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

  1. In a landslide. Also, "Now that Biden is in the WH and showing how a real President governs again." 😂😂😂😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  2.  @aguy559  He had multiple aneurysms, including one that burst in the region of his brain that affects speech. He joked about it when he was VP, saying they "cut my head off with a saw and went down in there to stop the bleeder". He was always making really stupid and gaffe-prone remarks in the 1980s though. He was never even House material, let alone Senate.
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  3.  @jager6863  Obama was hired by Business International Corporation (a CIA front company for financial intelligence gathering), as well as his Constitutional Law Professor days. Both he and Biden are some of the least-experienced occupants to ever set foot in the WH in that regard.
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  4.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  I looked over all my posts and didn’t find one that was even remotely-long, at least for students of geopolitics. If you found them to be long-winded, I would suggest taking up another topic of interest that is more fit to a short attention span.
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  5.  @cappehnkrunch  Are you aware of how many union workers voted for Trump? Trump isn’t a partisan, but a populist. When was the last time you saw a politician regularly pack rallies with tens of thousands of people? That is an extremely rare type of person when it comes along. In the past, it was built with fake media cult of personality campaigns, carefully orchestrated with the person’s handlers. Think FDR.   Reagan was unique because he had so many years of acting and being in front of cameras, so he knew how to connect with people from lots of practice, which got him into Congress and the Governorship of CA. Trump has had his finger on that pulse for decades by being involved in high-publicity events, TV programs, and working with a lot of blue collar people on his construction projects. He understands people and the numbers better than any politician since Reagan.
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  6.  @123string4  Someone could say the same thing about your use of the possessive “their” when you meant to use the contraction “they’re”.
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  7.  @jacobgordon7998  Trump accomplished more in 4 years than most Presidents in the last 30. Look at Middle East peace deals, energy independence, military build-up, black leader engagement for inner cities, housing affordability, record-low unemployment, stopped the multi-billion dollar payments to Hamas and Iran, kept Putin in-check in Ukraine, renegotiated NAFTA in favor of the US, put tariffs on China, had HHS authorize 900+ affordable generic drugs every year, reduced illegal border crossings dramatically, the list goes on and on if you just look at it dispassionately.
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  8. ​ @peterclarke7240 Defecit-spending and entitlements cause that wage-to-purchasing power gap with inflation.
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  9. ​ @unknown5150variable Which do you think drives inflation? A. Defecit-spending by Congress on entitlements and debt B. Corporate pricing adjustments to inflation C. Both
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  10. ​ @MegaWilderness In your information feed, have you seen any stories on the amount of foreign cash paid to the Bidens by the Chicoms and Russians? Genuinely curious
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  11. There's a huge difference between analysis and leadership/governance. He found his way in analysis and consultant work, not managing large organizations.
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  12. ​ @johnavoloch9055  About 1/3 of the voters aren't really political in the US. They're unregistered/ unaffiliated normal people who have their families, go to work, and are just struggling to get by in the Biden/Harris economy. We have anywhere from 38-45 million each Dems and Republicans. The rest of the people don't care about the parties, don't have the energy or interest in political arguments. When you screw up so badly to energize them to vote en masse, it's an indictment on the party and political environment in power. Dems & Republicans get wrapped around the axle arguing about policy and process, while unaffiliated Americans are apathetic to that whole mess, wanting to just live their lives. Trump is one of the rare candidates who speaks to them, addresses what matters to them, while career politicians play back-and-forth games that don't interest them.
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  13. ​ @dylanbuchanan6511 Climate change is a natural and dynamic fluctuation in earth's relationship between the sun, the earth's msgnetisphere, atmospheric layers, and inner cores. These components are so many orders of magnitude more influential on temps, as to make mankind's contributions negligible at best. Ice core records prove this.
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  14.  @daveloch905  They prove the opposite. During several of the biggest waves of industrial output in the last century, we saw corresponding drops in global temps. Human contributions to helpful, essential CO2 output are maybe 0.3 to 3% of total emissions. There's something going on with the deep sea floor geothermal activity right now. Ancient periods of heating and cooling had no corresponding civilizations of industrial output. Anthropogenic global warming is a fraudulent body of pseudoscience, not reality. You need to seriously look at some counter arguments from actual atmospheric researchers in this field.
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  15. BRICS is a pathetic joke. Look at a map and basic history of those nations.
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  16. ​ @jimluebke3869 I wish there was a way to block corporate presstitue brothel disinformation on YouTube. Would make a great extension.
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  17.  @revan3841  Prescott Bush, the OG Skull and Bones Patriarch of the clan. They were tied into the boards of banking and CBS, just like Kennedys were tied into SEC, bootlegging, and RKO Studios. He who controls the message...
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  18.  @kennethrobinson7647  39 out of 49 Texas Governors have been Democrats, with only 7 Republicans. The remaining 3 were Union, Independent, and Military.
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  19. Sweden historically used Finnish conscripts to fight their wars on various adventurist fronts. Among the old Finnish soldiers centuries ago, they used to say, "Swedish army, bravest in the world, always fighting to the last Finn."
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  20.  @Ea-pb2tu  Yup. Ingrians, Finns, and Livonians fighting as soldiers for the Swedish Empire. My daughter-in-law is part Ingrian. My grandfather is from Pohjanmaa in Western Finland, heavy Swedish-speaking population there.
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  21.  @AliceinWonderlandzz  Have you seen any evidence of big pharma and big food getting on board with that?
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  22.  @CavemanOoogaBoooga  LASER Imaging Detection And Ranging It's best to be in an engineering program that steers into electro-optics, microprocessing, programming, 3D imaging, and aerial platforms. There are several engineering fields that feed into LIDAR programs.
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  23.  @CavemanOoogaBoooga  Fine Arts is good to have if you want to get into systems design. Engineers generally have a hard time designing things, whereas it comes naturally to artists. But you'll want to augment your talents with engineering studies so you can learn the capabilities and limitations of material sciences, machinability, weight/space/performance trade-offs, and basic principles in applied physics.
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  24. Ever look at the religious make-up of SCOTUS, Committee Chairmen, media talking heads, Intel agencies, and even Dr. Fauci?
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  25. Russia still believes they can roll through Finland though, especially when looking at the population. Ukraine had 43 million before Putin invaded. Finland only has 5.5 million. More Ukrainians have become refugees than Finland's entire population.
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  26.  @SuomiMatt  I’ve been working with Finland from 2005-2016 in preparation for these contingencies. My mom is from Finland and I have Finnish citizenship as a result, have lived there many times since 1979. The biggest thing is that people apply their thinking to the Russians, and the Russians don’t think like the rest of us, not even close. They’re historically retarded and also self-aware in a way that we aren’t. Russians will do whatever Putin orders, and Putin still believes the history that fascist Finland invaded Russia in World War II. The official internal dialog within the KGB was based on Stalin’s history, where the false flag Stalin used to start the Winter War was a real attack from Finland. Russians don’t generally even acknowledge Finland as an independent nation, many saying that the Czar created Finland, therefore Finland belongs to Russia and they should rightfully take it back. Same for the Baltics. Estonians aren’t even recognized as people. “Who are they? What do they have?” Russians are very primitive thinkers in ways that make some of the dumbest, uneducated people in the West seem brilliant. You have to see it for yourself to understand what I’m talking about. What that looks like in practice is Iskander cruise missiles hitting Helsinki, whether Russians can take any ground in Finland or not. Putin doesn’t read any Western analyses of Russia because he already has the best, most reliable information in his mind due to his KGB background. Everyone else are stupid peasants in his mind, filled with propaganda. Russians project their own condition on everyone else just as Westerners do to them. Neither are correct.
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  27. I've been following Peter's forecasts and assessments since the 2000s when he was with STRATFOR. He's way off the mark on this one. Biden has actively been working for the Soviets since they got him into the Senate in 1972. He was one of their lead moles on killing the B-1A program and trying to neuter the US under SALT II. Many senior military leaders have been calling for upgrading and developing new theater ballistic missile and missile defense systems for decades, and finally got traction under the Trump WH. Some of those programs are just barely coming to fruition, despite the geriatric pedophile's presence in the WH, definitely not because of it. US strategic forces were neglected as he says from Bush41 through Obama. Under Trump WH, they finally got the attention they deserved. That included hypersonics, ships, increased production of F-35s, P-8A Poseidon, more nukes, and strategic integrated missile defense programs. What Peter claimed here is directly opposite of reality. You can look right now and see a list of articles discussing the Biden WH reversals on Trump strategic weapons programs.
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  28. Weird. I just watched my comment get deleted.
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  29.  @alb3978  Who is talking about war with Canada? Leftist media disinformation spigots doing Russia’s bidding trying to foment animosity between neighbors. Canada is already part of the US structurally, militarily, trade-wise, and geographically. Statehood would be just a formality.
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  30.  @zee9709  So Canada sells oil not-for-profit? Think it through before typing.
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  31. @ I love Canada and have family members there in BC, who are Finnish ex-pats. What I’ve seen over the past 50 years from Canada’s parliament and prime ministers is alarming, especially with Trudeau. If you had told us back then that Canada would have an authoritarian PM who placed Chinese and Indian interests over that of actual Canadians, we wouldn’t have believed you. The place is unrecognizable.
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  32.  @zee9709  Is English new to you? It's hard to understand what you're saying. It sounds like Chinese syntax channeled through English.
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  33.  @sonneh86  How often are economists wrong and billionaire's right? Bullionaires have proof in the pudding. Economists have hot air, no skin of the game. Better to listen to doers instead of classroom theorists.
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  34.  @tjt5055  Trump went to Wharton, and worked weekends with his father doing real estate. He knows more about finance, negotiations, how to set up deals, and how to produce outcomes that exceed expectations in ways that only a billionaire can. Silly professors with zero real-world accomplishments inhaling their own flatulence are clueless in this space.
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  35. @emilyhollands5330  Have you heard anything in Canadian news about the glaring lack of CF-18 Hornet pilots? It was already really bad at 62% many years ago, only dropping.
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  36. You have to study Russian influence in US media and universities dating back to the 1930s, especially after FDR formally recognized Stalin and the Bolsheviks over Russian Nationalists in 1933. Every journalism student has been thoroughly indoctrinated with Marxism-Leninism, anti-US sentiment, and views US foreign policy through a curated perspective driven by Soviet and Russian disinformation. Since Russia could never go toe-to-toe with the US militarily, they knew they had to rely on subterfuge, lies, propaganda, and co-opting politicians with aggressive MICE attacks via the open US society. That's why they financed the Senate campaign of a young recent law school graduate in 1972, who suffered from uncontrollable pedophilia tendencies. He was a nobody, zero political career, never did anything notable. Then through a Soviet front company, he magically had campaign financing to unseat an incumbent Senator in Delaware that year. His son lists him on his iPhone contacts list as "Pedo Pete", but most know him by the name of Joseph Biden.
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  37.  @rfranklin3000  BRICS seems like a way for China to temporarily hedge their losses by scamming the other witless partners, likely with heavy bribes being involved to get national leaders to go along with the scheme.
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  38.  @wisenber  A certain politician has been on Russian payroll since 1972, when they paid for his Senate campaign in Delaware. Generations of counter-intelligence operatives in the US have had to watch as Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and other threat nations have funneled money into shell companies run by his brother and son, to the extent that this information is open knowledge now. The Russians chose him back then because of his personal compromise of his behavior with children and other people’s wives.
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  39.  @RoninTF2011  Remember that he’s the only US President in US history who didn’t start any new wars, but he authorized US forces to destroy Russian forces in Syria when they attacked a tiny contingent of commandos with an entire Russian/Syrian composite armored battle group, complete with engineers, artillery, and tanks. Trump let the USAF, USMC, and US Army drop precision guided munitions on those guys for 6 hours, their calls on open cellphones being recorded as they lamented their annihilation.
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  40. Anthropomorphic Global Warming has no scientific basis, so this whole "green" energy hoax is one of the stupidest scams ever perpetrated on mankind.
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  41. ​@HolyAlricGreenland has been wanting independence from Denmark for ages. When Trump Jr. & Charlie Kirk landed there, the natives were all in MAGA hats. Denmark is now in a position where they have to face Greenland's democratic aspiration for American independence.
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  42. The US hasn't been getting much oil from the Middle East for many decades now. No need, when we have our own, Canada, and Mexico. Biden has shifted this against our favor though, with an increase in imports from Saudis and Russia, though they pale in comparison to Canada.
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  43. OK, at 7:46, Peter couldn’t be more wrong. Dispassionate analysis shows that Trump has more energy than 20 yr-olds. The guy doesn’t sleep, and is firing on all cylinders throughout the day. Peter simply doesn’t allow his TDS to let him see the real Donald Trump, just like Allan Lichtman couldn’t see through his TDS to read his own tea leaves on the 13 Keys.
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  44. Trump has been working with teams of lawyers for decades. DOGE is a re-naming of an Obama program, so it was actually crafted at a much higher level than even Peter noticed. Peter is falling for the public image Trump has created of a simpleton. It's one of the most difficult things for an accomplished leader to pull off, namely convincing people they aren't as brilliant as they are. Trump has done that in spades. Because of Peter's personal bias, which he often is able to dispassionately manage well, He overlooked this aspect of Trump's public image vs his behind-the-scenes managerial style.
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  45.  @hananokuni2580  More forests now due to planned and managed forestry.
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  46.  @EddieEidee  Your talking points are best left to DU, not any geopolitical perspective. Partisanship doesn't even remotely begin to comprehend how the world works, only blinds you to myopic beliefs that don't transfer well into this sphere.
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  47.  @EddieEidee  Weird. There was a post with your name on it with Democratic Underground forum talking points. I don't see it anymore. Also, I could be losing my mind so, disregard if this doesn't make sense. Have a great day man! I've been seeing weird things happening with the comments section.
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  48. 😅😅😅😅😅 😢😢😢😢
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  49. The problem is if you didn't make the multi-billion dollar investments in RDT&E and manufacturing capacity in your defense sector 30-40 years ago, you are not able to manufacture competent or relevant weapon systems today. What European nations invested $30 billion in development of a new 5th Generation fighter 30-40yrs ago? ATF got funded in the US starting in 1981. 4 prototypes flew in 1991. F-22A production began in 1997. ASTOVL funding for RDT&E started in 1983. X-35 first flight was Oct 2000. First production model rolled off the line in Dec 2006 for the A model. The actual ASTOVL model (F-35B) rolled off Dec 2008. Carrier version 2010. Now there are 1100 of them delivered to customers as of Jan 1st, 2025. Meanwhile the Euro Consortium doesn't have a 1990s AESA Radar in their fleet of 1980s tech Typhoons. US has been flying 3 different 6th Gen prototypes starting in 2017, with billions spent in RDT&E already. European parliaments haven't taken defense seriously for generations, so now they're stuck buying US advanced weaponry.
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  50. No, that was the last WH, Obama, Bushes, and Clintons. Trump doesn't need any money from China or Russia. He already earned billions legitimately. Remember Elena Baturina wiring $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca in Feb 2014? Hunter on the board of Burisma? You know Burisma was run for Putin by Ethnic Russians, right? Mykola Zlochevsky, appointed by Yanukovych-Putin's puppet in Kiev.
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