Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Demographics Part 4: The European Breakdown" video.

One of the biggest issues I have seen with academia is that they waste years upon years on political philosophy and policy, instead of geography, history, and demography. Peter comes from the school of thought where geography and demography dictate what you can’t do, then go from there. Academia and the gravity of thought in institutions is all based on wish lists that can’t be fulfilled, then waste lives trying to fix blame to some other group from an ideological perspective.
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@johann-sebastianflachland5424 It would be interesting to do studies among academics to find out how many still believe and subscribe to the following premises: 1. Peak Oil 2. Overpopulation bomb 3. Inevitable dominance of China 4. Solar power works great in Northern Europe 5. Nuclear power is bad/dangerous
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Germany has gone through several major waves of immigration post-WWII. Germany lost so many prime age males during the war, that workers had to be imported from all over to rebuild under the Marshall Plan. Turks, Greeks, Romanians, Italians, Portuguese, Moroccans, Tunisians, and Yugoslavians came in waves from 1955-1968. Those were supposed to be temporary work permits for 2 years, but companies kept renewing the permits. Towards the end of the Cold War, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans who had been displaced throughout the Soviet Union returned to Germany. Then came more Yugoslavian refugees from the 1990s ethnic hostilities. Then came over 1 million Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Kurds, etc. from the Middle East in the 20teens. Now we have the mass immigration of Ukrainians into Germany since Feb 2022, so Germany will be even more of an immigration welfare economy with millions demanding free rent for apartments, while taking time to learn German and minimal labor force participation. This is happening at a time when older Germans are retiring, many of them with only 1 child born between the years 1964-1980. Those kids are all in their 40s to 50s now, and many didn’t even have kids.
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There were waves of successive industrial revolutions that happened outside of the USSR during the Cold War, that left Russia and its satellite states behind, because of the centrally-planned economy that served as a vassal network to reinforce the Russian security apparatus, not enrich the infrastructure of the satellite states. This is what he’s referring to, especially in context of the revolution in electronics, automated manufacturing, advanced tooling, programming, semiconductors, telecommunications, aerospace, etc. Russia handicapped Czechoslovakia in many ways, even down to small arms. Czechoslovakia had superior weapons designs and cartridges that weren’t standard with Warsaw Pact, but Russia forced them to adopt their standards anyway. Czechs made some of the finest small arms prior to WWII, and still do, but weren’t allowed to really blossom with creativity and problem-solving to their potential. Russians didn’t like being out-shined, which all you need to do is show up, so they were very condescending and oppositional to Czech ingenuity. By the time the Russians political-economic abortion had collapsed, Czechs were ready once again to kick things into gear. Supporting evidence: Czech Republic went from $40.7 Billion GDP in 1990, to $282.3 Billion in 2021. Same thing happened in Poland, only they went from $254 billion to $1.6 Trillion (larger population, resources, etc.)
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@roboatnick6178 The academics and general population both would wear masks alone in the car too.
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@paperandmedals8316 I'm not talking about bias towards one philosophy, but the entire focus on various philosophies in general. Interesting that you jumped the shark on that one.
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@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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@paperandmedals8316 I have no idea why you're talking about BRICS.
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@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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