Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. Accusing the Russians of deliberately trying to cause a famine is propaganda - and also slander. If the Russians really wanted to do this, they'd stop their own grain exports.
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  2. Cool. Now have a look into what the US and CIA have been up to over the past 80 years.
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  3.  @JLudwig-c4l  It wasn't Russia which staged a coup in Ukraine to overthrow the democratically elected president supported by most of the population setting off the catastrophe that is Ukraine today.
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  4.  danjohnston9037  In the Black Sea? Nobody now. It's a land war. The Black Sea doesn't matter all that much.
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  5.  danjohnston9037  That's sort of true but Russia is destroying the Ukrainian economy while the Russian economy grows. Driving the Black Sea fleet out of the Western Black Sea is a consolation prize for Ukraine at best.
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  6. Hi Peter
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  7.  @MisterWaldo  And you think US intelligence is telling you the truth? FFS man WMD in Iraq?! Hunter Biden's laptop is a Russian plant? we don't spy on US citizens?
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  8. Why would he? Anyone watching neutral channels and comparing propaganda from both sides can see Russia is winning decisively. Compare ISW maps now compared to the start of the year. The entire Ukrainian Donetsk defense belt is gone. Russia's advancing every day. Zeihan keeps talking about "meat wave assaults" and heavy Russian casualties, where's the footage? It's just propaganda for his fan boys who don't watch neutral channels.
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  9. Important causes of the first world war and the second world war were ignoring red lines assuming because the other side backed down last time they're going to back down again. Actually because the other side backed down last time it makes it harder for them to back down again. While the USA keeps smack talking Russia, Russia is taking practical measures to prepare for nuclear war, it is mass producing portable fall out shelters for its cities.
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  10. And take them to San Francisco, Los Angeles or Detroit.
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  11. They do. That's why they're winning. The Russian manpower on the front is actually less than Ukrainian manpower and Ukraine is armed by all of NATO.
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  12.  @frankzappa9853  Yeah you can if you want to start WW3. If the Russians start seeing themselves bombed by jets launched in NATO countries you're an idiot if you think the Russians are going to be too scared to hit those airfields. And if WW3 starts it will most likely turn nuclear pretty quickly.
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  13. Imagine North Vietnam was hitting the USA with Soviet weapons. Do you seriously think the USA would just sit back and take it? If Western weapons do serious damage to Russia, Russia is going to reply. Either with a massive strike using conventional weapons to cause mass casualties in Ukraine - which they haven't done yet - or with tactical nuclear weapons. Only an idiot thinks Russia is going to back down and only an idiot thinks Russia is going to just keep letting the west escalate without responding. One response Russia has already made is to give NK advanced rocket technology. That alone is a huge loss for the USA.
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  14. Neutrality? Impartiality? Are you joking?
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  15.  @brokenaura23  No, I think it's sustainable for a very long time. Russia has a partial war economy but it's calibrated. Non military manufacturing is expanding as well as just military production. Financially, their debt is pretty low, they have a lot of room to play with. The war won't last for years anyway, Ukraine is struggling badly now it's not just material, there's infighting at the top and a lot of guys don't want to fight any more.
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  16. It's just a propaganda narrative anyway. You notice there's no evidence for anything he said.
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  17. Sure Denmark could do that - if they want to start World War Three.
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  18.  @Chr1s-fm6bi  Sure mate, which other country builds nuclear power ice breakers?
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  19. LOL it was the Soviet Union which did the hard fighting against the main enemy Germany and most of Japan's army was fighting the Chinese. Let's get real. The US struggled against Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. You seriously think the US could fight Russia and China together in a conventional war without nukes? And if it does turn nuclear, Russia has more nukes than America does ignoring however many the Chinese now have too.
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  20. What Zeihan doesn't like about twitter is that under Musk, the CIA no longer controls it
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  21.  @felixjtorres1321  Demography is a witch - well demography is cruellest to some countries more than others. In Ukraine the demographic situation is possibly the worst in the world now. Since the war started, the birth rate has fallen from amongst the lowest in Europe to now, probably the lowest in the world. Around ten million people have left, especially young people and especially women. Hundreds of thousands of men are dead or seriously injured. Millions of people who used to be Ukrainians are now Russian citizens. True the situation in Russia isn't rosy but compared to Ukraine, Russian demographics looks bright.
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  22. That's complete rubbish. Britain lost around 700,000 men in that war. It's a lot but in the 1910-1920 decade the British population increased despite this.
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  23.  @danz1182  What you're leaving out is the huge emigration from Britain after the First World War frankly because better economic opportunities were available elsewhere. Otherwise the population would have increased by a lot more. Despite emigration AND the war, the population increased in the 1910-1920 decade.
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  24. @ "In some villages in the UK there were no men left" - do you have a single example?
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  25. Half the war was already over before December 7 1941. The British air force defeated the German air force over Britain then the British army stalled the Germans in North Africa and the Chinese army stalled the Japanese in China before America even joined the war.
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  26.  @ernst624  Just google it. They're from Slovenia.
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  27. Ukrainian propaganda which its Zeihan's job to propagate. Real Russian casualties are tracked by mediazona and they were nowhere near as high as Zeihan makes out. Also at Bakhmut most of the Russian casualties were Wagner prison convicts ie. what the Russians call disposable infantry. Given the Russians were burying Ukrainian positions under rubble using FABs to demolish high rise blocks it's implausible to claim Ukrainian casualties were lower than Russian casualties. Also he keeps talking about Russian human wave tactics, why is there no footage of this? I've seen hundreds of hours of footage, both sides use similar tactics except the Russians use vehicles a lot more presumably because they've got plenty.
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  28. Don't you understand this NATO proxy war is making China stronger? Chinese/Russian relations used to be pretty frosty, now they both see the USA as the main enemy and so are cooperating more closely than they ever have.
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  29.  @mysterioanonymous3206  NZ is highly competitive it has a small population and rich natural resources. Distance from markets really doesn't matter when you're exporting stuff like timber, meat, wool. It has large gas reserves and now has a sane government which will start exploiting them again. It has huge fisheries. It has a huge tourism industry and the capability for cheap electricity.
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  30.  @mysterioanonymous3206  I'm not in NZ but sure - the per capital GDP isn't great. Look at the demographics. It used to be a white country, it's not any more and the traditional hard working culture of a hundred years ago is long gone. The point is, it has huge economic potential. I do agree it's no longer a great country but my point is distance from the rest of the world is so far down the list of its problems.
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  31.  @mysterioanonymous3206  You're underrating the importance of primary resources. What looks like a knowledge economy is often fueled by debt. For example look at the US debt to GDP ratio and its trajectory. You don't need to be an economist to see that's going to blow up. Whereas primary resource giants like Russia and Saudi Arabia are back in a big way. Physical proximity just isn't that important anymore. I've worked in teams spread all over the world and I do gaming with friends from the opposite side of the world Not a problem. Shipping costs nowadays are so cheap Europe imports coal from South Africa, South America and Australia. As for highly connected economies ... yes ... but how much of that is cause and how much is effect? African and South American economies could be integrated in the same way. Middle Eastern economies certainly could be. Where they're not it's political reasons and economic backwardness that holds them back. It's not lack of interconnectivity which creates the political problems and economic backwardness. And anyway, the NZ economy is pretty closely integrated with Australia's. Medium sized companies operate pretty easily in the other country. It's not that much easier even within the EU because of regulatory and language differences.
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  32.  @mysterioanonymous3206  Proximity mattered a lot more before jet aircraft and modern container ships. If it's economic to ship coal around the world, what's got lower value per ton than coal? If you're wondering about the difference between Congo and Switzerland, you'd be better off looking at the mean IQ of the populations rather than how many countries they're close to. BTW Congo is neighbour of a lot of countries! Switzerland got a huge dividend from staying out of both world wars and acting as Europe's banker. And it has avoided the worst impact of mass immigration. I'd say those two factors are pretty important for explaining Switzerland's prosperity today. Also democracy works better there than just about anywhere else (congratulations).
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  33.  @mysterioanonymous3206  LOL Europe was wiped out by WWI and Switzerland stayed out of it. Surely that's obvious. And WWII and WWI were only twenty years apart. Yes Switzerland has a lot of foreigners but look at who they actually are. A lot of Westerners (French and German and Italian people are only technically foreigners in Switzerland, right?) and a lot of people from the Balkans. Completely different from the likes of France or Belgium where most immigrants come from Africa. Yes I know you get some Africans too but compare to places like Paris especially where you get areas where almost everyone is from African backgrounds or directly from Africa, whether North Africa or Sub Sahara. Do you get that in Switzerland? I don't think so.
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  34. Where did you get these numbers from? Oryx? Oryx has been discredited, it has invented Russian losses, undercounted Ukrainian losses and attributed Ukrainian losses as Russian. Google it.
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  35. Where are the neo-nazis? Are we really supposed to believe that the German woman married to another woman - from Indonesia - is a reincarnation of an Austrian painter born in 1889? If so, what is the average intelligence of Zeihan's audience?
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  36. Zeihan can't even get basic facts right or pronounce the names of well known people. Wagner was founded by Utkin, not Prigozhin.
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  37. You should be way more concerned with the most popular politician in your country being banned from standing for election by your own government.
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  38.  @schoppi9300  Evidence? Maybe he just doesn't want any part in NATO's proxy war.
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  39. Wagner pulled out of Bakhmut ages ago, the weekend coup/insurrection has no effect on Ukrainian success or lack of success around Bakhmut.
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  40. He knows some things but there are a lot of things he obviously knows nothing about but he talks as if he's an expert anyway.
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  41.  @mintheman7  Zeihan gets so much wrong about so many of the topics he lectures about so assuredly and just by coincidence every and prediction he makes leads to the same outcome, that America has great prospects and America's rivals are going to collapse in ignominy. The claim that China can be blockaded for silicon sets a new record for stupidity.
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  42. Same as on every other topic then
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  43. South Island New Zealand, maybe Lake Wanaka
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  44. Because Zeihan is a shill for Washington. Tucker Carlson understands what's going on and explains it to people. That makes him an enemy.
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  45. The other huge difference is that Putin is patriotic.
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  46.  @Tyrgalon  The difference is that Ukraine is a much bigger, stronger country than Finland. Second biggest military in Europe after Russia. Finland is a country of just a few million people. Only an idiot would talk about Finland retaking lost territory from Russia by force.
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  47.  @Tyrgalon  LOL dreams are free just be glad the Russians don't defeat you for the third time in a hundred years. It really is farcical when people from a tiny country like Finland talk about defeating the second most powerful military in the world. It just shows how fantastical European countries have become.
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  48. Don't understand the Brexit regret part, anyone who follows what's happening in Europe can see that it's marching towards disaster. That includes Ireland which seems to be on the brink of violence between the globalists and immigrants vs. Irish patriots. Not saying Britain is free from problems because obviously Britain has all the same kind of energy, immigration, globalisation problems, just to a lesser degree than Ireland, France and Germany.
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  49. Is that because Russian tanks threaten to invade Washington?
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  50.  @YaBoyRockLee  LOL the original NATO borders were in Germany and Russia was promised it would stay that way. You can't keep moving NATO borders eastward and then suddenly panic that Russia in on the NATO borders. What thickies don't get is by pushing Russia into this war, all these US rivals like Russia, China and Iran are drawn into an alliance. In the days when the US was being run by people with a brain like Kissinger, the US strategy was to keep US rivals divided by taking account of their own security concerns and interests. BTW the Ukraine war is lost, the media admits it and the media is way behind.
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