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

  1. ​@Quicks1lvr. The munitions we're sending to Ukraine were already replaced 22-36yrs ago. It actually saves us tens of millions not to have to de-mil them. The figures reported on US donations to Ukraine are the spent/sunk costs of those weapons, not new production. It's more of a force-multiplier win-win for us and Europe. Biden WH was very late to agreeing to this BTW. Europeans waited a bit, then jumped on the wagon once they saw Putin wasn't able to seize Kiev. Trump was the only US President who sent US weapons prior to Feb 2022.
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  2.  @m.x.  So Ukraine was making S-300, R-77, RVV-AE, Antonov, 13 of the Soviet Naval yards (where most of the Russian Navy was built) for NATO all these years?
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  3. He has mentioned his staff and their analytical approach. They start with a region/topic, make some initial major reasonable/conventional assumptions, then say, "Where are we possibly wrong on these?"
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  4. Obama was basically an absentee President who really did believe he's smarter than everyone else, condescending with his smirks, habitually late, didn't like to have many meetings, and let the political activists run much of the show. Valerie Jarrett had a lot of power in that WH, as did Hillary as SECSTATE, and Joe Biden as VP serving his masters. They all were working for Putin, Hu, Muslim Brotherhood, and the Mullahs of Iran on many fronts: 1. Uranium One to help Putin revitalize Russia's nuclear weapons 2. Burisma with Hunter Biden acting as an insurance policy from investigations into how Putin was using Burisma to pilfer Ukrainian revenue 3. Keeping Ukraine vulnerable to Russian invasion by denying them arms, and not lifting a finger when Putin invaded in 2014 4. Coercing Poroshenko to fire Viktor Shokin who was investigating Burisma. Obama then flew to England in Sep 2014 and told David Cameron to shut down their investigation into Zlochevsky, CEO of Burisma living in Monaco. 5. Syria-let Putin strengthen Russia's footprint there with Assad 6. Billions in cash sent to Iran with nothing in return 7. MB in the WH 8. Blatantly soured the relationship with Israel 9. Open affronts to the UK 10. Energy policy that benefitted Russia 11. Killed the F-22 before we could go into Full Rate Production, which created a fighter gap 12. Hillary destabilizing Libya, with Benghazi blowing up into the spotlight and the death of Ambassador Stevens 13. Hillary selling US secrets via her basement server, which processed tens of thousands of sensitive documents to hostile foreign governments not authorized to have them These were just some of the high crimes and treason going on during the Obama Presidency. The domestic side was also a nightmare with a weaponized IRS, Fast & Furious, illegal spying, racial agitation, ACA, bail outs, divisiveness, and erosion of the military culture.
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  5. Mittelstat mid-sized business in Germany produce skilled workers. It’s a very unique system in the world, since so many mid-sized companies exist in Germany. US is the only other one I can think of, but on a much bigger in number of companies. There is more volatility in the US system where companies are subject to massive increases in growth and become larger companies, or get bought by bigger companies. In Germany, 99% of the companies are Mittelstat with under 50 million Euros annual revenue, who group together to have more buying power and shared services, while remaining independent in internal decisions. Demographic trends don’t supply the Mittelstat companies with the workers they will need.
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  6. European parliaments did that all on their own. Since World War 2 they've been packed with weak people, who wasted billions on social welfare jobs programs while the US provided security.
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  7. @tjk3430  Our social welfare spending will bankrupt the Nation in the 2030s, even if we eliminated the entire defense budget. We're headed into $1.3 Trillion for Medicare. Not enough payers, too many collectors.
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  8.  @petermurphy4456  Peter is very analytical on "renewables", but is ignoring huge factors in his open assessment on the rise of nationalism in Europe. I think he's self-censoring so cancel culture doesn't affect his speaking gigs. He has always tried to walk a line between left and right ideologues, who both give him lots of criticism and accuse him of being one or the other out of binary thinking where there can be no nuance among the peasant-grade reactive thinkers. I have very strong views on immigration in Europe since my mom is from Finland, and I have personally watched it negatively affect Scandinavia and mainland Europe from all the places I've lived and traveled there.
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  9. Soviet moles inside the CIA and Western Intelligence identified all the resistance groups who remained after WWII in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, then eliminated them before their “liberators” arrived in 1956 and 1968. The CIA was seeded with 20 double agents from Belorussia, Nazi intelligence, Russia, and Eastern European nations who were assets before, during, and after the War. Many came in on false defector or genuine recruitment channels into the OSS, including guys like George de Mohrenschildt. Many saw the freedom and superior political-economic model of the US and West and ceased being Soviet assets, but many did not.
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  10.  @what7is7TRUTH  A lot of people used their Biden bucks to pay CC loans and buy food.
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  11.  @adamh1228  If you don't mind me asking, what's your current vehicle situation? Loans vs paid-off, or value in vehicles? What about student loans? I don't need to know the numbers, but you can account for that easily. Reason I ask is if you swallow some pride, sell your vehicle(s) and then buy older, reliable cars for much less, you can free up some cash-flow towards a home. Auto loans nowadays are freaking stupid-high.
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  12.  @JimVanderveen  We're in an economic situation with no precedent and no models: 1. Baby boomers retiring or dead, not buying big ticket items anymore. 2. China manufacturing de-coupling from US, high unemployment in China, demographic collapse has begun there. 3. Europe has entered demographic collapse. 4. Russia has entered demographic collapse. 5. US has steady growth, manufacturing re-shoring, consumption driven by a small cohort of Gen X and large cohort of Millennials. 6. Housing availability for Single Family Residences is way behind on supply. 7. Foreign investors who have lost billions in Wall Street have moved into residential real estate, inflating the median unit prices with corporate money, and then rent out those homes. 8. Interest rates are still relatively low, but median home prices are dramatically higher than ever. 9. Auto loans have crept up into intrusive and prohibitive % of median household income. 10. Student loans have inflated preposterously, while education quality has dropped inversely to the amount of money spent. 11. Natural gas is almost free for the US to extract and distribute, and we're effectively energy independent. 12. The US military has been in strategic withdrawal from Europe since 1992, as well as the Pacific.
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  13. Biggest news is Prigozhin's casualty reports from Bakhmut, saying they lost 10,000 professionals and 10,000 convict conscripts, which Russian officers and strategists say are underreported numbers because only 26,000 of 50,000 convicts returned.
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  14. Remember the Chinese steel futures? Total scam.
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  15. ​ @lloydgush  Thankfully, big pharmaceuticals are driven by altruistic values and would never lie to us!
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  16. I think it will be worse with multiple civil wars caused by uprisings from savages across the continent. I've lived in Europe on and off since 1979, to include West Germany, Finland, Denmark, and Estonia, with travel to most of the nations. Something really nasty is brewing with the North African, Middle Eastern, and African immigrants.
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  17. ​ @henninghesse9910  Weird. I guess that's why all these allies are lining up to buy more weapons and solidify defense pact arrangements with the US.
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  18. Russia has been at the heart of the anti-war, anti-nuke, anti-US oil efforts for decades.
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  19. ​ @rustygehl Yanukovych was Putin's puppet in Kiev, who packed the Ukrainian govt with Donbas region ethnic Russians all working for Putin. You're trying to make sense of all this looking backwards, without having the privilege of studying the region prior to all this. Putin has had plans to take Ukraine since he inherited the Russian Presidency from Yeltsin. He sees historic Czarist territories as belonging to Russia and it's his mandate to restore those as Russia's strong man.
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  20. He has done many research papers and presentations on the UK since 2000. Latest assessment is the UK is waking up to the fact that they are a middle power at best, and their survival and economic security is entwined with the US rather than mainland Europe.
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  21. @ethanswanson9209  Did you know those things about Reagan before? The military is a massive team player-based organization. Everyone has jobs that all collectively work together. Reagan acted in over 100 films and TV programs and was a great communicator. When you look at the fact that his dad was a drunk he had to drag to bed, and how great he turned out in contrast, his life is really a story of triumph over many challenges. Governing a State like CA, which has a larger GDP and industrial/military/agricultural base than most countries, also provided experience no other Presidents have had before or since.
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  22.  @andreip9378  I had initial high hopes for the BREN, but it was much heavier than I anticipated. They have since cut some weight on it though. Czechs have always made great rifles, machine-guns, submachine guns, and pistols. Fine workmanship that is mass-producible. During the Soviet times, they had the best firearms finish on the Vz 58 assault rifle.
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  23. The next time the UK needs the US to bail it out, it will be because of ethnic/religious Civil War started by the invaders.
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  24. @ Labor Party and British Intelligence have been on Russian payroll for the better part of the last century. Philby was recruited in the 1930s. The Soviets had a very aggressive penetration and mass-saturation operation going during WWII, and ever since. They don’t discriminate by partisan politics, but of course enjoyed more comradeship with those who subscribed to Marxist ideologies. Marx lived in the slums of East End London after all.
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  25. ​ @dynamicascension981  How do you negotiate the fact that the Democrat party has pushed your jobs Overseas for the past 3-4 decades through regulations? DNC has habitually treated Unions just like the black vote for a while now, tons of lip service with no substance. Unions have to claw out their own way while politicians don't give a rip about them until election time, then they make their rounds and chant curated phrases to make the voters think they have your back.
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  26.  @neilwilson5785  You realize that the European Central banks were trying to absorb the Great British Pound into the Euro, right?
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  27. @saltmerchant749  I've personally witnessed Europe transform into societies that look nothing like they did in the 1970s & 1980s, because stupid feminists in parliaments have encouraged women to murder Europe's future in the womb, then import non-Europeans who don't have work ethic instead. They reproduce at 2-6x the rate of Europeans, expecting the social welfare system to support them, without any net contribution. That's the real underlying economic problem.
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  28. @stygge22  It seems that way. Once they let foreigners take over London, they kept bringing in more of their tribal people.
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  29. ​ @thomaskim3128  SARSCoV began in 2002, patented by UNC Chapel Hill researchers. We don't know for a fact that C-19 isn't an evolution of 2002 SARS. Several outbreaks have happened and worked into circulation since 2002.
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  30. ​ @Meton2526  Dr. Baric et al literally describe in the 2002 patent how they used engineered spike proteins with different amino acids designed to bond to human endothelia. This was done with chimeric organisms made from human DNA and spliced into mice embryos, so the mice would be born with miniature human lungs. This gave the "researchers" large population sample sizes to test various spike protein configurations until the Coronavirus successfully infected the human lungs. Researchers were waving the red flag about this type of experimentation from the late 1990s-2014, when it was finally banned. At that point, Shi Zhengli picked up the chimeric organism program at UNC Chapel Hill and moved it to Wuhan.
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  31. ​ @markrobinowitz8473  The patent for SARSCoV-1 was literally submitted in 2002 before the outbreak. Fauci's people were doing that work at UNC Chapel Hill, along with Shi Zhengli (bat lady).
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  32. ​ @GeekfromYorkshire  Anti-vaccine brigade like Mark Zuckerberg, who took millions in advertising money from Pfizer and Moderna, while tasking programmers to write shadow-banning and other censorship algorithms for medical professionals questioning the whole thing?
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  33.  @GeekfromYorkshire  I know. I’ve been studying virology, immunology, and epidemiology since 1997. Spike proteins are characteristic of this coronavirus. The particular spike proteins have been artificially engineered with 4 additional positively-charged amino acids that are designed to bond to human endothelia (negatively charged). That was not an accident and is exactly what Dr. Baric et all described in their 2022 patent for a weaponized bat coronavirus SARS.
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  34. Trump is the only US President who authorized US forces to destroy Russian forces for 6 hours at the Battle of Khasham in Feb 2018, and Peter has to know this.
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  35.  @noahifiv  If you read the Panama Papers, it shows a global network of shadow-banking that the elites use to launder illegal money, from Switzerland to Cyprus, Dubai to Caymans, Panama, Singapore, London. Where there is cash-flow in the billions, someone can be found to cave ethically and morally.
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  36.  @davidthompson4383  Royal Marine Commandos are essentially a maritime special operations force with a dramatically-longer initial training pipeline and higher OPTEMPO. They are more like US Army Ranger Regiment and UK Para Regiment in culture, training, and capabilities. I’ve worked with all 3, so this isn’t an academic perspective foe me. USMC is small by US standards, but huge by international standards, so a Commando Regiment isn’t a good comparison with 3 Marine Divisions, which have their own organic aviation artillery, heavy lift, armor, drone, cyber, and combined arms forces capabilities. USMC brings M777 and F-35Bs to the fight, whereas Royal Marines rely on other organizations for those capabilities. I agree on training standards in the UK vs the US, but this is mainly because the US military is so huge, whereas the UK forces are so tiny. I embraced the UK approach to many things with what I did and still do, since many aspects of it are more professional. US wings on logistics and weapons quality, but UK definitely has a more combat-focused training culture.
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  37.  @bk99911  My grandpa made titanium parts for the A-4 Skyhawk for Douglas in the 1950s and 60s, so I'm familiar with it. He died in the 1990s at a very old age, so I'm tracking on the A-4. I didn't even know any if them were flying anymore.
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  38. Towers aren’t tall enough to provide LoS for RF signal over the horizon. Despite what some think, the earth is actually round, so towers will not provide anywhere near enough signal for navigation.
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  39.  @robdyck1187  Yes, we lived through the development and implementation of GPS within DoD, having come from a ton of work on INS prior to that. This was all on cutting-edge, multibillion dollar programs with top priority in USAF primarily. I've spent decades dealing with RF propagation, antennae design, xmit/receiver architecture, waveforms, and a list of other challenges. Towers would only be useful for coastal navigation in the Arctic, provided you could maintain them. Mx is a b*tch in arctic conditions, which I've also spent a bit of time in, both in summer and winter.
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  40.  @stevehatcher7700  Europe sucks at integrating immigrants though. Ethnic ghettos have erupted all over the continent, with lower employment cobtrubutions and higher welfare demands-the exact opposite of what the leftist parliaments thought they were getting. The recipe in the European oven was never a cake, but a monstrous disaster with smoke, fire, with black ooze pouring out onto the floor.
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  41.  @ernestmac13  Growth and recessions are usually more driven by natural market forces, though a really aggressive and business savvy WH can promote significant economic growth. Obama and crew were aggressive in tampering with Healthcare and taxation, not so much promoting energy and structural changes that support growth. Solyndra was a giant scam, for example. Obama had zero experience with management, and should never have been allowed near the Senate, let alone the WH.
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  42. Biden has been around so long, he's been on everyone's payroll. He can't remember whether to do Russia's or China's bidding when it comes to energy policy. He tried his hardest to pull Zelensky out of Ukraine for Putin, but that backfired when Zelensky refused to leave. Hunter has been documenting the bribery schemes for over a decade on his devices, trying to get caught it seems. Crazy thing is Hunter has his dad listed as "Pedo Pete" in his contacts list.
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  43.  @paperandmedals8316  I have no idea why you're talking about BRICS.
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  44.  @paperandmedals8316  Says the grad and undergrad who can't start a sentence, punctuate, or use contractions where they belong. You need to go back to elementary fundamentals of basic English usage and comprehension way before you even enter a discussion on geopolitics.
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  45. The US has a lot of deep sea ports along 3 huge coastlines, not including Alaska. The maintenance and overhaul schedules have been ongoing for over a century in the US, supporting the most powerful and modernized Navy in history. We have dry docks in Hawaii, Seattle, Portland, San Diego x2, Bayonne, Brooklyn, Sturgeon Bay x3, Newport News x 8, Pascagoula x 2, Philadelphia x3, and Boston.
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  46.  @shawners198shawn4  British Columbia is more beautiful but Utah is great for raising a family and living in tight-knit family-focused neighborhoods who interact with each other weekly.
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  47. @warheadsnation  Moscow was founded by Yuri Dolgoruki, a Kievan Rus prince. I've seen his statue personally in Moscow, so from at least 3 different aspects, this is a false equivalency. Now if we were to say that Trump is flexing on Putin and Xi by showing that the US can add territories without firing a shot, that would be valid.
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  48.  @Erik_Ice_Fang  The govt of China never built railroads in the US. Panama used to be part of Colombia, so maybe they want to be under Colombian rule again with full US control over our Canal Zone. The world will have to get used to the US flexing again. That's all.
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  49.  @warheadsnation  Moscow was founded by the Kievan Rus prince, Yuri Dolgoruki. I've seen his statue there personally. Ukraine was never a province of Russia.
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  50. ​ @Chr1s-fm6bi Like how Trump saved Putin at the Battle of Khasham in Syria, Feb 2018, by unleashing JDAM Arc Light missions on Russian forces who crossed the Euphrates, then sent $150m worth of Javelins to Ukraine the next month on March 1, 2018?
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