Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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@michaelboano7183 Someone groomed his rise to power, someone with motive and means bigger than the DNC. His actions in the WH were extremely injurious to the United States and our relations with out allies, while agitating and polarizing the US populace against itself.
Some relevant points about his family history....
Fact: Madelyn Dunham (Obama’s maternal grandmother) worked at the Boeing Wichita manufacturing facility on the B-17 and B-29 during WWII.
Fact: The B-29 Technical Data Package was compromised and transferred to the Soviets, (who had physical in-tact samples of B-29s from crash landings and diverts during the war, but needed technical data for materials and processes to make the clone/unlicensed Tupolev Tu-4).
Fact: Madelyn Dunham worked the night shift at Boeing’s B-29 manufacturing facility, and she and Stanley Dunham (her husband) can be seen in photographs where they are dining with Boeing executives from the plant at an exclusive table, where Madelyn is in the arms of one of the older men, far from Stanley Dunham.
Fact: Stanley Anne Dunham (Obama’s mother) was born 10 months after Stanley went off to serve in World War II.
Fact: The FBI was investigating who transferred the B-29 TDP to the Soviets from the Wichita plant, even after the war, narrowing-in on Stanley, even though he didn’t have access.
The more you look into the Dunhams, the more of a rabbit hole you will find. Their history is extremely strange, to say the least.
What is absolute is that a young Senator from Chicago with a doctored past, shot into the White House with an extremely short political record, a flimsy work history of being employed by a CIA financial intelligence front company (BIC), and a Constitutional Law professor.
The whole thing is extremely odd by any metric.
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@jps0117 I called 2016 way in advance based on the partisan swing, the campaign event turn-out, and the professional debate stage set-up with R vs D. The system was rigged in favor of Hillary by big tech, banks, Wall Street, and DC (as evidenced in the Podesta emails), but they didn’t account for the mass wave of populism that overcame the corruption of the Democrat voting mechanisms. Dems, Wall Street/Big Pharma, and Chinese made sure that didn’t repeat in 2020, and bypassed all the other Dem candidates to put a geriatric pedophile in the WH, who has been on Soviet payroll since 1972, and Chicom payroll since the 1990s.
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@peredavi Finland was in population decline by the 1990s due to abortion and urbanization plus 3rd-wave feminism. Their solution? Import Africans and Middle Easterners, especially Somalis. Sure, the population grew. Abdul is now impregnating his wife, his sister, his aunt, and his cousins to get lapsilisä (govt baby money). Somalis have an entirely different genotype, culture, climate acclimation, work ethic, and religion that simply isn't compatible with Finland, and yet the government enables them to scam the system to the extent that portions of Helsinki are now "pieni Mogadishu", especially Itäkeskus.
Helsinki is unrecognizable now. Finland's Parliament, multiple prime ministers, and Presidents have been a joke.
One of the only smart things they have done was to acquire Hornets in the 1990s, based on the Finnish Air Force, and now the F-35A to replace those.
The underground shelters tunneled out of the granite are another sound policy, given who their neighbor is.
A huge portion of Finland's prime age male future was wiped out from 1939-1944, just like most of Europe.
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You've clearly never lived in Russia. The world is not a well-behaved, rational, peace-loving place. Russia is a brutally-cold, poverty-stricken, under-developed, systemically-corrupt, under-educated place time forgot. They've had 8 major brain drains and prime age male collapses since 1914. It's not even remotely rational by your standards, but if you lived there, you would see their perspective and say, "Ah ha....oh damn."
Mainland Europe doesn't fit most people's idyllic image what European culture and history really are. Europe is a place of extreme, continual, senseless war, conquest, territorial disputes, enslavement, and genocide. The Cold War was a strange aberration from that for 50 years, broken by the Yugoslavia genocide, and now escalated further with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Putin truly believes he is acting in Russia's best interests by attempting to control Ukraine, otherwise Russia would be doomed to have a successful democratic state on its underbelly, especially if they experienced economic growth like Poland.
It's a really bad neighborhood to live in over there, and with Russia as your neighbor, you're destined to have trouble with them. Choose where you're born/live carefully.
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@Knightonagreyhorse Putin and the Russian intelligentsia look down on the US as a temporary inconvenience. They have 1000 years of Russian history and the most balshoi country in the world in their minds.
Throughout the Soviet times, they were told how great Russia is, biggest, baddest, best military, first in space, best in space, best in industry, best at everything.
Anytime the US outclassed them in each of these metrics, it was ignored, not reported, nit-picked, or counter-reported.
Putin was raised in that environment with Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin, Salyut, MIR, Buran, MiGs, Sukhois, Tupolevs, etc.
He was never told about how Russia stole or acquired all these technologies from abroad, but that the great scientists of the people's revolution produced the best minds in human history, who then of course birthed these amazing achievements for USSR, led by Russia.
He has no time to listen to things from the little capitalists and their silly USA.
This is Russian thinking of that era. I lived there and witnessed it first-hand, have been studying them since the 1970s.
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@warfarenotwarfair5655 Puget Sound, Vancouver, Sierra Nevadas, Yosemite, Rockies, Zion, Grand Canyon, Colorado, Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Appalachians, State Parks galore.
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@johndelta00 The days of baby boomers buying new homes, cars, appliances, TVs, entertainment, computers, etc. are coming to an end in the next 3-4 years. They're more of an elderly care economy now, moving into nursing homes or retirement communities, drawing on Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, and dying. Many of them are dead already.
Early Gen X are eligible for retirement in 3 years. Gen X was a very small cohort. Millennials are much bigger, but nowhere near as big as Boomers.
Millennials are crunched by insane home prices, auto prices, student loans, and rising interest rates. The ones who bought a home before the recent interest rate hikes are in a better financial position when you could find a home for $250k-$400k at 3%. Those same homes are now priced at $350k-$680k at 5.5% interest.
Average used car transaction price broke over $25k in 2021, and hit $31k in Sep 2022.
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@inquisitivenessandcontempl9918 Russians are trying to make the imperialist argument that there is no Ukrainian identity, therefore Ukraine belongs to them.
I pointed out that a Kievan Rus prince is the official founder of Moskva, as explained to me when seeing his horse-mounted knightly statue in Moskva in 2008, and that the Kievan Rus pre-date whatever gaggle of Ruriks were scattered around the region, eventually congregating and expanding Moskva.
So the Kievan urbanized center started by Vikings is the impetus behind Russia's early civilization and current capitol city.
I also noticed among the Russian intelligentsia that they scoff at the identities of Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Bulgarians. None of these people are real to them, just Russian territories.
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@aleksandrs1422 The thing I noticed among Russian intelligentsia was that surrounding states were dismissed in their cultural identity, "Who are they!", and it was asserted that those territories belong to Russia. Estonians aren't a valid identity. Finns aren't different, just a barking little drunk dog. Central Asians, anyone once occupied by Imperial Russia are merely parts of the Russian sphere of destiny.
It was very interesting to see that mentality, since my family is from Finland on my mom's side, and I know so many Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, Romanians, etc.
There's a kinship between all these nations based on Russian oppression, with no love for Russia. Yet people who think about these matters in Russia feel a sense of ownership and superiority over the others.
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@AliceinWonderlandzz Everyone with influence got a vote. Everything I'm talking about is part of the historical record, not a conspiracy theory.
Read up on the Potato Famine, Reconstruction, Tammany Hall, Prohibition, and The Great Depression.
Look at who Prohibition agents weren't allowed to investigate or raid (Congress, State Legislatures, City Halls, Chiefs of Police...), and look at how organized crime took over unions, local, State, and DC governments, services, government contracts, construction, port surveillance, sexual blackmail of the FBI, transportation and logistics for OSS, etc.
Papa Joe Kennedy was made SEC Chairman after swindling millions out of people. FDR was made defacto head of the National Labor Unions with the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933, after 10 years of rapid union membership decline.
It isn't a singular dark cabal, but just various factions weaseling into power and influence over our government.
That includes the Brits, Germans, French, and Russians in that era.
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