Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. I think they are shooting themselves in the foot as usual 🙄 China only wants German companies in their countries so that they can steal their technologies. And once they have learned to make similiar cars themselves they will be kicked out from the country and face Chinese competition with cars made with starvation wages labor that can produce cars cheaper than Germany ever can. They will help to industrialize and bring high technology to the most dangerous dictatorship on the planet. This is not just naive. It is criminally stupid to put the entire western world at risk, by proving a large aggressive dictatorship with the ability to produce top modern weapons. And for what? - so Germany can make some selfish short-term economic gains? In the long run will this not benefit the German economy. And it will harm the national security for the entire western world. Sometimes I gets so pissed off with Germany that I want to kick it out from Nato and the EU and just let Russia and China just occupy that country. Too often do they rather side with the enemies of the western world rather than with the countries that are supposed to be their friends in the west. But Germany seems to always treat its friends worse than its enemies.
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  2. I guess China will take over much of the Russian arms export to anti-western dictatorships, while countries like India will rely more on French and British arms in the future.
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  3. The only ones that can change Russia are the Russians themselves. Otherwise you will have to be prepared to fight a nuclear war if you wanna be able to occupy them and force a new political system down their throat. If weapons of mass destruction didn't exist I would be all for the idea of a joint western coalition to occupy Russia and provide the country with freedom of speech, constitutional rights for the individual, ending all lying state propaganda on tv and in school books and instead offer alternative views based on facts. Russian kids would be told the true story about Stalin, Gulag, Holdomor, Katyn, Buchenwald, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and Russias long history of serfdom, opression, evil and crazy Czars and so on. This is not about creating self-hatred towards their own country. But rather it is about aknowledging historical wrongdoings and trying to improve the country and doing away with old evil habits.
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