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

  1. Sure. And if you go down that route, Russia starts sinking Western ships and cutting the Atlantic cables. What then? Nuclear war? Or West backs down?
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  2. Who is getting decimated in Ukraine? Russia? What are you smoking?
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  3. Zeihan is merely a mouthpiece for Washington, he's not even slightly open minded.
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  4. Stalin and Beria would have been embarrassed by this trial. At least they could specify what the fake charges against their victims were.
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  5. Russia doesn't care about F16s, they're old technology and Russian air defence is first rate. For a country like Norway to antagonise Russia unnecessarily is just irrational. Russia can make things difficult for Norway in the arctic and the Norwegian oil industry is much more vulnerable than Russia's is.
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  6.  @nedimyra  Norway is giving Ukraine F16s. Of course Russia is part of Europe.
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  7.  @nedimyra  Topic of the video is F16s so OP is implicitly referring to F16s, I wasn't even replying to you, not sure why you think I was, perhaps you've never seen youtube comments before?
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  8. Check the actual numbers before you believe the Zeihan fairy tale. Russia's demographics are pretty dire that's true but pretty average by Western standards. Most of Eastern Europe is in fact worse. As for the Russian economy, it's going to grow by 2% this year. It's hardly collapsing. And nor is its international trade. It's successfully replacing European markets with Asian markets. Finally, there's no sign Russia is interested in a cease fire judging by the statements of the leadership. Apparently, the Russian leadership believes it will win.
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  9.  @maxpower3990  Germany was starving and was unable to replace losses. Hardly applies to 2024 Russia where the economy is booming, the army is expanding and Putin's popularity is higher than when the war started. It may well apply to Ukraine though.
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  10.  @strigoiu13  Not really, internet BS is America's greatest strength. A uni of Adelaide study earlier in the war found that 90% of the bots were on Ukraine's side. The US state puts serious money into this. As for Russia, look at the deficit, look at the growth look at national debt. All looking better than the USA. Laughing emojis don't change the numbers.
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  11. LOL the Russians don't think so, they're confident, they're advancing, they're having no problem expanding their army and their economy is growing despite sanctions. Have a close look at things in Ukraine. Just yesterday recriminations and arguments in the Rada, Zaluzhny was shouting he needed a massive expansion in recruitment months ago.
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  12. Yeah his takes on China are blatant propaganda. More like China just doesn't want to deal with the EU. They want to deal with EU countries individually so they can treat them differentially and ideally split them. They treated Macron really well, rolled out the red carpet but snubbed Von Der Leyen.
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  13.  @grahamo22  and because they have a corrupt national leader with dementia and a bad temper :)
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  14. Nice excuse - with no evidence
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  15.  @SDRsUnited  yeah - so it's totally useless.
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  16. Not really, the Russians just used FABs to destroy any Ukrainian position they spotted. The Russians lost a lot of vehicles at the start of the operation but higher manpower losses than Ukraine? Unlikely. Check mediazona for a chronological breakdown of identified Russian deaths, Russian casualties this year have dropped right off.
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  17. Yeah he's just repeating Ukrainian propaganda numbers we know are lies. Actually identified Russian dead in the whole war are around 20k and that includes DPR/LPR who are actually Ukrainian according to Ukrainian logic. The actual Russian army hasn't lost that many at all.
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  18.  @VoltageLP  Evidence?
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  19.  @VoltageLP  It's not a yes/no question, what is the evidence? Point me at it. If you can't then don't believe it. This war is full of propaganda (from both sides), don't smoke your own supply
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  20. Ukraine learns the difference between being a US ally and being a proxy to be sacrificed for the minor geopolitical goal of tying up Russia for a few years.
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  21.  @FunkyFunky7345  Yeah Russia is pretty much done - done destroying Ukraine. Even the US military now admits the Russian military is stronger than when the war started. And the Russian economy has recovered from the start of the war and is now bigger than ever. Putin's popularity is even higher than when the war started. Verified Russian combat losses are just over 40,000. If you think somehow Russia is losing this war, you're consuming some pretty potent propaganda.
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  22. Because his whole coverage on Ukraine is propaganda.
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  23.  @zurielsss  I read one of his books and was reasonably impressed but then I saw him do videos on stuff I know a bit about and it was obvious he's 50% bluffing and 20% lying.
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  24.  @jakeforrest  You know the US seized hundreds of billions of Russian assets right?
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  25. Only takes a few submarines to shut down global trade. It's delusional to think NATO can shut down Russian trade without Russia being able to do the same to NATO.
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  26.  @andrewscharbarth2099  It's not created by sunlight, it's created as a fission product. You can't collect it by electrolysis it's chemically just hydrogen. There is a fancy distillation way you can separate it (really cold distillation) but I think isotopic exchange is the normal method, anyway it's not a challenge for any country with a large nuclear industry.
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  27.  @Sho-td8wg  If your point is that the US spends vastly more on its air force than Russia does and could gain air superiority quickly where Russia has not then yes probably. Before the war Ukraine had a very large and well prepared army, I don't think the US would find that easy either. The whole war, Ukraine has had more men under arms in Ukraine than Russia has. The Russians took a huge amount of territory in the first days, yes the US could have done that too but would have faced the same problem the Russians have, ambushes on supply lines. If you think the US could magically brush all of that aside, you're ignoring the US experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, militarily much weaker countries than Ukraine. Also I hope it's obvious Ukraine would have collapsed long ago without the huge amount of NATO backing. The US has never faced anything analogous since Korea.
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  28.  @RemusCroft  You're mistaking hitting a tank with destroying a tank
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  29.  @RemusCroft  BMPs yes, tanks no although there maybe a few exeptions. I've seen hundreds of hours of footage. Usually FPV drones don't seriously damage a MBT at all. That goes for both sides.
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  30.  @Vercixx  LOL do you think the EU is any better? Brussels is ground zero for EU corruption. Billions get distributed and plenty get skimmed. Look at "Qatargate". All the so called reforms apply to member countries but not to the EU itself. Brussels is every bit as filthy as Washington.
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  31.  @kronus4915  The whole of the West is getting worse in terms of corruption
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  32. We all know why - a particular ethnic minority especially numerous in the Balkan countries, notorious for social welfare scams, pickpocketing and shoplifting.
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  33. Zeihan doesn't care about details, just big picture narratives :)
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  34. He makes them up. The whole "meat wave assaults" narrative is blatant propaganda. There's been no footage of heavy Russian casualties in the Donetsk area since the early stages of the Avdivka battle.
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  35. Every time the Russians fight Finland, Finland ends up smaller.
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  36. An historical argument about Russian's problems with internal communications before the age of railways is extraordinarily naive. What's especially ironic is the two examples given: Napoleon's invasion and the Anglo-French attack on Crimea. The first ended with a Russian army in Paris, the second ended with a Russian victory as well.
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  37.  @johnschwartz1641  Who controlled Crimea at the end of the war?
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  38.  @johnschwartz1641  I'm not claiming Russia won the war but both sides made concessions to get peace. The important point is any analogies going that far back are totally irrelevant now. Russia struggled in the 19th century because of internal communication problems. That all changed once it had a railway network - and it's a pretty excellent railway network. Peter Zeihan who claims to be a geography expert and a geopolitical export totally ignores that.
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  39. 80% of the Russians who left have returned. Identified Russian dead (by Mediazona) comes to around 40,000 out of the biggest population in Europe. Peter's numbers are propaganda wishful thinking.
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  40.  @pyrioncelendil  That was air strikes that hit Wagner. It's not like the US special forces rampaged through a Wagner camp like in Call of Duty
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  41. It's because the media is full of lies and listening to what Putin says demolishes some of them. Therefore don't listen to Putin.
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  42. Number one dumbest thing is the US baiting Russia into a war which results in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in an anti-US alliance.
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  43. "Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries". True. But all countries are smaller countries. Russia didn't get to be the biggest country in the world by being crap at war.
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  44.  @hybridarmyoffreeworld  Russians are winning decisively in Ukraine, if you didn't know that you should widen your sources beyond Zeihan
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  45.  @dr.j5642  Compare to say coverage by the Duran channel - they're biased in the other direction but at least give sources. Or compare with Col. Dan Davies, more neutral and also gives sources. Peter Zeihan is not an expert on most of the stuff he talks about, on the things I really know a lot about it's very clear he is not only ignorant but tells outright lies too.
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  46.  @dr.j5642  His entire narrative on the Ukraine was is blatantly dishonest. He keeps saying stuff like the Russians are taking horrendous casualties - zero evidence. That they're making "human wave" attacks - they definitely don't. See History Legends channel if you want a quick debunk. That they're deliberately trying to genocide the Ukrainian population. Yet civilian deaths in the much smaller and shorter war in Gaza far outweigh Ukrainian civilian deaths. That Russian air defence is useless - doesn't match the open source evidence. Earlier, he strongly implied the Russians blew up Nordstream and anyone who thought otherwise is a conspiracy theorist. Now, the official story is the Ukrainians did it although Seymour Hersh's version is far more plausible. Do you see why anyone closely following the war knows he's full of s***?
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  47.  @dr.j5642  I'll give another big narrative he keeps pushing which makes zero sense. That the Russians need to control seven choke points to guarantee their security, even at the cost of war with NATO. Russia is the world's biggest nuclear power, that's what guarantees the security of Kaliningrad, now the Suwalki Gap. It's a bit like arguing the USA needs a land corridor to Alaska to guarantee its security. Not only this but it's prepared to fight a world war to do it. Earlier on he claimed in a NATO-Russian war the casualites would be a thousand to one - that's literally insane. The Russian army is the most powerful in the world now. Its overall military is less powerful than NATO but even with no nuclear weapons it'd be far from one sided.
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  48.  @dr.j5642  The only prediction he got right on Ukraine is that the Russians would invade but everyone paying attention knew that was going to happen once Zelensky started talking about joiing NATO and acquriing nuclear weapons in October 2021 in Germany with Kamala Harris there with him and Harris allowing this to go unchallenged.
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  49.  @EyeOfMagnus4E201  Yes Soviet Union was slightly bigger in population than Russia today but it had huge political problems and the military hadn't recovered from the officer purges. That hardly applies to Russia as of late 2023. The military is battle hardened, useless officers have been fired, armaments production is right up, look at how Russia is fighting in Ukraine nowadays, they're probably the most effective military in the world at least the most effective large military. in 1940, you could argue man for man the Finns were better at least given the time of year, you can't argue that now. Ukraine is a huge country compared to Finland and you can't say the Ukrainians aren't brave tenacious soldiers but they're getting ground down despite all the Western aid. Are you sure Finns would be more effective man for man than the Ukrainians are? They wouldn't have the huge corruption problems Ukraine has so maybe but I doubt there'd be much in it. Don't dismiss Russia technologically either, they graduate more engineers than any other country in the world and they're world leaders in certain areas.
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  50.  @JLudwig-c4l  LOL your user name is debater, well debate this. You say Finland has a million reservists and every Finn is militarily trained. By the same standard, twenty something million Russians are militarily trained and officially there are something like twenty million Russian reservists. Is anyone seriously going to argue Russia could field twenty million men? Of course not. So why do you think Finland could field a million men? If you think Russian deaths in Ukraine are higher than what Mediazona can actually identify cool, tell them who all the missing people are they can't find.
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