Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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I fundamentally disagree with Peter’s perspective on this interview overall, but he’s right about American myopia. Our legacy media has us hyper-focused on one subject at a time, then forgets it and moves on to the next thing. Public school breaks down lessons into 45 min blocks so you really only skim over subjects, instead of diving into them. We are an attention-deficit society that lacks focus in general. When we do become focused under crises or rare, great leadership, we are a formidable powerhouse that has dramatically changed the power dynamics of the world in regions thousands of miles away from us. The British, Spaniards, Germans, French, Russians, Turks, and Japanese have seethed at that power we wield. All of those former empires except the Russians are now our allies and trade partners, heavily-reliant on our security and foreign military sales.
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@crosslink1493 The problem is a lot of those people in the State Dept and WH are idiots who are appointed based on political kick-backs and who they’re related to. DC is very incestuous with the elite classes who live in an administrative state that begets more bureaucracy. This current WH has the youngest staffers ever in history on the economic council, for example. CIA was populated with 200 Russian double agents when it was formed in 1947, from the OSS days.
State Dept weenies and department heads come from Harvard finishing clubs (secret clubs), while CIA are mainly from Yale historically with their societies as well. These are blue bloods who groom their children to maintain the old order of European-based finance elites leveraging positions within USG to further European goals. The Russians did the same thing as much as they could dating back to the Czar, but since Russia has almost no trade with the US due to their geographic isolation, they have focused more on espionage, political subversion, and planting as many people within key levers in US society to protect their interests.
So the State Dept and CIA were filled with Russian moles dating way back. When the US formed the CIA in 1947, the Russians had already been tapping diplomatic cables since the early 1900s and reading all of our communications between the President, foreign ministers of other nations, and related nodes in the geopolitical web around the world.
They also propped up multiple political action organizations to get politicians elected who would do their bidding, especially on nuclear armament affairs because of the US’s dominance in that space. They watched us nuke Japan twice unilaterally, and always have feared that we could do the same to them if things got kinetic between us. That’s why they financed a pedophiles hopeless bid for the Senate in Delaware in 1972, along with 420 other Congressmen since 1962. He’s now sitting in his excrement-filled diaper drooling on himself in the WH, surrounded by Marxists in his senior cabinet positions and staff.
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Obama was habitually an absentee President who saw the job as beneath him, with his vast experience at Baskin and Robbins and a CIA front company to lean on.
He let Hillary, Biden, and Valerie Jarrett run amok. State Dept always wants to throw their weight around, and since they were all taking bribes from China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Saudis, etc. they gave allowances to all of the above.
Putin funneled $363 million into the Clinton Global Initiative, for example. It's just a coincidence that Obama, Hillary, and Biden fast-tracked Putin's access to Uranium One mining rights in the US and Canada.
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Russian intelligentsia doesn’t take anyone else’s ideas seriously. They see themselves as the biggest, the best, and believe that about themselves in most ways, regardless of the facts. They laugh at anyone else’s opinions of them because most Westerners have no real knowledge or cultural awareness of Russia and Russians. You could tell them highly-informed information collected from all sorts of reliable sources, and they will turn their noses up and dismiss it, even if it’s critical to their survival. If they did collect and process intelligence correctly, they wouldn’t have done something this stupid. Same with Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, etc.
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@davidfirmino3829 The US has been lifting up and bailing out other nations militarily, economically, and industrially.
England, France, Belgium from 1914-1918
Russia, China, England, France, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Austria were bailed out militarily from 1940-1945.
Germany and Japan were re-built and industrialized further with full US support after the war, while the US loaned billions to Europe to re-build.
Post-War, the US helped all kinds of nations with industry, monetary loans, transportation hubs, engineering, shipping, airports, universities, hospitals, canals, military equipment, etc.
South Korea, Philippines, Egypt, Greece....it would be easier to list the nations the US didn't help.
Computing, satellites, GPS, internet, free trade, increases in agricultural efficiency, air transport...all US technologies shared with the world.
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One problem with your premise though is that the Nation with the biggest budget developed drones of all types and has been working on them feverishly since WWII. It’s the only Nation that has everything from unmanned reusable re-entry vehicle drones that run lengthy space missions and high altitude/high endurance ISR drones, down to handheld micro drones deployed by soldiers....in addition to the thousands of fighters in its Air Force, Navy, and Marines, surface warfare vessels, super carriers, amphibious assault/light helicopter deck carriers, nuclear submarines, attack submarines, heavy lift transports, tanks, APCs, attack helicopters, etc.
The little nation with a minuscule defense budget stands no chance against such a Nation.
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