Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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@geneoh5048 2 years living in a foreign country on their economy, using their transportation, buying your food from their markets, organizing and planning your calendar with locals, scheduling meetings with locals, striking up conversations with people....yeah, you learn to live, eat, speak, think, and breathe in that language.
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@StephenGillie So pronunciation of the city names is what you gathered from this, rather than the actual historical implications and effects on the world moving forward? This is an example of public-schooling and modern universities failing to produce a quality student who understands how to critically think. You need to take a critical thinking course, a formal one. Learn about Logic, Relevance, Significance, Completeness, Precision, Breadth, Depth, Accuracy, and Fairness. Right now, you’re demonstrating to everyone that you don’t have the mental acuity to even approach the important aspects of this subject, and are trying to compensate with an obscure canard that has zero relevance to the meat of the material.
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@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg This is a common misunderstanding of STRATFOR, and now Peter Zeihan's analyses. They are not based on nativist patriotism, especially since George Friedman immigrated to the US from Hungary.
The favorable outlook for the US is dispassionately based on:
1. Geography: better than any nation on earth
2. Climate: temperate zone with long, warm spring-summer-fall seasons, relatively mild winters
3. Population and demographics, positive immigration flow
4. Economy: world's largest economy without peer, mostly driven by domestic consumption, not exports. Even with that so, US is still the 2nd largest exporter in the world, providing technologies and services that other nations can't.
5. Military. The US military is without peer, while two great oceans defend it from any meaningful foreign attacks.
These are just cold, hard facts, not "being bullish" on America. America is the bull that determines markets, trade, energy, technology, and alliances.
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When we passed through Copenhagen in 2005 and stopped at a mall, I felt like I was in Kuwait City or Riyadh, not Scandinavia.
Helsinki has been totally transformed with immigrants from Somalia, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Abdul procreates with his sister, aunts, and cousins cranking out babies like rabbits, so they can get government money for each child, social services-funded apartments, strollers, baby starter packs, monthly stipends, free public transportation, and benefits with no work.
The French people are more openly-vocal against these policies than most. They say things you aren't allowed to say in the US because the French have a very devout sense of national pride and dostinct culture rooted in their history, language, art, food, and geography.
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@jascu4251 Interesting that you mention organized crime. In the late 1800s US, syreet gangs worked for the local politicians doing electioneering, intimidation, and whatever it took to keep their politician bosses in office. In exchange, they were given practical immunity to loanshark, run betting schemes, racketeering, and prostitution by the police chiefs.
When Congress saw fit to finally pass Prohibition in 1919 after giving themselves a bigger revenue stream with Federal Income Tax in 1913, they handed all the revenue from alcohol to those organized gangs.
Taxes and excises on alcohol accounted for billions in then-year dollars, so you can calculate retail sales in the tens of billions.
The legacy WASP and Irish gangs of the late 1800s then had to contend with the newer Italian, Sicilian, Russian Jews, and Slav gangs as they were all drowning in billions of cash that had to be laundered.
Meyer Lansky suggested they all work together as syndicates and abandon violence to promote financial advancement.
They flipped the tables during the 1920s on their political bosses by buying Congressmen, Judges, Police Chiefs, Sheriffs, city councils, and Senators, while financing Presidential campaigns even when we look at FDR-forward.
They legitimized and took over the government. Peter references this when interviewers ask about the cartel problem.
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@Leto2ndAtreides One of my contacts was in the Russian foreign ministry when Putin came into power in 2000. He said that with the new leadership, Russia would be taking back Kazakhstan, Dagestan, Chechnya, South Ossetia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland “because those are historic Russian territories anyway”. That’s literally the viewpoint inside the Russian foreign ministry under Putin. So far:
Kazakhstan is under puppet rule, with repressions of uprisings where blood has flowed in the streets like a river.
They took South Ossetia/Georgia in 2008 (when I was in Estonia).
They occupy Chechnya
When Ukraine threw out Yanukovych in 2014 (4 months of Euromaiden), Russia invaded Luhansk and Donetsk, then annexed Crimea.
Once Biden got into office, the door was open for Putin to invade Ukraine with a quick special military action, coordinated with Biden evacuating Zelensky.
Zelensky not going along with the plan threw a wrench in everything, which bought Moldova, Poland, Romania, the Baltics, and Finland another 3-7 years.
Notice how Biden killed Keystone XL pipeline as priority #1 when he took office? That was to raise oil prices back to over $100/BBL for Russia, which is exactly what happened. Biden has been on Soviet payroll since 1972, when they paid for his hopeless Senate campaign in Delaware.
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@butterflies655 My first trip to Finland was in 1979, as my mom is from there and we went to visit relatives and friends. We lived in West Germany from 1980-1982, and travelled all over Europe.
I was also an exchange student in Japan, and traveled to Mexico several times since the 1970s. Joined the military and was stationed all over the US, South Korea, and Middle East. Went to Panama as well.
Lived in Finland from 2005-2006, then went 2-4x per year from 2007-2016. Have relatives in Sweden, have been to Estonia 12 times, lived in Russland, and total country count is 30.
Finland used to have far less immigrants than most places in Europe, but they have let more in over the past 20 years to where many places in Helsinki are unrecognizable and run-down.
Denmark made me think I was back in the Middle East when we rolled through there in 2005. Copenhagen was filled with Middle Eastern immigrants in the malls during the day. It was crazy.
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