Comments by "" (@ronjon7942) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1. I'm thrilled we're no longer being represented by a worldwide embarrassment of an administration.
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  2. Probably worse, since all oil in the Middle Eastern and Asian areas will likely have become a distant legend by then.
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  3. I KNOW! Ii had to listen to that a few times in case I’d detect some sarcasm. But nope, he meant it. I posted a similar comment:)
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  4. 10:45. I love it. Poppy production soared under America’s occupation, but the Taliban largely eradicated it. I wonder how much of that opium made it to the American consumer - kinda makes you wonder about our war on drugs. Perhaps the DEA should recruit the Taliban, if we’re so serious about keeping drugs off our streets.
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  5. Agreed. Maybe a drawdown, but complete withdrawal isn’t just looking bad for Afghanistan, but a disaster for the region.
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  6. Actually, we probably wouldn’t. Why would we?
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  7. Brilliant.
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  8.  @bixbysnyder-00 that’s funny shit. Good analogy.
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  9. Good thing the Paris treaty isn’t a real treaty. Too bad it’s a huge virtual signal that no one ever intended to abide by.
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  10. Because Russia is so altruistic. They wouldn’t have aspirations of exploiting Africa for its mineral wealth, nah, and they’ll gladly share the profits in order to elevate the citizens. The Africans will be so prosperous, so free, so educated, as their throats are crushed under the boot of Mother Russia.
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  11.  @minecraftfox4384 Right. Chips designed primarily for only two functions. Graphics and AI.
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  12. Doubtful. What would you expect a foreign leader to do with another one? Give him the finger? Any politician knows this, stop believing this is an episode of House of Cards.
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  13. Well, it’s better than ‘global warming.’
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  14. It’s so embarrassing watching diden pretending to represent our nation.
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  15. Man, Turkey is on some valuable real estate.
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  16. I second that sentiment.
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  17. You’re not wrong. These cultures just don’t seem conducive to western management or democracy.
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  18. Not a bad point. Biden pulling the rug out from under Afghanistan the way we did, with a nonexistent plan for withdrawal, obviously was going to create the power vacuum everyone knew the Taliban would fill. I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but there weren't multiple tribes competing for the prize, so perhaps less killing and conflict. But to hand over the fate of a country to a terror organization can never be a goal for ann exit plan. At least we left $7billion in military hardware that not only armed the Taliban, but also gave them a source of revenue by selling them all over the Middle East and Asia. Excellent work, Mr. President. If your vast foreign power experience led you to de-stabilize the entire region, you succeeded brilliantly, with near surgical precision.
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  19. 03:25 It’s like a virus that causes untold suffering followed by a painful death.
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  20. You means joe’s present of $7billion of arms and other military equipment? Gone.
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  21. Makes me wonder who our actual Commander in Chief has been during the 2020 failure of an administration, including its cabinet.
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  22. 4:25 Wait, WHAT? You are the first person EVER to say biden didn’t fall asleep at the wheel. Laf, EVER and ONLY. I hope our president doesn’t view this, as he’ll come away with the thought that he’s an experienced foreign policymaker.
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  23. Not a bad point. Biden pulling the rug out from under Afghanistan the way we did, with a nonexistent plan for withdrawal, obviously was going to create the power vacuum everyone knew the Taliban would fill. I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but there weren't multiple tribes competing for the prize, so perhaps less killing and conflict. But to hand over the fate of a country to a terror organization can never be a goal for ann exit plan. At least we left $7billion in military hardware that not only armed the Taliban, but also gave them a source of revenue by selling them all over the Middle East and Asia. Excellent work, Mr. President. If your vast foreign power experience led you to de-stabilize the entire region, you succeeded brilliantly, with near surgical precision.
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  24. A city right out of Star Trek.
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  25. Eliminating bureaucracy and red tape? You can DO that?? You mean there's hope? Gosh, think what could be accomplished - a closed border, a stronger military to deter the European, Pacific, and Middle Eastern theaters, bringing heavy and chip manufacturing back, nuclear fission...! No way, can't see it. We're doomed to have an entrenched bureaucracy that we'll never get unstuck.
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  26. Shoot, didn’t they come close to nuclear exchange?
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  27. First off, wow, what a great report! I really enjoyed listening to your perspective. The UN, to me, was an important institution that is involved in important issues, but I really never took the time to learn much about it. I’m a fan of the UN in glossy principle, but yes - it seems its model seems outdated, and doesn’t look to have been developed to be flexibly modified. Maybe it should be scrapped and replaced, but would anything new be any different than what we have? Perhaps a new United Democracies… Major reforms seem unlikely to happen what with Security Council members being considered enemies of each other. Maybe just get rid of the Security Council? Or change the permanent member criteria to ‘need to be a democratic society, with a capitalist economy, and place a high value on human rights? It would seem difficult to squeeze China out as a permanent member, but in my opinion, Russia forfeited itself after the Soviet Union collapsed. Germany looks to be more appropriate than Russia, and Japan more than China. Regardless of what critics of the United States might think (even American critics), if the US pulled out of the UN, the UN would cease; any reform or replacement would require permanent American involvement. Maybe we have what we have, and the multinational General Assembly for dialogue, advocacy, and advisement is the best the UN can ever be, along with Economic and Social Council and the International Court of Justice.
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  28. I wonder how much the USG is investing into this Taiwan alternative. Smart foreign policy move...of course, that excludes the US Government from coming up with the policy.
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  29. Bet you didn't make it through reading all 5,500 commenta, Mr. Caspian :)
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  30. That beeping sound, made to sound maybe like a pinging radar screen...not a fan. For whatever reason, it has gotten popular with all sorts of channels, which has really lowered my subscription count.
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  31. That’s an incredibly salient point. Thanks for posting.
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  32.  @themore-you-know Laf, the polarization of Trudeau and his desire to turn Canada into a socialist dictatorship in the same vein as China (paraphrasing, but his words), in opposition to the traditional, democratic government and citizens - who, by the way, freely gave their firearms to Trudeau.
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  33.  @frankartanis1290 That is true. When looking at Europe just pre WWI, the ‘borders’ encompassed many different cultures - Prussia comes to mind.
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  34.  @Gurubashy Our Church community does. We provide food, shelter, money….to help a fellow parishioner in bad times. Our neighbor had part of his roof torn off, another neighbor and myself helped repair it. I myself have been helped immensely with some medical issues (in fact it’s happening right now). It takes effort and a willingness to extend yourself. But I hear you. I had moved to AZ for some years at an apartment complex. All those people so close to one another, yet it was very lonely. And with turnover, I just stopped wondering who my neighbors were because it seemed no one was there for very long.
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  35.  @Huajierenmeiluziye I agree, but only in principle, since I have no idea how Chinese think. Can you elaborate?
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  36. America built concentration and death camps in order to perform industrial genocide of 6million Afghans? Is that what you're saying?
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  37. Ouch. I'm looking in the mirror...
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  38.  @roderickcampbell2105 You must be from Greece or Italy.
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  39. …and j1had1sm 03:25 It’s like a virus that causes untold suffering followed by a painful death.
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  40. Explain...
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  41. Maybe the technique could be starting with a strong military dictatorship (hmmm, almost like a colony) that stabilizes the country. If and when their standard of living increases, even a little bit, and the citizenry settles into some organized hierarchy, perhaps they’ll develop a desire for freedom. Then, with help from the West, and some manipulation by the CIA, the citizens will overthrow/overcome/vote out the original regime, and chooses democracy. Nah. Hopeless.
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  42. What could go wrong? Somehow biden will be elected again…or if not him, someone else under obama and hillary’s thumb.
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  43. The same swarmy manless man who uses his deceased family as political points to exploit.
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  44. If only other navies could re-register their capital ships to the Ukraine… Seriously, though, this video seems overly optimistic in favor of Ukraine. All the downstream strategies (ie, successful drone strikes on the Russian Navy, using US Army ATCMs to destroy Russian assets) have too many dependencies on previous operations working flawlessly. This is my first video from this channel, and while I did learn a lot, the steps to retake Crimea suggested appear to me too simplistic. I don’t know, maybe he’s 100% correct, but this video feels more like a wishlist rather than an assessment with recommendations by an analyst. Edit - I did appreciate Caspian’s summary, where he brought up counterpoints to liberalization, like the Russians in Crimea, and international points of view. I subscribed, I’ll give the channel a chance. Hopefully it’ll be an objective source and not a cheerleader site.
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  45. Just curious, what do you think Ukraine should yield? And do you have a guess as to why Russia may be holding back?
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  46. Not really. Britain fueled their WWII victory over the Nazis with oil from this region. It at least tried instead of simply withdrawing. Ya, it’s complicated, but the British aren’t all bad. Besides, who’s to say the situation wouldn’t be 10x worse had they simply vacated? The only constant with anything Islam, is instability. And it’s not like the Middle East would have gone back to its stone age culture after the War…not with oil under the ground.
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  47. Brilliant
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  48. Australia's time is coming. Fairly soon you'll be an authoritarian socialist nation, just as Canada will. Do you feel it yet? Both nations have stolen your firearms, and both governments are taking on more and more, in the interests of what each thinks is 'best for you.' We're trying to fight off the same phenomenon here im the States, as is England.
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  49. Maybe not humiliation as experienced by the biden administration, but the military and the citizens (including me) are VERY humiliated by our administration's withdrawal. Biden left them to the wolves and he knew it. Yeah, we were fatigued, yeah it was expensive. But in his rush to get out, 13 Americans died needlessly, thousands of Afghans were likely immediately killed, untold thousands, if not tens of thousands, have their fates sealed. Women's rights are gone, children are being raised as terrorists, the government gutted, infrastructure.... 20 years and $2.7 trillion gone and wasted...for what? So biden could announce he ended the war and brought our troops home, all so he could claim points for his upcoming reelection bs. It's humiliating because how he did it was wrong, and I'm so very ashamed of our leadership. Of all the wrong ways to withdraw, our idiot president picked the very worst. Irritatingly, he's so self centered, he's already forgotten about the misery he's caused. Don't get me wrong, Afghanistan should have done more to shore up their government and military; they had plenty of time and assistance, and they failed. But this culture does NOT seem conducive to democracy, and we tried forcing a concept upon them they have no experience or intuition for. They likely had adjusted to being 'ruled' by a military power, and in that regard they'll likely fall in line with the Taliban. Unfortunately, the taliban isn't much different than hamas, regardless of their attempts at giving the illusion of international legitimacy.
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  50. I’d count on it.
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