Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "The Russian Coup Question" video.

  1.  @JD..........  Caspian Report is a really good imitation of STRATFOR's geographic/geopolitical videos from over 10 years ago. Zeihan used to be a STRATFOR senior analyst working with George Friedman. Friedman had to change one of his book chapters from "Russia will invade Georgia" to "Russia has invaded Georgia". Zeihan has been talking about the imminent invasion of Ukraine, Poland, and Baltics for well over a decade. For Ukraine, he's on the record for saying 2022 is Putin's last chance to invade Ukraine due to demographic collapse in Russia, not enough soldiers after this year.
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  2.  @gerardmonsen1267  I literally had/have a close contact to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The particular Deputy Foreign Minister was bragging about Russian expansion into Ukraina, Yugoslavia, Poland, Baltics, and Finland since the early 2000s right after Putin was handed the Presidency. Foreign Minister told him to shut his hole about it because it contradicted Putin's open statements about peace and non-intervention. There was a palpable policy shift once Putin took over, which was to re-assert Russian dominance over all the regions Peter Zeihan talks about. George Friedman and Peter Zeihan have been talking about this since the 2000s. Germany's Chancellor just announced their defense budget would jump from 50 Billion to 100 Billion. So Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Moldova, Greece, and Turkey all have a familiar sense of uneasiness right now similar to the 1871-1914 and 1919-1938 time periods in Europe. This is why so many Eastern Europeans rushed to join NATO after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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  3. Tactical strike weapons available to many nations make encroachment a much bigger problem for Russia because their effective ranges are only growing. Russia can't bet on her neighbors to always be peaceful. Look how quickly Hitler rose to power. Russians are a very paranoid people, always suspicious of who is attacking them next, since they've been invaded scores of times throughout history. It becomes a self-fulfilling fear repeatedly throughout history.
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  4. You've clearly never lived in Russia. The world is not a well-behaved, rational, peace-loving place. Russia is a brutally-cold, poverty-stricken, under-developed, systemically-corrupt, under-educated place time forgot. They've had 8 major brain drains and prime age male collapses since 1914. It's not even remotely rational by your standards, but if you lived there, you would see their perspective and say, "Ah ha....oh damn." Mainland Europe doesn't fit most people's idyllic image what European culture and history really are. Europe is a place of extreme, continual, senseless war, conquest, territorial disputes, enslavement, and genocide. The Cold War was a strange aberration from that for 50 years, broken by the Yugoslavia genocide, and now escalated further with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Putin truly believes he is acting in Russia's best interests by attempting to control Ukraine, otherwise Russia would be doomed to have a successful democratic state on its underbelly, especially if they experienced economic growth like Poland. It's a really bad neighborhood to live in over there, and with Russia as your neighbor, you're destined to have trouble with them. Choose where you're born/live carefully.
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