Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. "Russia is now their largest partner, which is not going to end well" Is this why it appears we're trying to bleed Russia dry over Ukraine?
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  2.  @chrise842  Aren't we bleeding too?
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  3.  @patclark2186  So, whoever is doing this will have to be persuaded to stop doing this. In a way that will dissuade anyone else from copying them. Ouch.
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  4. So you're against Blackrock and State Street, the largest shareholders in most Fortune 500 companies?
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  5. If you have nuclear, you don't even need renewables.
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  6.  @user-dj4fd5vc6c  Gasp! Faint Anything but mainstream conservative!
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  7.  @ClassyMonkey1212  Yes, but can they afford to do so (allegedly, this has a ~$1B price tag) during a war?
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  8.  @ClassyMonkey1212  Ha, probably
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  9. Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, insane bureaucrats are trying to shut down dairy farmers even more successful than the Kiwis or Americans. Fortunately for humanity, the bureaucrats appear to be losing.
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  10.  @KLRJUNE  It doesn't work anywhere. Pot destroys initiative, in most people.
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  11. "Someone from Europe might run Libya as a colony" You've been talking to the French again, haven't you. It's like they didn't learn their lesson in Algeria. How the h*ll they're going to take over an Islamic country when France is turning into one itself, I can't imagine.
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  12. Urbanization has been celebrated for decades now. Suburbanization is the way to go.
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  13. Peter, you are so totally unaware of the independent media reporters who are on the ground at these important events and in contact with those on the ground at these events (the "Summer of Love" riots, 2020 election shenanigans) it's laughable. The independent editorial staff that says, "Hey, wait a minute" and plays the 30 seconds before and 30 seconds after the carefully-curated MSNBC / CNN clip (see: the "Covington Kids", etc) in a way that totally blows away The Narrative(TM) -- they're also available to us via too many sources for anyone to shut down. Ironic, because in terms of background information (demographics, logistics) you're very close to one of them. Don't f*ck up your credibility by pushing The Narrative(TM) too much, or you could easily be replaced by a nice set of postcards.
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  14. How relevant are we still, on the backside of the world like that?
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  15. Hey! The US Navy protecting global shipping! That's pretty cool, that's their job, right Peter? What are the rest of the navies of the world doing, from their bases in Djibouti? Isn't that the whole point of having them there?
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  16.  @tedcrilly46  I know a bit about this already, but it would be great to hear from someone with more American strategic community connections (like Peter) who could add some context to it.
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  17. "We haven't had the Democrats run a governor for a bit" That's because there are very few states that are actually Blue, and the Blue states have such corrupt machines we get governors like Cuomo and Newsom -- not to mention the disasters we saw regarding blue state "exceptional policies" 2020-2021 timeframe. There are ex-Californians who would be willing to resort to extreme measures if Democrats ran Newsom. Don't even try it.
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  18.  @mbak7801  You mean, despite the tens (or hundreds) of billions of dollars of material support the United States has been giving Ukraine, that might not translate to a victorious counter-offensive? Do you mean to say that Ukrainians might be giving their lives for nothing, now? Are you saying that the Zelenskyy presidency is just an act?
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  19.  @TonyShepps  Working in aerospace where solar panels are the only available energy source, I can tell you with confidence that there is a limit to how efficient they can become. You should probably look into the inverse relationship between price and efficiency. Also, you should go outside more, where you would notice that sometimes, the sun doesn't shine.
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  20. Apparently there are still 10 righteous men in the area.
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  21. The Boomers have been taking their money out of investments for decades now. You've always pretended this was some sudden shock right at this time point, while instead this time point is where the AVERAGE Boomer has already taken their savings out. The trend is half done and will tail off from here. This has been a weakness in your analysis that bothers me every time I run across it. Peter, interest rates are going up because the Fed is dealing with massive inflation (caused by reckless expansion of the money supply, coupled with an extreme dive in productivity due to lockdowns and lax corporate culture resulting from "work"-from-home, not massive "demand". You could also call it "the collapse of Modern Monetary Theory" although it amounts to the same thing.
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  22.  @GSlartibartfast  G, you need to read more. See: Twitter fires 90% of its staff without any noticeable degradation in service.
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  23.  @gaoxiaen1  I'm curious whether the right-wing Grammar Nazis are going to get ahold of this, and start insisting that instead of just nominative, accusative, and genitive, we must use ablative, dative, vocative, and locative as well.
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  24. Peter, are you sure it's "Russian disinformation" and not the Ukrainians actually losing?
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  25. Handing the region of Russia with the healthiest demographics (as well as fairly hefty mineral and energy resources) to China, is probably not a good thing. The Hershey-and-Levis strategy of turning communist countries capitalist worked in Russia because it has a very strong tradition of looking West -- read War and Peace sometime, or a biography of Peter the Great -- but the same strategy has been an abject failure in China. It has in fact backfired. Our interests lie in two places in Asia -- making Western-sympathetic Russia more powerful than China, and keep the two countries from joining forces. Our current policy is a ghastly disaster on both points.
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  26. Uzbekistan is seeing China muscle in on its territory.
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  27. "There are no regulatory guidelines [unless you contract for a government agency that practices some form of Affirmative Action] and each company does what they like [unless their bank makes ESG a condition for extending you a line of credit]" Let's see if Peter covers this in his "What ESG really is" segment, because he's being just a bit disingenuous here.
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  28. Bots are intelligent? And it depends what you mean by "trolls".
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  29.  @gusgrimm7533  Definitely. Peter could use some better influences in his life than whatever Establishment shills he gets his politics from.
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  30.  @jeremiahglass8262  If we need more energy resources for our allies, Canada and Greenland are right there. I suspect that Canada's new Prime Minister is going to be a lot more willing to devote its energy resources to supporting Japan and Korea, especially because he wants to do that anyway to revitalize Canada's economy.
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  31.  @louiss.w1944  Didn't happen that way last time. Won't happen that way this time. =)
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  32. San Francisco is an old, STD-ridden courtesan.
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  33. "Russia is fighting for the ancestral lands" Kind of like Israel?
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  34. Lies spawn trolls. If you want the trolls to go away, stop telling lies, like "The Russians blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline".
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  35.  @curious011  Democrats are a purely urban party. If you haven't seen this, what planet are you from?
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  36.  @curious011  What region are you from?
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  37.  @curious011  The last stronghold of Dixiecrats?
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  38. "Yes, yes, yes, you can make the argument about the Native Americans..." ... who were largely falling apart already due to diseases to which they had no resistance (90% of their population died of this), and infighting due to the resulting chaos (took out 90% of those remaining). The "conquest" of the Americas, especially North America, was conquest on easy mode.
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  39. How did the Mongol depopulation of Persia affect the current-day Iranian political landscape?
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  40.  @curious011  How many people regret voting for Biden in 2020? About 1 in 6 of his supporters said they regretted it, as soon as the Hunter Biden laptop came out. Serious inflation, based to a great extent on our s**cidal energy policies, the war on automobiles (which wrecks workers' productivity and even labor market participation), the fact that Democrats are pursuing strategies 100% opposed to young people owning houses and starting families -- all of these are anchors around Biden's neck.
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  41.  @GD1082  Same in California. Hawaii isn't any better.
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  42.  @LRRPFco52  Backfire, then?
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  43.  @LRRPFco52  Do young Russian men see Putin in the same way that Rostov saw the Tsar, according Tolstoy in War and Peace ?
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  44.  @LRRPFco52  Oh, I meant the "Look at me! Look at me! Approve of me, oh Tsar!" attitude that shone through in the inspection scene.
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  45. "The Southwest is close to Mexico so you can build a system with labor cost variances -- If you can keep the water flowing" Is it easier to move enormous amounts of water, or is it easier to move industrial inputs and outputs?
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  46.  @alecd.3377  Yup. What we're seeing now in America is an attempted (and so far largely successful) takeover of the country by the Master's Degree class -- meritocracy turned to oligarchy. The populist backlash that has followed, is what naturally happens in a democracy when this happens, especially when the oligarchy shows itself to be radically incompetent, like in San Francisco, or Kabul, or with massive inflation, or with a falling standard of living for the vast majority of Americans...
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  47.  @DieFlabbergast  Until a few years ago you were right. At this point, the difference between a conspiracy theory and a proven fact is six or eight months.
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  48.  @markfoth1226  At this point, isn't it underway enough to know whether it could be called a disaster?
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  49. "Broader conflict"? Yeah, no. Americans aren't going to be backing a broader conflict. Your book The End of the World is Just the Beginning accurately reflects that point of view. The silver lining on that cloud, is that this general disinterest in straight-up conquest makes Americans less likely (though not completely unlikely) to do things that p*ss off locals wherever our troops find themselves.
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  50. What do you think of Vivek?
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