between neoliberalism is that they use math and graphs to prove classical liberalism theory. Also, Classical liberalism is pro-free trade while MAGA is very anti-free trade, MAGA is not liberal nor conservative.
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  14. Russian Bread, Tucker Carlson likes it, give him non-nutritional Russian to him.
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  15. Just studied the History of Argentina. When Argentina allowed free trade and had a constitution model after the US, that 100 years ago, now the US is doing exactly what dictator Juan Peron did 100 years ago and what caused the decline of that country.
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  16. Dolar is the world's reserve currency.
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  17. Biden should step down give the presidency to Kamala Harris.
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  18. Yeah buy only the essentials, not consuming anything is impossible, but you can buy groceries and the essentials.
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  19.  @taniadavenport2939  no Russia
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  20. In Brazil, the police officer says can you buy me a beer, and you have to give a bribe. There is an art of doing it.
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  21. Can you talk about what is going on in Syria and if that has something to too with the weakening of Russia?
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  22. I bet that Chechnya will break away.
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  23. Not in my lifetime, for me the US will start declining when it becomes an oligarchical dictatorship. I don't think it will happen, but there are people who I shout name who want an Orban or Putin-style government in America. It will be hard for America to become that.
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  24. It is 107 now, the ruble is melting.
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  25. Can you talk about this dumb trade war? You are an economist.
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  26. Trump is a clown, I just wish Trump wasn't in the whitehouse and lost.
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  27. I saw a video from Paul Warberg's channel, he said that Russia's economy will collapse.
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  28. Russia is underperforming and Ukraine is punching above its weight, a Brazilian said that "Putin is the Pelé of Geopolitics" then my response was "Yeah, that's why Russia is underperforming and by now I would have thought that he would have occupied all of Ukraine, and Moldovia and annex it into Russia by now three years ago when this war started" and he became pissed at me.
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  29. There are Russian going to Argentina and Brazil that how bad it got there.
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  30. I will quote Ronald Reagan, Trust Ukraine, but verify, I am not against send auditor from the pentagon to Kyiv to see everything is ok
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  31. Will people leave Russia, imagine the migrant crisis.
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  32. Brazil too, they are nice people but generally, not all Brazilian some are even fighting in Ukraine's side, especially people from my state, Paraná received a lot of immigrants from Ukraine in the past, Russia and Poland too. But generally Brazilian supports Russia, even though they are nice people.
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  33. India is not a US friend is a US ally, there is a difference US friend: the UK under Churchill and the US ally Soviet Union under Stalin during world war two. I do see India US relations souring.
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  34. In Russia, you are an oligarch, a politician, or a Siloviki son and you are set for life, or you are nothing. I agree, vote with your foot if you are Russian.
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  35. Freedom is justice too. And you can't have justice without freedom. Slavi Ukraini
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  36. For some reason, MAGA likes Russia, and I feel they want that model of corrupt oligarchical kleptocracy in America, I am shocked that Trump won. I got tired of MAGA saying how Trad and Based Russia is and the US has to copy it. Why because Russia hates homosexuals? Is just so dumb, they can go first after homosexuals, minorities, and immigrants but after you, they will go after you MAGA m0r0ns.
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  37. Were the Communists able to eradicate Islam in Chechnya or the other parts of the empire?
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  38. I was a dude showing a mall in Russia, and most stores went bankrupt. I even see videos of Russians immigrating to Brazil, signs that things are starting to get bad there.
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  39. Well done. BRICS is over. I think if China collapses is over.
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  40. As I said, Ukraine is winning but is not over yet, unfortunately. As I said Russia will collapse in the spring of 2026 or maybe the summer of 2026. I heard if this war is not over by December 2025 and Russia does not win, it is over for Russia.
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  41. People will come from Central America, South America, and Cuba. But I do see illegal immigrants decreasing due to demographics too, many latin american countries have low sub-replacement birth rates.
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  42. I agree.
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  43. Will the Chechen try independence again? They mite.
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  44. The tow biggest losers Iran and Russia, both lost.
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  45. I understand why russian just drink potato water.
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  46. MAGA is the most anti-American movement, destroying America from within.
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  47.  @EconLessons  I heard Russians are going to Georgia, Kazakhstan, and South America (Argentina and Brazil).
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  48. Asbestos in Russian apartments? I don't doubt they have that too.
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  49. I agree.
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  50. In the United States the answer is simple, no. In Russia, yes. I think the Russian ruble is collapsing. The US has 100% of debt in US currency which is the world's reserve currency. Now hyperinflation is usually cause if your central bank cannot stabilize currency and has no reserve, Russia, or if you have too much debt in a different currency that you do not print (Argentina). The US doesn't have these problem.
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  51. Ukraine and Moldova have to join NATO, a war like this can't happen again.
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  52. I think there is a correlation between a high trust society and corruption, a low trust society is just much more corrupt then a high one.
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  53. In Argentina, they keep the US dollar under the mattress. Is one thing you can buy, hard currency like the dollar or euro.
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  54. They also drink a lot. I have a lot of alcoholism in Russia.
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  55. What Russia wants is for Trump to steal this election, and through Ukraine under the Bus, and negotiate a favorable deal so they can go to war in the future. I just want this election to be over and not stolen, for me the GOP became authoritarian, and I can't vote for them anymore. I watched an interview with Liz Cheney and the party was captured by the MAGA faction. They won't win, but will they steal?
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  56. I am saying, this is not 2008, is worse, is more like 1929. As I said, you will need to a stimulus, something that Trump and the DOGE máfia will not do.
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  57. I am for helping Ukraine, and after this nonsense is over, I for adding Ukraine into NATO so this war never happen again.
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  58. Voting for Kamala Harris.
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  59. Is funny, I was born in 1989, Poland was a poor country now the country has improved a lot.
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  60. Russia is Moldor on planet Earth. There is even a Russian book The Last Ring Bearer, based on Lord of the Rings but with inverted logic, Sauron is the good guy, and Frodo and Sam were the baddies, search it up. Never read this Russian book, but I read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.
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  61. Do agree with Peter Zeihan and think that China will collapse, I disagree with some of Zeihan's ideas but I think he is right about China, in the long term China's growth is not sustainable, and if you think money printing in the US is bad? Just look at China's M2, Russia is much weaker than China, probably Russia will probably be a China vessel.
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  62. Japanese Yen not Yuan. Yuan is Chinese currency.
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  63. As a former republican Anthony Scaramucci said, after Trump the republican party is over, yeah is 100% true, and that is why Arnold Schwarzenegger is out too, he said that MAGA reminds him of an evil movement that too over his country in the 1930s and 1940s and was responsible for the worse war in human history. I wouldn't say MAGA is full N4z!, but I saw a part of project 2025, and I will tell you it is scary, it is unhinged. I think I have to leave this place because not even the blue states will survive what is coming, I am a former republican I would vote for anyone but a republican, the party is over.
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  64. Russia is more corrupt than Brazil and Mexico.
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  65. Religion in Russia is like Religion in Iran, for geopolitical reasons.
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  66. I say the 2020s and the 2030s are the last Russian decades.
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  67. You can be anywhere the US dollar is accepted. No matter which country you live in.
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  68. Venezuela is a tropical country, so they don't need to worry about winter there, you won't freeze to death in Venezuela, in Russia this will happen. Winter is like the winter in Canada or Alaska.
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  69. In Brazil, they say Russia is Brazil with nukes that snow.
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  70. I disagree with Trump's message too. I have a bachelor's in economics, and I wanted to maintain the status quo, Hugo Chávez ran to fix the Venezuelan economy in 1998, and did not end well.
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  71. You can escape and open a channel talking about the Racket.
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  72. The Republican party is not for freedom, they want a dictatorship in America, I losing faith in the American system, I am a free market dude, but the MAGA people have gone full outright fascism, they are criticizing the Austrian school and want a Christian theocratic authoritarian state in american and they hate the philosophy I like which is classical liberalism, you can not have a just society without freedom, if you end freedom of the press in America is the end of a just society, and America becomes an Argentina. Ask Chat GPT what was the GDP Per capita PPP of Argentina in the 1920s? The country in 1920, corrected by inflation was as rich as Scandinavian country, and because of stupid authoritarian policy, the country now is as poor as Brazil and Mexico.
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  73. Yeah, MAGA does not believe in the US Constitution and "Liberty and Justice of All". MAGA is the most evil movement in the US, maybe the confederate was as evil as MAGA. I have nothing against the old-school Republicans or the Neoconns. However, MAGA is not the same party of Lincoln, Reagan, McCain, or Mitt Romney. MAGA does not want to make the world a better place but to enslave the american people.
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  74. Tucker Carlson said that Russian supermarkets are cheap, I wasn't convinced, it is easy to go there if you earn USD everything will be cheap in Russia, not for the average Russian Joe earning in Rubles. Now the place where I thought the food was cheap, was Singapore, I saw a YouTuber who ate butter chicken in the Hawker Center for 6 Singapore dollars, I doubt the food quality is bad, Singapore is not a poor country. The Brazilian YouTuber said that Singapore is probably the best country he ever visited.
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  75. The problem are MAGA clowns in Congress like Margorie Taylor Greene and Mike Johnson. I think the people should pressure representative to vote the Ukraine aid.
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  76. Declining demographics are overrated, if you reform the pension system, like Chile did, you will not have this problem. Also is hype in the US because the US can attract immigrants, many people say that are nativists and don't want immigrants here, legal or illegal. They don't even want a highly skilled Indian immigrant who opens a starts up in Silicon Valley and employs Americans.
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  77. I believe Argentina is recovering. But Russia is screwed, you should talk about want is happening in Syria? The rebels just took Hama, I believe that has something to do with the weakening of Russia.
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  78. Unfortunately, I think Russia will do a new mobilization, they are waiting if Trump will win, but since I think he will lose, look up Allan Lichtman's 13 keys, he will do a mobilization next year.
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  79. MAGA= Moscow’s Agents Governing America.
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  80. Some leaders can be good, such as Winston Churchill who fought against fascism and tyranny for example, but there have been a lot of bad leadership throughout history.
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  81. Brazil is part of BRICS and I see how pro-Russia Brazil is, Bolsonaro likes Putin, and so as Lula. Russia and China control Brazil.
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  82. I think Trump Social Media Group stock will just collapse after the November election. Just want Ukraine to win and MAGA to end.
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  83. China is more pacient then Russia, they can invade Taiwan but I think they will sanction proof the country. They are observing Ukraine war.
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  84. Can you talk about the Donbas and how it will be liberated?
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  85. Unfortunately is not over yet, I do think after the US election Putin will decree massive mobilization, which will probably even affect the middle class in Moscow and St Petersburg, giving an afterlife to the Russian war effort. But you are right Russia will fall in the spring to summer of 2026.
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  86. Russian propaganda is very good. I am not pro-Russian, but they are good at convincing people.
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  87. And I think the tariffs is not the worse part of Trumpnomics, the worst part that I don’t very little talking about is ending federal reserve independence, bringing interest rates to 0 and putting capital fight control, who would want to invest in America, people will invest elsewhere destroying the dollar as the world reserve currency in the long run.
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  88. Transnistria, Priednestrovie, will the government will face a collapse financial soon. An empire, like Russia, always collapses first at the periphery and then collapses at its core. It was like this in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Poland, and Hungary left the soviet bloc, then came the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia and the Berlin Wall fell and East Germany was united with the richer West Germany, Ceausescu was executed and then in the Soviet Union the Baltics republican wanted to regain independence, then it spread to the caucus and Ukraine, etc until the Soviet Union did not exist anymore. We will know when Russia lost when Ukraine regained Crimea, and you know when Russia collapsed when all its vessel states, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Belarus collapsed. Chechnya is demanding independence from the empire.
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  89. Illegal immigrants work harder than natives. They do not work high-paying jobs but they work necessary jobs.
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  90.  @TheFrewah  exactly. Is very damaging. I am voting for Biden.
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  91. I had been exposed to Chinese propaganda in Brasil, is always I should learn Manderin because China will become the main superpower and will overtake the US. MAGA is stupid, look at Trump's policy, agenda 47, freedom cities, is a joke, I cannot believe I voting for Joe Biden, even though I disagree with Joe, he is the lesser of two evil, Let's not make America Russia.
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  92. Trump is the worse president in my live time and he should be tried for treason.
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  93. China is too authoritarian for a world reserve currency. China is worse than the US. But I do think the US will go through a pension crisis together with a fiscal crisis, the US has a problem that wants to be the world's policeman and has a welfare state, you cannot do both. But the US is the least worst of the world's major economy. I think the US will go through a pension crisis because the government pension system is run like a Ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme, and if the US doesn't reform it social security, social security will go bust. It will fall like all pyramid schemes do. This is probably the next crisis I would be worried about.
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  94. Hope MAGA and Russia just lose, I am tired of Donald Trump, just leave us alone.
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  95. I think Trump can create the biggest inflation in the US, if he brings the rates down to zero inflation will come back stronger.
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  96. The second collapse of Russia is looking more like the collapse it faced in 1917 than in 1991,
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  97.  @paperandmedals8316  there is no way I can vote for a revolution. I am not a revolutionary.
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  98. I don't think Germany, more like a repeat of 1917 Tsarist Russia, I do see Yugoslavia, and Russia Balkanizing, especially Regions that are easy to Balkize like Kaliningrad (Koeginsberg), Chechnya, Tuva, Dagestan, etc, Russia will become smaller in size, now how bad will it be the balkanization, I don't know. But it will happen. Regions that easily gain independence like Kaliningrad(Koeginsberg) and regions where there are very few ethnic Russians and are close to the border of an independent country, like Chechnya, Tuva, and Dagestan will go first. Probably like Yugoslavia other regions will leave the Federation. The balkanization of Yugoslavia started with Croatia and Slovenia and then Bosnia left, North Macedonia left, and Kosovo decided to leave until in 2006 Montenegro voted for independence and it was peaceful independence.
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  99. I think more people would be pushed towards the left, in the end Bernie Sanders will not be President but Wokeism will win. A MAGA dictatorship is not sustainable in the long run and I cannot see the Republican as a serious party. They want to do exactly what Juan Perón did in Argentina. Argentina was one of the wealthiest country on earth, on par with Australia, Canada, richer then France, go to Ricoleta neighborhood in Buenos Aires you won't believe that you are in a Latin American country it just felt I was walking in Paris or a European Country. Perón did protectionist policy and labor union, that country became a third world country in the 1980s. It became Brazil dressed up as France. This can happen here. It would take longer though.
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  100. The problem is the informational war that Russia did and was able to infiltrate the GOP with the MAGA movement, that is so ironic, the most anti-Russia party, which had people that were hawkish on Russia, now is dovish on Russia.
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  101. You should talk about the natural recourse curse, and how it affects the Russian economy? Russia only exports natural recourse and that is not good.
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  102. The problem is Orangeman and Vance will turn the US into a dictatorship. I hate the authoritarian nature of project 2025. I just think people should be left alone and not be told what to do? Everyone has a different set of moral code and I think that no one should force their morality on others. What I hate about project 2025 is that they want to ban p0rn and I understand if I go to a public library and a book called Fifty shades of grey or Lolita, nobody is being hurt, the libertarian is a sex offender I would be too. It just went too far for the Republican party. I'd vote for AOC is just so extreme the Bible belt has gotten. People should do whatever as long nobody is being hurt. I am delusion with America and if the US becomes a dictatorship, we will need a new constitution because it has failed.
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  103. Slavi Ukraini, and hold on, Russia is almost going bankrupt, I don't hate anti-Putin Russia, but I hate pro-Putin ones.
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  104. Russia is on its last decade, by 2040 or 2050, there will be no Russia, one thing I agree with Peter Zeihan. The demographic crisis if you have a rich economy you can solve through immigration, people come from poorer countries work and pay taxes, MAGA does not accept this solution because white people will be a minority and saying the quiet part out loud, MAGA is racist, it reminds me of a rebranded version of the old KKK.
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  105. Proctectionism will collapse the US economy, Adam Smith and David Ricardo are right.
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  106. I keep hearing from russian propagandists that Zelensky will cause WWIII, the opposite, if Zelensky wins, WWIII will be averted. I support Ukraine because I don't fight the Russians somewhere in eastern europe.
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  107. The PCC destroyed Hong Kong, and Hong Kong is becoming another place in China.
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  108. Good deflation is when prices go down due to an increase in the supply of that good or service, if demand is decreasing and you have deflation then is bad, an example of the latter is the deflation of the lost decade in Japan or the Great Depression.
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  109. MAGA is funny they think welfare state is socialism, but they want the most socialist thing, which is closed off economy, just look at North Korea, there is no free trade in that country and the economy is completely shut off from the rest of the world.
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  110. Hard currency, US dollar, Japanese Yen, Euro, soft currency, Brazilian Real, Mexican Pesos, Russian Ruble and Indian Rupee.
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  111. When Brazil was a colony the had this stupid law too, that it only had to trade with Portugal because of mercantilism.
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  112. The freer the market, the more prosperous the nation.
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  113. If Kamala Harris wins it is over for Russia, which is a dying empire. I tried saying this for MAGA, but they don't get it. I do think Chenchenya and Belarus will liberate themselves from Russia. I know in Chechenya they don't drink potato water because is haram.
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  114. Russia is Brazil with nukes that snow. Is a saying in Brazil. Do a vídeo about Russia and the natural resource curse?
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  115. If I was Ukraine, I would try not to negotiate with Trump and get out of this sinking ship called MAGA, America is not a trustworthy country anymore and I think the way this are going it will lose even more credibility, clearly Moscow controls Washington.
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  116. The Republicans are over. I talk to MAGA and studied labor economics in Brazil, the MAGA dude wants zero immigration because they all take jobs. Now there are immigrants that create jobs, I do believe in a meritocratic immigration system. But if the Ivy Leaguer immigrants are taking your job and are causing low wages why earn 500.000 USD working a tech job in a start up? MAGA can't do math, it's just that people see economics as a zero sum game, economics is not that. MAGA is made for stupid people. That is why I am not voting Republican this cycle.
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  117. I don't think the US will collapse, but I am scared of one thing in America, which is called Trumpnomics and Project 2025, if Trump takes away the independence of the FED, fires all the technocrats that work there, and puts MAGA loyalists and try to devalue the dollar so the US can export more and close the US economy of importation and don't allow capital to leave (the US is no longer a free market), inflation will go up again, I am scared because the Brazilian military junta and many other Latin American countries did this in the 1980s and the results were hyperinflation and the so-called lost decade, at least Kamala Harris will keep the status quo.
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  118. Yeah, what Trump wants is 20 years of truce, he wants this war to restart 20 years into the future.
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  119. The problem I have with MAGA is that they want to force Christianity on society through the government, and every Christian should be against this because this is the best way to destroy religion. Religious people have to accept the faith organically and not be forced upon them like in Iran or Saudi Arabia. What I think is funny is that Russia has never been so weak and because of social media their propaganda never has been so strong, and they are using China too. On X fake Chinese pro-CCP accounts doing propaganda for Trump and MAGA. I see these Christians being extremely intolerant of others, you should tolerate other belief systems such as Islam, atheism, humanism, Hinduism, etc. If you are in MAGA you can't be a patriot, because patriots don't support the enemy of the country.
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  120. Ukraine might be winning but this war is not over yet, unfortunately, I do think Russia will do mass mobilization, and Allan Lichtman is predicting Harris to win, so if Kamala Harris wins, Putin will throw every single Russian man to the meat grinder. The best case scenario is your scenario, a Russian economic collapse that will eventually come, people are saying that this war is caused because Ukraine discovered oil reserves, I think another factor in play, is that Putin is very scared of a color revolution happening in Russia and it being successful, Georgia had one he invaded it, Putin is traumatized and remembers what happened to the eastern bloc and movements like Solidarity in Poland, that brought down the Soviet Union, he was in East Germany in 1989, as a KGB officer and he witnessed at the time what happened there, even one of Putin's daughter was born in Dresden, Germany were he was stationed.
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  121. If you are able to buy sliver or gold in Russia or some type of metal, is better then hold monopoly money, aka russian Ruble. I'd even hold Bitcoin. Buy canned food too. Canned food mite not be healthy but at lease you have something to eat and trade with.
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  122. Yeah, the new conservatives in America are a joke, even progressives are more serious, just look at Trump, Matt Gaetz, MTG, Lauren Boebert, etc. I think they like Vladimir Putin so much because they want a Russian system in America, I am an Independent and a double hater, I don't like a lot what Biden is doing and don't think is good for America in the long term, but a Russian system of government is way more harmful than the worst of Biden's policy and that why I am voting for Biden.
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  123.  @EconLessons  let see. MGT is a Russian shill.
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  124. China has printed more than the US, see the Yuan and you can use FRED sites. Chinese statistics are not trustworthy and take it with a grain of salt, but there still is more RNB printed the USD. Also, China is a black hole the US is not, the US is a transparent country, I don't see any alternative to the dollar, and is not even Bitcoin which is too volatile, and prone to asset bubbles and speculation. Peter Zehian said that the world economy outgrew the gold market, that is why we do not have the gold standard since 1971, I do not think the US needs a good standard or a nominal surplus, just needs to cover the cost of pension, salary, welfare, infrastructure, etc, everything the government spend excluding interest spending, the US can outgrow the debt with a primary surplus, is not like only debt part of debt/GDP grows, there is also GDP growth.
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  125. The US dollar is the best fiat currency. There are other strong fiat currencies such as the Swiss franks, the Euros, the British pound, the Canadian dollar, the Australian dollar, the Japanese Yen, the New Zealand dollar, the Swedish Krona, the Danish Krona, and the Norwegian Krona, but the US dollar is the gold standard of fiat and the world reserve currency which other fiat currencies aren't.
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  126. You can find Alexander Dugin book for free pdf, just but “Fundamentals of Geopolitics” and but the author Alexander Dugin, you can read and find out.
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  127. I do think in Russia mite go through a currency collapse or hyperinflation soon.
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  128.  @EconLessons  Russian society is sick to the core. It is so corrupt. I don't only think is communist, Romania Czechia, Estonia, and Poland were communist countries and their societies aren't like this. I think this is how the Russian Czar the country, Ivan the Terrible, Russia was always an autocratic country, which is their culture. Even though communism is evil I call BS that Russia is like this because of communism, what about Poland, Czechia, Romania, and the Baltic states?
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  129. Same with Chinese data. I don't trust. Russia is Brazil with nukes and thats snow.
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  130. This could end three ways, one a Maidan Revolution in the US, Civil war in the US, or the US becomes Russia and this country becomes a 4th world country, their is joke that Argentina is no a developing country but a post developed country, Argentina was one of the richest country in the world, Argentina was as wealthy Canada and weathier as Germany and France, Argentina's constitution was model after the US constitution, now Argentina is a poor country, what happened? A dictator called Juan Domingo Peron adopted a bad policy inspired by Mussolini's Italy and made Argentina a third world country by the 1990s. Argentina has a lot of connection to Italy; the country's largest demographics are Italo-Argentines. And in the 1920s the country attracted a lot of immigrants from Europe, especially Italians, and if you go to Buenos Aires, it feels European, the buildings, the people, and you don't feel much like in another Latin American country like Mexico, Brazil or Colombia, but in Europe, especially some naighbourhood in the center of Bueno Aires like Ricoleta is very european style urbanism. There are a lot of parallels between MAGA and Peronism and I hope this movement is defeated, or else the US will be a post-developed country like Argentina that lives off its former glory.
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  131.  @EconLessons  I think Putin will do mass Mobilization, maybe even do what Ukraine is doing right now, freezing bank accounts, and ending consular service to men to force military-age men to go back to Russia. If were a Russian man I would ask for asylum in whatever country I live.
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  132. I don't believe BRICS currency will threaten the US dollar dominance, what I think it can threaten the US dollar dominance is if Trump ends Federal reverse independence and adopts capital fight control I heard he wants to do that, and the Orangeman wants to be a dictator just like the Czar of Russia, that is the biggest threat to the US, is not external but internal. But I believe it will be extremely hard for the Orangeman to do this fully. But in the long term if the Republicans continue to radicalize it can cause a huge problem to the US, the US economy, and the stability of the US.
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  133. I don't think 2016 will repeat itself, I think Trump will lose. Just look at the republican fiasco was the midterm, Peter Zeihan thinks Biden will win the electoral college, and I agree. The polls are underestimating Democrats and independents. Trump will complain like a spoiled brat he is that the election was a fraud. I can be wrong but I am right. I am not a leftist-leaning guy and never liked the left since I had to suffer though Dilma Rousseff's depression in Brazil. But wanting my rights taken always, no way. In college in economics, I was known for liking Milton Friedman.
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  134. I calculated at least 150% Debt to GDP ratio. I think is done on purpose because republicans don’t want people have student debt forgiveness or at least declare bankruptcy on student debt or free healthcare or even have Social Security benefits, only Elon can receive 8 million per day from the federal government and I for cutting every cent Elon musk receives and he should pays what he rob from the treasury, inflation corrected and with interest. I for capitalism.
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  135. If Trump wins it will collapse not only Russia but also the US, the US will pass a depression worse than the 1930s, and labor shortage because of mass deportation, Trump will make it impossible to immigrate to the US. The US will collapse.
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  136. There are democratic countries that are corrupt, for example, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina are democratic and corrupt.
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  137. However, Trump's depression means all countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, and China, will face an economic collapse, which won't end well, that how powerful is the US economy.
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  138. The problem is how the Orange man thinks, he thinks like autocrats like Putin and Saddam Hussien, I know this because my sister is a colleague with the Orangeman's son, so she knows who he is.
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  139. I would this, you will get 100% tariffs if you are in BRICS but if you leave BRICS like Argentina, they decide to leave the bloc the tariffs go back to normal. I am for ending permanent trade relations with China too. You will have to pick a side and not be on the fence.
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  140. The Great Depression was bad, but I went through an economic depression in 2014, not in the US, but in Brazil, you would die from it, and no the US is not going to have a second great depression.
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  141. I would dodge the draft and go to Brazil if the US force me to fight a war for Canada, I refuse to do this, I rather go to prison to fight a free democratic country.
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  142. I wonder what is the black market rate in Russia? Russia is not a capitalist nation, as many MAGA people think it is, there is no free market in Russia, the government controls everything, there was one dude who opened a supermarket, and he was successful, and Putin forced him to sell his supermarket to one of his oligarch cronies. This is not free market capitalism, it can be even crony capitalism, but is not a free market. Is like the US government forcing the Walton family to sell Walmart and Sam's clubs because they aren't cronies to the orange man, just giving an example of what happened in Russia.
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  143. Trump's economic plan is to end the independence of the FED put loyalist in their, end our social safety net and put capital controll, it the end of the world economy. Trump is a lunatic.
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  144.  @EconLessons  I agree
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  145. Even if the Orange man kicks this conflict down ten years just to appease his buddy Putin, Ukraine still has won, for one reason, in ten years Ukraine's military will be much better prepared to fight the Russians. Ukraine will only get stronger. I also see Europe's Germany, France, Britain, etc taking the threat that is Russia more seriously. Before they weren't serious about the threat of Russia and thought Putin wouldn't have invaded Ukraine only Poland and the Baltic states knew this would have happened and took Russia seriously, now everyone knows the Russian mentality and it is exposed to the world.
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  146. Some people say that Russian and Brazilian cultures are similar, but I disagree, there are overlaps, but people in Brazil are extremely religious, people say in Brazil there is a church in every corner. Also, Brazilians don't like war, Brazil is probably one of the few countries that did not fight for their independence, they negotiated it with Portugal and accepted a Portuguese monarch as their own emperor. Brazil is a politically unstable country, but I doubt they will ever go to war and try to conquer Uruguay for no reason, in Russian culture, there is a certain militarism that is not present in Brazilian culture. Brazilians don't care about the military and aren't patriotic people. They hate their country and feel ashamed of it, it is called mongrel syndrome.
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  147.  @TheFrewah  True, during the Soviet times they were trying to push communism. I don't like communism, but I do see Russia as being a communist country or trying to convince people that communism is good.
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  148.  @gvozdaka1907  Latin America billionaires too? Banana republics is not communist is kleptocratic.
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  149. Poland will be a first-world country soon. But Polish society is scared by communism and even Nazi occupations, this stays in collective memories. And we have to never forget the past. Poland in the 1980s and even 1990s was horrible but they built a decent country.
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  150. What I don't like about the current republican party and that is why I became a Democrat again, is that they completely abandon classical liberalism and enlightenment values, the republicans are not for conserving anything, they are revolutionary and reactionary and want to destroy the american constitution. If the Democrats had become communists and authoritarians I would be totally against and supporting the side that is against authoritarianism and calling them out but I believe that this is not a problem in the US, and is the extreme right-wing that is the problem.
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  151. Also Trumpnomics will screw the world economy and so as Russia. If I were Zelensky I wouldn't accept Trump peace deal, I am for peace but a peace that will last and Ukraine has to regain its lost territory.
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  152. I saw the trade deficit in the US as a non-issue because so many people want to invest, and there is the capital balance, now if Trump puts capital control and money can't leave the US nobody will put money in the US, making the US dollar a worthless currency and possibly even loss its reserve currency status. You just made the US dollar then the same as the Ruble, the Yuan, and Brics. Is just dumb to do that, also another part of Trump plan's I hate, is ending the independence of the FED, FED policy will not be based on rational economic decisions controlling inflation, and maintaining unemployment low, but based on whatever BS is on Trump's mind. As I said, this will threaten the US dollar's dominance in the world market, and investors, domestic and foreign will lose trust in the currency if you don't be careful, no mess with monetary policy.
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  153. I listen to Zeihan it seems Russia will lose influence in the Middle East and Africa.
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  154. There are two reasons not to trade with a country, national security reasons and morals grounds too.
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  155. But I think China is going through a great depression. I do think in the US will go through a great depression. It seem like a post scarcity society. Very rich country. A dude working a minimum wage in America makes more than lawyer and doctors in third world countries.
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  156. Putin is f*cked, he messed with the war hawk in the republican party, and the biggest mistake was rejecting JD Vance's peace plan, and now the republican party is even more hawkish on Russia than Biden was, they are f*cked, you do need to worry about Ukraine because they have won. Putin will be remembered as a stupid, greedy, arrogant, spoiled, little tyrant, who made a fatal mistake rejecting the peace plan that JD Vance proposed.
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  157. Dollars will be continued. It will more like commodities dollars. Will have a diversification alway from Petroleum. I think the end of the Petrodollar is the Petroluem is losing its importance.
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  158. They are using a mule. Trump almost crash the economy with the dumbest Trade war and tariffing Canada and Mexico.
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  159. It's funny that a Brazilian dude who studied at Wharton, UPenn, said that in his vídeos. He thinks that Bitcoin was created in Russia, but he is pro-Russian and thinks the Russian economy is doing well. I totally disagree with him on that.
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  160. Yeah if the market is not free the black market surges.
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  161. I do think Peter Zeihan is right about China, but the US economy is very robust, Europe will be Japan but they can outsource and sell their products to the US. Also, I don't think the baby boomer retiring will cause problems in the US economy. But I agree that China is screwed, the housing bubble doomed that economy and will be China's Japanification without the income Japan had in 1990. Xi Jinping is Leonid Brezhnev of China.
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  162. I don't think the US need a nominal surplus. It need a primary surplus, to cover all cost of government minus the interest rate. Brazil had a primary surplus between 2003 and 2010 and the debt to GDP ratio went down. I don't think having a primary defict is good but the US can definitely have a nominal deficit. There is a question if the government saves were will the government but the money it saves? Alaska gives oil money as UBI to its resident. Government doesn't need to save money.
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  163. I was watching Brazilian YouTube channel is funny how everyone is comparing the Orangeman to the failed Austrian painter and Vladimir Putin, America is less respected, the Danes and Canadian are refusing to buy American goods, I can understand, Trump is the worst president in the modern era, maybe even worse than James Buchanan or Franklin Pierce, I think America never has been so hated before, I don’t hate the people, I hate this stupid government that want to invade other countries like the mustache man did to Poland in 1939.
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  164. Russo-Ukraine war is not a civil war, but there are parallel to it anyway.
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  165. I think the collapse of Russia will be more like the collapse of Yugoslavia than the Soviet Union. I think the Russian are more like the Serbs and will fight a civil war with separatists group in Russia, the Chechen are one of them. The groups to keep an eye is if the are next to a border and/or has a sponsor, countries can sponsor, Poland, Turkey, and even Mongolia and China and maybe even Sweden/Finland, I don’t think they want territory but the might want to have buffers state in there border to keep Moscow away.
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  166. Mark, MAGA is the most anti-American movement, they hate the US Constitution and want an absolute monarch in the US, MAGA is the enemy from within. That's why I will never vote republican until the republican fixes the problem with MAGA. It is over, they lost my trust and credibility. For me, Trump is a Russian agent and that is the only way to rationalize what is happening and why the US would take the same side as Iran, North Korea, and Russia in a UN resolution and against our ally.
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  167. If you don't like beat soup(bortsch), I am sorry, but in Russia, beat soup(bortsch) eats you.
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  168. Trump will cause the worst stagflation crisis in US history. I notice something about the extreme MAGA right, they want to end the dollar system as the world's reserve currency, and they want to cause hyperinflation in the US by design. Just search Trumpnomics, JD Vance wants to end Federal Reserve independence, put capital flight control, and bring down interest rates, why do they want to do this, I think IMAO they think the Betton Woods system is globalist and these people are nationalist and that why they like the czar of Russia so much. I recommend you to see their economic plan on the Internet. Trumpnomics, for me, is causing what just happened in Argentina and Venezuela by design and purposefully.
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  169. They want to bring the Russian system to America. I hate what this country is becoming under MAGA, I knew Project 2025 was Trump's agenda and voted for Harris because of this. I want to leave this place. I don't think we will have a country in 4 years.
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  170. Yeah, but oil prices will go up in the US, UAE, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia are in BRICS, and export oil to the US, and with 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, oil prices will skyrocket. I agree with the breakup of BRICS, Milei said that he does not want to be part of BRICS, but Brazil has a lot of Russians going there too, seeing a lot of YouTube channels in my native portugues of Russians going to live in Brazil.
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  171. I don't think Trump will be a dictator but the process and the fact he will try to be one will be very damaging to the country.
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  172. Harris was worse than Hillary, Kamala Harris underperformed her and I am shocked. I get this, even though I live in the Washington D.C area and am a US citizen I am Brazilian and Brazil is an extremely catholic and Christian country, 88% of Brazilians believe in God, I feel better as an atheist in Northern Virginia than in Brazil, I get it. Europeans are quite atheist, and I think this is an anomaly because most of the world believes in God and is more like the bible belt, than the unchurched belt.
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  173. Trump want to end Federal Reserve Independence and bring interest rate to 0, if he did that, he will cause hyperinflation and end the US dollar as a world reserve currency.
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  174. Talk about Trump's stupid plan to conquer Greenland, Canada, and Panama? All this dumb plan, Peter Zeihan thinks is dumb, I think anyone who is not MAGA thinks is psychotic. I would accept getting drafted to fight a Russian or Chinese invasion, but I would not fight the Canadians I rather go a spend time in jail rather to fight a stupid war.
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  175. Donald Trump understands, but he wants to be just like Putin. Read Project 2025.
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  176. Trump conservatives suck! Economically the conservatives are right, but MAGA has to go!
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  177. There are yachts were owned by Russian oligarchs in the US government's hands, in San Diego Harbor, just sell them, auction them, and give the money to Ukraine, why do US taxpayers need to maintain that? Auction to a billionaire or multimillionaire that wants a yacht and they maintains it rather than the US government.
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  178. Afrikaans is very close to English too, is a language from South Africa close to Dutch, it mixes Dutch and English, maybe with some local African language loan words.
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  179. If the US doesn't do anything stupid, like MAGA and Trumpnomics, the US will still dominate the world by the end of the century. The biggest threat to the US is MAGA and Trumpism. The Soviet Union, Russia, China, radical Islamic Jihad terrorism, or the Mexican cartels were never as much of a threat to US hegemony as MAGA because there is only one to destroy America, is from within, is impossible to destroy the US externally.
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  180.  @Steve-318  I saw what is Trumpnomic about, is to fire all the technocrats in the FED, but loyalists there, devalue the dollar, close the US for capital flight, and close the US import market with high tariffs, is just to Make Inflation Great Again. Is even more stupider than Bernie Sanders's plan, which is quite stupid. I am tired of this post-MAGA and post-Trump republican party, and I wish Republicans such as Romney and McCain come back. Trump destroyed the Republican party.
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  181. In hyperinflation, usually, the middle class is the one that suffers the most, then comes the poor and the rich people put money in forex so are not as affected as the other classes, the middle class becomes the new poor, that what happens in Venezuela.
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  182. Putin was a KGB agent, that is for sure, but what is true and not true about his past we don't know.
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  183. There are other places where Ukraine can enter the Oblast, I would do a pincer movement, I saw on the Deepstate map that should territory gained and lost by Ukraine.
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  184. Is there a Black Market economy in Russia? I know statistics can be lied to. But the Black Market economy is not counted and it coexists with the formal economy, in Latin American countries there is a black market economy, which you might think is illegal things, but the Black Market can sell legal things too is just the company is not registered in the tax system and operates in the informal economy.
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  185.  @EconLessons  yeah, I saw this, there are some black market that are criminal activity, like prostitution and the sex trafe, drugs, military grade weapons, ilegal gambling, other are legit, like grama selling cake to add to her pension, my grama sold flan and other sweets, she was honest good kind person. There are also counterfeit products sold in the black market, fake glasses, lv bags. Black market is very diverse.
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  186.  @paperandmedals8316  I agree, that why Biden has to resign. If MAGA wins, the US will be a very dystopian place. "It can't happen here" will happen. I see one of the armed militias become an American waffen SS, Venezuela has it own armed militias, Hugo Chávez arm slums dweller and form a loyal militias. The Nazi had two SS and SA, I think there will be infighting amongst the militias to see how will be the American SS, we have the Proud Boys, the Oath keeper, and even those Nazi degenerate shouting "j3w will not replace us". After the supreme Court said Trump has immunity and turned the US into a Banana Republic, I think the Republican party is morally bankrupt and we have to vote Democrat untill the move towards the center right and becomes the party of Mitt Romney, George H W Bush, Ronald Reagan and John McCain again and abandons MAGA for good.
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  187. Trump's war on clean energy is quite dumb too. I want less populated air, I do believe we don't have the infrastructure to go full green energy, but at times we can build it.
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  188. At least in the 1990s in Russia, the West was willing to help Russia recover from hyperinflation, the IMF made a plan to recover Latin American and former Eastern bloc economies, now there is no Western government to help Russia. I see the balkanization of Russia, and certain regions of Russia would like to say I am out of Russia, I see Chenchnya succeeding from Russia and is a republic to keep an eye on, I don't think this new collapse will be like the USSR, but more like the collapse of Yugoslavia but in Russia.
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  189. They drink a lot of potato water in Russia, but I bet not in Chechnya, that latter is run more like a Middle Eastern dictatorship like Iran or Saudi Arabia than Putin's Russia.
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  190. I can't believe this imbecile is elected president of the US, seeing the debate Obama and Mitt Romney and then seeing the debate Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, you see what is wrong with the republican party. The republican party died after Mitch McConnel decided not to impeach Trump after January 6.
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  191. In Brazil food, utilities, and apartments are cheaper but cars, clothes, and electronics more expansive than the US and many Brazilians go to Paraguay that have a tax free scheme and miami. Brazil too is recieving Russian immigrants too. Tucker Carlson saying food is cheaper and that will revolutionize it didn't compare to purchassing power in Russia is more expansive. What revoltionized me that the price of streetfood that is cooked cost 6 singaporean dollars. Singapore is not a poor country they are richer then the US.
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  192. I just hope this MAGA imbecile doesn't adopt the Russian system in America, if they do, I think America will get poor untill it collapses like Russia. You can kiss American power good bye. I can't believe people are dumb to vote for this idiot.
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  193. It is funny how the Russian Elite pretends to hate the US and love the west and invest their money here. That how hypocritical they are.
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  194. Do one on the natural resource curse, and how does that apply to Russia? Russia has a lot of natural resources and why is it bad to have an economy dependent on natural resources and not industrialize and how does that apply to Russia.
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  195. I am not saying Biden was worse than Trump, he is much better than Trump on Ukraine, but he made a huge mistake, he should have given all the hardware Ukraine needed to win all at once, and not little by little, and no restriction on HIMARS and ATACMS missiles. I do believe if he had done that, the situation now in the front line would be better, it will get worse because of the orange czar, but the US will lose it influence with this orange baffoon in the white house, situation in the US will get worse, is just the country and the american people has become stupid the last 40 years. It was on purpose, Lew Kuan Yew warned about the horrible american public education standards in the elementary, middle, and high school level, and he predicted bad leaders taking over the US in the 1990s, he was right on that.
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  196. I lived in Brazil and know how it is.
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  197. Brazil has a law like this, where everyone can search and look up government employee salaries.
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  198. You can live in a grayish neighborhood in a horrible flat and every is depressing. Russia is the most depressing country, I remember you can search, for witch is the most depressing city in the world. Probably is Norsk or Vorkuta in Russia.
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  199. I am a little scared that future of America is dark. I don’t like the way this country is going, there is a saying in Brazil that Brazil has a lot of potencial and is not realized due to bad management, unrealized potential is nothing.
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  200. I have a girl who serves coffee in the US, she is from Russia. She was ashamed of her country and said first she was from Eastern Europe, there was another girl who was her manager, and she was Ukrainian.
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  201. Dengue fever I got hemorrhagic dengue in Brazil, and I have scars all over my body from it. That is how bad it is, is a type of mosquito that transmits it, and it only occurs in tropical or subtropical regions.
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  202. Trump is not a Reaganite, I think the republican party is ruined, but Republicans have to take personal responsibility for not impeaching Trump on the January 6 attack on the capital, this criminal should not be at the white but serving time for all the felonies he had committed.
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  203. The only thing I wish is Trump does not attack Canada, Greenland, Panama, and Mexico.
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  204.  @EconLessons  yeah I don't like the direction of this country, I thought Trump would try but it will open doors for another one to try again, but with the presidential immunity our democracy is rotten from the inside out, now there are no checks and balances.
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  205. But if Trump wins, it is the end of the US, is just bringing the corrupt Russian and Chinese model here, also I would be forced to go back to my country (Brazil), Stephen Miller wants to turbocharge the denaturalization process of the US citizens, I hope Harris wins. FDJT. Slavi Ukraini
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  206. I am for free trade with friendly and neutral nations, I just am not of free trade with adversarial nations like Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran, decoupling is needed from China because there is a very big risk that China can start a war over Taiwan.
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  207. Trumpnomic is crazy, can you talk about that?
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  208. Trump will cause the worst economic crisis in US history, his economics is broken, It will be inflationary, and then it will be a depression, in Latin America there are the terms "Lost Decade", I think the US might face this with Trump's economic plan, that how bad it is.
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  209. Japan debt is in Yen, the problem is 200% debt to GDP in a currency you do not print. You will have hyperinflation.
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  210. I think the situation in Venezuela will be easier then in Russia, ate least in Venezuela is a tropical country and you won't die of cold.
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  211. Talk about David Ricardo too. Adam Smith was right on trade so as David Ricardo, America entered the dark ages with MAGA. MAGA is people who shouldn't have power, destroying the greatest country with their fascistic policy.
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  212. Evidence 21% Central Bank interest in Russia, a dude with credit card debt and a bad credit score in the US has a lower interest rate than the government of Russia. I want freedom for Russia and Glory for Ukraine.
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  213. The decline of oil will screw a lot of regimes the US doesn't like, countries like Saud Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela, the US does imports a lot of oil from Canada, not even Saudi Arabia nor any middle eastern country a major importer of oil to the US. I think the South American nation of Guyana sells a lot of oil to the US too.
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  214. I voted for Harris, not because of Ukraine, maybe there is one issue I agree with her, is just I don't want to face denaturalization and go to the GULAG and be deported to Brazil. The GOP is just become a F4$c!$t party. Is not the same Republican party of Reagan, I won't say even George W. Bush was a F4$ç!$t, because George W. Bush wasn't one, but Trump is one. Trump is the worst president in my lifetime and MAGA will destroy the US from within, and that is why dictators love Trump, Elon is definitely in bed with the Chinese communist party, and Tesla is the only company I know that builds a car factory there and didn't transfer technology to China. I think China even offered Elon Chinese citizenship to build a Tesla factory in Xanghai and Elon refused watching SerpentZA and Laowhy86 is very hard to obtain Chinese citizenship if you are not ethnically Chinese. Trump is receiving something from Russia too. I say now MAGA is a Russo-Chinese Psyops, I always see MAGA praising China and Russia.
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  215. I been to Africa and South America, never been to Russia, African is more underdeveloped then South America.
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  216. Can you do one video on Russia and the natural resource curse?
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  217. Their one more, the Portuguese, they controlled half of South America and Half of South America doesn’t speak Spanish and speak Portuguese because of them, I say in South America they were a major player. But the Spanish was even more greedy then the Portuguese in my country, Brazil was an extractive colony but in 1808, because of Napoleon the Portuguese monarch escaped to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro became the capital of Portugal, and that help open the Brazilian market and develop and modernize the country, the funny part about Brazilian independence there was little fighting, the King’s son declared Brazil an independent kingdom from Portugal and this was done because the Royal family was going back to Lisbon and Brazil did not wanted to be recolonized now they were equal with Portugal. So king João IV put his son as emperor of Brazil rather than to lose in a war for independence.
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  218. Maybe even worse, MAGA can destroy the US and making it into a third world country, just read what happened to Argentina and the bad policies dictator Juan Domingo Peron did, MAGA/Trumpism and Peronism are similar. Argentina and United States America has parallel, Argentina was the 8th richest country per capita in 1920 on par with European countries and Canada and Australia, now is on par with Brazil and its Latin American neighbor and people want to leave Argentina and go back to the their grandfather or great grandfather came, Italy.
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  219. For how long can Russia fight this war? Both sides don't want to give up. I think the only advantage Russia has over Ukraine is quantity. Trump can help Russia by not giving aid to Ukraine, I heard the European wants to do Trump-proof aid to Ukraine.
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  220.  @EconLessons  let's see, it was a mistake to invade Ukraine. But Russia has more quantity of bad military equipment and that is keeping the war going. I see a Ukrainian site, Ukraine is halfway there destroyed 7000 tanks, and has 440.000 Russian troops as casualties. For me, the Russians can fight for 1 to 3 years, this depends on who wins the US election.
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  221. The only country that was able to get rich off a centralized system was Singapore. But running Singapore is more like running a municipal government. How small it is. Singapore is a very capitalistic country too.
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  222.  @EconLessons  Hong Kong had a similar system, but as I said is more like running a municipal government.
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  223. Yeah, India is a US ally to keep China in check, but they are playing Russia's and the US sides.
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  224. It will fail, but I do believe in one thing in 2026 prepare for a massive blue wave, the democrats will at least control the house, and flip at least 1 or 2 senate seat.
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  225. The US gave aid to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, Saddam Hussien during the Iran-Iraq war, and Iran and the mullahs too during the same war. Is Ukraine worse, they have a corruption problem, yeah I agree, but are worse than any of these actors? And if the US helps Ukraine win this war, Russia is over, and European security is an afterthought, maybe, there is pro-Russian Chinese propaganda, think about it, the US cannot hyperfocus on China if Russia is still strong.
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  226. "The more colorful the money, the more ridiculous the country" I agree, look ate the Brazilian Real, or Venezuelan Bolivar. True.
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  227. I believe America little, by little is losing it power and influence, Trump is not Making America Great but Weak, I was seeing a dude that lives in Florida and he said how bad DeSantis is, DeSantis is a fascist, he ended academic freedom, gone after company that he do like, I believe Chinese and Russian money enter the GOP and the Party is dead in the water and a new axis of evil Moscow, Tehran, Beijing and MAGA America and probably it will be Washington. I believe the US will go to war with Canada is just a matter or when. God How I hate what America is becoming and wish I was never a US citizen, is just become a glorify banana republic and a joke of a country that now will trust.
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  228. Probably between the autumn of 2025 and the spring of 2026, Russia is over.
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  229. I would take Russian statistics with a grain of salt. What does Russia produce? American statistics are more trustworthy, even though the government does manipulate a little in democracy, dictatorial countries always lie their data.
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  230.  @brinjoness3386  140? I bet the back market is double that 200 rubles and more. 140 in the black market is cheap.
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  231.  @EconLessons  Latin American Countries that are sub-replacement birth rates, Brazil, Uruguay, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Argentina and Costa Rica. Cuba is not even a rich country. Very poor and the economy is very mismanaged. I do think many more countries will have sub-replacement birth rates and only people from Cuba or Venezuela will come across. Less and less illegal migration in the Southern border due to less young people in Latin America coming.
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  232. Unfortunately, the US is joining the dark side. The Orangeman wants to be the czar of America. I think he wants to do the same that the czar of Russia is doing in Ukraine, Greenland, the Panama canal, and Canada.
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  233. I bet Chechnya will break away, can you do a video talk about republics and regions that want to break away from Russia?
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  234. I met an unbanked person in Brazil, she is not the type of person I think will know how to use Bitcoin or Crypto currency, unbanked people use cash. The woman did not know how to operate a TV remote control and I had to explain her.
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  235. Georgia wasn't ready for the Russian invasion, remember that, in the Second Chechen War Grozny (the Capital of the Chechen Republic) was a carpet bomb, I went to Google Street View and saw Grozny it reminded me of Brasília, a modern city in Brazil, and the capital of that country. Russia left nothing in Grozny. I think Putin's Carpet bombing of that city made Russia win the second Chechen war. Putin also made a deal with the Kadyrov clan, the Kadyrov clan backstabbed the other Chechen clan and became a dictator of Chechnya, in Russia, there is a saying, that the law of Moscow does not apply to Chechnya, it is the most independently run republic in Russia, they have the most autonomy from Moscow, Putin has to tolerate it because he does not want to fight a third Chechen war.
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  236.  @EconLessons  I don't they will though. I do see 2047 Hong Kong being fully integrated into mainland China. Hong Kongers have to leave because unfortunately, they cannot win, even with China going through a demographic crisis, Hong Kong is even worse and the mainland government will bus in Chinese making Hong Kong a Chinese province.
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  237. Trump is on the side of Putin. How can we defeat Trumpism and MAGA, I don't like this movement, I am not a leftist, but MAGA is the biggest threat to America, even Russia, China, and the Soviets did not threaten the US so much.
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  238. The only way I see you not losing your crypto is by putting it in a flash drive, if it is not connected to the internet, you can't hack it.
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  239. I reject Karl Marx. But I disagree that people shouldn't learn it. They should learn it not as a success but a failure.
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  240. The problem with the US is that politics is not boring, Make Politics Boring Again, I think entertainment and politics should not mix, and religion and politics also should not mix. Everyone should have a belief system, if you want to Atheist sure do it, if you what to be an evangelical Christian do it too, and if you want to be Jewish nothing against you, what I hate about Trump and Trumpism is forcing religion on society through the government, it reminds of what happened in Iran and I am 100% against it, people should have the freedom to be religious or to convert people to religion, but it has to be done voluntarily.
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