Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Jimmy Carter's Consequential 4 Years || Peter Zeihan" video.

He got almost everything wrong in the first 2 minutes so far. US Stealth technology was borne out of technical exploitation of German programs in WWII. A-12 & SR-71A were the first low observable CIA/USAF platforms, started in 1957. The USAF Cruise Missile program started way before Carter as well, in the 1960s. The HAVE BLUE Stealth program began before Carter, and Strategic Air Command RFP'd the Advanced Technology Bomber on their own institutional inertia, not anything to do with the WH. When people give Carter credit for the B-2, it exposes a very amateur understanding of military advanced project research & development initiatives that generally span well outside of Presidential Terms. Carter had nothing to do with JDAM, which we developed between Edwards AFB & Eglin in the 1990s.
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Peter got almost every one of his supporting facts wrong in this one. Just blatant things that aren't true. Cruise missile program started in the 1960s. Stealth programs started in the late 1940s, with the first true low observable production aircraft in 1957 (A-12). The HAVE BLUE program predated Carter, and SAC's Advanced Technology Bomber was due to parallel institutional inertia seeking a VLO bomber, not anything to do with Carter. The US had been flying secret strategic reconnaissance missions out of Pakistan since the 1950s, including the ill-fated Francis Gary Powers U-2 shoot-down during Eisenhower's admin. This whole spiel felt like one of those college professors who likes to take a canard, and weave a story as an attention-getter with sensationalist amplifications of factoids, in a way that sounds cool and edgy in their head, but shouldn't have been shared with anyone else besides an initial review.
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@VolkerGoller Reagan had already been Governor, served in the Cavalry in the 1930s, and in USAAF during WWII. Carter was involved in nuclear submarine service in the Navy, came home to run the family peanut farm when his dad couldn't do it, and was Governor of Georgia. Each of them had pretty extensive backgrounds from unique aspects of life, leadership, and Chief executive experience.
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@jijiipetti1433 This is one of the better comments I've seen in a Peter Z video in years. One of the most unknown things about Carter is that his CIA Director appointment, Stansfield Turner, was literally recruited into the Agency by a Soviet double agent who had come in during the NKVD penetration of OSS days.
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Carter was as if a European socialist was born in Georgia.
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The repeated claims from academics about how instrumental Carter was with the military are ignoramus level ramblings that have no relation to the facts. This series of claims by Peter was the most sensationalist I've yet heard. Carter was not responsible for any of those things: Cruise missiles(1960s) ATB (B-2) JDAMs (1990s) Pakistan China (Nixon-Kissenger) These are demonstrably-wild statements that are anachronistic.
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@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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@Dave-ty2qp We don't typically tune in to geopolitical analyses to mourn a President. We're looking at historical context and relevant perspectives on his contributions to US foreign and domestic policies.
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