Comments by "Carey\x27s Corner" (@careylymanjones) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1.  @panographiximageservices3147  The money isn't coming out of Chevron's pockets, unless you're suggesting Chevron chartered a ship with no insurance. Oil companies take risks, but not that sort of risks.
    1
  2. So ban any and all software from the PRC. Problem solved.
    1
  3. It's entirely political. FJB is trying to save his worthless ass by dumping a bunch of reserve gasoline, to lower gas prices. But gas was still over a dollar a gallon cheaper when Trump was President. And anybody but a fool or a Democrat (but I repeat myself) will see through this as a transparent election campaign ploy.
    1
  4. If American shale oil production is so high, why are American prices at the gas pump double what they were, under Trump?
    1
  5. And switching to greentech will turn Africa into a toxic waste dump, with all the cobalt and nickel mining required to make the batteries we'll need. But hey, who cares about Africa. It's halfway around the world, anyway.
    1
  6. The FBI still has extensive HUMINT capability - deployed against the American people.
    1
  7. AI is going to be limited to rich countries with high-end chip making capabilities. China is cut off from high-end chip fabrication equipment. The US, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are the best candidates for AI to be a major help. Japan, with its terrible demographics, is probably the country with the most to gain.
    1
  8.  @yzy8638  The only thing keeping China afloat is the sunk cost of the existing factories there. But if a large enough cost savings is available, companies will move. It happened to the US, decades ago. It's beginning to happen to China. There are Chinese companies building factories in Mexico, now. Cheaper labor, cheaper and more reliable energy, lower transportation costs, lower tariffs. The smart companies have already run to Mexico, with Columbia picking up the really low-end stuff. Globalists gonna globalize. They have no country. The mere place they stand means nothing to them, compared to where they make their money. And WHEN , not if, they decide they'll make more money in India or Mexico, it's sayonara, Xi.
    1
  9.  @lakeliving2013  You misspelled "pro-American President".
    1
  10. Peters week-late videos are mostly good for laughs.
    1
  11.  @TankEnMate  Considering how poorly Peter's videos age, calling his Patreon a "better" service is questionable.
    1
  12.  @djolds1  Peter's continued dinner speeches and analysis gigs are predicated on him being the Voice of Globalism. Unfortunately for Peter, America has turned its back on Globalism. He's become the Bagdad Bob of Globalism.
    1
  13. China's navy is not a blue-water force. It's a nasty handful in the China Sea, but it can't project power beyond the First Island Chain. China's ships don't have the range, nor does China have the overseas naval bases to support operations off Iran. It's true that China could nuke Iran, but that's about all China can do.
    1
  14. You let them put ice in a single malt Scotch? Shame on you. You deserved to get sick.
    1
  15. Offshore supply chains will not completely disappear. They'll just become regionalized. America will look to countries closer to home, such as Mexico and Columbia, instead of China. And there will still be "friends and family" that still get to play with us. Japan and South Korea have both made trade deals with us, as has Australia. Vietnam and Thailand will still do business with us. The big loser will be China. Nobody LIKES China, and as Chinese labor becomes less competitive, companies will abandon it, for places such as India and Mexico, particularly Mexico. That being said, I think the US will do well. In spite of FJB's War on Fossil Fuels, America has some of the cheapest energy in the world, it's the world's largest consumer market, and foreign companies will increasingly pay for the privilege of trading with us. We'll move our supply chains closer to home, reducing transport costs and security issues. As the US withdraws as the world's policeman, everyone's supply chains will become more regional, as no one else has the navy to protect global trade.
    1
  16.  @jimluebke3869  Cell phones will not go to $2,000, except for possibly a handful of premium models. The chips that power smartphones are mostly made in the US, Taiwan, and South Korea. China only does final assembly of parts made elsewhere. India or Mexico could easily replace China as a final assembly point for cell phones. If Mexico ended up being the main cell phone assembly point, cell phone prices could actually go down, due to lower labor, energy, and transport costs.
    1
  17. Peter's main gig is telling Globalists how to be better Globalists. This is why he hates Trump so passionately. Trump is breaking his rice bowl.
    1
  18. Moscow isn't the objective. Melitopol is. Melitopol is Russia's main supply hub for the southern front. If the Ukrainians can get into artillery range of Melitopol, they can hose Russia's supply lines to the entire southern front. It's been slow going, not because of the martial prowess of the Russian soldier, but because Russia planted just about every land mine in their stockpile in the area north of Melitopol. That many mines would slow down US forces.
    1
  19.  @thomasclementz8149  You need to lay off reading RT. It's made you null and void. BTW, when is the big victory parade through Kiev? It was originally set for a year ago. Do you have the new date? Inquiring minds want to know.
    1
  20. And Lindsey Graham knows "dumber than dirt".
    1
  21. Is it ignorant to finally get tired of pouring out blood and treasure to defend people who do nothing but sneer at you? I'm one of the shrinking minority of Americans who still think that containing Russia is worth doing, and asshoes like you make me wonder if Europe is worth a single drop of American blood, anymore.
    1
  22.  @RL.777  Like Madonna trying to look twentysomething, with plastic surgery.
    1
  23.  @u2beuser714  2030. Seven years, and counting.
    1
  24. They weren't conducting active military operations, then. The required supply levels are vastly different.
    1
  25. I think the world would be a better place, if Putin breathed less oxygen.
    1
  26. If you're not serious about nuclear power, you're not serious about global warming.
    1
  27.  @gorkyd7912  Yes, there are alternatives for most oil and gas uses. But most of them are not economically viable for any but the rich. EVs are not economically viable for working people. Working people can't afford to pay $50,000 for a car that will need a $15,000 replacement battery pack, by the time they've paid off their loan. If Democrats succeed in driving ICE vehicles off of the roads, most people will have no choice but to move back into the urban sh¡tholes they worked so hard to get out of. And THAT, not climate change, is what "climate change" is about. It's about forcing EVERYBODY to live THEIR way.
    1
  28.  @gorkyd7912  It's still forcing people back into urban sh¡tholes, even if there are commuter trains to drag them into downtown. Public transport is no longer safe. Urban DAs won't prosecute, unless a victim defends himself. Then it's Katie, bar the door.
    1
  29. So now that we've learned what there is to know about Chinese spy balloons, I suppose we should just start shooting them down the instant they enter the airspace over US territorial waters. Or if we want to crank things up a notch, shoot them down BEFORE they reach US airspace.
    1
  30. Of course, they became part of the political class. No man's life, liberty, or property, is safe when the legislature is in session - unless he's bought enough legislators. Microsoft tried to be just a software company, until Bubba hit them with an antitrust clue stick. Now they pay the pols their proper squeeze, and everything's fine.
    1
  31. Democrats want to make personal transportation the sole prerogative of the wealthy. The rest of us, they want to force to move back into their urban sh¡tholes, and use public transport, where their thugs can rob us and their DAs won't prosecute.
    1
  32. There have also been analyses that the Kung Flu's genome shows signs of tampering. Sequences that don't occur in nature.
    1
  33.  @nickg1895  Thank Idjit Lindsay Graham for that. He's the dumbest guy in D.C. I don't think he could pour p¡ss out of a boot, if it had directions printed on the heel.
    1
  34. Immigrants do the jobs that Americans won't do - for $2/hr. Peter needs to finish his sentences.
    1
  35. As opposed to getting real friendly with people halfway around the world? Frankly, I think it's about time we started working with our neighbors to "improve the neighborhood".
    1
  36. Old Twitter: if you were conservative, you got shadow banned, if not completely banned.
    1
  37.  @no_more_free_nicks  You can get more with a kind word and a gun, than you can with a kind word, alone.
    1
  38.  @arthurkehl9745  IIRC, the Wehrmacht still had bicycle troops, back in 1939. The German Cycling Team was renowned for it's aggressive tactics.
    1
  39.  @RalphEllis  The Ukrainians did likewise.
    1
  40. Targeting with a cobbled-together homebuilt underwater drone is probably not as precise as we would like it to be. This isn't something you can buy, off the shelf. A submersible with the range to reach the bridge from Ukraine, while carrying a worthwhile payload, probably doesn't have a lot of room for advanced terminal guidance, even if the Ukrainians had the tech base to build such a guidance system.
    1
  41. "The whole system of American alliances" -> America carrying the rest of the world on its back, while having its pockets picked and listening to insults. What it looks like, is America waking up, and deciding to jettison some of the useless mouths it's been feeding. Europe doesn't have the stones to stand up to Third World refugees. How can it POSSIBLY be of use against Russia or China. As Peter has pointed out, America has the largest contiguous stretch of high-quality farm land in the world. It is served by the largest inland waterway system in the world. America is self-sufficient in energy. It is a top-tier technology leader. It has better demographics than any other developed nation. And it has the world's most powerful Navy, so it can securely trade with any nation it wishes to. And last, but not least, it has arguably the world's strongest natural borders.
    1
  42. The thought of Europe being dominated by cheese-eating surrender monkeys is not a comfortable one.
    1
  43. Peter is a Globalist, and Globalists see Trump as the Antichrist. They are incapable of taking him seriously, as they see him as a threat to their entire worldview.
    1
  44. Actually, no. Peter is a globalist. He'd hang pirates with a short rope, if he could.
    1
  45.  @jesan733  Also, there are more consumers. If the cost becomes too high, consumers will remove the governments that imposed it.
    1
  46. States will not willingly give up the graft associated with regulating power companies. Expect LOTS of lawsuits.
    1
  47. Russia is asshoe.
    1
  48. Annnd the Voice of the Establishment is here to tell us how the election of another "populist" in Europe doesn't mean anything, because the all-powerful Establishment will not allow anything to change.
    1
  49. Immigration, assuming you assimilate your immigrants, is a great demographic "cheat". It's kind of like offshoring your reproduction.
    1
  50. When the "Free World" turned away from freedom, it simplified things. When Europe decided to commit suicide by migrants, it simplified things. When Europe tried to force its anti-freedom agenda on America, threatening to extradite Americans who refused to toe their authoritarian line, it simplified things. Say what you will about Vladimir Putin. God knows I've said enough bad things about Vlad the Defenestrator. But I can't imagine him looking the other way, as Muslim gangs raped 12 year-old Russian girls. Sadly, I DON'T have to IMAGINE two-tier Kier doing that.
    1