Comments by "Colonel K" (@Paladin1873) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1.  @FGBFGB-vt7tc  It can happen anywhere and to anyone, which is why the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. From your description of living conditions I can only conclude you are living in a third world country or California, but I repeat myself.
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  2.  @brawndothethirstmutilator9848  Quite true.
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  3.  @termitreter6545  Really? When she entered office the country was suffering from a 25% inflation rate and was being strangled by large unions. She was able to change all this and pave the way for the financial boom from 1992 to 2008.
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  4.  @termitreter6545  England has been declining as a world economic power since the end of WWI. WWII was the final nail in the coffin that ensured the sun did set on the British Empire. Arguably by the 1970s the situation was so dire that the country was teetering on the brink of complete economic disaster. Thatcher pulled Britain back from this abyss and changed course away from ever increasing socialism, nationalization, and out of control unions. Her actions provided the Kingdom with a respite, not a panacea. Ronald Reagan was doing much the same thing in the USA around the same time period. But neither leader could eradicate the policies and programs their predecessors had spent decades enacting and expanding. Reagan could not get Congress to balance the budget. The most he achieved was to temporarily slow the rate of spending increase. America has not managed to balance its budget or end deficit spending in over half a century and the situation has steadily gotten worse. We have programs such as Social Security that are underfunded and over-tasked with responsibilities never originally envisioned, yet we keep kicking the financial can down the road. You can blame any leader you like, but the truth is they are all culpable to varying degrees, as are the people who elect them. Whenever the voters allow their government to grow and assume greater responsibility for what was formerly a personal or local issue, this will inevitably be the result, regardless of political philosophy. The primary difference I see between the US and the UK is that in the USA we have several significant advantages thanks to our size, geography, natural resources, and climate. Few countries come close, but even those that don't are still capable of having viable and vibrant economies if they are industrious and operate within their means. When they don't, they become failed states like Venezuela and Zimbabwe. It can happen anywhere. You can blame past leaders for your plight, but it really comes back to a willing populus that allowed the situation to arise in the first place. As Reagan so elegantly put it, "Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
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  5. Any truth in the latest reports that Biden is stepping down?
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  6. To sum up, the Ukrainians will attack here unless they attack there or are delayed by weather.
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  7. Just donated. Good luck!
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  8. Assuming the genies of industrialization, constant advances in technology, and higher standards of living ultimately lead to rapid demographic decline, then the Star Trek universe that Gene Roddenberry created would have been completely implausible if not for the heroic yeoman work of Captain Kirk.
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  9. Ukraine should hire some of the folks who design and build subs for the drug lords, load them with explosives, and use them as remote controlled torpedoes.
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  10.  @ticktock3152 I've been told that anyone who accents the USAF deal will have all their retirement pay and benefits cancelled until they retire again, and none of the extra time served will count toward that retirement. It's a plan designed to fail.
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  11. Coding isn't the only thing Zoomers do in a closet.
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  12. Got gas?
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  13. Wagner the dog.
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  14. Mines and drones can still blow tracks. It should be even easier when the tank is practically blind and can't rotate its turret.
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  15. Have you watched WION which comes out of India?
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  16. Snowden has poor tastes.
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  17. The Turks tried pulling this same crap with our planned use of Turkey as the staging area for Operation Northern Delay, the airborne invasion of Iraq in 2003. Their parliament tried to extort around a billion dollars from the US government. We had a lot of propositioned assets in Turkey, so they figured we had no choice. Instead, we launched the operation from Aviano, Italy and gave Erdogan and company the middle finger.
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  18. So it's a win-win situation.
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  19. Such a loss to humanity - NOT!
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  20. I liked the way the Poles told the EU to "stuff it" when other members demanded they open their borders to illegal aliens.
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  21. Mexico's loss is America's gain (sigh).
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  22. Or China will tell Iran to quit screwing with their oil deliveries or they'll nuke their asses. I'm good with either outcome. 🙂
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  23.  @billtate1684  I was making a joke. But on a serious note I will add that oil, like money; is fungible. However, if they Interfere with the supply of it enough, the effect will be felt among all oil dependent economies. Iran has the potential to do just this, which is why the US kept Iran at bay for decades. If Iran sees political and economic advantage to piracy or extortion then it could adversely affect trade and lead to potential conflict with any number of nations or alliances. However, Iran has an Achilles's heel. For example, it lacks enough crude refining capability to be truly self-sufficient and it is dependent on export sales of crude and gas to develop operating capital for importing critical technology to operate its facilities. This means there are other ways to bring them to bay, short of war. Though it may take longer to produce the desired effect, it does not require the adversely affected nations to expend blood and national treasure.
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  24. Which is about eight cents more than his advice is worth.
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  25. I guess it's time to buy a pig in a poke.
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  26. Posting my unsolicited comments on YouTube is as close as I get to social media. Judging from some of the responses I receive, it's as far as I want to go.
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  27. Nothing draws opposing interests together like a common fear of a third.
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  28. I'd like to do my part to help improve the birthrate, but I'm only one man.
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  29.  @RobertFromEarth  Engineers are robots.
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  30. Fascinating.
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  31. Maybe everybody remains pissed at China for creating this disaster and then lying about it, so why do any business with them? Can you spell TEMU?
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  32. For a while I thought Peter was talking about Biden and Austin.
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  33. I do not believe the US is going to pull back from being the guardian of free trade across the sea lanes.
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  34. So is your solution to militarize our cities?
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  35. Now if we could just get Ireland to join NATO we could knock out Russia with a Mickey Finn. 🙂
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  36. Organized crime IS the Russian government.
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  37. Greatest argument I've heard against green energy conversion.
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  38. WWII ended almost 80 years ago. The time for collapse and violent change is fast approaching again. It is the fourth turning of the current saeculum.
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  39. Europe was warned for decades by the USA that something like would happen. They can fix it by returning to coal production and nuclear energy, but I don't think they (Germany in particular) will do it. The religious fervor of the Green ideology is such that they would rather freeze and starve.
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  40. Germany can return to using nuclear power and invite in more Turks. Problem solved, sorta.
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  41. The states do not have unfettered control of federal elections. If they did then the SCOTUS would not have intervened when some states tried to term limit members of Congress. Before somebody is removed from the ballot he/she needs to be convicted of an actual crime that justifies such action rather than the political whims of a few judges. Otherwise you are only setting the stage for a true insurrection.
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  42. Illegal immigration is an example of quantity not having a quality of its own.
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  43. It's all a shale game. 🙂
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  44. One need only study the Ploesti raids of WWII to realize how hard it is no permanetly knock an oil production facility out of a war.
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  45. I think you just described the WALL·E generation.
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  46. Nothing Peter said tracks with the stories I've been reading about this issue, but I suspect Peter rarely delves beyond skimming the headlines and summaries of stories before forming his multitude of opinions on every topic. I'd rather live in the wild west internet with its inherent problems than trust any government regulation of news and what it deems to be truth.
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  47. Hell, if it wasn't for the corruption, Mexico wouldn't have any govenrment at all.
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  48. Another Putin tanty.
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  49. I'll believe Vietnam has successfully reintegrated when they change the name of Ho Chi Minh City back to Saigon.
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  50.  @smithjohn7855  Tell that to their Communist government.
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