Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "War, Winter, Ukraine" video.

  1. US has the largest domestic manufacturing and consumption, and is the 2nd largest exporter in the world.
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  2. Ukraine isn't very cold since it's on the Black Sea. Russia is freaking cold. Soldiers out in their exposed positions will feel cold, but it's easier to warm up at night if you have a fart sack. Fresh supplies of new socks and cold weather gear make a difference in extended winter campaigns. Russia sucks at resupply and initial issue of gear to troops, so it's going to continue to suck for them.
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  3. 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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  4.  @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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