Comments by "Carey\x27s Corner" (@careylymanjones) on "Mr. Putin Goes to Hanoi || Peter Zeihan" video.
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Whatever else happens in the world. The US has the Great Plains, the world's largest contiguous region of high-quality farmland in the world. It is served by the Greater Mississippi River System, the world's largest inland waterway, in terms of navigable miles of river. It has arguably the world's strongest borders, even if FJB is determined not to secure them. It is energy sufficient, in spite of FJB's best efforts to kill domestic energy production. It is the world's greatest immigrant magnet, so American demographic deficiencies are helped by a steady flow of newcomers, and even without them, America's demographics are better than most of the developed world.
In short, whatever happens, Americans aren't going to run out of food, energy, or people, and, in the immortal words of Mr. T, "Ah pity da fool" who starts a military conflict with us. No Eurasian power has the naval strength to challenge us, and no American power has any chance at all, of successfully invading us. What part of, "a rifle behind every blade of grass" do you not understand?
America's two great strategic adversaries, Russia and China, are demographic sh¡tshows. Neither has the TIME to build up the necessary forces to challenge America, before their demographics collapse. The future belongs to those who show up. China and Russia apparently didn't get the memo.
So yeah, we ARE "mostly ok" and "the rest are screwed". I have my differences with Peter, but on this, we agree.
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