Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Jets, Drones u0026 Refineries: Europe Remembers Geopolitics || Peter Zeihan" video.

@joythought A thing people don't understand is the US is supplying the Pacific nations, Canada, Western Europe, and Middle Eastern countries with foreign military sales packages based on many years-old defense procurement agreements. You don't just magically fulfill defense article shipments overnight, especially aerospace systems like missiles, Radars, armor, communications gear, ships, vehicles, and even small arms. Most European countries have continued to cut production and capacity for manufacturing these things because of weak parliamentarians who have acted like 1991 was perpetual.
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As an avid student of history and the hidden treaties, foreign military sales, and secret history of intelligence & subterfuge for 50 years, it sure feels like we're in a combination of 1871-1914, and 1918-1939.
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@chrisjackson1215 Between the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 and the Great War of 1914, Europe had 31 different conflicts. The only period of European peace was during the Cold War when security decisions were made in DC. Russia still took Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, and there were many violent regressions of populations in Eastern Europe who wanted to be free.
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@farnarkleboy European acquisition of major and minor defense systems has only been increasing inversely to US base withdrawals since 1992. The main European aerospace consortium and manufacturers haven't even kept up with the latest generation of fighters outside of the US-funded JSF/F-35. Russia and China have their own 5th Gen fighter programs in production, whereas the multinational European projects only have some digital images and a wooden mock-up in the UK. Good thing the US has already built 1000 F-35s and that 500 are scheduled to be stationed in NATO by 2030.
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 @IFRYRCE You fight with what you have, not what you want.
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@farnarkleboy I just looked up the US DoD RDT&E Budget request for 2024: $144.979 Billion 2023: $140.1 Billion actual paid-out. That’s almost Russia and India’s entire defense budgets combined just for RDT&E in the US.
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People don't realize how many Germans were in Russia's pockets from the Cold War-forward. German intelligence was headed by Reinhardt Gehlen, who was a double agent for the NKVD and KGB.
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 @ДепутатЕдинороссКокаинович Trump was the only US President who sent weapons to Ukraine. Not even UK PM David Cameron would do it when he was in office. Why?
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 @farnarkleboy Your view of history reeks of leftist agitorop and zero substance.
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 @pugilist102 It Was the territorial ambition of adventurous dictators, not US isolation that caused the world wars.
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@tedcrilly46 As soon as you get into Russia, it feels very Asiatic, not European. It was really weird for me to have the sensation of being back in a Korea time forgot when I was in Russia. Russia doesn't even recognize Europe as a continent, calling the whole thing Eurasia instead. "Crazy yankee, where you draw the line?"
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Defense contractors aren't even in the top 20 industries in the United States. DC is surrounded by lobbyists and corporations who Finance Congress From those top 20 industries. Look at finance, real estate, big retail, tech, auto, insurance, teachers/public employee retirement accounts, Agriculture, food & dairy, chemicals, telecom, computers, software, heavy industries, construction, power, all the stuff you buy and interact with daily.
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@Popcorncedar Mike Johnson submitted a stand-alone Ukrainian aid bill, but Democrats of course said it's DOA because they want pork barrel and unrelated spending, which also poison-pilled it in an election year. No way they're going to hand a win over to Republicans like that, and no way the corporate media will accurately report it.
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@MasterMalrubius It's interesting how during WWII, Europe lost tens of millions of prime-age males and then left Parliaments to be filled with low-T shopkeepers and women, who don't know the blunt side of a brick when it comes to security. They made stupid policy after policy for generations by treating defense like a disease, while funding wasteful social welfare failure after failure, as the US provided the bulk of NATO security. Now they want push-button solutions overnight for generations of bad policies and unbalanced spending, with the expectation that the US will wave a magic wand and solve their problems for them.
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@LeoSag-b7p Poland knows they're next in Putin's territorial ambitions. The way the "SMO" was supposed to work was Biden pull Zelensky out for Putin, Kiev would fall, Moldova would be annexed, then Russian forces in Western Ukraine and Belorussia would be staged for the invasion of Poland. This has been Putin's general plan since 2000. I learned about it in 2006 from a Russian foreign ministry secretary, but thought he was mostly an old Soviet blow-hard maybe. In 2008, when they invaded Georgia, I knew he wasn't just running his mouth.
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@Leadbelly. Why would you call Mike Johnson Moscow Mike when he's the only Congressman I know of who detected and rejected Konstantin Nikolaev's money-laundered bribe attempts? He's the opposite of pro-Moscow. Meanwhile a certain President's son, brother, and daughter sit as board members on dozens of shell companies that have been getting millions upon millions of dollars from Russia for decades and can't spend the money fast enough.
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 @warfarenotwarfair5655 Clinton, Obama/Biden, and Biden/Harris worked hard to disarm Ukraine as Democrat WH policy since the 1990s. Why?
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@ericspace8816 EU countries have not contributed more. They have sent a lot of critical war stock for their own defense, which was purchased from the US 20-30 years ago. Javelin, HARM, M777, PATRIOT, Bradleys, Abrams, etc are not European weapons. They are US weapons sold to NATO allies as part of multi-billion FMS packages.
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@farnarkleboy Having artists concepts and preliminary designs as you go into regional conflict isn’t worth much to actual units who need airframes ready-to-go. The reasons why many industrialized nations (who industrialized under US support post-Bretton Woods) have some designs is because they think they might have a chance at independently funding their “domestic” programs, as long as they don’t need to make or develop: Engines Radar Avionics DFLCS Databuses Fiber Optics Actuators etc. The RDT&E capacity of the US outclasses the entire defense budgets of most nations, so any design they might come up with is going to fall short across the board while the US is already working on the next generation. Meanwhile F-35s can’t be made fast enough to fill all the orders internationally. Countries who are years-out and ordered years ago are still waiting for initial deliveries, especially Finland and Poland. Good thing they’re both NATO partners already though. The last Euroconsortium fighter is the Typhoon. We were literally in West Germany working on its initial development from 1980-1982 and they still don’t have a freaking AESA in them. They’ve been dragging their feet on CAPTOR-E for years. Meanwhile every F-35, F-22, Super Hornet Block II & III, and 613 F-16C/D Block 40s-52s all have AESAs and we’re working on the next-generation Multi-Function Array AESA for Block 4 F-35s. But hey, I heard Turkey flew their concept demonstrator “5th Gen” fighter.
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@farnarkleboy Japan will be the biggest F-35 operator outside of the US on the current procurement schedule.
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@farnarkleboy F-35 parts manufacturing is international, with 15% of every single F-35 built in the UK. Every ejection seat for F-35s is built by Martin-Baker in the UK. Canada, Norway, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, and a bunch of countries that make parts and subsystems, with 3 assembly lines in 3 different continents. Because the break-rate is so low on F-35s, they have dramatically-superior availability and sortie-gen rates compared to any other fighter, especially Rafales and Typhoons, which are very maintenance-intensive. Parts supply priority goes into new production F-35s and the partner nations are still finishing their logistics infrastructure. But wrench hours on F-35s are in single digits, while Rafales, Typhoons, Super Hornets, and F-15s take dozens of hours to maintain per flight hour.
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@mannyhernandez6507 Demand for US-made weapons has only been increasing and for systems that expose how neglected European defense planning and procurement is. Examples: * F-35s for Germany * Small arms for UK SOF * Small arms for Estonia * Missile defense for multiple Euro nations * IADS SAM and Net centric systems for NATO nations * USMC fighter squadrons deployed on UK Carriers so they will have a barely-operational contingent, otherwise they couldn't sail * F-35s for Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Italy * F-16V for NATO nations * Artillery munitions for multiple NATO countries * Heavy lift transport aircraft * Anti-Tank Guided Missiles for NATO * Air-to-Air missiles * Air-to-surface missiles * JDAMs * High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles * Training * Services & support The US is the only Nation with 4 modern fighter production lines open. Europe combined has: Rafale Typhoon Gripen E/F (still in development) Those 3 have lost every competition within Europe where the F-35A was a contender.
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@marionow6227 US has been selling PATRIOT systems to NATO countries in Europe for decades. That's what was sent to Ukraine mainly, which doesn't help with defense in Europe if critical war stock is gone.
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@kentuckyfried9499 Europe is reliant on US defense because European parliaments can't be trusted to invest in their own protection. This will only increase moving forward because of demand and limited/no European supply in many defense sectors.
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