Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. The reality is the soviets penetrated the US system already dating back to the 1920s. Many of the institutions and "safeguards" Zeihan talks about became subversive elements for the Soviets at their inception. The CIA, USAID, and Mockingbird are prime examples of that. FBI was compromised out of the gate by organized crime even when it was the BOI in 1908, and the Soviets piggy-backed onto that by the 1920s. OSS was seeded with Soviet moles, who went on to serve as senior leaders in the CIA. They even recruited Stansfield Turner, who later became DCI. Zeihan is 100 years late to the party on Soviet penetration and subversion of US institutions. Most of the college professors Peter studied under were working for Soviet active measures programs and are ideological Marxists.
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  2.  @Ryan-ff2db  How do you factor these 4 realities into your theory: 1. Trump energy policy crushed Russian GDP growth. 2. Trump unleashed the might of US Air power on Putin's Wagner battle group, after it attacked US Commandos in Syria near Khasham, Feb 2018. 3. Trump Javelin and large weapons FMS to Ukraine starting in March, 2018. 4. Trump threatening Germany with NDAA sanctions over Putin's Nordstream 2 pipeline in 2019.
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  3.  @Quetzietse  The negotiations have barely just begun. Putin demonstrated extremely bad faith by trying to take more ground during these opening talks, after he was thrown a bone. Now he'll have to find out once again, since he FO'd. The last time he FO'd with Trump, they stacked scores of Russian body bags and the morgues in Russia from his Wagner battle group from Syria.
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  4.  @AaronBoone-x6c  Enter in the facts about US energy policy under Trump vs Russia, Battle of Khasham, FMS to Ukraine with all the Javelins and hundreds of millions of $ in weapons sold to Ukraine in his first term, and Trump’s anti-Nordstream 2 pipeline policy against Russia and see what Grok says. Garbage-in, garbage-out.
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  5.  @DoloresJNurss  For someone who is so in tune with geopolitical events, it is very suspicious that Peter doesn't talk about Trump foreign military sales to Ukraine 2018-2019, especially the Javelins. All prior US Presidents worked hard to disarm or deny Ukraine weapons. Then you have the Battle of Khasham in Feb 2018, where Trump authorized US forces to annihilate Putin's armored battle group (2 armor battalions, Artillery, combat engineers), after they attacked US forces without provocation. Trump also fought to get Germany to cease with Putin's Nordstream 2 in 2019. Trump also collapsed Russia's economic growth with US energy policy. Peter is ignoring major indicators that utterly eviscerate his TDS, and he's in a unique position to notice and compile them, but refuses to. Why?
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  6.  @AaronBoone-x6c  Joe Rogan has all walks of life on his show. You know the negotiations have just barely begun, right?
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  7. @ 4 easy ways to crush this narrative: 1. US energy policy 2. Battle of Khasham, where Trump authorized US forces to annihilate Putin’s Wagner armored battle group 3. Javelin Sales to Ukraine the next month, March 1, 2018 4. Demand that Germany cease Putin's Nordstream 2 pipeline in 2019
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  8. How much have you tracked US Foreign Military Sales to Europe?
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  9. ​ @mbak7801  US Democrat Party was taken over by Democratic Socialists of America, so you could call it Socialist Party USA now and be more accurate. They have had Soviet help in elections through the fake anti-nuke group, Council for a Livable World.
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  10. Russia has been deeply involved in US politics since the 1930s, planting moles throughout our government, State Dept, Senate, House of Reps, DoD, universities, and media. Contrary to Peter's narrative, they have all been Democrats, including the current occupant of the WH. Look at the money trail James and Hunter left.
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  11.  @kaa7728  James Bond kills terrorists. Hezbollah are terrorists and they got caught with their pants down as fair targets. Having pagers as an alternative means of comms to avoid smartphone tracking is an obvious indicator to anyone in 2024 that they were Hezbollah, so not much to say after that. Not taking sides, just pointing out the harsh reality.
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  12. 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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  13.  @witchking6787  He was the only US president that didn't take Chinese bribes like the others, because he doesn't need their money. Biden, the Bushes, the Clintons, and Obamas had been receiving millions upon millions of dollars from China illegally as traitors for generations. Clinton's Obama took Chinese money basically in the open during their campaigns. Remember Chinagate? Lincoln bedroom for sale? Riady family money-laundering? Clinton literally fired the FBI director to shut down the investigations into his treason.
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  14. @Hawtload  Not with that attitude.
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  15. It's funny because Russia helped get 420 Democrats elected since 1962, including Biden and Obama.
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  16. 174.8 million people, 8th largest population in the world
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  17. "You can always tell when the Russians aren't going to do anything." Video was made before IRBM was launched with hypersonic MIRVs.
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  18. ​ @sickbozo8152 "Kamala in a landslide..."
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  19. ​ @Hannodb1961  Peter's perspective on US domestic politics is better-informed than most political hacks, with unique generational insights you never hear anyone talk about, and he still let the TDS skew his mind from seeing a ground truth that someone like him should have realized.
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  20. Yup. FDR tried to pack the court into a rubber-stamp set of justices, and successfully appointed 2 KKK senior leaders onto SCOTUS, notably Hugo Black. Look how long FDR was in office as well.
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  21. ​ @BackStagewithThatTheatreKid You're not American if you hate America. Go live in the paradise of Europe or Canada if you hate the US. I've lived all over both, as well as Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Panama, ME, and Russia. The US is such an easy answer, for scores of reasons. I've enjoyed my time around the world, but nothing beats the US.
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  22.  @benhatcher2603  What % of income do you think SS and Medicare represents relative to employer benefits for blue and white collar workers? From all I have seen, blue and white collar workers get employer-provided benefits, while lower income retirees rely on SS and Medicare.
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  23.  @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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  24. ​ @protorhinocerator142 France won't dominate anything though since they adopted policies of abortion and free immigration of Arabs from North Africa. France is primed for a series of internal conflict, as is most of Europe. Things were barely tenable during economic growth. During times of economic hardship, what will it look like in the streets of Marseilles, Lyon, and Paris? Arab drug dealers and thieves are already causing massive problems in France, and have zero respect for police, French culture, or law. They have their own laws.
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  25. 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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  26.  @paulwilliams1291  Weird. My post was deleted. I've been following Peter's analyses since the 2000s, was a STRATFOR subscriber.
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  27. When you study history to that level, you realize that he who doesn't study history repeats it. He who does study history gets to watch he who doesn't, repeat it.
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  28. A geriatric pedophile and a geriatric mass murderer walk into a meeting...
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  29.  @Tom_McMurtry  The youngest of the Silent Generation are 78yrs old. The oldest are in retirement homes or dead. Biden turns 81 in 5 days, has had 2 cranial aneurysms, said at multiple campaign events he was running for Senate in Delaware in 2020, then right before the election, declared very firmly that we can't have 4 more years of Bush.
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  30. He's had 2 cranial aneurysms with surgical intervention that we know of, described by himself.
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  31.  @SMarkGee  How dare you bloody leave out the Kardashians butt sizes! What are you? Some kind of fascist? Also, you didn’t even mention what time all the global leaders and their companions showed up to the Queen’s funeral. GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT!!!!!
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  32. ​ @RomanShopa Yuri Dolgoruki is considered the founder of Moscow, and he was Kievan Rus. Rus is a Swedish root word, not Slavic.
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  33. Most of the US debt is held by the US private and public sectors, not foreign nations or investors. Right now, the US is seeing unprecedented Direct Foreign Investments because of global regional instability caused by droughts, Russian invasion of Ukraine, energy, food, and economic crises in the other largest economies of the world.
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  34.  @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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  35. ​ @kevf  Look at a map and then figure out how BRICS will work. Imagine India and China with a shared economic policy! What kind of idiot thinks of such alignments? There are 3 individual US States who separately have better economies than Russia. Russia has extremely limited access to trade routes and no heavy displacement sea ports. Novorossiysk is Russia’s largest sea port, isn’t even the largest in the Black Sea. That belongs to Romania. Even if China, India, Brazil, and South Africa wanted to elevate trade relations with Russia, there is no physical space and infrastructure to accomplish it. It simply does not exist and can’t exist.
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  36.  @divekatdreaming  Sevastopol doesn't even rank anywhere near the larger capacity sea ports in the Black Sea. I looked it up on several shipping industry-specific sites that track seaport tonnage per year and what size vessels they can accommodate. Sevastopol is relatively small compared to the top 10 ports in the Black Sea, and the Black Sea itself, while regionally-significant, is miniscule compared to other regions. The fact Russia is pulling out its naval vessels from Crimea is telltale that they don't have other port options. I would prefer to see satellite imagery to document the sea port activity since the start of the war.
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  37. Big difference between deploying forces and advisors. China was never Warsaw Pact and are enemies/competitors/rivals with Russia since Russia started taking their territory. Look at Manchuria, for example.
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  38. 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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  39. Germany is no longer the Germany of 1871-1943, nor is it the Germany of 1945-1989. They have aborted/committed infanticide against themselves, so there aren't enough prime age German males to push Germany through their current challenges. Even worse, Germany has brought in millions of foreign workers and now welfare-leeches who are net negative contributors, on top of the external problems. The recipe Germany has had baking in the oven over the past 70 years spells the end of Germany, sadly.
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  40.  @basestone  But how many children did the Germans born from 1964-1983 have vs killed in the womb? That's the problem. I grew up partially with them when we lived in West Germany. There were kids in the farming villages, but not so many in the cities per capita. There were already a ton of immigrants then, none of who share German cultural or generic traits.
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  41.  @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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  42. South Park doesn't even need to write the jokes.
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  43. Legacy/dying media’s model was to get attention with sensationalist headlines so people would see the ads from the companies that own the media.
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  44. Tactical strike weapons available to many nations make encroachment a much bigger problem for Russia because their effective ranges are only growing. Russia can't bet on her neighbors to always be peaceful. Look how quickly Hitler rose to power. Russians are a very paranoid people, always suspicious of who is attacking them next, since they've been invaded scores of times throughout history. It becomes a self-fulfilling fear repeatedly throughout history.
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  45.  @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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  46. ATF helped supply the cartels with over 10,000 weapons during Obama/Biden's Fast & Furious operation.
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  47. ​ @dalesutaria8559 Cohen testified he took out a HELOC on his home on his own without Trump even knowing, and set up the payment to Stormy. That was a bombshell that blows the whole non-case out of the water.
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  48. ​ @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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  49. Uh, he's an early Baby Boomer, born in 1946. Millennials were born between 1982-2004 if you subscribe to Strauss-Howe.
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  50.  @none3763  He’s more Gen X than Baby Boomer in that regard, but an optimist, which isn’t characteristic of Gen X or Millennials or Z. Gen X embodied distrust in their parents and institutions, while still working hard. George W is a lot more trusting. Have you read Decision Points?
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