Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Why the Kerch Strait Bridge Attack is BAD for Russia || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. He’s discussing actual seafaring people, not Russia. Russia has always struggled to project into the seas, but they are basically land-locked and in such a high latitude with extreme cold, that they never were a seafaring people. Peter the Great tried to change that by starting the Russian Navy, but it’s just not in the cards for them. They have 4 major seaport areas for a nation with more land mass than any other in the world. Almost every US coastal State has that or more. Russia has Archangelsk, Primorsk, Novorossiysk, and Vladivostok. California alone has 40 sea ports, 5 very large deep sea ports that take heavy displacement vessels, 1 large port, 7 medium, and 19 small ports. You can look at each sea port in the world and see how deep they are, how much tonnage they process each year, and quickly see Russia just isn’t anywhere in the top 10 nations for sea trade. 95% of their exports go through Novorossiysk, which means they are extremely vulnerable in the Black Sea.
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  2. Russian intelligentsia doesn’t take anyone else’s ideas seriously. They see themselves as the biggest, the best, and believe that about themselves in most ways, regardless of the facts. They laugh at anyone else’s opinions of them because most Westerners have no real knowledge or cultural awareness of Russia and Russians. You could tell them highly-informed information collected from all sorts of reliable sources, and they will turn their noses up and dismiss it, even if it’s critical to their survival. If they did collect and process intelligence correctly, they wouldn’t have done something this stupid. Same with Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, etc.
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