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

  1. My first guess was Biden had some dealings with the Russians he needed to do last-minute. Jill went to UAE to meet with other foreign powers. It's all very weird.
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  2. ​ @frankpinter9508  Funny how Macron either isn't aware or purposely ignored the fact that much of the weaponry and supplies it sent to Ukraine were manufactured in the US, and sold to NATO and EU countries prior to, and during the war. Take Patriots, Javelins, Bradleys, Abrams, NASAMs, HIMARS, M777, and F-16s, for just a few examples. I wouldn't expect Macron to be competent or well informed on this subject though.
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  3.  @fridrekr7510  It’s Peter’s argument, not mine. I was merely explaining his perspective as I understand it, having followed his analyses since the 2000s. City States by definition operate autonomously for the most part, with their own economy, culture, and politics. You do see this in Finland, Sweden, and Norway, though it isn’t as pronounced as the ancient city states of Europe of course. A better contrast would be to compare the Nordics to Central Europe. Central Europe is integrated with highways, the EU government, rail lines, and high volume air traffic. The Scandinavian Peninsula is geographically isolated, subject to more extreme cold weather, with limited connectivity between Norway, Sweden, and Finland, dotted with a few small population cities along the coasts. That’s how I see Peter’s perspective, which does have some validity to it. The Nordic countries like to think of themselves as bigger powers than they are. Sweden is the most guilty of this, and Finland just wants to be recognized and accepted so that people will not make the same mistake again that was made in 1939, leaving her to deal with Russia alone. Hopefully that makes sense.
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  4.  @landontesar3070  I saw it daily there. Police pull people over (wave them over with batons) hoping for corruptsia pay-outs, no probable cause necessary for waving you over. People with mortgages need to pay an arbitrary and undefined corruptsia fee to the local police in order to have the privilege to have a mortgage. Ministers of Parliament plow through traffic expecting everyone to get out of their way, even in full traffic jam in Moscow. 9 journalists were killed the year I was living there. Military officers steal or re-allocate state-owned equipment and sell it back on the market. We’re seeing that now with uniforms and equipment. Soldiers being mobilized have to go to local stores to find the equipment they should have been issued in a Central Issuing Facility. Anti-terrorist soldiers got Glock pistols when I was there. Upon opening the new cases, they discovered someone had stolen the spare magazines. Military commanders might end up fighting their own units during the week, then drill with them periodically on assigned days if they were also the local police chief. Putin was put into power by the 1st Generation of Oligarchs (senior KGB officers who could see the overall economy and structure). As soon as he took the Presidency, he ousted them and awarded their businesses to the 2nd generation of oligarchs, who owe total allegiance to Putin. It’s more corrupt than Mexico or Ukraine, very close to the top on the WCI.
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  5.  @josephtorres3229  Actually Russia violated Minsk, since Ukraine gave up her nukes as part of that deal where her territorial integrity was off-limits. Putin’s red line was crossed when Ukraine threw out his puppet in Kiev, Yanukovych, who signed onto the Russia-Eurasian Economic Pact, against the will of 79% of the Ukrainian people. They actually wanted to trade their goods and services for Euros, not Rubles. Step outside of the Russian Pravda and into a more holistic assessment of the history and real events. Turn of Russia One TV, and build a timeline of events on your own, asking who, what, where, when, why.
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  6. So it looks like someone is censoring your response. I can see it in my notifications, but when I click on it....nothing. It’s not there. It looks like you said something about my experience with "going back in time" in Russia. Maybe you could re-post so I can see what you actually said. I think YouTube censors any posts with links automatically.
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  7. It triggers an internal collapse of the system due to a literal power vacuum.
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  8. ​ @marcusaustralius2416 If one side has functional, proven nuclear weapons, and the other doesn't, the one with nukes doesn't need to waste its human resources on you. It can dictate you politically.
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  9. ​ @WayneTheSeine Communism has killed more people than all the religious wars combined.
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  10. ​ @devonteforeman  Trump isn't a partisan ideologue, and neither is Biden's career in the Democrat Party. Trump is an America-first businessman from NYC who has actual negotiation skills with decades of private sector experience. Biden is a talentless opportunist who was funded into the Senate by the Soviets through a front called Council for a Livable World. Biden's name in Hunter's iPhone contacts list is "Pedo Pete". Biden has been selling out to Russia, China, and God only knows what other countries for generations while in the Senate, VP office, and WH, using James and Hunter as intermediaries. The money trails are in the open, which is just insane.
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  11. ​ @sifu64  The media has worked 24/7 to trash Trump's reputation once he handily defeated all the weak, establishment types in the Republican Party. Remember Jeb Bush?
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  12.  @jklappenbach  The more America ages as a combination of industrialized abortion and delayed family planning, the older our politicians will be as well.
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  13. The only thing popular about Biden is how many jokes he generates daily. He has always been a gaffe machine ever before he had the aneurysms and the top of his skull cut off to go in to repair them, twice. Biden is a disgrace to humanity, let alone the US. You don’t let a geriatric pedophile anywhere near the WH, let alone public office.
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  14. One of his fundamental flaws is thinking there are only 3 buckets of voters in the US: Dems, Independents, and Republicans. The 4th bucket is unaffiliated/apolitical voters who show up on election day when the incumbent party screws things up so badly to get them to vote. Not every eligible voter in the US votes. The US has a large population who just don’t care about politics in general. Independents are just Democrats and Republicans who pretend that they’re not so they can start conversations without triggering the listener into either agreeing or disagreeing with them out of the gate, or are too fickle about making and defending their positions.
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  15. I don't think it even mattered who the Dem candidate was. They were going to be thrown out either way because of the short & long-term economy, the border crisis, foreign military failure, foreign policy, and the complicit media blatantly lying to us for the incumbent party.
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  16. ​ @brockborrmann2931 Stalin and Hitler agreed to start a land-grab of Eastern Europe via Molotov-Ribbontrop Pact before the war started.
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  17. There is nothing new about this, and this video is really weird to focus on it, while getting many facts totally wrong. JDAMs in Desert Storm (didn’t exist), Mk.82 500lb emphasis instead of Mk.84 2000lb JDAMs, etc. He stepped out of his area of knowledge on this one big time.
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  18.  @XenaSweden  Putin lost his puppet Yanukovych in March 2014, after he forced Yanukovych to sign his Russia-Eurasia Economic pact in December of 2013. That's what triggered Euromaiden. Ukraine had voted 79% in favor of normalizing relations with the EU for trade in 2013. They had sat by watching Poland's economy grow 6 fold, While theirs was stagnant tied to the stupid worthless Russian rubles. It's also interesting that Elena Baturina wired $3.5 million to Hunter Biden in February of 2014. Biden's pardon for hunter goes to January 2014.
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  19. Chechnya is tiny compared to Ukraine, with no real infrastructure. Ukraine was at the heart of much of the Soviet Union's aerospace, naval, and defense industries.
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  20.  @gmw3083  I've been following Zeihan since the 2000s. He's one of the precious few dispassionate analysts you will come across. I don't agree with everything he says of course, but he's been forecasting events that happen for many years, right along with George Friedman. If you have partisan or national bias, it will be difficult to listen to ground truth geopolitical analyses.
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  21.  @gmw3083  My bias is the truth. Putin's operation was coordinated with Biden. Biden was supposed to whisk Zelensky and his family out of Kiev, so Russian forces could quickly seize Kiev and systematically advance to Odessa, sealing off all Ukrainian sea ports, then dealing with the remnants of a disorganized Ukrainian Army acting more like guerrillas and partisans. By Zelensky refusing to leave and acting as the legitimate head of state, he was able to coordinate supplies from Europe to counter Russia. The only other time Russians have faced precision-guided munitions was in Syria, when Wagner mercenaries attacked US SOF units over the Euphrates with their Syrian battle group. They were decimated for 6 hours after that mistake. Battle of Khasham, 7 Feb, 2018. This is why Biden has delayed shipments of US weapons to Ukraine.
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  22.  @gmw3083  Biden has been on Russian payroll since 1972. They literally financed his campaign into the Senate through Council for a Livable World. Yes, people under Biden continue to coordinate with Russia to subvert US interests. Putin’s plan backfired horrendously on him in Ukraine, and likely eliminated his chances of going after Poland, the Baltics, eastern Romania, and Finland during his presidency. Now that Europe has seen how easy it is to curb-stomp Russian forces, it will be a potentially-volatile time, because they don’t want this spilling into Europe anymore, and Putin has to somehow continue to sell his image as a strong man to the Russian people. The Russian tactic of throwing bodies at the problem doesn’t work against modern ISR networks and precision munitions, because they can find, fix, and attrit logistics nodes with impunity.
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  23. That's exactly what happened. It was in SOF Magazine's world SITREP back in the early 1990s.
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  24. Joe Biden's entire life is filled with colossal eff-up after another. He's a pedophile who was identified for deep moral compromise, and then helped into the Senate by the Soviets to act as a puppet for their interests in hampering US defense programs like the B-1A, while taking their side in SALT-II treaties. The Russians chose to finance him as an asset because they correctly saw him as a "cheap b*tch" they wouldn't have to spend much on to do their bidding. He's been a bumbling idiot gaffe machine all along, starting with that comment about being corrupt in 1974 already, right after he got back from Leningrad in 1973-his first year in the Senate. He's been a deep traitor his entire career, working on-behalf of the Soviets. Chicoms jumped on that train later and started funneling money to him through his brother James, then Hunter many years later when he was VP. Joe Biden has been a literal enemy to the United States his entire political career.
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  25. ​ @tobiasrietveld3819 Kursk is the city north of Belgorod.
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  26. Russia and the SSRs had vast petroleum reserves stored in large above-ground and maybe underground tanks. Any of those tanks that are still intact would be at capacity already. They're for wartime contingencies.
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  27. It's important to understand that Peter's reference for an optimally-functioning Presidency is that of George H.W. Bush, because he was the last one with an actual foreign policy. Trump pulled off what nobody has been able to do in at least a century of Roosevelt-initiated Blue Blood control of the WH (and the crony relationship between Wall Street conglomerates and the political parties). He circumvented the sell-out politician career path to the WH, bypassing Congressional, Gubernatorial, or cabinet positions (over a lifetime of fake public speaking and obedience to the financial interests who control both parties). This is why Trump was hated and feared by both parties. There are dozens of Congressmen plugging away with the establishment system like good little conformists, eager to lick the boot of the financial interests who determine who makes it into the run-offs, who then not only got sidelined and politically eviscerated (especially Jeb Bush), but then faced a potential dynasty blocking them out. Think about Cory Booker, Marco Rubio, Gavin Newsom, John Kennedy, Lisa Murkowski, Amy Klobuchar, etc. There's a narrow window that opens at certain times, mainly determined by a combination of age, tenure, party affiliation relative to the cycle (RR, D, RR, D, RRR, DD, RR, DD, R, D), name recognition, previous campaign experience, Vice President, etc. Trump threw all of that out of whack, which ruffled the feathers of dozens of career politicians in both parties. Even worse for them, he commands such a groundswell of grassroots support, fomenting a rare populist cultural swing that hasn't happened since Reagan and FDR. FDR's populism was created by crisis and mass control of the media. Trump's was created despite the established media, by leveraging the internet and his long career in business and entertainment. The worst possible outcome for the establishment sell-outs in DC would have been a 2-term Trump, followed by whomever his VP would be in 2024 with his blessing. This is why they threw everything at him possible, short of assassination like they did to Reagan.
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  28. Any comment on the tanks and APCs rolling in?
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  29.  @secretd5  From Socialist Program? Not sure if serious. The problem is we've seen a lot of Chicom shill channels acting as paid apologists who blame everything on the Western media. Western media is often on Chinese payroll or has been singing the virtues of China for decades.
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  30.  @MrNicoJac  This is an example of a partisan slant trying to make sense of the world, and failing at every single bullet point.
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  31.  @jlvandat69  ACA was a shake-down for insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and medical device manufacturers. Medicare and Medicaid already covered uninsured and hospitals aren’t allowed to deny life-saving care. The talking points used to sell ACA didn’t have basis in reality. Examples: “Millions of Americans are going bankrupt because of medical costs!” Reality: Anywhere between 738,000 down to 424,000 US bankruptcies are filed each year in total, including businesses, with bankruptcy rates falling each year, not increasing, even as the population increases. We just don’t have millions even filling each year. A smaller % of total bankruptcies are attributed to medical costs, but these were avoidable in most cases had the patients applied for Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security. ACA is one of the biggest scams hefted onto the US, but was a windfall in money for the corporate interests who control DC.
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  32.  @jlvandat69  I see the power of the internet as a place where people from backgrounds who wouldn't normally encounter each other, can share information and ideas.
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  33.  @thomasdsimic2833  Finnish Parliament internal Audits of NHS Swedish Healthcare failure articles from Swedish media UK NHS watchdog CQC Canadian NHS watchdog Fraiser Institute Short story: Wait times, services, unnecessary deaths, lack of options, and high costs are the norm.
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  34.  @thomasdonovan3580  Putin was planning on invading Finland anyway. One of his foreign ministry secretaries was running his mouth about the new plans already in the 2000s. Russia didn’t invade Ukraine over possible NATO membership, but because Putin lost his puppet, Yanukovych, and Putin had been using Ukraine for a personal bank through embezzlement of Ukrainian revenue through various companies, including Burisma. As long as Yanukovych was in power, Putin was happy, along with Biden, Obama, and all the other stooges who were on Putin’s payroll. Look at the Panama papers for further evidence of what I’m talking about. Finns know that without a mutual defense pact, they would be seriously damaged by Russia at a minimum, with a giant loss of population. The Ukrainian refugee crisis is 2x the Finnish population, for example. The US didn’t drive a wedge between Russia and EU. EU nations got in front of that on their own, outside of the influence of puppet Biden or Obama. The US has been in strategic withdrawal from Europe since 1992, after Desert Storm and the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Eastern Europe came begging to join NATO because, unlike the comfortable Germans, French, and UK, they didn’t buy into “the end of history” silliness that was being spewed from Brussels, London, New York, and DC. The Eastern Europeans’ instinct was of course correct, and all the talking heads and academics in the US and Western Europe who thought we were done with the old ways were wrong. This should have been clear already with Yugoslavia. When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, most knew the gig was up.
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  35.  @lukeduke6693  There was no Nuland coup. Putin rigged the elections in 2006 and 2010 until he finally got Yanukovych into the Presidency. 79% of Ukrainians wanted to trade with the EU and grow the economy like Poland has. Yanukovych said he would be independent, but then he signed onto Putin's Russia-Eurasia Economic Pact in late 2013. Ukrainians started protesting then en masse until they threw Yanukovych out in March 2014. That's when Putin had Night Wolves and Wagner start shooting people in Donbas. "Nuland coup" is retarded propaganda from Putin, nothing more.
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  36. ​ @gagamba9198  US Naval power and developments set the tone for all future naval technologies and force structures with the major turning point being the US Civil War. That's where submarines, torpedoes, and ironclads were developed and introduced. US Naval power was instrumental in the Mexican American war where we surrounded Mexico City, laid siege, then asked them how far they wanted to go with this. Then we set the border to the Rio Grande and sent them the bill for the war. The Royal Navy never pulled off such a thing. By the Great War, Europe relied heavily on the US for logistics and war material.
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  37. SEATO was a proposal during the Cold War that has somewhat come into play. China has been using Pakistan as a lever for decades against India and the US. There’s a minority report within DIA that has a strong case showing China supported the Muslim Brotherhood leadership to launch The Big Event on 9/11, to get the US sucked into Afghanistan and waste our combat power while China used stolen and bribed US technology to modernize their military.
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  38. Nunn-Lugar is what happened in the 1990s. The US and IMF gave billions to Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, and Georgia in exchange for securing and demilitarizing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
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  39.  @kevinsutube1p528  Biden openly credits Council for a Livable World for getting him elected in 1972, same organization that helped lift the campaign of "a community organizer" into the Illinois Senate, who then became President in 2008. Council for a Livable World is a Soviet era front group started by Leo Szilard in 1962, helping 420+ Congressmen, Senators, Governors, and Presidents into office. Biden was a no-name pedophile with zero political history in 1972. After Ukrainians threw Yanukovych out in March 2014, Elena Baturina (human/sex trafficker/former 1st lady of Moscow) wired $3.5 million to Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden then joined the board of Burisma, which triggered an email from John Kerry's son-in-law, Chris Heinz, a front company business partner with Hunter in Rosemont Capital. In Sep that year, Obama flew to UK to ask David Cameron to shut down MI5/MI6's investigation into Burisma. Then VP Biden demanded that the new President Proshenko not only shut down the investigation into Burisma, but fire Viktor Shokin, otherwise Ukraine wouldn't get $1 Billion in foreign aid from the US. Biden, Clintons, Obamas, Kerrys, and numerous US Senators and Congressmen have been invested in the embezzlement scheme in Ukraine for many years, as an insurance policy for Putin/Russia.
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  40.  @kevinsutube1p528  The former Soviet officer, Pavel Sudoplatov, who managed Council for a Livable World as part of the NKVD and KGB's "Administration for Special Tasks", revealed its true purpose in a book after the collapse, co-written with his University of Moscow Economics Professor son, Anatoli. Szilard was about to be arrested back in the early 1960s because he had been passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets all along. The Soviets had so many moles in the FBI, they were able to steer their assets in advance to prevent them from being arrested, or sacrifice them to bolster the credibility of new high-level moles. Zsilard's value was enormous if they could have him switch gears from technical espionage, to political activism based on nuclear alarmism. That is why they directed him to found a front group called The Council for a Livable World. Their strategy was to first focus CFALW money on Senatorial elections in States with tiny populations where their campaign donations and bundling could have more influence on the outcome. Enter a young pedophile named Joe Biden in 1972, and the State of Delaware. What was Biden's first conspicuous action in office in 1973? He traveled to Leningrad to meet with Senior Soviet leadership so they could talk about policy, while showing off their new trophy to each other. Biden returned to the US and immediately began cheerleading against the B-1A, which was supposed to replace the B-52 fleet. After he, Admiral Stansfield Turner (DCI under Carter who had been recruited into CIA by one of the original NKVD double agents in CIA), other closet CPUSA Congressmen, and Carter cancelled the B-1A in 1977, Joe was then tasked with getting the US to reduce its nuclear arsenal while the Soviets built theirs up under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He returned to USSR, that time to Moscow in 1979 for this purpose. You can see photos of this yourself with an image search. Joe Biden has literally been working for the Soviets his entire career.
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  41.  @FadeRunnerOG  I have EU citizenship too and have lived there off and on since 2005. No thanks. EU has far more problems, mainly demographic ones caused by idiots in the various parliaments. EU parliaments make the US look sane, and that's saying something. EU will have multiple civil wars erupt as the North African immigrants destroy more of it. The place is unrecognizable since the 1970s-1980s, and almost all in bad ways.
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  42.  @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244  That and Fast & Furious were 2 of the most damning aspects of his White House, along with killing the F-22 program before we could go into Full Rate Production, the Hillary Uranium One deal with Putin, VP Biden’s batting for Putin in Ukraine when Ukraine was trying to oust the Russian puppets who were embezzling Ukrainian energy (Burisma), destroying the military culture within by promoting more Soviet plant generals and admirals, SECDEF Gates, Hillary email espionage scandal that compromised all of our assets in China, who were then arrested and executed after torture/interrogation, etc. Obama was raised from childhood to be a Manchurian candidate for the Soviets. The Chinese hopped on board and followed the same model, but with more aggressive measures. They financed his campaign with micro-donations laundered through online accounts.
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  43.  @ribbonwing  Look at how many times in the Clinton WH CIA and military were denied the chance to take out Bin Laden. Then look at who mandated Banks to give mortgages to people without jobs or bank accounts, which created the sub-prime crisis. The role of Congress IS to stonewall Presidents, not rubber-stamp them. The Founders built equal and separate powers into our system to provide checks and balances against the inevitable power-grabs. Partisanship is antithetical to the US system though, and we were warned against it. There is no such thing as Democrats and Republicans in DC, only millionaires doing the bidding of crony-capitalist billionaires who see socialism as a way to enslave the people.
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  44.  @alankwellsmsmba  LBJ was already being investigated for murder-for-hire before he became VP. He had been in the Senate and Congress for decades, was Whip of the Senate. He would corner Congressmen in the restroom with his towering stature, and badger them until they agreed to vote on a bill he sponsored or was co-sponsoring. They called it, "getting Johnsoned". He would lurk around the Congressional restrooms like a vulture, waiting for Congressmen who he knew didn't support it. The guy was a crook through-and-through, a product of the good ol' boy Texas crony network where he acted as a representative for finance men in Congress. Just a terrible example of a human being in about every respect.
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  45.  @RoycePipkins  Watergate's true nature has not really been reported either. Federal Judge put a gag order on the "plumbers". DNC offices were being used to coordinate all the prostitutes and narcotics that attendees of the DNC would need while in town. The bugging of the phones by the plumbers was ordered by a cut-out intelligence team operating for the Nixon WH. Obama used the Intelligence Community and IRS against his political opponents, without consequence, where electronic break-ins aren't easy to catch, like the plumbers were.
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  46. Yeah, the thing he said about Trump “clearly failing” couldn’t be more wrong. How many politicians in US History could have ever done the amount of campaign rallies and planning sessions that Donald Trump did, even if they were in their 30s? Trump Jr. said he can’t keep up with him at age 46. Trump did all those events up through election night, didn’t go to sleep, then went straight into the cabinet formation meetings with a lot of people half his age that were wanting to take a break. Then if what Peter projects will be true, it’s as if Trump didn’t pick probability the greatest VP pick of all time, JD Vance. On top of that, he literally built his cabinet with a core of former Presidential candidates, including RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Vivek Ramaswamy. So Peter is orders of magnitude erroneous here on this alarmist forecast of a Constitutional crisis. In reality, it’s a Constitutional stabilizing movement, the likes of which have never been seen before in US Presidential history. No Republican President would ever surround themselves with former Democrat Presidential candidates like this, because Trump is an American President, not a partisan.
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  47.  @matthewmcclary7855  Trump packed his cabinet with multiple former Democrat & Republican Presidential candidates, and probably the best VP we've ever seen. So the talk about him not wanting to let go of power is more leftist gas-lighting and hyperbole to fuel the legacy media consumers with irrational fear.
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  48. The teachers in school now were taught some abortion regressive mathematics that deconstructs millennia of human development and advancement. They're teaching kids now whatever watered-down version of retard math they learned, which is painful to behold.
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  49.  @Rico-v7r  Humans have shifted from the hands-on assembly line workers to CNC machinists, robotics supervisors, programmers, maintenance, TQM supervisors, and CS. Previously, most of those people would have been on the line.
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  50. Like when Trump had AH-64Es, F-15Es, MQ-9s, F-22As, an AC-130, a B-52G, M777, and other US assets annihilate a Russian armor battle group in Syria after they attacked the US in Feb 2018?
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