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

  1. We're watching Russia turn itself into a weak middle power shell of its former self. This is the prelude to the Trump negotiations on Ukraine, where Trump will be seen as the daddy and Putin as a naughty little boy. No Russian leader can survive that image and continue the strong man facade.
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  2. @fernandovalenzuela6260  Afghanistan was a strategic trap set by China and maybe someone else, using the Pakistani ISI and Muslim Brotherhood as intermediaries. Israelis and leftover Soviet moles helped allow it to happen after ABLE DANGER discovered the hijackers earlier in 2001. Israel used the US to do its dirty work for them in Iraq, so yeah, very wasteful and counter-productive campaigns for the US, with nothing to show for them but hundreds of billions wasted.
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  3.  @fernandovalenzuela6260  Our debts aren't from wars, but from unfunded liabilities like entitlement programs. Not enough workers paying into Social Security, too many collecting. Same with Medicare. Medicare is a $1.3 Trillion annual liability. Congress has been blessing off on foreign banks disguised as the Federal Reserve to just print more money to fund it, with the US taxpayer left with the debt.
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  4. Trump is the most populist President since Reagan and FDR. Neither of them had as many votes as Trump, and Trump pulled it off without the support of the party or media. For Peter to say Trump is wildly unpopular just doesn't make any logical sense.
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  5. The nationalist parties are about putting their nations first, focusing on traditional families, and stopping immigration of people who are not compatible with European traditions, values, languages, and culture. Now that everyone is seeing the consequences of uncontrolled immigration of bipedal hominids who despise Europeans and want to kill or eradicate them from their homes, who are not productive or literate, more and more Europeans are shifting to the nationalists as a matter of survival.
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  6. Except for the whole ballot stuffing, pallets of fake ballots, and overall electoral fraud. Europe has far stricter voter ID laws, usually requiring your passport to even be allowed into the voting area.
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  7.  @BaardFigur  Look at night satellite imagery of the Nordic countries and it will all make sense.
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  8. ​ @warfarenotwarfair5655 Clinton, Obama/Biden, and Biden/Harris worked hard to disarm Ukraine as Democrat WH policy since the 1990s. Why?
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  9.  @Londubh  I have said for many years that if the CCP could push a button and erase the elderly to the tune of hundreds of millions, they wound’t hesitate. They did it to the unborn and infants already with the One Child Infanticide program for 35 years. There’s a Chinese documentary on One Child where they interviewed doctors and nurses who were tasked with one child measures. That included forced abortions and infant murder after birth, as well as seizure of excess children from families not authorized to have them. A spread of demonic contagion ripped across China like millions of angles of death.
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  10.  @sergeant64  CIA didn't launch the Euromaiden Revolution. Putin sparked it by having Yanukovych sign onto the Russia-Eurasian Economic Pact against the will of 79% of Ukrainians. Ukrainians ousted Yanukovych in March, 2014, followed by Putin invading Donbas and annexing Crimea. Putin had covert allies in the White House at the time with Obama, Clinton, and Biden, remember? Biden and the Clintons had been on Russian payroll for decades prior to that, which is why Putin had Biden put Hunter in Burisma by May of 2014. Burisma was embezzling Ukrainian money to Putin under the Yanukovych puppet regime.
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  11. The US and the rest of the world is very critical of US leadership, because it’s one of the only systems where you’re allowed to criticize the leadership. Imagine a Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Saudi, Venezuelan, or Belarus media firm criticizing Putin, Xi, Ayatollah, the Crown Prince, etc. The US looks particularly egalitarian and ultra-stable when you analyze other nations, and I’m one of the biggest critics of US White Houses dating way back. The real dynamic is that the old powers of Europe realized that they needed to be invested in America and the US as the US proved resilient to overt rule by the monarchies, so they took over the US financial system and subverted the political system. Russia caught onto that in the early 1900s and turned it on heavy from the 1930s-present. China is more of a later player in that game since the 1970s, competing with the Brits, Japanese, Russians, Saudis, Israelis, Iranians, Pakistanis, etc. No matter how many bribes they pay to senior politicians in the Senate and WH, we have very quick turnover in the WH and still have long-standing alliances and trade policies that are quite treason-proof, even with Bushes, Clintons, or Bidens in the WH. Presidents and Senators come and go. Programs and policies endure much longer.
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  12.  @patclark2186  Yup. There’s a revolving door of career department senior leadership who move from one WH to another. The thing is, no foreign policy-based group of “experts” has had a seat at the table since 1993 in any of the White Houses since then, while economy and trade have been far more emphasized. That put the US in position to basically negotiate unilaterally with dictates, because we’re in strategic withdrawal from the Pacific and Europe, while leveraging trade counter to military posture of the Cold War. It highlights the unique power the US has, because other nations get desperate for our friendship as we pull away from their regions militarily. This is one of the things I only hear from Zeihan, whereas most of the other talking heads and prognosticators are acting as if old rules still apply.
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  13. He also brushed over the fact that Denmark is almost entirely reliant on the US for its advanced weapons systems, to include anti-ship missiles, fighters, Air-to-Air missiles, surface-to-air missiles, and US-led NATO financing contributions. He then thinks Denmark has a say in whether the US wants to transit the Straits of Denmark. LoL!!!
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  14. ​ @lemdixon01  You missed the part where Russian fronts in German student groups, universities, and government have beat an anti-nuclear powerplant drum for the last 50 years, right about the time Russia transitioned from an oil net importer, to net exporter.
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  15.  @lemdixon01  Yes, the whole point of NATO is to block the doors so Russia can't come in and murder, rape, and steal from anymore people in Europe again.
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  16.  @boynamesue7720  Yup. Putin himself inquired about joining NATO, which would have cut the other members nations out of being able to intervene when he executed his plans to take Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Notice how NATO doesn't get involved with Turkey and Greece over all their disputes, including Cyprus?
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  17. ​ @gruffelo6945 Are you talking about Gallium Arsenide single wafer PV cells? Those have shown the most promise, but GaA is extremely expensive and is in high demand for defense semiconductor applications, satellites, and telecom. China also put an export ban on Gallium and Germanium after we cut off ASML machines to them. 95% of the PV market is stuck in stupid Chrystalline Si cells, which have zero growth in efficiency over the last 8 years.
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  18. ​ @martykincaid1700 Human contribution to essential, life-supporting CO2 into the atmosphere is somewhere between 0.3-3.0% of overall environmental sources, with no demonstrated causal relationship between global temps. Global temps are cyclical and driven by much larger factors, including geothermal heating of the oceans from magma underneath the deep sea crust layers. The entire claims about climate change related to human activity are demonstrably false, as explained in excruciating detail by a large panel of actual climatologists and atmospheric researchers.
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  19. ​ @esquiredan2702 There was no crime, for starters. Then due process of law was thrown out the window. Imagine ordering defense to make closing arguments first when the charges haven't been articulated.
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  20. ​ @burnhamsghost8044 Fundamentally Peter is a coward who is banking on instituitionally-aligned gigs to keep buttering his bread. He won't risk cancel culture and loss of his speaking gigs for the truth in this matter. His US domestic opinions have some good insight as to generational trends and history, but his stated views are effectively that of a political conformist who wears an editorial mask mandate.
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  21. ​ @RishTheMan If you've ever studied Trump's business history, he inspects his job sites down to the nitty detail, talks with the workers, and reminds them to do their best so they can deliver a superior job ahead of schedule. Most laborers never see the owners on projects like that. This is the dispassionate reality with Trump, totally opposite of your perspective.
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  22.  @janelleespinosa6247  Trump is the only US President in history who supervised the unrestrained destruction of Russian forces in Syria, with 6 hours of precision munitions dropped on Wagner mercenaries by F-22s, F-15Es, AC-130, Reaper drones, M777, HIMARS, when they attacked US SOF units over the Euphrates River. No other US President would have authorized those strikes. This is one of many reasons why Putin didn't eff around in Ukraine when Trump was CinC.
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  23. There should be a competency test you have to take before you're allowed to post in these videos. Of course, 95-98% of engagement would disappear. I would welcome it though.
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  24.  @evanburrows1697  RCAF purchased a bunch of old USMC F/A-18 baby Hornets years ago since Trudeau delayed the adoption of the F-35A that RCAF had committed to before he ever ran for office. RCAF CF-18As are worn-out, far beyond their expected service lives. Makes you wonder whose side he’s on.
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  25. @mrmoneyhacks5480  How much experience do you have tracking defense acquisitions?
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  26. ​ @AWAVAVA Woah. You're missing a decimal on the $650 Trillion/10yrs. It should be $6.5 Trillion. Over that same period of time, we'll be paying $14 Trillion for Medicare in taxes, just for reference.
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  27.  @TDH_1962  US has the largest Navy by displacement. Chinese PLN has a lot of small boats with no Bluewater capability and Chinese military culture of corruption, incompetence, theft, and show exercises where everyone is wearing immaculately-clean uniforms. They’re a sad joke one small naval campaign away from being embarrassed for all their regional enemies to see.
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  28. When I was training with the Estonians, coming from Finland, they had older Finnish Pasi APCs, Israeli Galil rifles, and MG3s. Now they have a lot more US weapons with M142 HIMARS, new US-built LMT Carbines, Vortex Optics, and US Javelin anti-tank weapons. Sweden has sent CV90s and Carl Gustav AT weapons as well. You can look through the Estonian Army list of weapons and vehicles to see country of origin.
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  29. In 2022, the means available to delivering PGMs are far more vast than 2002. The earth's surface is mapped in extreme detail. Tiny GPS units are available to anyone in the region. Russians use handheld US-made civilian GPS units in their fighters because they actually work.
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  30.  @crkn8771  Horrific was a bit extreme. Russians take pride in embracing misery, because misery is the norm. Once you accept it, you can move on in life and carve out something. This is very unfamiliar to people in the US.
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  31.  @lachlanbell8390  The US is an accidental empire, without the ambitions of emperors.
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  32. Black swan events plague most Presidencies. Policies are the wish lists they can't achieve due to curve balls. Reagan's administration was rare in that regard. They tried to assassinate him out of the gate, but failed.
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  33.  @SuperDrake85  I was an exchange student there in 1991 when there were still a lot of kids. Loved it there.
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  34. What do you think a reasonable attitude towards Europe would be? How would you go about telling them that they have failed to maintain their own defense posture, and have seeded their own societies with the recipe for multiple ethnic civil wars across the continent?
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  35. @Waverlyduli  You might be shocked to learn how many people Russia has had on its payroll in European Parliaments, ministries of defense, and within NATO for generations. It's all they have.
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  36. @Waverlyduli  Unfortunately Marx and Engels had very long-lasting effects on politics in Europe dating back to the 1800s. Their ideas spread into the US as well.
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  37. @jaytb5815  There isn't a consensus (not how we do scientific studies anyway) on anthropomorphic global warming either. You start to see right a away when you're dealing with religious zealots who throw the scientific method out the window in favor of academic trends. Once you pull ice cores, their theories fall apart quite quickly.
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  38. US retirement plans are mostly privately-funded though.
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  39.  @csf1757  States that more closely follow the Constitution, as opposed to police states. CA, NY, IL, NJ, CT, and MA are examples of police states that don't give a rip about US law. WA and CO are going more in that direction as well, which is sad.
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  40. ​ @hee345 Marxists and leftists dominate professorships across the universities, which is why a lot of people with degrees vote Dem out of conformity and cowardice. Being a Republican is harmful to many professionals in their respective industries, especially academia.
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  41.  @jonlittle5032  What if there isn’t such a thing as a true independent?
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  42.  @jonlittle5032  What % of “independent voters” are strategic party line crossers to get their true allegiance party elected in the General? Also, how does one measure independence on the issues? Say: Federalism 2A Infanticide/Abortion/Reproduction Immigration Fiscal policy Defense Healthcare
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  43.  @oveidasinclair982  Teenagers almost always lean heavily in-favor of liberal policies though, hence the contrast with this poll. Given the fact that teenagers’ brains have not fully developed regardless of the era, the extreme shift from left-wing ideas to right wing is notable.
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  44. Under Trump, oil got down to under $40/barrel regularly. It was an imperative for Russia to get someone else into the WH at whatever cost. Sane for Pfizer, Merck, Bayer, etc. Trump directed his HHS to authorize 900-1000 generic drugs per year, which flattened and even dipped their profits.
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  45.  @fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied  Those are more ideological political channels, not dispassionate geopolitical analyses. Huge difference between the approaches. It's better to feed from dispassionate analysis than emotionally-charged perspectives that don't understand the fundamentals.
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  46. ​ @KRAMITDFROG  My first college experience was before High School in the summer before I started 8th Grade. My college after HS was as you describe. My later college after military service started brick & mortar & books, then I finished my business degree online. As Gen X, we have perspective saddling all these generational changes and watching dramatic events in human history unfold. It has been a wild ride.
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  47.  @wilhelmheinzerling5341  FDR and JFK came from long lines of organized crime and political families. FDR was elected with help from the Kennedys after Papa Joe secured long-term exclusive import rights to Siegram's liquor during Prohibition and his bootlegging days. They would run FDR with the promise of lifting Prohibition. Obama comes from a family with ties to the OSS and Boeing, where both maternal grandparents worked to acquire the B-29 TDP for the Soviets, using Mrs. Dunham as a honey pot. This is why they lived in Kansas near the Wichita plant (where B-29s were manufactured), and later in Seattle. Acquiring materials samples and TDP was one of the top FORMAT-E programs at the time, because it was the first real long range intercontinental strategic bomber and capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Russia made a clone of it called the Tupolev Tu-4, which they developed into the Tu-85 and finally Tu-95, which is still in operational service today. Obama was literally born into a family engaged in espionage against Boeing and the US Government. His mom worked for US AID in the Pacific, which is why they lived in Indonesia with the adoptive Soetero father. You really have to contort reality to compare them, though there is an interesting parallel between JFK and Mrs. Dunham.
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  48.  @AlexHand  Obama started with a majority Senate (59) and majority House. After coercing/ bribing ACA through, the Democrats suffered the biggest turnover in 2010 mid-terms, even bigger than the Clintons' turnover/blow-out in 1994. It's also the job of Congress to check the President's power, not rubber-stamp it.
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  49.  @Vractis  Obama wasn't afraid of GOP, but he was sensitive to being called out for the domestic spying and targeting of Tea Party PACs using the weaponized IRS, and the DOJ Fast & Furious gun-running operation to the cartels. He was very indifferent and distant even from career Senate Democrats who had been trying to do universal healthcate legislation since the 1970s. He didn't play DC two-step, instead secluding himself and watching TV, or calling staff meetings to learn about a matter. Valerie Jarrett and other behind-the-scenes actors got a lot of skullduggery done on-behalf of foreign governments. The media ran huge cover for Obama, so we still don't hear about what extent the Chinese, Russians, and Iranians played. The biggest attraction was to Uranium One, which Putin used after bribing the Clintons through Clinton Global Initiative, to help Putin re-build his nuclear arsenal. Then there was the Iranian deal where they got billions of dollars on pallets, and the US got nothing. PATRIOT Act was further cemented as a domestic political opponent spy program under Obama as well.
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  50.  @billweberx  Oh, I'm firmly planted. Did you ever wonder why Obama was told he was getting Joe as VP? It didn't make sense to anyone, unless they understood The Council for a Livable World (Soviet Front). The biggest missing information set in discussions of geopolitics is legitimate Intelligence and Counterintelligence operations, as well as subversion and active measures. The picture will not make sense without discussing those, especially in relation to penetration and co-opting key leaders and organizations in targeted nations.
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