Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Poland, After America || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. I grew up with Polish jokes. They were much more common than jokes about other ethnicities when I was very young (I’m talking about those jokes that can be repurposed for any ethnicity). How many Poles does it take to screw in a lightbulb? How do you confuse a Pole? (Put him in a round room and tell him there’s a nickel in the corner.) You know, the really corny kids’ jokes. The odd thing was, I didn’t know any Polacks. Or I didn’t know any kids that were Polish in my multi-ethnic middle class neighborhood, as far as I knew. My little brother’s best friend had the last name Kalin. Mike was half Mexican, but I never made the connection that his dad was Polish. He was just American. Mike was just American. His dad went on to become a Federal Judge (which doesn’t exactly fit the stereotype of the dumb Pollack). Fast forward a few years. My own dad’s career had advanced, we were upper middle class and we had moved to a slightly more prosperous neighborhood. Still tract houses, but bigger ones with bigger yards. My family knew another family socially a few years later, the Sobieskis. The dad was also in the legal field. They were quite educated and cultured, more than anyone in my family was. (It turned out they were related to minor Polish aristocracy, but I didn’t learn if this until much later.) But the point is that, like the Kalins, the Sobieskis were Americans. They were the children and grandchildren of immigrants, as I was. Forty or fifty years ago, when I was a kid, no one needed to point out how hard working an ethnic group was, or whether they were family oriented. It was just assumed that was so. Everyone wanted to get ahead, and everyone wanted to prepare their children to get ahead. It was understood that mostly we would get ahead with slow progress. Oh, one detail I missed. People did sometimes identify as “hyphenates”. Japanese-American, Irish-American, Afroamerican, Mexican-American, Polish-American. I don’t think anyone on my street got angry about people remembering where they came from, although you might hear from elsewhere, “Why can’t you just be Americans?” I guess this line of thought came from people who came from nowhere and wanted everyone to be like them.
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  2. How would Poland respond to an attack from Russia? Would it merely seek to defend its borders or might it seek to destroy those military elements involved in the attack?
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  3. I suppose “the west” might seem to be centered elsewhere, but in this context it’s not a geographic location. It’s not centered in Europe or the U.S. In the geopolitical context or the political philosophy context, “the west” is a political framework incorporating Rule of Law, democratic representation, and democratic consent of the governed. Which is not to say that you should be in lockstep with your government or your government should be in lockstep with its allies. I’m in agreement with you about being thoroughly sick and tired of left/right politics. In my country (U.S.A.) it has transformed into the sort of hooliganism you see with extreme sports fanatics.
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  4. For military arsenals, procurement, and ongoing development, you need to watch Perun. He drops videos every Sunday morning, usually on these topics and related ones. We shouldn’t encourage Pete to go outside his areas of expertise, imho.
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  5. Why would you want Pete to talk about future weapons, a topic well outside his bailiwick? What original thing could he say? If you want to hear someone discuss weapons procurement and defense policies, go watch Perun’s videos. He’s reasonably knowledgeable about weapons technology development, but he’s aces on procurement, spending, and policy trade-offs that leaders must consider—the things that determine future military weapons. Let Pete do those things that Pete does well, and don’t try to lure him outside his lanes.
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  6.  @danncorbit3623  why? Is that how optics works? Is depth of field dependent on sensor resolution? I don’t think it works like that, but I could be wrong.
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  7. I’m pretty sure Poland’s got more than steers and queers.
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  8. We’re not worried about that sort of chest thumping. We’re more worried about you becoming insufferable braggarts who will follow a grifter skilled at stroking your egos. 😅 You know, like what’s happened to some of us.
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  9. Also, to be fair, the U.S. has had its own issues with maintenance and modernization of our strategic nukes since the end of the Cold War. Perhaps it’s worse under a Kleptocracy, but 🤷🏻‍♀️.
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