Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Western Europe, After America || Peter Zeihan" video.

@DerDop Zeihan is better-informed on Europe than anyone else in this space, along with George Friedman. European academics have been intoxicated on the fragrance of their own flatulence for decades, as their parliaments have funneled in their own demise.
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@rickfool1452 Russians were raped by Mongols for 250 years, so Russians are mostly Eurasians, not Europeans. The Kievan Rus and Ruriks were European origin tribes prior to that.
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@zibbitybibbitybop It was only 50 years from 1945-1995 when a genocidal war broke out in Yugoslavia, which was of course the birthplace of The Great War in 1914. Europe had 31 wars and conflicts between Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and The Great War of 1914. The Cold War was Europe's brightest, most peaceful fairytale provided only by US security and the threat of Russian invasion.
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@Ea-pb2tu Between the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-'71 and the Great War of 1914, there were 31 different wars and conflicts in Europe. Since 1945, Europe has been living in a fairytale created by the US. Yugoslavia ended that fairytale in the 1990s with a little genocide, and now Putin finally put things "back to normal" for the region. This is the unfortunate nature of Europe.
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@gy6078 I'm an EU citizen through Finland. I've never come across a European who understands Europe as well as Zeihan does. The bulk of European academics and politicians are some of the dumbest, most misinformed in the post-Cold War era. Pre-1939, the Germans were one of the most well-informed nations due to their newspaper translation and distribution of foreign papers. European academics went into lala land after the War, and especially after the Soviet official collapse. We're talking about people coining phrases like "the end of history". Finns and Poles didn't forget, and history soon "woke up again" in Yugoslavia.
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@liamr194 Peter has been travelling to Europe and meeting with critical nodes in the decision-making vectors there for decades. I've followed his analyses when he was with STRATFOR in the 2000s, so he is far more informed than the majority of the parliamentarians and professors in Europe about European issues. He doesn't just read stuff online like a millennial and form vapid opinions. He meets with heads of European energy, defense, parliamentarians, shipping, transportation, communications, and critical industries.
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@17arando Italian demographics are spiraling into the toilet. Death rate is about twice the birth rate. With 400,000 births, their population still declined by 384,000 in 2021, and they continue to break records in population decline every year since 2008. Italy is the 3rd largest economy in EU, and we're watching it plummet into demographic winter. Young Italians seek work abroad because they fundamentally know Italy is dying before their eyes.
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@Acekhan201 We lived in Germany from 1980-1982. It's no longer the same nation, and it wasn't the same then as it was before. Germany lost so many prime age males in the Wars, and never fully recovered. Tons of foreign workers were brought in to re-build, none of whom have core Germanic cultural values.
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@Rob-me8vp Putin's plan since the 2000s has been to re-take any territories previously occupied by Czarist Russia and the Soviet Union. Poland is the biggest prize in his eye, so Ukraine was just a landmark along the way, though existential for Russia due to its geography and industry.
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@karlheinz4059 Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are the biggest factors in US deficit-spending, along with foreign aid and debt-servicing. Still the most stable economy in the world.
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@Ea-pb2tu I'm talking about multiple civil wars with European natives vs Muslim immigrants.
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