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

  1.  @jesan733  It's actually verifiable fact if you'd care to check. If you can spare the time from finding those WMD in Iraq that is.
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  2. ​ @MaraWantuch  If the war continues for another few months, the Ukrainians will break. It's obvious they're finding it harder ever week to paper over the cracks if you watch neutral channels like Military Summary, Weeb Union, DPA, Daniel Davis etc. That's not to say the war won't be settled by negotiations but only if the Russians choose to do it. Nothing short of nuclear war is actually able to stop the Russians from taking what they want at this point. Which might be why people in the Pentagon might be trying to provoke a nuclear war.
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  3.  @jesan733  “Ukraine received security assurances for abandoning the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal. We have no weapons. And no security... If it does not work, or if there is no such package of security guarantees for Ukraine, then Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt.” anyone with room temperature IQ can see that means Ukraine building new nuclear weapons.
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  4.  @jesan733  Over the preceding months, Ukraine stepped up shelling of Donetsk City, read Jacques Baud. Although it's true Russian forces built up for weeks before the invasion it's also obvious the actual invasion was last minute and improvised. Chaotic even. Most likely the build up was intended as a bluff to make Ukraine back down and then the order to go in was given only a couple of days before.
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  5.  @jesan733  Jacques Baud is a Swiss intelligence officer - hardly a Russian propagandist. In any case his books are well references. If you want to argue with any particular point go for it but dismissing facts you don't like as Russian propaganda is lame crap for midwits. Nobody other than you claims the Russian invasion was well prepared, neither on the Ukrainian side nor the Russian side. The Russian soldiers who were involved say the lack of planning and organisation were appalling.
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  6.  @jesan733  If you don't like Jacques Baud because somehow a Swiss intelligence officer is actually a Russian spy or something how about Scott Ritter ex US marine colonel/weapons inspector, Douglas McGregor and Daniel Davis US colonels famous from Desert Storm, interesting that it's the colonels who write books on tactics who are better informed than the political but out of touch senior generals like Hodges and Jack Keene
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  7. Nothing to do with Russia it's about the West turning authoritarian
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  8. Is that because you believed Peter Zeihan who said the Chinese were going to backstab Russia and seize Siberia?
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  9. Russiagate was a fraud from the start, did you never get the memo?
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  10.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Sure. T90s Sitting there for years. Wonder how guys like you are going to cope when the final result of the war is a Russian victory?
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  11.  @Scriobh  I'm not an expert and Wikipedia has been wrong before but according to Wikipedia - "In non-special anniversary years only a T-34/85 medium battle tank carrying the Victory Banner leads the column of tens of military vehicles and equipment" Looks like this whole narrative about only one tank in the parade looks like the typical media horse shit to me. There are more important things going on. The Russians just hit some huge ammo dumps in Western Ukraine in the weekend and now radioactivity across Western Ukraine has jumped almost 50%. Presumably the British depleted uranium ammunition getting vaporized. But instead the media wants to talk about kindergarten BS like how many tanks are in the Moscow parade.
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  12.  @spencerburke  It's hardly the economic collapse the advocates of sanctions predicted at the start of the war though is it! Yeah ordinary Russians have to pay more now for their phones and cars. But Russian armaments production is up heavily since the start of the war, even the NYT admits it.
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  13.  @HKim0072  If that were true, why do people describe themselves as "African American" after ten generations? Why do people call themselves "Italian American" or "Latino"?
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  14.  @HKim0072  If assimilation really worked, these people would just be "Americans". But they're not. People who think assimilation is fast should think about Northern Ireland where after 500 years, the "immigrants" have still not assimilated.
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  15.  @HKim0072  LOL how did mass immigration of foreigners work out for the Native Americans?
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  16.  @HKim0072  No I've lived in six countries and speak five languages so your powers of divination aren't as good as you assume. I've demonstrated why assimilation in the USA is mainly a myth, apparently, you have no counter argument. Talking about Native Americans doesn't contradict my point at all. The European incomers REPLACED their culture, they didn't assimilate into it.
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  17.  @AjayTiwari-en9nz  If the US sanctions India, India just says f. you to the US and looks for closer ties with Russia and China ... and Iran, Brazil, Indonesia etc. India is too big to bully.
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  18.  @milesb2111  He said India gets most of its oil from Russia, not that Germany did.
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  19.  @AlanBennett866  Yes fair point, Musk isn't entirely against the government but he doesn't follow the censorship agenda as closely as the rest of big tech.
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  20.  @jayshartzer844  Easy to fix, the Russians station mercenaries on their oil tankers and the Somalis know to keep well away. The Russians caught some pirates a few years back and fed them to to the sharks.
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  21. Obviously he doesn't actually believe that. What's interesting about the claim is it proves he wants to downplay the vast power of the Israeli lobby. Even Netanyahu admitted they control the USA.
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  22. Hard to argue Vietnam wasn't a major war too. If you want to argue it wasn't a major war because it wasn't a total war then you should also likewise argue Ukraine isn't a major war for Russia.
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  23.  @davidjones6389  So is the argument that America hasn't fought a world war since fighting the world wars?? Or is it that according to you, only the world wars were major wars? Either argument is too dumb to bother discussing.
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  24.  @markb3786  10% for the big guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIbF8FC942Q
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  25.  @jaybee4577  How? Which African country has a navy big enough to challenge Western navies? Besides which future European trade with Africa is likely to be routed through Russia. And it's not something Europe relies on to survive anyway.
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  26.  @HWEspana  If Ukraine was being armed by Russia instead of being armed by all of NATO then no the US couldn't conquer it in a week. How? There'd still be the same problem of minefields. The Ukrainian army and US army are roughly similar size. Russian satellites would allow Ukrainian missiles to target American airbases, logistics and command hubs. Russian SAMs would shoot down US aircraft. The US is basically an air/naval power, the naval part wouldn't help in Ukraine and valuable aircraft are vulnerable to cheap SAMs. It would be a long, hard slog.
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  27. Not to mention outright land seizures! Yeah the guy is full of sh*t
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  28.  @Phoenix-vg8li  If that were true, Ukraine would be in Moscow by now
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  29.  @80-80.  Their stated goal was to demilitarise Ukraine. And now even the US media now admits Ukraine is running out of manpower
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  30.  @marcux83  Even the US media admits Ukraine needs to negotiate. Guess who doesn't want to negotiate? Russia. Because they know they're winning.
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  31. Because he's totally full of BS
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  32. Yeah food in the USA is basically poison
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  33.  @snakejuice4300  Any time an American argues America has the best in the world at anything, the rest of the world rolls eyes. Americans I've worked with in Europe are totally embarrassed by this argument though many French have the same superiority delusion which comes from ignorance about the rest of the world. Yes we're all aware that in big cities, it is possible to pay high prices for decent food (not so easy in rural Texas) but better than the rest of the world in your cute little dreams.
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  34.  @Everyonehasanopinion  You think NATO can destroy the Kremlin without every NATO capital city getting incinerated? You really haven't thought this through.
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  35. His inability to pronounce the names of even famous Russian, German and French people is a useful clue that he doesn't know anywhere near as much as he pretends about the things he talks about.
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  36.  @swirvinbirds1971  "Protestors of the war being loaded into vans and sent to the front" doesn't happen. Maybe someone in youtube claimed this but it's either BS or possibly DPR/LPR earlier on in the war.
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  37.  @JFK6699  What that narrative misses is guys from Donetsk and Luhansk are fighting for their homeland - against Ukraine.
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  38. Demographically the EU is changing very quickly, that's going to create massive political problems even if there are no external factors. Economically, it's mainly Germany who is paying for everything especially now that Britain is gone so eventually the Germans will get tired of that. The AFD keeps getting stronger. Once the budgets dry up, the motivation for countries like Hungary and Italy and France disappears.
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  39. Exactly. Zeihan's claim that they cooperate with the Russian government is an outright lie. The reason he left Russia is because he refused to compromise the privacy of users by handing over back doors to the Russian government like Facebook etc cooperate with the US government.
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  40.  @jhrusa8125  That just goes to show US propaganda is every bit as dumb as Chinese propaganda. Congratulations. Perfect parity.
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  41. It also ignores anything the Russians actually say or do. It ignores that Russia was quite willing to negotiate a peace with Ukraine without involving any transfer of territory a month into the war when Kyiv was in danger of being cut off from the rest of the country. It;'s just one of Zeihan's unfounded assertions he keeps repeating without evidence to brainwash us into accepting it as a fact.
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  42.  @heyho4770  Their military production is increasing. And overall economic growth is very healthy. Yes, they have low unemployment, it takes a lot of copium to spin that as a bad thing.
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  43.  @heyho4770  Wars are expensive. remind me again how much the US spent in Afghanistan to replace the Taleban with the Taleban? Low unemployment pushes up wages and the standard of living. Look at the numbers. Russia's national debt is tiny compared to most Western countries and even the war inflated the deficit is less than 1% of GDP and will fall after the war. The US deficit is around 6% of GDP and that's structural. A lot of European countries are worse. Pointing to low unemployment in Russia as a problem really is clutching at straws.
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  44.  @nightspore4850  Wishful thinking won't win a war
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  45. The narrative is that Russia is losing and Ukraine will retake Crimea. Facts which suit the narrative are emphasised, facts which are inconvenient to the narrative get ignored. Happens over and over.
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  46.  @Mrgasman1978  The EU didn't start with the current members. It started with a small subset ... like BRICS. Since you need explaining, the original EU (then EEC) members had had massive disagreements very soon before the EU was formed (ie. France, and West Germany). The EEC helped reconcile just as economic cooperation under BRICS should be expected to help reconcile earlier enemies.
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  47.  @kreb7  The EEC didn't have any of that when it started. If you think BRICS isn't important then you're living in your Peter Zeihan propaganda bubble.
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  48. Yeah but at least Stalin and Beria knew what made up crime they were charging someone with. They'd have been embarrassed by this trial.
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  49. Except that so much of the world dislikes America and America's interference so much that much of the world supports Russia and of the rest, the large majority is neutral.
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  50. The US has the most 20 and 30 somethings who are skilled? If you're talking about STEM skills, the US is dwarfed by China. Sorry Mr Neocon propagandist. Yes if we're talking about gender studies skills that would be the USA for sure.
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