Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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There is no Putin wing of the Republican Party. Biden has been on the Soviet payroll since no later than 1972. Hunter Biden and James Biden have been on Russian and Chinese payroll for years, which has spilled out into the open. Trump is the only US President who authorized US forces to destroy Russian forces for 6 hours in Syria in 2018 at the Battle of Khasham. Those were Putin’s very own Wagner mercenaries 5 Storm unit, who were leading a Syrian battle group of tanks, artillery, and engineers-2 battalions worth, from the Syrian 4th Division, National Defense Forces, and Baqir Brigade.
Trump blessed-off on F-22As, F-15Es, AC-130s, B-52Gs, AH-64Ds, MQ-9 Reapers, M777, and HIMARS to rain precision-guided weapons on the Russian/Syrian Battle Group for hours until they were obliterated twice-over. No American President has ever presided over the stacking of Russian forces like corkwood before. Wagner has direct ties to Putin.
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@kld70 Most Americans approaching retirement have one or more of the following:
IRAs
401k
Stocks
Bonds
Pensions
Savings
CODs
High asset value (real estate)
We are not facing abject poverty without SS & Medicare.
As a Nation, we are facing bankruptcy because of SS & Medicare.
We should fulfill all SS & Medicare obligations to Baby Boomers, then transfer funding for Gen X & Millennials over to a new hybrid system fed by IRAs, real estate, government surplus, and tariffs.
SS & Medicare will not be able to be funded or contribute enough to keep people out of poverty due to inflation and demographic collapse/low fertility. Inflation baselines are baked-in already due to demographics, price point trends, and sustained devaluation of our currency.
Not only is most of the biggest generation of consumers out of the workplace, but they are going into nursing homes and dying.
Gen X is very small, unable to sustain much growth, and old Gen X is already 2 years from retirement.
Millennials are the 2nd largest cohort, but about half of them are under-employed or not employed, already burdening society.
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I’ve been following since the STRATFOR days in the 2000s as well, which was much better when you had George Freidman and the senior analysts all collaborating on their assessments. Peter and the former FBI guys were very adverse to feeding into “conspiracy theories” because they all come from backgrounds where confirmation bias and conformity of thought were critical to organizational acceptance and your source of income. In academia, it is very dogmatic and cult-like. In the Federal agencies, you will lose your job if you are seen as “one of those guys”. The Bureau is especially insular, with a cult of personality expectation to worship the Director, even as openers to daily communications between junior staffers and agents. It’s very weird.
One of the biggest failures of STRATFOR and Peter is not looking at conspiracies with a clean slate, and vetting them using their same analytical methods. Instead, they just dismissed them reactively. One of the main areas that left a void in their assessments was failing to understand and assess false flags and other types of operations conducted by the intelligence agencies, organized crime families, criminal NGOs, and International money-laundering networks that actually do conspire together as a rule.
I also recognize that had they done so, they would have alienated a lot of their corporate customer base, who don’t want to hear or deal with those rabbit holes. The problem is, if you ignore them, it can cost you a lot of money.
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@kevf The US never wanted any of this. Ukraine wanted to trade with Europe and get Euro valuation for their goods and services, not deal with Rubles anymore than absolutely necessary. That’s what this war is really about. Putin had his puppet Yanukovych sign onto the Russian-Eurasian Economic Pact in late 2013. Ukraine protested for 4 months in all the major cities until Yanukovych fled in 2014. That’s when Hunter Biden got on the board of Burisma, and Putin invaded Donbas while annexing Krim.
Forget about the US, who hasn’t contributed much to Ukraine, and think about UK, Poland, and Europe. Europe has more motive than anyone to present Russian cancer from spreading into their nations again. Biden, a Russian puppet who has been on Soviet payroll since 1972, delayed deliveries of critical munitions and weapons systems throughout the war.
Oryx Report shows all losses in Ukraine, not just Russian. Stop consuming Russian information sources and look at dispassionate, non-aligned, independent reports with accompanying photographs and video of all weapon and equipment losses.
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Panama Papers exposes all of this. They even ran searchable address programs for the files and mapped it. The hottest spots are London, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Switzerland, Dubai, Cyprus, Caymans, Gibraltar, Singapore, etc. Do an image search "Panama Papers Map".
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@R3GARnator The US has been steadily withdrawing strategically from Europe since 1992.
We were stationed in West Germany when you could barely count the number of US bases in Europe, there were so many. We had Ramstein, Bitburg, Spangdahlem, Hahn, Torrejon, Geilenkirchen, Vicenza, Soesterburg, multiple bases in UK, and pulled out of those dramatically after Desert Storm. It has been a constant draw-down since then, despite the dominant Russian propaganda claiming otherwise.
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@korayven9255 Let’s put insanely-inflated grocery prices and high gas prices aside for just one moment and look at housing. We’re raising a generation of kids who we can’t tell anymore to simply work hard with a valuable skill set and you’ll have access to the American dream of owning a home.
You need to work harder, smarter, own a business, or have 2 professionals working under the same household just to have a legacy middle class lifestyle. Under Trump, access to first-time home buyers was more reasonable than it had been in decades with roughly $75k median household. Now it’s $119,769 as of April 2024, to afford a $332k home. Where I live, there aren’t any homes in that price range. Most are double that. I have 5 kids, 2 of whom are adults and the conversations I have with them about what it takes to get into a home are nothing like the ones I heard and experienced.
This isn’t partisan, but just part of the American experience. Under Joe/Kamala, they have ended that dream for millions of younger Americans.
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@seashackf1 Crimea was annexed in 2014 under Comrade Barrack Hussein, not Trump.
Trump literally threatened Putin that if he did anything in Ukraine, the US response would end him.
Trump also is the only US President in history to authorize the decimation of Russian forces in Syria at the Battle of Khasham Feb2018.
Biden, (who literally got into the Senate with help from the Soviet/Russian front, Council for a Livable World), tried to pull Zelensky out of Kiev so Ukraine would be leaderless for Putin to then occupy.
Eric Trump never said any such thing. Trump made his fortune legitimately building hotels and large mega projects, not taking money from corrupt donors like the rest of the political class does.
Feb 2014, Putin had Elena Baturina wire $3.5 million to Hunter's front company, Rosemont Seneca, jointly owned with John Kerry's son-in-law, Chris Heinz. "10% for the big guy."
Then Hunter magically got on the board of Burisma in May 2014, which was under investigation for defrauding Ukraine and sending the money into accounts controlled by Putin associates in Cyprus, Switzerland, Panama, Singapore, and Grand Camans.
You have it all very backwards.
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