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

  1.  @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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  2.  @jazzyb4656  They used S300s to hit ground targets because they're up to the S500 now for air defence and they're never going to use those S300s for anything else. People have been predicting Russia will run out of missiles since the start of the war. They launched another large barrage of missiles just yesterday. And they just destroyed the large rail bridge south of Odessa.
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  3.  @hrogarfyrninga3238  This particular thread is about obesity.
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  4.  @Whaleydavey  Sure - the point is this Zeihan clown is telling a mainly American audience some misleading and incorrect information to create a narrative which checking some facts reveals to be total trash. Obesity is an example. Telling Americans that Scotland has an obesity problem but not mentioning the USA is much worse. Telling us that Scotland has an especially old demographic - reality is it's about average for Europe, FAR from the worst in Europe. His whole narrative is based on these kind of false premises. Surely he's doing this deliberately. Likewise on many other topics where I know enough to know he's BSing.
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  5.  @Skunk106  When was the last time he had a narrative on anything which didn't align? Look into his background - Stratfor
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  6. Only if you believe propaganda sources about Russian tank losses. In reality the VKV is able to destroy any Ukrainian position detected now and Russian air losses are very low. It's a very, very one sided war and it's getting worse for Ukraine every day
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  7. What are you smoking? the Russian economy is growing at over 3%, that's faster than most of Europe.
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  8. Is that like the red line that Ukraine attempting to join NATO would trigger a war? How did that red line turn out?
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  9.  @Nobleheart111  Nobody cares enough about Afghanistan to bother staying there indefinitely. The Russians care about Ukraine because the parts they want are inhabited by ethnic Russians.
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  10. And the same morons are surprised when the Russian/Chinese alliance just keeps getting tighter
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  11. And also in protest against an obvious malicious prosecution to shut Trump down in court instead of at the ballot box.
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  12. "multi-ethnic empire" which requires spies to suppress internal discontent = same as USA then.
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  13. It's like saying how is Russia able to hit Ukraine with literally thousands of missiles when Western air defence is so advanced? The answer is because no air defence can protect everywhere in a major war.
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  14. He seems to not speak any language other than English, I've heard him woefully mispronounce even well known names in French, German and Russian.
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  15.  @MuiltiLightRider  Yes it is more than that, it's mainly for the Israel lobby who has a death hold on US foreign policy but the oil is definitely a big part of it. Syrian oil is hardly insignificant, it's about half a percent of global production from memory and the US takes most of that. Look at the numbers. Google the videos of the convoy of tankers carting it out. Only Western media claims the US is NOT stealing Syrian oil. The entire non Western world can see theft for what it is.
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  16.  @user-je3sk8cj6g  Russia didn't get to be the biggest country in the world with an army that sucked. Zeihan is a propagandist. Anyone who's closely following the fighting and believes Russian casualties are higher than Ukrainian must be thick as a turd.
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  17. As a German, why are you worried about Russia? Germany and Russia are natural allies. Germany has the industrialisation and Russia has the energy. Any fool can see America's policy towards Germany over the past few decades has been unfriendly at best. The Nordstream attack was outrageous, I can't understand why the German government put up with it.
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  18.  @Hellfr4g  You have to admit the EU is a total mess with no democratic accountability.
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  19.  @Hellfr4g  LOL I've lived in Germany, Netherlands and Czech and I speak those languages plus some others. No longer live in Germany but I follow German politics pretty well. Most people in West Germany are totally deranged, it's a mad house really. Almost as bad as California. East Germany is pretty sane.
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  20. He's an all round bull shitter. Earlier he was claiming Scotland had the lowest birth rate in Europe a quick check shows it's about medium
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  21.  @YoniLiron  Where's the evidence that Russia is sending "human waves" anywhere? The Chinese army did massed infantry assaults against intact defensive positions in Korea 1950. But where have the Russians (or Ukrainians) done that anywhere in this war? I've been following this war closely from the start watching videos from both sides. It just doesn't happen. It's just a propaganda phrase. Avdivka is likely to fall in the next couple of months which prevents Ukraine from shelling Donetsk City. If the Russians can achieve that, it's a huge win for them and Peter Zeihan will never admit it.
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  22. Earlier on he said the Russians can't train any new engineers even though they train more per year than the entire USA. He also said in a NATO war with Russian the casualties would be a thousand to one even though Russia has chewed through hundreds of thousands of NATO armed and trained Ukrainians with access to NATO satellite targeting. The guy surely doesn't even believe his own BS
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  23. If you think Russia blew this up, ask yourself why Ukraine has opened the upstream sluices.
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  24.  @didiersavard6809  Yeah I believe it's normal to periodically open sluices to prevent reservoirs overfilling but obviously and undeniably, doing so contributes to the flooding downstream of the dam. Temporarily keeping those sluices closed at this relatively dry time of year would mitigate the flooding. That Ukraine has opened them - so far as we can tell, several major dams - makes it obvious the Ukrainian government wants to exacerbate the flooding. Both sides lie but the Ukrainian side's motives for destroying the dam seem to be stronger and deliberately exacerbating the effect is just further confirmation who did it.
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  25.  @tim211292  Check out Military Summary Channel, Defense Politics Asia, Theti Mapping, Weeb Union. For economics numbers well you can google that pretty easily.
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  26.  @robt7773  Nice theory but democracy is in retreat everywhere. Perhaps there's still real democracy in Switzerland but most of the West is giving up on democracy now. Ukraine's certainly no longer even pretending to be a democracy. Israel's an apartheid style sham democracy. The USA is becoming as fascist as Russia. Canada has resorted to blatant authoritarian coercion to suppress dissent. Freedom of speech has long since disappeared in Western Europe. It's all theatre. The war is 100% about geopolitics, not about ideology.
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  27.  @theliato3809  Russia's stated objectives are to keep Ukraine out of NATO, to eliminate the national socialists and to demilitarise Ukraine. You can't really deny it's making progress on them. At some point and it might not be soon, Ukraine collapses exhausted. Long before that, everyone with a brain has left the country. The elite of the army is already dead for the most part. They're trying to get women as old as 60 to enlist now. Meanwhile the Russian economy is still growing, its military production is expanding and it's fighting the war with volunteers.
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  28. A conspiracy theory like covid vaccines are more dangerous than the disease they're intended to prevent? Which is now obvious. Or a conspiracy theory that it came from the Wuhan lab? which is also now obvious. Or a conspiracy theory that Big Tech censored about all of that on behalf of the US government? Also now obviously fact.
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  29.  @xlukas93  Until 2022 the rest of the world didn't like but accepted the US domination of global finance. Since then it's obvious that the US is using this position as a weapon. Other than the US's closest allies, everyone else including neutrals like India now has a very strong incentive to de-dollarise which is exactly what's happening. It doesn't matter what hasn't happened for twenty years, the incentives are different now.
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  30.  @xlukas93  It's not necessary that central bankers are stupid (although they can be - Griftopia makes a strong case against Alan Greenspan). It's more that the long term interest of the economy is not high on their list of incentives. An alternative to the US dollar doesn't have to be a single currency used by the whole world - I agree with you there is no contender to the US dollar emerging for that. International trade deals settled in the currencies of the parties to the deal are becoming more common, that's probably going to continue. An alternative could be in a basket of currencies. Consider how quickly Swift was circumvented. BRICS has got some problems to overcome but it's naive to dismiss it just because some of the members don't like each other. It's obvious to anyone paying attention the US hegemony is ending.
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  31. Avdivka is less defensible than Bakhmut. Bakhmut had a better geography for keeping the supply lines open. Avdivka is likely to call in the next two months. Some Ukrainian soldiers put out a video complaining officers have already been withdrawn.
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  32. shh shh doesn't fit with the narrative. Also no mention of the hero's welcome Putin gets in the Gulf nowadays.
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  33.  @Erik_Ice_Fang  Ukrainian demographics is vastly worse than Russian demographics. And Ukraine is ethnically much less cohesive than Russia. You obviously don't have a clue.
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  34.  @rogerwilco2  Everyone agrees that Russia has the aviation, armour, artillery and ammunition advantage. But Ukrainian losses are a third of Russian losses? This is extreme wishful thinking. Anyone who has been following this war with an open mind realises Ukrainian losses are higher - vastly higher. As or 200k Russian dead who are they all? Mediazona identifiers fewer than 50k Russian dead. As for Oryx - samples have been audited and it was found Russian losses were invented and exaggerated, Ukrainian losses were classified as Russian losses and one of the guys behind Oryx came up with the excuse we're volunteers, we don't have time to avoid mistakes. Maybe fair but the point is the Oryx numbers are meaningless.
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  35.  @xkaiokenx10  He's not a bit biased towards the West, he's a Neocon propaganda mouth piece. He ignores obvious facts which don't suit his agenda and he exaggerates facts which do suit his agenda. First time I heard him I was impressed. After i heard him talk about things I knew a bit about it became more and more obvious he deliberately misleads. Also his incorrect pronunciation of so many well known people and places suggest he pretends to know far more about some topics than he really does.
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  36. Mediazona found about 50,000 Russian deaths in this war so far, it was millions who died in the first world war once you count starvation. There's no comparison. And it was starvation at home, not combat deaths which sparked things off. If there's going to be a revolution it'll be in Ukraine, not Russia.
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  37.  @arshadali2312  LOL so explain please why Paris and Frankfurt went to such great lengths to unsuccessfully poach banks and bankers from London
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  38.  @arshadali2312  The French and German states are not keen to have tens of billions of extra tax revenue? Do you have a shred of evidence for this surprising claim?
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  39. True but not going to happen. Once these federalists have their hands on power and wealth, they're never going to voluntarily give it up. It's the nature of such organisations to attempt to centralise ever more. The US government fought a particularly bloody civil war rather than allow member states to regain some of the power they once had.
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  40. It's the same on every other topic, Zeihan lies to support the authoritarian agenda of the US government. He wants the US to be able to do what happened in Brazil.
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  41.  @jesan733  What's the big escalation from Russia? US supplied weapons are actually hitting Russian territory. Imagine if that were the other way round. You seriously think the USA would stand for that?
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  42.  @justanghozzst8218  Of course he did, he's a Washington shill. These Sullivan, Nuland, Blinken types encouraged Ukraine along the path of confrontation with Russia and NATO membership which provoked the invasion, then they made extravagant promises to Zelensky to get him to throw away the moderate peace deal a month into the war.
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  43.  @johnschwartz1641  It's a war of attrition, The Russians are taking territory mainly just to force the Ukrainians to fight. If you really want to measure territorial change you;re better off looking at the rate of changing in March April compared to Janurary Feb and compare Jan Feb to last year. It's obvious the Russians are gaining momentum - without evidence of high casualites. Also, Ukrainian morale is cracking. Even guys like Azov or what's left of them have refused orders.
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  44.  @lp9280  I've lived in several European countries and USA too yeah I'd say some European countries have better food than Britain but that still leaves Britain way, way ahead of most of the world including the USA. An American dude ridiculing British food just betrays a total lack of awareness
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  45.  @wantanamera  Go and look at some numbers. Whether in the US or in Britain, obesity is higher in certain non white demographics. And life expectancy for whites is higher than most too.
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  46.  @worfoz  I'm sure he gets paid well!
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  47. LOL China is the developed world. If you think China is backward you're a couple of decades out of date. And they won't be "out of the loop". The world is bifurcating, the West and Japan vs. everyone else. The everyone else is way, way bigger than the West plus Japan. In population, resources, technical work force and industrial capacity.
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  48. He'll be rich by then, he won't care :)
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  49. Your statement could apply to all of Ukraine, Russia and the USA.
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  50. Zeihan's take on anything to do with Ukraine is outright Orwellian.
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