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

  1.  @Jay-vt1mw  Sensible people talk with probabilities and caveats. Zeihan has come up with such ridiculous claims as shutting down oceanic trade would kill 500 million Chinese (even though they can import food from Russia) and a Russia-NATO war would see casualties 1000:1 (even though Russia is beating NATO armed Ukraine decisively). So much of what he says is blatant propaganda.
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  2.  @sgt.grinch3299  Not what I said ... but I think you knew that.
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  3. What a ridiculous cope :) Most Americans think whatever the media tells them to think and the US media is turning hard against the losing proxy war against Russia.
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  4. Not so much that they think Russia is their friend, more that they just understand the Ukraine war is a proxy war between the US and Russia and the US is even less of a friend than Russia to most African and Middle Eastern countries.
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  5. Zeihan is severely misreading this war. The Russians are running low on missiles but there's no evidence they're running low on artillery ammunition. Their production capacity is huge. The Institute for the Study of War is CIA propaganda, look at who owns it and its outrageous claims (like the Russians have been shelling themselves in Donetsk for months) and poor track record. The Kherson counter offensive has already failed, this was obvious by the time this video was released. As for the bridges .... the Russians have a huge fleet of heavy lift helicopters in the region.
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  6. If the Russians were that useless, the Ukrainians would have taken Moscow by now.
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  7. The propagandists have fall out shelters. We don't.
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  8.  @rjohns25  FFS, how ignorant are people? Nuclear missiles have been able to hit USA from Russia and Russia from USA for over half a century now. That's why they're called ICBMs - INTER CONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES. As for air defense systems, yeah that'll shoot down a few percent of the incoming missiles. Very unlikely to stop the hypersonic ones. Most will get through.
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  9. The Turks aren't so stupid as to start a war with Russia. They've fought a lot of wars with Russia before and it seldom works out well for them.
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  10.  @rccasual7525  I severely doubt the Turks want their country to be on the front line of WWIII. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
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  11. So when's that going to happen? Is it before or after Joe Biden wins a running gold in the next Olympics?
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  12.  @tonywilson4713  On other stuff I know a bit about, machine learning and the Ukraine war, I can also confidently say, Zeihan is not only ignorant but outright dishonest. He's told many blatant lies about Russia in particular. One giveaway that he's full of S***, he badly mispronounces well known names in French, German and Russian in ways which would be unlikely if had the familiarity with the topics he's discussing, even without actually learning those languages properly.
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  13. No he's not better than that. He's always been a CIA propagandist. And under Musk, the CIA no longer controls Twitter.
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  14.  @TrendyStone  Sure. And you also believe the Russians are trying to drive to Warsaw to increase their own security? And that China will collapse because of demographics but Japan will become a regional hegemon despite its even worse demographics? And it's just a pure coincidence that everything Zeihan/Stratfor say align with Washington policy goals?
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  15.  @Henchman.24  No it's not! Glasgow City isn't much more than a tenth of Scotland's overall population. Why do you clowns spout utter crap about stuff you know nothing about? You could literally have checked this with google in the time you spent to write a post.
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  16.  @chrisy6707  On a lot of other subjects too, he talks very authoritatively but the facts don't stack up. He seems to be a propaganda mouth piece for the CIA or the state department. Background is Stratfor an organisation linked to the CIA
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  17.  @wintermute-  When the Clintons get a half million dollars for an hour speaking gig, it's not because they have some special insight. Peter Zeihan is a CIA mouthpiece.
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  18.  @youareliedtobythemedia  Park a ship in Odessa and the Russians will sink it. It's a game of chicken and the Russians aren't going to back down in Ukraine. If you think a global nuclear war is worth some shipments of grain then good luck convincing Erdogan because the Turks have fought many wars against Russia and they tend to lose badly.
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  19.  @talideon  How is that different to the US running away from Afghanistan leaving hundreds of billions worth of armaments?
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  20.  @LewisPulsipher  What are the insurance costs of the Yemeni coast and off Somalia?
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  21.  @jasonbern5185  I agree it's complicated. It's not anything alone. However, there is evidence that experience of tough conditions and danger does make people more inclined to want to have children afterwards. Ed Dutton looks at the evidence for this extensively. Perhaps experience of danger shakes people out of the unnatural complacency of modern life.
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  22. Read the McCrone report - Scotland was subsidising England for years and it was kept secret by the government at the time.
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  23.  @cat-as-trophy  The most "diverse" cities in Europe are absolutely awful to live in - crime, filth, high housing costs, lack of social cohesion - look at France right now. According to Zeihan logic, Somalia has a better future than Northern Europe because it has a young population.
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  24.  @cat-as-trophy  Yeah it's definitely different, the other big difference is in most Asian countries, the amount of immigration is too small to be any demographic threat to the native population. In Europe there's neither quality control nor quantity control.
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  25.  @cat-as-trophy  I couldn't agree more
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  26. Zeihan believes anything the Ukrainians claim which suits his narrative. There was such a claim but it was debunked. Search for the photo of Klitschko with this "hypersonic" missile which got shot down
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  27.  @JM-yn8mb  Jeez for someone who watches geopolitics channels that's incredibly naive. US and Britain don't support Israel for their own benefit. It's because Zionists make campaign donations and have media influence. Read the Israel Lobby by Mearsheimer or the Neoconservatism as a Jewish ethnic movement by McDonald. As for not losing allies, just look at the UN. The entire UN except Israel, the USA and two tiny island countries is calling for a ceasefire.
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  28.  @george2113  Most of us weren't alive then. The difference is, during the Cuban crisis, there was a sane, capable president in the White House who could and did talk to the Soviet leader and come up with a deal. Now, there is a demented incompetent in the White House who accuses the Russian leader of terrorism while at the same time committing sabotage like the Nordstream attack.
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  29. "Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :" All countries are smaller countries for Russia you clown. It didn't get to be the biggest country in the world by being crap at war.
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  30. But isn't the high fertility mainly because of the Gypsies?
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  31.  @decemvre  They're well known in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia as shoplifters, pickpockets and social welfare frauds.
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  32. The reality is Scots don't need to move to London anymore, plenty of high sklll high pay jobs in Scotland. It's more like Londoners moving to Scotland to escape the crime and the housing costs.
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  33.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  You think that tunnel is built of wood?
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  34.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  While that's true if you've got really massive amounts of heat, a typical bomb doesn't produce enough heat sustained for long enough. There's a huge pressure which spreads the gas from the explosion over a wide area. You're going to need a truly massive conventional bomb to heat through 2cm of concrete and get rebar hot enough to damage it. A tanker fire .. now that could do it. An intense, sustained fire. But that's going to damage a tunnel structurally, it's not going to collapse a tunnel.
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  35. @Targetlocked. Fitting though because Peter Zeihan copy and pastes the same discredited propaganda over and over in each video about Ukraine.
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  36.  @Brit_Toolmaker  Selection bias. If you watched Russian channels you'd be seeing failed Ukrainian assaults and Russian lancets and FABs smashing Ukrainian positions. Both sides take casualties in a war but Russia is gaining ground, not the other way around. Both sides agree Russia has the advantage in armour, air, artillery and ammunition. Yet you believe Russian casualties are higher - not just higher but twenty times higher. Frankly, you're being manipulated.
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  37.  @fredscallietsoundman9701  Is it crime which makes Somalia poor or is crime in Somalia high because it's poor? In any case, giving people lots of money doesn't change their culture or their attitudes to honesty or violence or how to treat women. In most of the Eastern Europe, it's the richest people who are the criminals.
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  38. A few months. A lot has changed in the past two months, Ukraine is at breaking point. It's not just ammo or equipment, the bigger problems are manpower and morale.
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  39. Plus crashing the economy plus prioritising Ukraine over America
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  40. The man bun/TDS correlation is second only to blue hair
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  41. He mispronounces place names to remind us he's an expert on geography and geopolitics. Nothing says I know what I'm talking about better than getting names totally wrong.
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  42. His record is awful. He's right about a few obvious things. According to him, the Russian economy collapsed about a year ago and Russia's about to break up. According to him, China's about to lose half its population to starvation. despite being the world's largest manufacturing power sharing a land border with a new ally, one of the world's biggest food producers. According to him, China has backstabbed Russia and is using Russian weakness to invade Siberia. etc. etc.
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  43. Agree. Russia blowing up the dam would be a huge own goal just like them blowing up Nordstream pipeline. The only evidence so far Russia did either is Peter Zeihan said so.
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  44. This brinkmanship and pushing the envelope is how World War One started. It's dangerous as f&**
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  45. Nah he believes everything the Ukrainian government claims .. when it suits his narrative. Actually identified Russians killed in the entire war - that's around 20k INCLUDING LPR/DPR forces. The high Russian casualties narrative is mainly BS.
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  46.  @benhardsatrio8222  In case you haven't noticed, technology has changed since then. Look at how fairly primitive missiles sunk the Mosvka and have driven the Black Sea fleet out of Sevastopol. The Iranians are more than capable of sinking an aircraft carrier that comes too close. And that's if their new Russian allies didn't give them modern weapons. After all the US armaments for Ukraine, the Russians wouldn't seem to have any reason not to help Iran drive American carriers out of the Middle East in a hot war.
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  47.  @benhardsatrio8222  You'll get your wish. All the Russians have to do is arm everyone who wants the Americans out and that's a long list. Do you really think the American presence in Syria is sustainable? I'm not suggesting the Americans will leave Israel. But it's going to keep getting harder for the Americans to sustain any influence in the Gulf much less places like Northern Iraq - unless it's through Turkey, a country growing in military power who is loosely allied to America but has its own agenda.
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  48.  @benhardsatrio8222  The Iranians - much less the Russians - aren't going to use one missile. They're going to use decoys and many at once if they want to sink a high value target like a carrier. If you think any air defence is 100% reliable you haven't been paying attention to the Ukraine war. If you think US air defence is so much better than anything that's been used in Ukraine you're buying propaganda. The USN damn sure knows carrier battle groups are vulnerable. So they're going to keep well away from the Russian coast or the Iranian coast.
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  49.  @strigoiu13  You obviously don't follow the fighting. Most Russian attacks are just enough to keep the pressure on. Who are all these dead Russians? Mediazona has identified around 40,000 from the entire war and the big spike was convicts during the Bakhmut battle.
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  50.  @ronarnett4811  Yeah he's a blatant propagandist. Not just someone who's sometimes right and sometimes wrong in good faith but someone who is deliberately propagating propaganda. But he sure has a lot of sycophants :)
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