Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Macron Tries to Reason with a Failing China || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. ​ @jascu4251  Interesting that you mention organized crime. In the late 1800s US, syreet gangs worked for the local politicians doing electioneering, intimidation, and whatever it took to keep their politician bosses in office. In exchange, they were given practical immunity to loanshark, run betting schemes, racketeering, and prostitution by the police chiefs. When Congress saw fit to finally pass Prohibition in 1919 after giving themselves a bigger revenue stream with Federal Income Tax in 1913, they handed all the revenue from alcohol to those organized gangs. Taxes and excises on alcohol accounted for billions in then-year dollars, so you can calculate retail sales in the tens of billions. The legacy WASP and Irish gangs of the late 1800s then had to contend with the newer Italian, Sicilian, Russian Jews, and Slav gangs as they were all drowning in billions of cash that had to be laundered. Meyer Lansky suggested they all work together as syndicates and abandon violence to promote financial advancement. They flipped the tables during the 1920s on their political bosses by buying Congressmen, Judges, Police Chiefs, Sheriffs, city councils, and Senators, while financing Presidential campaigns even when we look at FDR-forward. They legitimized and took over the government. Peter references this when interviewers ask about the cartel problem.
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  2. A lot of history professors don't even know geography well. Instead, they focus on ideology, especially in PolySci courses.
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  3. ​ @ChucksSEADnDEAD  France and Germany weren't onboard with OIF because Saddam was trading his oil in Euros, which helped increase the value of the Euro. UK on the GBP were our biggest ally in OIF.
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  4. ​ @jascu4251  Soviets relied on copying Western advancements, as they were very poor peasants with extremely limited and circus-like infrastructure. Lend-Lease was a wake-up call to them, overwhelming their psyche with how primitive they actually were. Under Stalin, they tried to catch-up, while pushing the propaganda that they had exceeded the capitalists with the inherent superiority of Marxism-Leninism and the new Soviet children of the Revolution. The US had that trilateral action of DoD-subsidized innovation, mass production, and trickle-out effect into the civilian market. The Smartphone is an emblem of multiple DoD technologies integrated for consumer use.
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  5.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  😅🤣 Gotcha. I didn't even notice that part.
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