Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. Lithuania wants to buy Moltex nuclear reactors. These are low cost intrinsically safe and produce so little waste they are being built to burn used nuclear fuel. The hold up is the glacial pace of nuke regulatory processes. Nobody wants unregulated nukes but something has to be done to get new plant into use. Good safety does not have to be so ridiculously slow. But safety is always a great way to hide obstructive behaviour.
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  2. Utkin was a big fan of the Naxis and the SS. Hence, the Wagner name (a musician with the same political leanings).
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  3. Hey folks. This is Peter’s genuine channel. All others are stealing his material.
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  4. They are far too busy with the “internet”.
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  5. Donald Trump is 76. Joe Biden is 80.
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  6. The alleged truck bomb would have vanished the moment it detonated. However it appeared to have been enveloped in flames rather that generating flames. It’s highly likely that was a boat bomb of some sort.this time the blast was smaller but it still shifted bridge spans.
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  7. We will always need leaders who can see the big picture and the bigger picture.
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  8. If this atrocity does not speed up the F-16 snd F-18 aircraft nothing will.
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  9. EU did not exist before 1990 and had nothing to do with military security of Europe. It actually evolved from the Iron & Steel Federation (basically Germany and France carving up that market). Then we got the European Economic Community (EEC) which delivered the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that was a sop to inefficient French farming. It’s that very policy which will keep Ukraine out of EU. Their agricultural output would swamp the EU and gobble up massive subsidies.
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  10. The Russian fleet shot up a Dutch fishing boat because one captain said it was a Japanese torpedo boat. But they failed to hit it. Complete incompetence even at the earliest stage of their voyage.
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  11. Rostov on Don was considered part of Ukraine - 1920. Ukraine was the first language right up to the Caspian Sea. Soviets soon changed all that
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  12. Putin was a grey mid level administrator who got the job by stealth. His successor will not have that luxury.
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  13. Peter covers the stuff that mainstream media puts into the box marked “too difficult (for them) to understand”.
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  14. Russia did prepare but the endemic corruption (found in all one-party-states) torpedoed their military equipment.
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  15. Their ice cream maker is so hot it’s cool.
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  16. Not only was the dam blown from inside with pieces of turbine room thrown a few metres downstream, the Russians had already blocked the flow control valves. The lake was close to overtopping then - boom. Maximum possible damage.
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  17. By the way UK is not a “proper country”. Celts Angles, Saxons, French then since 1850 people from all over the Empire. “The Ukraine” or “Ukraine” is a country. Deal with it.
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  18. Don’t visit any Saudi embassy. Sorted.
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  19. Biden was the absent candidate and he did as little as possible in power. Even his resignation was ridiculously slow.
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  20. It’s not hard to look it up. But I’ll make it easy for you. “4 June 1989”
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  21. I wonder how badly Kingburn Spit was affected? The massive flood won’t have raised sea level so a crossing at the mouth of Dnipro could be viable. Especially as Russians have been washed out by their own flood.
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  22. Dartmoor in Southwest England has a new mine that’s being drilled to extract lithium brines. After lithium extraction, the salt will be pumped back to maintain the concentration.
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  23. Absolutely right. Nobody should be expected to work for nothing.
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  24. US nuke powered carriers need no bunker fuel. However they are limited by provisions needed by the crew and provisions needed by aircraft and anything thats not part of the ship propulsion system.
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  25. Peter talks more sense than almost anyone else. He’s not always right but he never claims to be and he checks back on earlier things he said.
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  26. I quite like the room acoustics on this video.
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  27. Blue collar does not automatically mean hard physical labour. Stone masonry is physically hard. Bricklaying is boring. Other jobs like plumber, electrician, HVAC, joiner are not heavy duty. I had a bulged disc at age 42 looking at pictures in my 20s my posture and side lean showed it was already there. My work was technical white collar. A chiropractor helped me recover. A good one in my 20s would have spotted the impending problem and helped me avoid the inevitable decline that eventually blew the disc.
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  28. Germany will soon find a way to open Nordstream 2. If I was into betting I’d put money on it.
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  29. Just be careful of all the fakes using Peter’s work. There are many.
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  30. Russia crashes anywhere from every 20 years to 50 years. The Soviet regime was one of the longest lived but even they had internal collapses. Death of Stalin, collapse of Kruschev after 1963 missile crisis, etc, etc.
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  31. Italy should be talking to Moltex Energy. They have a salt reactor that (1) can burn nuclear waste and (2) can burn uranium to almost zero reactivity (no long term waste). All in an intrinsically safe reactor that has no moving parts.
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  32. People are concerned that Trump would stop support to Ukraine. I don't think he will. When Trump was elected, Putin immediately paused his Ukraine annexation and restarted when Biden showed his political weakness over Afghanistan. Trump warned Putin to not use chemical weapons in Syria. Putin ignored him and got hit by 200 Tomahawks onto Russian bases in Syria. Trump is perfectly capable of doing the same again and Putin knows that.
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  33. Carbon dioxide is 0.0004 of the atmosphere. Water from 0.5% is an import warming gas is 1000 x as abundant as CO2. Why does anyone think co2 is the culprit? Because the models say so and there are no models that include water effects so they must be right. Oh yes.
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  34. Why did UK go out of its way to prevent shale oil happening? We know that oil wells are not disruptive - we have many including Wytch Farm Dorset the biggest on shore field in Europe. Why does UK government not want shale oil?
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  35. It’s a Go Pro on a stick and he uses the flip screen to keep himself in frame.
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  36. Lithium is needed for batteries but it’s a small percentage. Thankfully iron, phosphorus and manganese are cheap and plentiful. This makes stable batteries that don’t self ignite. The old nickel/aluminium/cobalt should be scrapped. How will this particular lithium mine operate? If it’s a brine then extraction is easy.
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  37. Either ISIS did it - in which case Putin’s security is useless. or It’s an FSB false flag event as an excuse to restart Putin’s mass conscription.
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  38. Best case scenario - Russia fixes the damaged bridge rail tracks, then and runs another train that derails due to damaged concrete beneath.
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  39. Trump seems to have started the refusals to keep propping up China. Obama probably had similar ideas but could find a way to spin it so sat on his hands. Trump just said, do it. All Biden has to do is follow the path already set.
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  40. The people who decide the election live in three to five swing states. Very few indeed actually decide who the president is. Past experience shows that bare faced lies from Democrats are believed by these voters. How they can be so naive is anyone’s guess.
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  41.  @stephenglover8828  You are 100% right but the swing voters seem to be very easy to swing. Promise them the sky and they’ll flock to your door.
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  42. UK mineral rights have been held under “crown ownership” since 1066AD. You nigh own the land for property or farming but you do not own the mineral (or water) rights.
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  43. Epoch Times California has a piece about farmers capturing flood water which would otherwise into the sea. They did the work at entirely at their own cost only to get charged for using the water they saved in the first place.
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  44. The total lack of progress shows that Russia was always going to dump the wheat deal. They were also a massive bottleneck on ship movements so Ukraine is better off without the deal. Russian attacks on civilian ships will totally expose who is the real problem here.
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  45. Watch a few contributors and the habitual liars soon turn up. Peter is great but I resent his attitude towards NewsMax and by omission Epoch Times. His attitude towards the new Twitter X is very telling. Musk is not perfect by any means but he has removed the extreme Leftist/Woke bias of the old Twitter. That can only be a good thing.
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  46. Ukraine was never going to cross the Dnipro in force. Even without the flood it’s just too wide. The NPP is shut down so needs minimal cooling. But we can’t trust Russia regarding the NPP being left unmolested.
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  47. Ukraine seems to be applying heavy pressure to dug-in Russians. Private Conscriptovich gets ever more jumpy and finally make a run for it. Ukraine finishes the job with a cluster round.
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  48. Maps of Ukraine from around 1918 show Rostov and the whole Sea of Azov as part of Ukraine. Some even show a finger of land that reaches the Caspian Sea from Ukraine How many people are there in existence who would want that situation restored?
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  49. Check out Moltex Energy. Their nuclear reactor has similar build cost to gas fired plant. Running costs are low because it naturally follows load demand AND it burns nuclear waste. Net results are 20x more power per kg of fuel and a short life waste.
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  50. Five weapons hit the air base and falling debris caused other damage. That’s a pretty poor show for an event Iran has been setting up since HAMAS did its dirty deeds.
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