Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Changing Tides in the Chinese System" video.

I've been skeptically following Peter Zeihan since the 2000s when he was at STRATFOR. His forecasts from back then have unfolded almost like a script. Back then, he was a lone voice talking about the inevitability of China's decline, while all the other "experts" were breathlessly bloviating about the rise of China as a super power. They would have debates about this within STRATFOR, and Peter's arguments were backed with more data than the China super power proponents. His forecasts ended up being far more accurate, while the others have disappeared into obscurity.
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@bobsingh7949 We did a program called Nunn-Lugar in the 1990s after the Soviet collapse, to disarm a lot of the delivery systems and warheads in Belorussia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. Turned out Moscow didn't really trust too many people with warheads anyway, so there were far less than the Soviets wanted everyone to believe they had. People don't really grasp how poor and broken Russia is as a nation. You have to see it first-hand.
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Lawless and structurally-corrupt nations with nukes don't trust subordinate units with functional warheads, so those are controlled very tightly by whatever dictator is running the show at the time. Russia and China have extremely paranoid national leadership instincts as a prerequisite. No nukes for operational units, with few exceptions.
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