Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "The Middle East, After America || Peter Zeihan" video.

LOL this is fantasy. Didn't you see the incredible welcome Putin got in UAE? Blinken got close to ignored. After Ukraine is finished up, Russia is back in the Middle East in a big way.
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@rameshpudhucode6862 Yes he said it bit it's a lie. Even the US president admitted the US is in Syria for the oil.
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@triumphstagdriver Lake Wanaka (80% sure)
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@waxwars9183 Which is why the US military can't reach recruitment targets. Even though they're realised woke commercials aimed at women don't work and have started targeting white men again
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@joshjones6072 The exact opposite of what's happened over the past thirty years.
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@mysterioanonymous3206 NZ is highly competitive it has a small population and rich natural resources. Distance from markets really doesn't matter when you're exporting stuff like timber, meat, wool. It has large gas reserves and now has a sane government which will start exploiting them again. It has huge fisheries. It has a huge tourism industry and the capability for cheap electricity.
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@mysterioanonymous3206 I'm not in NZ but sure - the per capital GDP isn't great. Look at the demographics. It used to be a white country, it's not any more and the traditional hard working culture of a hundred years ago is long gone. The point is, it has huge economic potential. I do agree it's no longer a great country but my point is distance from the rest of the world is so far down the list of its problems.
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@mysterioanonymous3206 You're underrating the importance of primary resources. What looks like a knowledge economy is often fueled by debt. For example look at the US debt to GDP ratio and its trajectory. You don't need to be an economist to see that's going to blow up. Whereas primary resource giants like Russia and Saudi Arabia are back in a big way. Physical proximity just isn't that important anymore. I've worked in teams spread all over the world and I do gaming with friends from the opposite side of the world Not a problem. Shipping costs nowadays are so cheap Europe imports coal from South Africa, South America and Australia. As for highly connected economies ... yes ... but how much of that is cause and how much is effect? African and South American economies could be integrated in the same way. Middle Eastern economies certainly could be. Where they're not it's political reasons and economic backwardness that holds them back. It's not lack of interconnectivity which creates the political problems and economic backwardness. And anyway, the NZ economy is pretty closely integrated with Australia's. Medium sized companies operate pretty easily in the other country. It's not that much easier even within the EU because of regulatory and language differences.
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@mysterioanonymous3206 Proximity mattered a lot more before jet aircraft and modern container ships. If it's economic to ship coal around the world, what's got lower value per ton than coal? If you're wondering about the difference between Congo and Switzerland, you'd be better off looking at the mean IQ of the populations rather than how many countries they're close to. BTW Congo is neighbour of a lot of countries! Switzerland got a huge dividend from staying out of both world wars and acting as Europe's banker. And it has avoided the worst impact of mass immigration. I'd say those two factors are pretty important for explaining Switzerland's prosperity today. Also democracy works better there than just about anywhere else (congratulations).
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@mysterioanonymous3206 LOL Europe was wiped out by WWI and Switzerland stayed out of it. Surely that's obvious. And WWII and WWI were only twenty years apart. Yes Switzerland has a lot of foreigners but look at who they actually are. A lot of Westerners (French and German and Italian people are only technically foreigners in Switzerland, right?) and a lot of people from the Balkans. Completely different from the likes of France or Belgium where most immigrants come from Africa. Yes I know you get some Africans too but compare to places like Paris especially where you get areas where almost everyone is from African backgrounds or directly from Africa, whether North Africa or Sub Sahara. Do you get that in Switzerland? I don't think so.
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South Island New Zealand, maybe Lake Wanaka
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@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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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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@pouyaz8472 Russia and the US can only act with the collaboration of allies. And the US has now lost all its allies there except Israel. Iran and Russia are now pretty tight and Saudi Arabia has made its peace with Russia. Pretty soon Iran's going to be strong enough to stand up to the USA. Look at how North Korea now has advanced Russian missiles which can hit the mainland USA. Russia's not going to let the US or Israel get away with anything in the future.
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@patrickjeffers7864 For Russia? The end game in Ukraine is Ukrainian capitulation and the Russians install a puppet government. Bit like the Americans did in Iraq. Except that Ukraine will be partitioned. Failing that then yes, the Russians will conquer it eventually perhaps not Galicia but the rest of it. They're building a huge army and the Ukrainians are running out of men. They're at the January 1945 stage.
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