Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1.  @NineInchTyrone  It clearly hit the mark. Even the man in your mirror agrees with me. ;-)
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  2. Replacing reasonably well educated Chinese people with very poorly educated Nigerian people who have one sixth the GDP per person is not exactly an offset. You need to start thinking before you write bullshit like that. There will never be much more than ten billion people on the planet and we can manage that number just fine.
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  3. The world economy is growing, which means that it needs more dollars. Nobody else can supply a reliable global currency.
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  4. Working in a factory was never anybody's dream, kid. Chinese youth doesn't want to work in factories anymore, either. ;-)
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  5. I am pretty sure you wrote that on a computer with a CPU made in the US. ;-)
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  6. It was on tv, so it must have been true. Wait... how old were you back then? ;-)
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  7. What US holdings are you talking about, exactly? Are we ever going to sell federal land to pay off the debt? No.
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  8. The curious thing about these claims is that I have seen a lot of solar panels in my life. I have never seen any environmental damage done by them. ;-)
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  9. Yes, China is undoubtedly the world's largest manufacturer of toasters. ;-)
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  10. Awh, you are so cute when you are crying. :-)
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  11. Zhao Lijian can be one of two things: a disgrace to China or the proof that China is a disgrace. Pick your poison. ;-)
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  12. Cry some more little Russian troll bot. ;-)
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  13. And there is the man who doesn't understand economics. Not a rare site on the internet. ;-)
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  14.  @SacredCowSlaughterhouse  History is largely driven by economics... and there is your problem. ;-)
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  15.  @SacredCowSlaughterhouse  Are you trying to impersonate Marx, right now? The original was stupid enough, but honestly, none of his impersonators can beat the original. ;-)
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  16. It's the 48th most abundant element. We are never going to run out of uranium.
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  17. Says the person who never went to college. Sound of one hand clapping. ;-)
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  18. Nobody will miss the Russians and the Serbs. Sorry to say... ;-)
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  19. That's cool, but drones are toys for manchildren and Chinese EVs are not on sale in the US. Not a single one. :-)
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  20. ​ @JonySmith-bb4gx Adults can import cars everywhere, but you are a just a child... so that's that. ;-)
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  21. Dude, the world economy is growing. As long as that is the case you absolutely have to print money, otherwise there will be rampant deflation and that is a deadly toxin. And what's a digital currency? :-)
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  22.  @swk327  Inflation doesn't come from money printing. It comes from an imbalance of supply and demand. If you haven't noticed... there is a huge labor shortage and things that used to be plentiful are suddenly missing in the stores. THAT causes inflation. It doesn't matter how little money you print, if something is short in the store, it will be expensive because there is always a buyer who will buy whatever quantity is available at a price that he can afford. If beef was suddenly $10,000 a lbs, the rich would be throwing $1million BBQ parties, even if the Fed would be burning a billion dollars a day. You need to study economics 101. There is no unemployment in the US. The current rate is at 3.5% (which is in the historic lows) and the number of non-farm employees grew by some 233,000. Are you even checking macroeconomic indicators before you write your bullshit? The tech sector is down because it has wasted an enormous amount of money on bullshit like VR and fintech and is now having an investor hangover. Kid, you don't even know the tech sector. China is a late-comer to the COVID game and it is being hit the worst at a time when its population is going into decline. The later has been known for over thirty years (4-2-1-0 families are not good for the labor force) and can't be changed with monetary police, neither by China or any other country. That's dialed in for at least another 30 years. Seriously. Try to learn before you speak. OK? ;-)
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  23.  @swk327  Why are you telling me that you don't know how the stock market works, either? And what's with the crayons, anyway? ;-)
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  24.  @swk327  Why are you telling me that you have not read a single modern book? I really don't care that you can't pull your head out of the intellectual sewer of the 18th century. ;-)
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  25. Yeah, Montana is a shithole. What does that have to do with solar power? ;-)
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  26. The go and invest your money in a Chinese apartment. What could possibly go wrong? ;-)
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  27. You don't like the message? You were here to be told that your crypto is worth more than horse shit? Awhhhh... how disappointing for you, kid. ;-)
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  28.  @whateverrandomnumber  You don't have either dollars or horse shit? OK, that really sucks. ;-)
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  29. Absolutely nobody needs uranium.
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  30.  @abaddon1371  Yes, absolutely nobody needs Uranium. We can easily make those 14% electricity (not total energy!) with renewables. That is what I said: absolutely nobody needs Uranium. ;-)
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  31.  @abaddon1371  It took you five seconds to write that bullshit? That explains why it's bullshit. ;-)
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  32. Why would we stop immigration? The best and brightest from all countries, including China, want to come to the US. ;-)
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  33. Dude, you need to get help with that. :-)
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  34. It is entirely feasible. I has been the technology of tomorrow tomorrow for at least 70 years. That's a solid track record for a future technology. ;-)
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  35. Great analysis.
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  36. The Chinese have more large cities than they have nuclear warheads. China is extremely vulnerable to nuclear attacks. They have ZERO interest in a nuclear war that would destroy 80% of their country's infrastructure value in a matter of minutes.
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  37. Did you notice one consistent thing about Trump? His "friends" always bite the dust. If Russia is Trump's "friend", then time's up. ;-)
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  38. A lot of US systems are more or less useless outside of their intended use by American Forces, which are the most integrated forces in the world.
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  39. China managed to prevent the outbreak for three years. They just never managed to vaccinate their population. That is their only mistake.
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  40.  @huntermoon6220  Of course the vaccine prevents transmission. A person who isn't getting sick does not transmit the virus. Dude, we teach this in kindergarten. What were you doing back then? Drilling for oil in your nose? And what's with the childish crayons, anyway? ;-)
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  41. What is prohibitive about the cost of a Nissan Leaf or Chevy Bolt? Dude, that you can't afford a Tesla is your problem. :-)
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  42. I think we can rename it now to BICS. Russia stopped being a leading emerging country. So that makes four, again. China is flaming out because demographics is destiny and India can't even educate its own population. The same is true for South Africa... and Brazil is self-destructing politically at the moment. So we might as well call them the four economic stooges and the total idiot that went postal. ;-)
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  43.  @johndoe-vc1we  Dude, absolutely nobody wants to be protected by Russia. All Russia does to the countries that it claims to protect is to send their male population to be slaughtered in Ukraine. :-)
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  44.  @johndoe-vc1we  I doubt that Brazilian minds have much in common with either Russian minds or Chinese minds. In any case... the GDP of Brazil is less than that of the State of New York. Let me clarify. The GDP of Brazil is roughly equal to the GDP of the metropolitan area of the City of New York. :-)
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  45. So you basically saw an experiment 40 years ago that has absolutely nothing to do with the reality today. Sound of one hand clapping. ;-)
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  46. If you are still living in a coal fired neighborhood, then you are not that smart, kid. Which is kind of obvious from your post, anyway. ;-)
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  47. And there is the gold troll who doesn't know that there is not nearly enough gold in the world to make any of that happen. :-)
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  48. Why would your grandkid be doing better by working in a factory than in an office? Have you ever done industrial work? It's demeaning and bad for your health, even under the best of circumstances. You are like the coal miners 40 years ago who were chanting "My grandfather worked in a coal mine! My father worked in a coal mine! I am working in a coal mine and my sons will be working in a coal mine!" a few days before they shut the coal mines down. The sons went on to live much better lives in other professions. ;-)
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  49. Wait... he wants to destroy NATO with an army that can't even take on a single weak county? You know what they call that, right? Mental disease. ;-)
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  50.  @kopkaljdsao  My calendar shows it's 2023. Somebody should have replaced Putin's a long time ago. ;-)
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