Comments by "coreycox2345" (@coreycox2345) on "CaspianReport" channel.

  1. Parts of the cold war are still entrenched in American culture. When I became a US citizen, I had to swear that I had not become a communist since my interview. This seemed in conflict with the Constitutional right to free speech, which would include being a communist.
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  2. I love maps too, Jeff Frank.
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  3.  @heikkisallinen9012  A college of geography is full of chicks drawing maps.
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  4.  @michaelfoye1135 I recently became an American. Immediately before the inauguration ceremony, I was required to swear to the fact that I had not become a communist since the immigration interview. My reading of the Constitution is that I was free to become a communist the second I was sworn in. (Anecdotal. I am not a communist.) I found it a brain teaser.
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  5.  @michaelfoye1135  One could argue that we are dangerously close to that precipice already. I view Bolton, Trump, Abrahms and Pompeo as enemies of the people. It is not only the victims of our senseless and misguided wars of intervention that have been thrown away. It is us. As a new citizen, I am thankful for our first amendment.
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  6.  @zacharysilver911  This channel makes me feel like I am king or president being briefed by my top analyst. That's good quality for a random woman lying around in bed.
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  7. August Hayek, She sounds like one of those racist colonials. I wonder what the people of Korea thought of their lives at the time or of Ms. Bird?
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  8.  @johnransom1146  What are they?
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  9. I am glad to see yours among the comments, Al Demir. How would this not be the most important thing?
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  10.  @nightlightabcd  Seeing a caption may distract from the art, which is beautiful.
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  11.  @hershchat  I find his approach as geographically clinical as possible. Maybe I share biases?
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  12.  @terrybuchanan1  Lucky for us.
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  13.  @mattmensing9251 I always imagine these as briefings to a head of state that I am lucky to eavesdrop.
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  14. "The Great Delusion" by John Mearsheimer is an excellent book on these spatial hierarchies.
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  15. Maybe we have finally come up with a way to sell entering into the agreement on climate change by making people afraid for our "homeland security," Black Matter Lives.
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  16.  @michaelfoye1135 I read your comment a year later. How are we not a totalitarian state already? Does our government support or listen to us?
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  17. I can't remember because I am distracted by the density of content. I love it as the opposite of much of what I am forced to endure to get news.
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  18. In urban planning, we call the strategic planning divisions (to which the Caspian Report is similar) "the country club." They are perhaps the most important in scope, though.
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  19.  @oneing4206  They surely are vultures, but the more you can deescalate the process, the faster it might go. Maybe start by calling them "foreign interests?"
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  20.  @coolchannelnumber1  A lot can change in nine years.
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  21. Such impressive geopolitical knowledge and analytical skills he has, MrSticklife.
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  22. That would be good in the case of war. It seems as if too much happens, @stylaaaniki.
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  23.  @evni6208  That might be a good idea. When I tell people I have a degree in cultural geography, they seem to regard it with confusion and suspicion that it is not a real field of study. I like it the best, though.
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  24.  @isunlloaoll  That's not how it works. Cities do not spring up in random locations, but with resources and trade routes.
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  25.  @ResearcherofArabPagans  They don't all wear Birkenstocks.
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  26.  @IceyJones  I often notice this channel having a way with words.
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  27.  Lúzia A Morta  3 or 4. For example, they misrepresented the failed coup in Venezuela to us and promoted costly wars of intervention instead of investing in this country. I believe that they represent corporations at our expense.
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  28. It was the most comprehensive and objective analysis I have seen, vojta limr. I love how he zooms out to the big picture.
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  29.  @daddyleon  It would help me. :)
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  30.  @MesoMan77  That would be excellent.
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  31. Thanks from Canada. Another excellent segment.
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  32.  Symon Mailhot  So in a confederacy, the provinces would be autonomous, and they are not? I am Canadian too and think that he nailed our basic geopolitics in this one.
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  33.  @hershchat  I suspect some of that might go into the construction of a Caspian report. Throwing in the opposing viewpoint to consider usually results in a more reasoned opinion if you use it or not. Hegel would approve.
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  34.  @Amilakasun1  Why guild a lily? Content over flash. It stands out.
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  35.  @mknoxjackson  Even from watching one, you get that he is quite an analyst.
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  36.  @createx1751  I usually find the Caspian report factual, but it sounds like he almost said "They hate us for our freedom." Source? Other than that, excellent.
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  37. I heard that this is a growing industry in Germany, buzzkillean.
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  38. Me: Operating with each branch of government needing the other to get things done as in the US Constitution. That should work.
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  39.  Bronco 48  I wonder if we could magically have the same forms of world governance but shuffle the players around to different countries, would different people placed in the same roles behave differently, or the same. I suspect that there will be a trend for different people to behave in similar ways when placed in similar circumstances.
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  40. Hahaha. No thanks, eh. Shirvan may have been playing that Risk-like game of global domination too much lately.
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  41. I have had that same thought when listening to these, MGregMusic.
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  42.  @mengelmoesNL  Evidence?
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  43. @Jože Ws Not to those of us who get all fuzzy about maps. It was probably intended a compliment.
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  44.  @brianjonker510  I used to be an urban planner. Providing clear objective information evenly to all sides is more of a form of activism than you may realize. Knowledge is power. There is sometimes such a thing as excellent governance.
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  45.  @appleslover  Intelligence fusion?
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  46.    In this case, China is the higher power.
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  47. When is it from?
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  48.  @Joseph-uv2ud  It would make you spatial, but you probably found another path to that through your natural inclination. I was sucked right in, and the parts of it that were geopolitical did not seem like work, as they were so exciting. Maybe everyone who hits the right major feels that way? It is often surprising and informative to throw data on a map. It made me decide to be an urban planner, and I did that for thirty exciting years. Everything has a spatial component. People do it for different reasons, social, environmental or economic. Learning the social geography of a city, then designing different elements that promote improvement that will integrate them to create opportunities for people, then getting the ideas through the political process and eventually seeing them implemented can be very rewarding.
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  49.  @RTT80 What have these been?
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  50.  S S  You sure like the girl cartographer. Best wishes, S S. It's nature's design.
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  51. Thank you for producing these reports. They are well-written and visually beautiful.
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  52. I have been wishing to find this kind of detailed overview, DiplexHeated. Impressive.
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  53. From the problems cited, you are correct Dimas Baskaro.
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  54. I always learn from these but found this one especially illuminating. China is planning to invest in China with its silk road initiative. From the wording in the introduction to their plan for Africa, they will do it to free the continent from colonial interests. If that is their real intention, it could free Africans from France. (It seems doubtful that America would state such a plan.) For me, this puts a new spin on that and on the attitude many in France have toward African migrants. This is the best channel on geopolitics I have seen. Thanks for filling in my knowledge of how the world works.
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  55.  @rathalos1522  If they have accepted this exploitation, it is likely that it was their best opportunity at the time or their political systems are under foreign control. It looks like that may be about to change.
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  56.  @rathalos1522  Look at how the US media portrays its interventionist wars. It is probably analogous. It seems likely that there is a lot of deliberate misinformation and a controlled press on this subject.
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  57. I worry about getting it for free as I do, Saethak Mishra.
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  58. Don't make assumptions about why this appeals to me. It does, The Hunter x Hunter 2011 Dickriding Association. It makes me feel, at least, like I am doing something.
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  59. That's a lot of conjecture.
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  60.  @cubiusblockus3973  It does make me feel somewhat special.
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  61.  @anthonybird546  There also might be some joking around.
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  62.  @wildec2  I found it trite.
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  63. Congratulations.
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  64.  @flappythechungus8559 That is probably it. It reminds me of planning. There are long-range and current plans (and reporting?) each with a different purpose, I think. I have been keeping up with some excellent reporting on the latest, but needed some brushing up on the greater geopolitics.
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  65. I saw it before and was testing my memory, Guinness.
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  66. Forensic literary geography. I love it.
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  67.  @outofthisworldgateway  Try seeing from higher up, Secret Seeing.
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  68.  @globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493  I can find this kind of things so distracting that I miss the commentary. Not here. It was done with a light touch. (Other people must react differently, or they would never put those extravaganzas up. Or maybe people are not looking specifically for content.)
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  69.  @fifthofascalante7311  Classy.
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  70.  @ricoswan9549  I remember when the term emerged and then every project had to be branded. Government/marketing wise too.
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  71.  @dsxa918  It's a factor, but how people are doing on Maslow's heirarchy is the more significant one? In what drives them.
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  72. Thank you. This is excellent. My understanding of this was filed under the "fog of war" until now.
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  73. Motive?
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  74.  @Musa-lw1hd  I am willing to bet they're on top of it. Things have changed. America has burnt bridges.
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  75. A UN policy like a chemical weapons ban can be used to prevent warfare or to enable it. The same will be true of AI weapons.
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  76.  @michaelhenman4887 , It depends on the laws. Air rights have a commercial value as property in New York, for example.
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  77.  @OKANGUVEN99  If you meant me, I think the US Constitution is a pretty good stab at creating a government by legislative act.
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  78. What would possess you to develop such a hypothetical question as clickbait for your typically excellent show? I hope nobody ever does this.
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  79. Thank you. In my opinion, this is the best channel on YouTube.
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  80. Combined, DAlien2537.
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  81. I wonder what kind of impacts the internet will have on classic patterns of innovation diffusion?
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  82. It probably is not something he does every day @-datnerd-3125  Excellent clown joke, right Hippiepajon? Excellent content and graphics.
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  83.  @theopenacademy9102  Thinking of war causes people to spout aphorisms. - me
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  84. Excuse me while I get some aspirin motorhead. Get away from me with that mumbo jumbo.
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  85. The gift of knowledge, Jacob Cantrell.
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  86. "Are Russia and NATO sleepwalking into WWIII?" Well put.
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  87. @Be Human There will also be stories of kindness and heroism from people working for both sides uncovered by future generations.
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  88.  @Nivajoe817  Having one's beliefs challenged is often the best thing that could happen. It sharpens thinking.
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  89.  @Nivajoe817  I see. Different point.
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  90.  @p3rrin1997  Is that what you do?
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  91. Better than Soylent Green, Ceto Tan.
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  92. Like "Risk" but with real geopolitics, Hiall Everybody? I'd hate to play against Shirvan, who I can imagine being in the world championships. I wonder if a model could predict scenarios along these lines, or if it's too complex?
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  93.  @LeBookKeeper  There is them who will try to destabilize it.
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  94.  @savageantelope3306  Get out as in "travel?"
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  95. It was as if the sound had been jammed.
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