Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Russian u0026 Chinese Partnership || Peter Zeihan" video.
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@jayethompson3414 Except, that the conclusions he comes to are not in line with outcomes.
For example, according to his logic, North America is rightfully three countries -- but the borders should go North / South along the Rockies and the Appalachians, rather then east-west along rivers or latitude lines.
And, the dominant power of North America should be the immense river network of the Midwest -- the fact that the relatively small and isolated Hudson Valley has our country's main financial center is an accident of its Dutch roots European ties.
California, similarly, (at least the relatively tiny Sacramento basin) should be an agricultural backwater; only the historical accident of World War 2 and the Cold War defense boom (along with a single Massachusetts judge's decisions to enforce non-competes, and Terman's insistence on incentivizing engineers with equity) allowed Silicon Valley to form.
Similar individual decisions allowed the deserts of southern California to be inhabited at all, seeing as how they don't have any reliable local water supplies.
Peter does a good job of describing what cards countries have to play, to some degree; history is still to a great extent about how those cards are played.
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