Comments by "John L." (@johnl.7754) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1. That plan went out the window
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  2. Maybe having many wealthy people living in or having property in Dubai gives it some political leverage worldwide
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  3. Compromise Give it to: Santa Clause
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  4. The quote “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” makes Strange bedfellows in global politics
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  5. Maybe because one is after greed/$$$$$ while the other is after absolute power (rule over a nation).
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  6. With a region with many religious extremists led countries it makes Monarchy led governments look like a better option 😉
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  7. Correct but current citizens (therefore politicians) probably don’t want to sacrifice for the greater good in the future of the country.
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  8. I don’t think that you need communism to distribute wealth just look at the generous social democratic countries of Europe. Also in the age of nuclear weapons no regions of a country would be in danger of invasion.
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  9. Problems caused by different religions
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  10. It does but one takes one crazy person in charge to cause it ☠️💀😱
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  11. People have preconceived opinions
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  12. They are not pirating and this is not about money.
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  13.  @paullnetinstitute4799  most overseas Chinese not from China are against the CCP regardless that they are Chinese
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  14. also France and China
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  15. Hard to take sides as all political leaders involved are heavily religious
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  16. Maybe no news is good news
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  17. Probably because more afraid of Russia now and historically
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  18. Things won’t get serious until there is a bad economic recession/depression then nationalism will be used to stay in power like China attacking Taiwan.
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  19.  @farcenter  yeah especially since I think conditions that foster what happens in Germany can also happen to any country in the world and most likely will.
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  20. ASEAN & EU weakness is that it requires unanimous support to pass any decision so China just need to target the weakest members to vote with its interests to block it.
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  21. Because of political reasons (Israel) it has been given money (#2 in USA foreign aid recipient) for a long time
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  22. China government economic (and other) data is highly suspect
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  23. Having an old population and having a consumption based economy is nearly impossible since as people get old they spend less
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  24. Yeah China today has the superior manufacturing capacity and larger number of workers able to produce weapons.
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  25. and also the lack of crime and corruption (especially if your exporting the products). China has corruption but it’s more targeted towards government procurement and other government functions but usually not touching exporters.
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  26. With Denmark Competing with Russia over arctic it better align itself with another strong big power otherwise it might not end well.
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  27. That’s one thing US has over China. US has most Western nations behind it while China doesn’t have it in Asia.
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  28. If Sweden joins NATO it would probably let its military spending & readiness fall again with the security blanket of being in NATO just like most European NATO countries. Not saying that it is good or bad just how it would it would become.
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  29. Which countries? Most countries around EU (or Mediterranean) are too religious or too volatile with oil/natural gas dependence (directly or indirectly) funding non democratic rulers. The only possible country might be Turkey.
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  30. It might be the opposite East Asia has more influence over France by how much luxury French items it purchases from them which is why France doesn’t want to lose China as an export market.
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  31.  @AeneasGemini  Taiwan is just as old (if not older) then China. Also China still has many surplus not college educated young people which it can recruit if it wanted. It wants to go high tech that’s why it reduced its personal size laterly.
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  32. Europe interest in Africa is so that less Africans come to Europe....same as USA interest in developing Mexico.
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  33. Maybe weak economy means less willing and able to project power in other countries….especially with a government needing citizens votes.
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  34. He is making it out to be much more of a problem then it actually is since this poor region only has a very small population like under 10% of entire China
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  35. and didn’t build a sufficient backup supply of natural gas when it was cheap.
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  36. Yeah keep wondering when he’s going to mention North Korea.
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  37. Iran has been giving Houthis free weapons US sold weapons to Saudis
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  38. FYI $100 million in 1946 = around $1.4 billion today
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  39.  @farcenter  maybe the cold weather
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  40.  @mrsnrub282  China wants to bully Vietnam over sea borders and has many historic wars.
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  41. @championszz I know just stating China doesn’t even have support from countries of similar ethnicity.
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  42. Yeah keep getting USAA ads even though I or my family is in the armed forces
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  43. Europe will be fine with food stuff as long as it has the $$$ to pay more than other importers.
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  44. Because African rulers have not developed their own country in order to keep corruption high
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  45. The problem with abolishing any world destruction weapons or technology is can you really believe that all other adversaries have destroyed their weapons of mass destruction.
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  46.  @edwardhuang3751  yeah just look at tiny weak North Korea
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  47. The US military can stop them if they wanted to bad enough.
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