Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you Peter on a subject that is not exactly good news for actors, but we are out of a war zone and not talking about surpassing a tipping point for once and it is AI which is once more back on center stage and looking more sinister than ever as it can now go into the creative arts and retire thousands of would-be actors who would have made acting their careers in another era. Before he died, I was listening to Johnny Haliday, the late French superstar, who when asked about AI or the way the music business has become, he said that it was so great to be riding by on his chopper and see a fan, someone walking on the sidewalk carrying one of his records. He said they were real things back then and fantastic creations with album covers all very distinctive which showcased artists and photographers. I like LPs because you can hold them and the 45s had photography or paintings or poetry or lyrics or all of the above. Then: poof; no product no cry. Graphic artists used to have good jobs dreaming up album covers. Well, it still is here, but as we all know the popular song has been so watered-down by technology that now you can go into a studio and do only one take on the vocals, because the sound engineer can correct your voice with a program and make it sound perfectly in tune. Young people love these developments, but I like going in a studio and singing as many times as it takes before I get it right. That does not mean anything other than I am stuck in the past to most musicians in today's world. But getting back to AI and how actors are going to get photocopied without making a dime so-to-speak, shows us that what this way comes is what the iron horse was to Geronimo. Artists and actors may not end up in reservations, but we are going to have to dig deep in our imaginations to become like beavers which are master water managers; we must find the way to stay in our chosen fields no matter what comes out of those AI labs.
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Coming in at 2:33 in your excellent videocast and superb analysis of the Russin military mind, may I say what is surely on the minds of people around the world who tune in to your informative and factual videos and that is to say thank you for your work which must encompass countless hours of research and soul-seeking, Peter, we are saddened to see that Ukraine will have to bear more power-outages this coming winter. Clearly, to Russia's ongoing fight in Ukraine, the Ukrainian fighting man has got to be the most dedicated soldier this world has ever produced in the history of civilization. None of us can imagine what it must be like to have a neighboring country, with people that are often related, relentlessly attacking you and your neighbors and villages and towns and cities with the only goal to remove your culture and nation from existence. It is so preposterous that there are actually people in politics in numerous countries who question whether or not their countries should continue providing aid to the Ukraine, a country under siege. Peter, I imagine that when you call it a day and go back home and perhaps have dinner with friends around a blazing fire and enjoying a well-deserved after-dinner drink, how surreal it must seem to know that on the one hand, an entire nation is being threatened for their existential reason to survive and yet here we are, in our comfort zones, planning beautiful trips for tomorrow and living life to the fullest---
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Peter, I hesitate to criticize you because you know your subject inside and out, but I think your videocasts are too important and global for 'f' bombs. Please pay the hefty fine in your e-mail reception box tomorrow that can only be paid with boo-boo coins. Lastly, this may sound trivial, China vetoing metal exports to the USA, but remember the iconic James Cameron film 'Titanic'? Rose's fiancé asked the ship's (designer or architect or engineer?) if the ship could sink. Does anyone remember what he said? He said something like this: "if there are 4 compartments flooded the ship will stay afloat, but there are 5 compartments flooded and it is going to sink. The Titanic has 5 compartments flooded, it will sink in 4 hours." What troubles me Peter is that with China banning these seemingly insignificant metals to America, it does not look so bad, so far. However; maybe you could compare it to one compartment on the Titanic? But how many compartments in the Chinese/American relations have already been 'flooded' already? Let us find a way to stop flooding compartments in Chinese/American relations as soon as possible, because we don't want our future generations to talk about the sinking of America and the end of China because they couldn't get along. The thing is Mr Zeihan, you might be the one person in the world who can help your government find a new bridge of understanding between America and China.
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Peter, by our governments saying that we cannot imbibe in this or that substance i.e., take stimulants, for example, or drugs like cocaine or booze or whatever the chemists come up with next and is of our choice, aren't they really saying this? We judge you so incompetent, so unable to decide for yourself what is good for you or what is bad for you that, we, your elected officials will make those decisions for you and ban the following drugs, substances, liquids... etc. This is music to anyone on the south side of law and order. The Cartels are really the vultures that hang over our societies and all they do is see what the next thing is that's banned and then they go to work supplying it to people who want to take the banned substance. The Cartels get rich; innocent people become addicts and go to jail; neighborhoods become less law-abiding and citizens morph into criminals and become born-again drug dealers to kids who grow up and do the same...
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Hi Peter, Here is some information from Mike Maloney that I think you will find interesting.
Bank Failures
1. March 8, 2023 Silvergate Capital Corp --- closed
2. 2 days
3. March 10, 2023 Silicon Valley Bank ---seized by FDIC
4. 2 days
5. Signature Bank seized by regulators
6. 3 days
7. March 13, 2023 FDIC creates ‘bridge bank’ President declares deposits safe
8. 7 days
9. Credit Suisse sold to UBS with government guarantees
10. 2 months
11. May 1, 2023 First Republic Bank taken over by JP MORGAN
2008 Crisis
1. April 2007: New Century Financial bankrupt
5 months
2. September 2007: Bank runs at England’s Northern Rock Bank
3. 6 months
4. March 2008: Bear Stern collapses
5. 4 months
6. July, 2008: Indy Mac / Countrywide Financial, collapse
7. 2 months
8. September 7, 2008: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac nationalized
9. 1 day
10. September 15, 2008: AIG bail out
11. 11 days
12. September 16, 2008: Washington Mutual (WaMu) collapses
13. 1 month
14. October, 2008: Fed’s T.A.R.P. commits $700 billion in taxpayer funds
15. 1 month
16. November 2008: Citigroup bail out
17. 1 month
18. December 2008: General Motors / Chrysler bail out $80.7 billion
19. 1 month
20. January 2009: Bank of America bail out, $20 billion
21. 1 month February 2009: President Obama approves $787 billion stimulus
22. 4 months
23. June 2009: GM files for bankruptcy, closes 14 factories
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This is where you shine, Peter, in talking about things you know nothing about. Of course, I am kidding. Just back from fitness and obviously went over my weight limit on those squats... Joking aside, Peter? Is he still there? He's where? Well, when he comes out of there could you ask him... Funny, I am not a comedian, but here is where the serious part of my comment comes in... Yuval Harari says that our money system is a story that we all believe is true and that it is the biggest story in the world. If we all believe the American dollar is the world's reserve currency and that it is worth a certain amount of goods or equal to a fixed amount of euros or yuan etc., then it will stay in circulation. Gold is where the gold bugs go and you can't blame someone investing in the yellow metal that has been considered money for 5 thousand years or more. So; what am I saying here? That's a good question, because I have sort of forgot---kidding again. Seriously, I have invented an economic system that gets more laughs than nods of approval to be quite honest, but I have tried to come up with an economic model that with a lot of tweaking could be something that fits the 2020s. It is called teknomix. My book, which is selling like ten thousand-pound bags of cement, is called The Treatise of Teknomix. Peter, it would be great to hear your thoughts on the matter, but I believe it's time to say goodbye capitalism, to gold, to fiat currencies and re-think what our current economic system is doing to global society. For my money---pun intended---they all translate out to be feudalism on steroids. My system is a seed that perhaps has the ability to grow into an economic model that puts everyone on the same page.
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Peter, isn't this the way to go ahead with the Ukraine war with Russia? President Putin and his entourage cannot---it seems to me---connect the dots to see the whole picture. The whole picture in my view is this---and I am an artist and inventor and not a military strategist or globalist and researcher like you---the concept that President Putin needs to understand is this: the west will not now and/or forever accept that the Ukraine is absorbed into greater Russia no matter what the cost. What I think will help President Putin and his supporters is for our leaders to speak like you do: frankly, in pleasant and respectful tones, very positively and sincerely---but dead serious. He must be told and reminded on a daily basis and on every newscast, every vocast, every radio emission, every public form that he, President Putin, has crossed a red line by invading a sovereign nation and he has to understand that we will not and cannot now and for all eternity back down. It is our very existence that is being threatened here and in no disrespect to Russian doctrine this time the goal posts cannot be moved. We in essence are like a cornered cheetah, we will not hesitate to use whatever means possible in defending this rock-solid principle in the constitutions of all western countries: democratic values cannot be negotiated. We understand his perspective and it takes two to tango, but we in the west, NATO and the USA and Canada and many other nations will not now or ever allow the Ukraine to be occupied, the civilian population humiliated and attacked and the infra-structure ruined, just so a superpower has decided that it wants to occupy forever a country that is not theirs and never will be.
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Once again, the esteemed geopolitical specialist with the super cool shades that you have become, Peter, has opened a new hatch in what could be called the African Political Submarine culture, which has really been far down below the surface of international hot spots the media usually stays focused on for as long as anyone can remember. What is clear, as far as where Niger is concerned, is that by having a coup d'état and ousting their democratically-elected president, the junta has now put its fingers in what they think is a honey pot, but what is in all likelihood going to become a tar pit. The west---and especially France----where the saying goes 'never two without three'----and in this case coup d'états, will not stay out of this one. As a lay perspective, what I think is going to happen is that the military chiefs in France, the UK, NATO and especially the USA are going to see that the coup d'état in Niger must not, will not and cannot succeed or the whole region will really become the dark continent. It will become a magnet for the world’s autocratic regimes like China, North Korea and Russia whom will find powerful partners in crime in Niger and the other countries which have booted out the French and staged similar coup d’états. Let Niger get away with this caper, and Africa turns into a black rock to western scissors.
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Peter, you have x-ray eyes and I think you should see a doctor. Seriously, you see things that I don't and that gets under my skin. This time, really meaning what I say, could you give us what you would do if you were a voice that Ukraine's military leaders would be willing to listen to about severing the wartime artery of their efforts in the annexed territories? We know, decades from now, war strategists will see what could have been done to drive the Russians out of Crimea, for example, in record time. What would those tactics be? What do the Ukrainians need to do? In less that 2 weeks, 24 months will have passed with a lot of people in Ukraine having already paid a heavy price. Sadly, 60,000 Ukrainians have lost a limb in the attacks.
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Nice Job Peter, you are a gifted wordsmith! At 2:21 into your vocast, you say all diplomatic relations between The United States and Russia have now been irrevocably trashed by Putin taking Russia out of the last treaty that prevents an unchecked nuclear build-up by Russia or something to that extent. This makes my blood boil about almost every single aspect of what an autocratic regime like Russia under President Putin is all about. It is farcical that one man can have his say over not just a few underlings for example, but everyone else in a country of 150 million people and even if he is wrong and he proves to be unbalanced and egocentric and willing to have everyone in the world suffer catastrophic events, his orders will still be followed through to the letter! Peter, no matter what anyone says, you tell it like it is and we thank you for it. Meanwhile, back in this totally bizarre planet we live on, I submit that it is pure madness that one individual has the power to shut down relations with the world's most powerful nation on Earth. I will never understand how people in an autocratic regime are willing to put up with having everything decided for them. How could people even want to exist in a country where one has no say in anything and if you express your opinion and it's against the grain, you go straight to jail? The war in Ukraine shows us how insane it is because as Chancellor Scholz said, it's 'Putin's war'. But do you know what has sent me to the gallows of my deepest fears? It's that the whole of South America is staying neutral on the war in Ukraine. In other words, if Russia wins, they can live with that. Ukraine is an existential crisis of proportions that are off-the-charts for our survival in the west.
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There are encyclopedias and then there is the geopolitical world's, Peter Zeihan. Thank you, Peter, for bringing so many of us couch potatoes up-to-speed on what is going on in the world. By the way, whomever said that the human community are a group of altruists governed by psychopaths seems to ring true more and more as each day passes. Alright, let's get down to business: there have been more than 700 days of war in Ukraine. Can any of us imagine what it must be like to have a missile crashing into one's flat or home in the middle of the night? This is happening every day to civilians in the Ukraine. The news I have is that more than 60,000 Ukrainian armed forces personal and civilians have lost a limb. To put that in perspective, the UK has 72,000 active military troops. Lt. General (Ret.) Ben Hodges, whom I believe is America's greatest living general, says that the way to give the Kremlin leaders a body-blow that will make them fall like autumn leaves is for Crimea to get back in Ukrainian hands. Why don't they take his advice and at least see what happens? Why is there only snail-mail deliveries of needed weapons and ammunition to the Ukraine?
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