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

  1.  @Vercixx  You have to understand, this is political. Hungary and Poland oppose the EU federalist agenda especially in the respect that they won't take asylum seekers from elsewhere.
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  2. Don't believe all the BS. Zaluzhny himself acknowledges Gerasimov as his hero and mentor.
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  3. A lot of outright lies more like
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  4.  @matthewgaudet8001  Why does Washington want to get involved in the internal politics of any other country? We can speculate why but we know for sure it does. My guess is NATO. The US views the UK as a vassal - largely correctly. An independent might take a more sceptical position on NATO and the US rule the world project. In particular, Britain's nuclear submarines are based in Scotland, moving them to England would be difficult and expensive, all the viable locations are big cities.
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  5.  @arielmizrahi6359  "alliance" is a massive exaggeration. It's an agreement for the US to prop up the regime in exchange for the regime keeping the oil flowing. Saudi Arabia has joined BRICS and is patching up relations with Iran. That's a massive swing away from the US no matter how you try to spin it. If by alliance you mean the Saudis still want to buy US weapons then yes, that's still true.
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  6.  @shuki1  Saudi-Iranian relations are the best they've been for almost fifty years. Hard to understand why you don't think is relevant. 96% of Saudi adults want to break relations with Israel. That kind of number can't be ignored even by a dictator.
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  7. Don't you realise the Ukrainian army is older than the Russians in Ukraine on average?
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  8.  @DolphLongedgreens  Another great gem - in a war between NATO and Russia, the casualties would be 1000 to 1. It reminded me of Biden confidently predicting the Taleban would be defeated by the Afghan government forces a few days before the Taleban drove into Kabul.
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  9.  @stephenderry9488  Brexit actually helped the City of London ie. escaping from the regulatory stranglehold of Brussels which came up with such huge work creation schemes as MIFID2
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  10. Close to zero
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  11. LOL it's undiluted propaganda. For example claiming Mariupol can only be supplied by road - er no there's a railway there now and onwards up to the front. And he didn't mention Avdivka which is likely to fall in the next couple of months, that's pretty huge.
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  12. With a far smaller population than the USA, Russia trains more engineers. Peter Zeihan has many ridiculous narratives, that Russia doesn't train engineers is one of them. He's basically gas lighting.
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  13. Definitely, and this video is now totally obsolete.
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  14. And at the same time he could revisit his claims that Russian munition production would collapse because of lack of engineers, machine tools and maintenance. And his many predictions that the Russian and Chinese economies were about to collapse.
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  15. Peter Zeihan obviously never read the McCrone report - during Thatcher's years Scotland was massively subsidising England. And it was kept very, very quiet. As for energy, Scotland is an energy exporter.
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  16. He won't care, he'll still get his high paid speaking gigs to military officers and big business
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  17. That's not really what's going on. Armenia was trying to get closer links to the USA and NATO. The Russians could easily put pressure on Azerbaijan, both economically or if necessary, militarily but why would they want to antagonise a neighbour on behalf of a less powerful country which is trying to defect to NATO?
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  18.  @mikeedwards2537  The Russian birth rate (1.5 births per woman) isn't that much lower than UISA (1.7). The big difference is America is importing millions of people from South America, Africa and Asia whereas Russia keeps immigration low because it wants to stay Russian. If you want to talk about a really low birth rate, Ukraine's was around 1.3 before the war started but has plummeted since then. We don't have accurate numbers but it's estimated to now be the lowest in the world, something like half what it was before the war.
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  19.  @TheDa6781  The bodies for the army aren't willing bodies.
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  20. He butchers every language in a lazy arrogant way.
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  21. @@BF-sb5zs Yeah Mississippi is just an extreme example. Anyway obesity in Scotland is around 30% of adults, US average over 40%. Don't you think Zeihan should have given that context?
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  22.  @toddlawrence6872  You seem to be confusing Patriot batteries with Patriot launchers
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  23. Easy but they have no shortage of Russian engineers despite what Peter claims. Despite the smaller population Russia trains more engineers than the USA. The urgent shortage in Russia is of gender theory graduates.
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  24. The population has already halved since the end of the Soviet Union and the birth rate is close to the lowest in Europe, certainly lower than Russia's. The post war situation is going to be dire, so many working age men killed, so many young people left and huge debts incurred. The most productive parts of the country have been lost. So ambitious, educated young people who have not already left will leave and the population will plunge further.
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  25. CIA spokesman
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  26.  @TheHighlanderprime  Much like Zeihan is a propagandist, not a real geostrategist.
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  27.  @RandomPostcards  He's full of BS on many issues. Not long ago he said Scotland had the oldest population in Europe. A 20 second google confirmed no - it's close to median.
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  28.  @yurisonovab3892  Look it up. Russia graduates more engineers than the USA.
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  29.  @cymeriandesigns  Some truth to that but two points: US wealth is built on massive debt and a deficit nobody has a plan to control. In short, US prosperity which is what attracts that foreign talent is living on borrowed time. Second point - it shouldn't be so expensive to train people. The US university system is severely broken. Look at the cost of fees vs. average earnings, it's been creeping up over decades. No good reason for that.
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  30.  @johnathanhughes4367  Do you seriously believe this>? How is it Ukraine hasn't pushed Russia out of Crimea yet if casualties are so one sided? Both sides agree Russia has a huge dominance in artillery, armour, aircraft and ammunition but you still believe Ukrainian casualties are higher than Russian? Answer me this, when was the last Russian mobilisation of men to fight in Ukraine?
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  31. Sure - trust the politicians, they know what's best for us. How many boosters are you on now??
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  32. Do you still believe they blew up their own ten billion dollar pipeline?
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  33.  @David-jt9nt  If Russian equipment were really so unreliable as that, Ukraine would have won the war by now. The other isotope that's made with tritium is deuterium, it's not required for missiles directly but it is used in nuclear engineering. Russia has a large civilian and military nuclear industry it has maybe the world's largest uranium resources, it doesn't have a problem with materials.
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  34.  @teekay_1  Yeah Budapest is a really nice city. And compared to cities in Western Europe, it's clean and tidy.
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  35. It's a propaganda channel. There are way better neutral channels.
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  36.  @johnnyel  Yeah Greenwald is approximately right, we was wrong on a few minor details. The Duran channel is probably best on British politics esp. their recent interview with Parvini.. As for Zeihan, he's basically a joke
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  37.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  Not what we're seeing now. Guys like Elon Musk and JFK Jnr are exactly the kind of highly competent outsiders you need to get anything done.
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  38. Spoken like someone too thick to understand the end point of escalation is nuclear annihilation.
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  39. Not superstition, ethnicity. Which is fundamentally biological in origin, the competition between rival extended family groups.
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  40.  @abr00ky  It's delusional to think one of the world's biggest economies can't stand on its own. The EU is a disaster zone nowadays, there's serious political instability and economic stagnation. The EU's only answer to its growing problems is greater integration and greater authoritarianism. The UK re-joining the EU would be complete madness. It's more likely other countries will leave.
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  41.  @jdee8407  Yeah I've lived/worked in about eight countries, now permanently living in Scotland by choice. Great culture, low population density, higher pay to cost of living ratio than England, mainly avoided mass immigration - so far. Excellent schools, free, high quality health care, great mountains and plenty of coastline within easy reach. The weather isn't terrible, it's a bit wetter and colder than ideal but it's not too different from England. I have a Dutch friend who moved to Scotland intending to stay for two years before moving to Canada, he now intends to stay permanently.
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  42.  @GlasgowCelticBhoy  This discussion just goes to show how inaccurate and radically exaggerated Zeihan's takes are and how he confidently makes astonishing claims which can be debunked with 30 seconds googling. Likewise, his claims about Scotland's obesity and health problems - which are real - are presented without the important context that both of these problems are far worse elsewhere.
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  43. Yes, you won't see it in the Western media but there are literally hundreds of videos of the Ukrainian police rounding up men who don't want to fight including guys over 60 and 16 or younger. The Russians are advancing in multiple points across the front and have taken some high ground overlooking the supply roads to Avdivka.
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  44. As usual Zeihan's narrative misses out the essential information which doesn't suit US interests which in the Sahel, involves displacing France. The French were so big in Niger not so much for prestige as to get the cheap uranium. France massively depends on nuclear power, more than any other large country and their nuclear industry was getting ridiculously cheap uranium from the previous Niger regime. This is a big enough reason for France to fight a war there, regardless of prestige.
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  45. Both sides are mainly using tanks as SP artillery now. And both sides are using T55s.
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  46.  @RL.777  They actually had a peace treaty hammered out, a visit from Boris Johnson promising who knows what convinced Zelensky to tear it up.
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  47. Yes he's a neocon propagandist. For example in this video he totally ignores the improving relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia - a really huge change in the Middle East and not to America's advantage.
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  48. Most of what he says is BS. Claiming Russian losses are higher than Ukrainian losses is already implausible, claiming Russian losses are five times higher is blatant fantasy.
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  49. LOL, the evidence is that Ukraine has opened the upstream sluices. But keep blaming Russia :P
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  50. And why would you believe a claim from "US officials"? Did you believe the Iraqi WMD claim? Did you believe the claims about the Afghani government defeating the Taleban?
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