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

  1. Boomers are aged 60-78, so most of them are retired or dead, with many of the younger ones taking early retirement. In 5 years, almost all of them will be retired and millions of them will have passed. They aren't buying houses, cars, appliances, or expensive consumer electronics and high dollar products anymore, since everything is about retirement income to try to survive through inflation.
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  2.  @michellelewis3063  STRATFOR was founded by George Friedman, a Hungarian immigrant whose family fled before the communists took over and settled in the US. Not exactly an American bias, but a dispassionate perspective of the world. All nations are described as entities to be dissected, studied, explained what they can’t do, then forecast what might happen based on geography, demography, history, and regional momentum.
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  3. Water they get from upstream with the Ganges River is already some of the worst-polluted in the world, with 1 billion Indians defecating, urinating, spilling chemicals, and their dead bodies into it. Bangladesh is literally a sewage swamp delta region of India.
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  4. It's weird. Why did Trump crush Russia's main source of income with US energy policy? Why did Trump allow USAF, USMC, and US Army to bombard Russian forces in Syria for 6 hours with JDAMs, M777, Hellfires, and SDBs at the Battle of Khasham in Feb 2018? Why did Trump threaten Putin not to invade Ukraine? The facts don't support the narrative even remotely.
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  5. The media and gossip circles have always been corrupt, dating back throughout history.
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  6.  @fattonyd232  He's dispassionate with his analyses, and only assesses North America favorably due to geography, demographics, industrial might, agricultural dominabce, and the resultant economy.
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  7.  @fattonyd232  I salivate at the opportunity to debate pedophile Ritter and Col Macgregor. They are so off on Ukraine and Russia as to be ridiculed as a rule.
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  8. 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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  9.  @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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  10.  @Iambrendanjames  The Kremlin has been driving much of the messaging in the US for generations via Active Measures.
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  11. Russian oligarchs launder money through Cyprus.
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  12. 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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  13.  @hamdoggius  iPhone is copied DoD technology from Land Warrior and touch screen from AFTI and NASA. Samsung knocked off iPhone. Musk can launch another company for personal electronic devices. Space X, Tesla, and Boring Company have different engineers, technicians, and operators.
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  14. 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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  15.  @betterdonotanswer  I’ve personally seen Yuri Dolgoruki’s statue in Moscow with him dressed like a knight, sitting on top of his horse. Moskva was just a little outpost, but then expanded into a fortress under his guidance as part of an expansionist campaign ordered by his father in Kiev. That was in 1156 when he fortified Moskva, over 100 years before Mengu-Timur. This is what they at least teach in Russia when I was there.
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  16. You've never been to Utah, I take it. Utah has the highest average household size at 3.08 people per home, highest birth rate at 14.9 per 1000, and median household income is much higher than the US National figures. Lots of young, educated workers with big families.
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  17.  @paperandmedals8316  Amish, Mennonites, but they isolate from modern society sticking to farming and their daily labors.
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  18. Let me know when the Bidens, Clintons, or Bushes start accepting bribes in Yuan. 😅
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  19.  @davidfirmino3829  US economy has been the world's leading economy since no later than 1890 with no peer, 54 years prior to Bretton Woods. There are far more factors for the dominance of the US economy that are based on geography, weather, and the culture and singular language of the population. These factors combine into a Nation that has no competitors with the same parallels.
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  20.  @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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  21.  @LucasFernandez-fk8se  Combine that with a select strategic default on Chinese pay-outs since they launched a people's war against us, and start charging Europe, Pacific, and Middle East for our security services.
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  22. It's a combination of factors from multiple analyses of geography, economics, climate, demigraphics, history, and industry. I've been following him since the STRATFOR days in the 2000s. It has been very enlightening to see so many things I've studied since the 1970s explained coherently, without silly political bias.
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  23.  @termitreter6545  The legacy Chinese copies of the MiG-21 (J7) and various missiles and small arms have been tested in combat, and were vastly-inferior of course. Saddam had some J7s and they were shot down for sport. US technical exploitation programs tested the J7 as well. Some things were better on it than the MiG-21, while others not so much. They have complained about Russian missiles, engines, Radars, and trash electronics, as have the Indians on the Super Flankers (Su-30MKK, MKI, and Su-35S). Some of the newer Russian missiles have proven formidable, while Russians brag about selling monkey models to their customers.
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  24. During the 2020 "campaign", Biden said on multiple occasions that he was running for Senate in Delaware, and that we "can't have 4 more years of George". It was an astonishing display of utter corruption in our system.
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  25. 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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  26.  @goldiga3935  Inside job. Someone from Obama/Biden Administration helped Iran. Look at who was in the cabinet. Valerie Jarrett was born in Iran. Why? Because her dad was a Soviet asset living in the US on a watch list. He was tipped off that FBI was about to arrest him for espionage, so he packed up and fled through a rat line and went to live in Iran where he could evade extradition. The story about RQ-170 is very detailed and filled with layers most will never know.
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  27. The repeated claims from academics about how instrumental Carter was with the military are ignoramus level ramblings that have no relation to the facts. This series of claims by Peter was the most sensationalist I've yet heard. Carter was not responsible for any of those things: Cruise missiles(1960s) ATB (B-2) JDAMs (1990s) Pakistan China (Nixon-Kissenger) These are demonstrably-wild statements that are anachronistic.
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  28. Xi: "We put 10 mirrion in James' and Hunter's accounts, but you helped Putin instead with energy poricy. How much more do you need?" Potato: "Look, here's the deal. Corn Pop was a bad dude..." Translator: 😢😢😢😢
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  29. Are you one of the roughly 50% of millenials who did what prior generations did by obtaining gainful employment in value-added fields, or have you struggled with employment and finding a place to fit?
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  30.  @alexmeager233  Yes, after 2021, home price relative to household income stepped away from buying power of many millennials who did all the things they were asked to do. I’ve seen it as well and have told my kids that the model I grew up with doesn’t work anymore. Only incomes that generate above $150k will get you into a decent starter home in many places in the US.
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  31. ​ @T1tusCr0w  Man's contribution to CO2 levels is 0.13%, so there is no substantive input and Anthropomorphic Global Warming claims are simply not based in any scientific reality.
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  32. There are only 2 nations with the Petroleum Engineers, Technicians, and industrial bases capable of designing, manufacturing, and operating permafrost drill rigs: US and Canada Russia never developed those capabilities, so when the permafrost drilling apparatuses stop, they're done.
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  33. Solar in Europe? Latitude there isn't good for solar, nor is the weather and average cloud cover. Peak demand for heating is counter to peak availability, and battery storage scaling is too high demand for global capacity in minerals, elements, and production. Solar is a dead-end tech if we're talking about large populations in upper or lower latitudes.
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  34.  @Brooklawn-wg5mt  Yes, it works fine for an individual residence, but doesn't scale well when you have to expand it to northern latitudes and cold climates. Peak demand in the winter for heating and electrical is out of phase with availability and PV efficiency.
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  35. And the star prosecution witness is a convict, Michael Cohen, who said that he formulated the whole payout scheme himself by taking a HELOC out on his own freaking house without Trump even knowing about it. This whole case is bizarre in how far-fetched it is.
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  36. Organized crime took over US government in the 1920s during Prohibition, then went through a series of legitimizing into the big corporate enterprises. They have controlled who gets elected for generations. Chicago Hillary was their annointed chess piece in 2016, and Trump tossed her wretched political carcass off the board by overcoming the rigged election with massive popular support. They doubled-down on election-rigging with help from the Chicoms in 2020, and made sure Trump would not realize his and the people's win, and rubbed it in our faces with a treasonous geriatric kiddy-diddler.
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  37.  @nedhill1242  They had Roberts by the crotch since he adopted his sons illegally from Ireland through Venezuela. If you go down the list of the SCOTUS justices, 8 of them are all from the same religion, with Elena Kagan being the exception as a Russian Jew. The whole Court has been owned by Organized crime for generations, which started no later than the 1920s. They make sure every SCOTUS nominee comes from a certain profile that is never covered by the corporate presstitute media.
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  38. During the Cold War, the Soviets placed moles throughout German government, media, military, and intelligence. The head of West German BND was a turned double agent (by the NKVD), Reinhardt Gehlen. He hated the Russians, but also wanted revenge against the allies. They got him and his staff, who became prominent figures in the BND and CIA. They also have always had high-level moles in NATO HQ and all the European parliaments.
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  39. ​ @johniron7269 Green parties in Europe have always been agitprop useful idiots for the Soviets, especially after Russia became a net exporter of oil/NG around 1972. The anti-nuclear power movement, instigated by Soviet mole professors and journalists really kicked into high-gear once Russia saw the value in its oil/NG export market. Russia was already collapsing from within though due to all their broken and self-destructive policies, laziness, corruption, and disillusion with Soviet Socialism. Revenues from oil/NG camouflaged their internal gears grinding apart through the 1980s until the wheels finally fell off. The fact that Russia was still able to drive German politics with traitors like Angela Merkel and all the parties is a study in mass psychosis, and effective psyops directed against an entire people.
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  40. ​ @markc6714  US has been in strategic withdrawal from the Pacific since the 1990s. We used to have more significant permanent basing in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. One of the bases I was stationed at on the DMZ was abandoned many years ago. Our Large Force Exercises were reduced in size from Team Spirit to Foal Eagle. Clark AFB in the Philippines was abandoned, but we are reestablishing some presence there again. If you've followed Peter's analyses since the 2000s, you would know that he has a better awareness of all this than US politicians and senior military officers.
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  41. ​ @thomasprice7893  PLAAF plays a big role in the invasion of Taiwan as well, not just PLN. China is cranking out J-20 stealth fighters with acquired US technology by the hundreds. There are only 3-4 US Carrier Battle Groups on deployment at any time. Others are at home ports or undergoing refit/ overhaul maintenance.
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  42. ​ @benz9063  North Korea has a ridiculous arsenal of artillery, rockets, and missiles aimed Seoul, because Seoul is so close to the DMZ. I was stationed there for a year and went back for strategic-level exercises, very familiar with the Korean Peninsula. It would be ugly.
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  43. ​ @wakannnai1  I can agree with that, though I haven't made any statements about Taiwan's capabilities. US Patriot batteries play a big role in defense against TBMs and hypersonics. China is likely counting on a numbers game strategy where they would overwhelm the IADS with waves of missiles until breaks in the defense open, but China has proven incompetent in every conflict they've been involved in over the past century or more. False reporting and bluffing are the norm. They have been overhauling their large force exercise structuring to be more like the US with PLAAF, but Xi's culture reverts back to 1950s reporting style. I doubt anyone in the senior Chinese leadership even knows what's the true status of their readiness.
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  44.  @greorbowlfinder7078  American military equipment is the best in the world, and Russian equipment is hot garbage.
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  45. Why would there be pro-Russian parties in Bulgaria and who pays those candidates? Look at Yanukovych in Ukraine and how he violated the will of 79% of the people, siding with Putin instead. Do you really want to be a Russian vassal state?
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  46.  @piotrb4240  Did any media in Poland in 2018 report to you how Trump authorized US forces to annihilate Russian forces in Syria when they attacked US Commandos at the Conoco Plant near Khasham? It wasn’t even reported in the US on any main channels. I knew about it as it happened. None of the US media have reported that Trump sold huge shipments of Javelins and CLUs to Ukraine the next month either. Why is that? He’s the only US President who sold weapons to Ukraine prior to 2022. All other US Presidents actively worked to disarm or ignore Ukraine.
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  47. Not even close. Look at air power. Finland has a better Air Force than u Crane and they are 1/8 the population.
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  48. ​ @nunyabidness3075  Russia has always struggled with access to the seas. To watch a country like Poland grow their economy 6-fold since 1991 was inspiration for Ukraine, and Russia couldn't afford to let that happen. Georgia sits on Russian Caspian-Black Sea pipelines, which is why they invaded in 2008. It was already planned though, according to a Russian foreign ministry secretary who had to be silenced. I was in Estonia when that happened, after having learned about the Russian strategic vision from that source.
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  49. @aleksandrs1422  Yanukovych was Putin's puppet in Kiev, so what anti-Russian regime are you talking about? They were using Ukraine to steal from and launder billions for the oligarchs. That's why Burisma was headed by Zlochevsky, a Russian separatist from Donbas.
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  50.  @aleksandrs1422  I lived there 2008-2009. I didn't say Russians can't afford food. I'm saying they can't afford to go on that shopping spree Tucker did on a regular basis. He tried to make it look normal. Every time my hosts took me to Globus, the Yankee foot the bill because I had the money. Compared to anywhere in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Canada, Russia is in its own world of poverty. I was in Russia during its peak economic time, right before the effects of Putin's invasion of Georgia started to kick in. Too much money is wasted on war material that would be best spent on infrastructure. The lack of infrastructure in Russia is appalling.
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