Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. This is pretty big as Israel hasn't officially declared war since 1983
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  2. This dude ain't leaving X he's just going to have his account and not post on it until years later when everyone forgets that he made this claim
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  3. Was not expecting both a South rise again joke and a reference for the King Cotton policy of 1800s revamped for the modern day and the international markets 😅 Great video
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  4. Canada has sadly long cozied up to the separatist movement of the Sikhs for a very long time spanning decades much to the annoyance of India Even accepting the Canadian citizenship of former violent members of the movement that had criminal pasts or suspected of such in India And this is despite Canada who once had their own separatist movement they violently had to put down, Quebec Which you don't see India trying to champion the cause of the Quebecois What India did was wrong but it does have an explanation, if only the idiotic of the Trudeau family could have recognized this fact. Because the cozying of the Sikhs and their separatists cause even goes back to Justin Trudeau's father
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  5. As long as you continue to get supplies from NATO members Ukraine will continue to put up a fight Once NATO or the majority of United States and its allies back off their support to Ukraine, Ukraine is going to have a much harder time staying a nation on the map
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  6. you just stumbled upon a common saying it's called "the generals are always fighting the last war"
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  7. He's been doing this for a long time. He even once worked for the Private intelligence gathering agency that Hungarian-American geopolitical analyst George Friedman founded So he's perfected his skills
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  8.  @cSwDamian  politics does work that way and it's the reason why NATO at-large has recognized that they stand to benefit by supporting Ukraine Keep in mind they're not supporting Ukraine because of humanitarian or moral reasons but instead by reasons of mutual benefit and geopolitics
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  9. They tried so hard and got so far But in the end it doesn't even matter
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  10. The defeat in Ukraine would mean that NATO now physically borders Russia it would mean that aggressive military action to remove a nation from existing is allowed by the international community, and would be looked as inspiration for many other nations who want territory China and Taiwan, China and India, China and Bhutan, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Ethiopia and Egypt, Morocco and Algeria It would also mean then a lot of nations would lose faith in the ability to be protected by fellow NATO members and would likely seek alternatives
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  11. Plot twist: "the debt ceiling" is just the name for the horrible death metal album that congress has recorded and set to release to the public but they keep adjusting the release date to hide their shame
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  12. As I've said many times in the past I'm not too concerned about nuclear weapons being used in warfare I'm more concerned about nuclear weapons being proliferated around the world because they're the only means of preventing conventional military strikes in your country And as a result of everyone getting them the chances of accidental detonation increase such as the 1961 Goldsboro incident in the US Information declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came close to detonating, with three of the four required triggering mechanisms having activated "Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant say, "Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch." And I said, "Great." He said, "Not great. It's on arm."
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  13. He's just missing planes flying overhead
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  14. There actually is a precedent to this Not with the Mormons being recruited as spies by the military but the Mormons actually did find themselves in high demand by the US military for certain extremely high skill positions such as running military hospitals and field surgeons during the Vietnam war
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  15.  @secretname4190  but the EU has to be unanimous to accept new members just like NATO and you can imagine that certain Nations that also have secession movements Like Spain, and their problem child of Catalonia, would be very hesitant to welcome in a new member
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  16. Maybe now sure but in the past ever since Indira Gandhi in they were formally allied with the USSR Indira Gandhi made the switch from the non-aligned nations, which India had been a part of since the 1950s, to the Soviet Union during her tenure in the 70s and looking back at the 70s political climate in India it made sense at the time Because the 70s were a chaotic time in India, with the Pakistanis (who were an ally of the United States at the time) doing war crimes in Bangladesh and India sending in their own military forces to stop the Pakistanis which caused the Pakistanis to ask for the US to intervene which the US almost did, they sent task force 74 into Indian waters as a means to flex, although "officially "they were there to enforce the ceasefire and assist the Pakistani withdrawal from Bangladesh And not only that but the US and their inconsistent policy regarding Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh left a nasty taste in the many mouths of the Indian government As a result of that the Indians stayed with the soviets right up until 1991 and the fall of the Soviet Union And it's that legacy of Soviet-Indian alliance still persists in the modern day which is what Peter said is why the US government can't ever formally ally with India they can only ever partner in some issues
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  17. Same thing with the javelin and stinger missiles just SHREDDED through the Russian forces 😳
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  18. I caution doing business with Cuba because we already fell for a similar trap Where of doing business with the Chinese will cause them to ultimately abandon their authoritarian regime and communist government, which never happened There's no reason to repeat the same mistake again
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  19.  @Danielle_1234  then he ain't leaving then ain't he? So don't sensationalize and post clickbaits titles in the in the thumbnail of your freaking video It's dishonest
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  20. Poltava is what he's referring to most likely yeah Sweden took such a pounding from that and I know that it's an over used joke from WW2 yada yada yada but this time it's actually relevant the invading Swedes didn't plan well for the Russian winter as they launched the offensive to both invade Russia and capture Moscow in the fall, and the Russians do what they do best: scorched earth and hit and run tactics as the invading enemy suffers from the weather And it was BAD! 1708-1709 was one of the coldest winters ever recorded at the time, they were severely weakened as a result and when spring finally came the Russian army met the Swedes at Poltava and defeated them quite soundly they never again were the dominant power of northern Europe, instead Russia took that title and held onto it from the 18th 19th and 20th centuries
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  21. The Vatican actually doesn't really play that big of a role in geopolitics anymore The rising numbers of atheism and non catholic led faith groups have significantly risen than they were back in the day
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  22. I too will be cautiously optimistic, I want Mexico to improve but my god to be so infatuated with the previous administration you willingly let him rule through you? Then what is even the point of welcoming the "first woman" in the head of state position to Mexico? If she is going to be successful she will have to draw some lines in the sand and not let Amlo step over them
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  23. Peter secretly for the New Zealand tourism board 😂 I mean damn that there is so picturesque
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  24. It's a lot harder to get people to agree to policy when the population of the country is 30 times that of Denmark
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  25. I recommend a great 3 series of videos by the YouTuber Kraut for a nice introduction on Turkey They are a little long though about an hour each but they are such well made
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  26. Yeah we even gave them stinger missiles back in the beginning stages of the war we don't even make stinger missiles anymore we haven't been since 2011 and even those are considered last generation but to the Ukrainians they are "high tech" and doing amazing damage to the Russian forces 😳
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  27.  @bwarre2884  trust me India received a lot of condemnation from their own citizenry and abroad when they fired upon the Golden Temple of the Sikhs with military artillery And they had a race riot in the style of Rodney King afterwards where violence against Sikhs was justified in the eyes of many Indians because the Sikhs assassinated the Indian prime minister for vengeance to the Golden Temple It was a messy period and the unwanted ghosts of that sadly still haunt Indians and Sikhs to this day even though the 1980s was 50 years ago
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  28. Pretty sure the rail segment of the bridge is not repaired yet
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  29. Bro Aussie already smart enough to move voting day to a freaking Saturday versus a Tuesday as it is in the United States you guys already doing better than US
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  30. That's true but it looks like it's still worked I'm not going to weigh in because I'm not Scottish so it's not my decision to make but it looks like it can be done
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  31. I bet that ship that registered in the foreign country to avoid US taxes is wishing they didn't register in that country now 🤣
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  32.  @Chris-ji4iu  I also think that you might have some opposition from Environmental groups, they might argue that increase river shipping traffic would lead to some manner of increased river pollution 🤷
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  33. Peter looks funny wearing those Ozzy Osbourne glasses 😅
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  34.  @thomassalvi2104  while I may not agree with what you said I'll defend to the death your right to say it
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  35. Well there is an interview from a PLA Air force officer who defected to the US named Yao Cheng He gave an interview with Radio Free Asia on January 8th this year, and he did discuss how they would drain fuel and use it to cook with Is that a good enough source?
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  36. the Switzerland is finally starting to question its historical neutrality and see that it no longer needs it it's starting to recognize that it's surrounded on all sides by NATO and NATO will never allow a hostile force to push through their territory in an effort to conquer Switzerland so Switzerland doesn't need its neutrality to secure its own borders anymore NATO will already do that for it Switzerland also recognizing that it's neutrality is more often than not abused by authoritarian regimes to gain access to the wider Western world and they're hoping to clamp down on that and slowly they are starting to do so as they have participated in international economic penalties on the Russians for their misbehavior in Ukraine
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  37. I just hope you Finns don't make the cultural and social mistakes that Sweden did, a once peaceful place now suffering from gang warfare
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  38. Im not going to cry for Navalny, he to his dying breath supported the Crimean annexation Granted he didn't support the current war in Ukraine but still Just being opposed to Putin is not enough
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  39. Lol 😂 somethings never change
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  40. He's not defending the Russian position he's just telling you where the Russians are coming from The Russians will never ever stop wanting to advance further West until they have control of those territories which comprise most of the great European plain he's simply saying that you just can't break them of that medieval mindset without something majorly happening in the Russian government
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  41.  @GodKingx87  buddy it literally says I'm leaving in the thumbnail
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  42. Nah that's Kansas a bunch of scientists found out that it is literally flatter than a pancake
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  43.  @NachDeaDSilenT  that seems so arbitrary
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  44.  @ZeCroiSSanT950  If it did it would only be a very minor one Israel has stated that itself has the final say on all the holy sites within it's territory Which is not an uncommon policy, that's also reflected in Saudi Arabia and Turkey In the example of Turkey, they did the same thing when it came to the Hagia Sofia and returned it to a place of worship despite calls to the contrary particularly from Greece Turkey basically said: "My soil, my building, my rules"
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  45.  @larrycox7169  it used to be 2.2 billion Catholics worldwide so yeah that's a significant drop
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  46. Winner take all is a disgusting voting policy I hope it dies out across more democracies
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  47.  @thomassalvi2104  again I don't agree with what you said but I will defend to the death your right to say it, anybody can be criticized as long as it's kept civil and objective to a point Your criticism is there, it's a little more subjective and less objective but sometimes even subjective criticism is allowed You don't like Peter Zeihan and that's fine
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  48.  @semtexstu3686  Ireland: hold my 🍺
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  49. We will watch as a PZ slowly looses his 800k+ subscribers 😂
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  50. The 5 Eyes are also a part of the larger group known as the "Anglo sphere" also sometimes called CANZUSUK that is made up of former British colonies + the British mainland that also forms most of the English speaking world
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  51. OMG..... I am so sick of misinformed folks talking about the Chinese Great Wall as a failure If you want some nuance let me tell you: The first construction of the Chinese Great Wall was done in 220 BC, the Mongolian invasion of China was in 1220 AD meaning for over 1000 years the wall did it's damn job And further let me add that when the Mongols invaded there were 2 kingdoms that were inheritors of the Great wall, the Jin and the Xi Xia The Jin maintained, expanded, manned, and patrolled their segments of the wall and repelled many attempts at breech by the Mongolians, the Kingdom of Xi Xia did not
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  52. Post WW2 Germany like Japan maintained a strict pacifism policy as a penance for the sufferings from the war and it was an okay policy it made ethical and historical sense for the time but it's now been over 80 years that policy is no longer needed even Switzerland is also questioning its historical neutrality because Switzerland now no longer needs neutrality as it's surrounded on all sides by NATO members and those NATO members will never allow a hostile foreign military to push through their own territories in an effort to conquer Switzerland so Switzerland doesn't even need its own military neutrality anymore and it is attempting to align itself more with the West and NATO
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  53. Yeah I largely agree as well the nukes are only ever good for is one thing and that is once you have them you prevent your nation from ever being invaded by a foreign military through conventional means That's the only thing nukes do you can't use them on anyone else for if used you face a massive fear of reprisal but if you just have them then you never need fear a D-Day style invasion in your country that's the only good thing nukes ever bring
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  54.  @krakhedd  yes the Japanese bombing is the only exception and it's because the US was the sole monopoly of the nuclear weapon But other than that everything I've said is the current doctrine for all nuclear powers
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  55. Yeah separation and Independence and secession movements are always messy and when it comes to the United Kingdom specifically you only need to look at how Ireland gained its independence to see how messy it would be
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  56. For once some good news
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  57. pretty much not since the 1700s has Moscow seen victory by legitimate means
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  58.  @ron88303  No the word legitimate very much still relevant to war it's the reason why Russia won't keep the territories which "voted" to join the Russian state when they are ultimately liberated by the Ukrainians
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  59. Well this dude just throw out his channel to hide his content mostly behind the paywall and give everyone else a few glimpses once every 7 days but I guess if that's what he wants to do his business he can but it looks crazy to me
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  60. No that is very much a different beast altogether this is large scale automotive manufacturing it cannot be compared to the five years of research that went into the very first iPhone before it released market into 2007 this is an already established company and an established product
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  61. Cubans as individual citizens love the American culture it's the Cuban state however that is the difficulty they just hate the US government and it's institutions And this isn't a self loathing thing that Americans themselves do nor is it a political partisan style split disagreement, it's a foundational hatred on the style of an ideological difference, similar to what the USSR was And until that barrier is overcome it's going to be awhile before there's ever a normalizing a relationship with the Cuban state Luckily the Cuban state, like most communist countries has largely failed to bring the citizens of Cuba the prosperity they have desired and therefore is a bit more receptive to finally negotiating all these decades later
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  62. Gotta be aggressive if you want to be the dominant global power, and there WILL always be a dominant global power Just lucky the US did all that before there was modern style communications and globalization, otherwise yes it probably would have suffered a multinational military coalition to help cease it's aggressive posturing
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  63.  @Rob_F8F  no I'd say modern style communications and globalization are the result of the dominant global power whoever that might be Don't get me wrong buddy I'm glad the dominant global power is the US, but at the same time yes I recognize some of the less savory tactics they took to get there
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  64. In English it's fine to pronounce it that way, just like how English pronounces Caesar wrong
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  65. You forgot another reason Peter Tesla and their anti-consumer and anti-right to repair tactics no one is going to want to buy a Tesla if it cost them over $500 to change a brake light because they don't have access to do any sort of maintenance on their own vehicle that they paid as you said luxury prices for
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  66. I'm just like what Peter said I've never been against renewables but I've pointed out the issue many times if you want renewables to do their job to what fossil fuels do you need real estate you need hundreds of thousands of acres for solar panel farms or you need a massive giant wind towers 1000 ft high and multiples of them in an large area if you want them to ever be efficient in the generation and then after that you need to transmit everything that you've generated So I'm glad to see at least one company has figured out that that's the crux of problems they need to solve
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  67. It's not a argument that's a good one it's just an argument that Russia themselves makes No one is agreeing with Russia and their 18th century style of security through conquest and annexation
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  68. Because the government of California heavily taxes and regulates that industry
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  69. It will also have to climb out of centuries of Arab colonialism as well The Arabs were the first foreign power to conquer much of the continent and they have held influence there for millennia much to the detriment of the native Africans
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  70. Plot twist that was actually Peter's wife in the background
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  71. Yep I commented something similar
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  72. Yes it is a genocide as they are taking children away from Ukraine relocating them and putting them in Russia that's called ethnic cleansing and it is considered a form of genocide as set by the standards of international law In fact the Russian government has been so brazen to widely announce this it was a major reason why Putin was given that ICC arrest warrant
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  73. In the US sure, but the drug trade world wide existed long before the CIA ever got involved
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  74. Buddy, pretty sure this is a cultural thing like how the British pronounce Zebra "incorrectly" as Zebb - brah and not Zee - bruh
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  75. PZ every time you make these outdoor videos a freaking plane never fails to fly over 🤣
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  76. He's not saying that they will he's just presenting a hypothetical scenario But that is what Russia wants, Russia wants a vast control of annexed territory that covers up the majority of the European plain because they feel it's the only way to be secure and it's completely stupid it's obsolete medieval way of thinking but it's Russia's way of thinking And so they keep pushing for it regardless of how many times they fail at it Russia and it's predecessor state the Soviet Union has done nothing but poorly in every single war it's had had since the 1980s From 80s Afghanistan to 1996 Chechnya to 2008 Georgia and now to 2022 Ukraine
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  77.  @utubefuku7132  lol I'm just surprised that it's been a century and yet King Cotton is still being somewhat used lol
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  78. Free Balochistan! Free Ossetia! Try to not fear the white rooms!
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  79. I just have to let you know mr. Zeihan That the United States has not withdrawn from the Middle East, and the United States can't withdraw from the Middle East completely it's part of CENTCOM meaning there is an area of responsibility for the United States military to operate in the Middle East from now until the fall of the US as a nation
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  80.  @renaissance17  and that makes no sense I don't know why he slandered today yes he participated in slavery by owning many himself but at the same time he also fought against the expansion of slavery into new territories Jefferson spoke out against slavery as a whole he didn't like it but he did participate in it he also wisely recognized that slavery was going to be the next problem that the us would have to face and he tried to do his best to ensure the gradual restriction and removal of the institution because he knew that ever since the American revolution if the central government were to force slavery to be removed from the country it would spark a conflict or a civil war and lo and behold his prediction came true
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  81. And they do
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  82. But you're also part of the Nordic countries as well And to make it even more confusing, if one were to be technically correct (the best kind of correct) and exclusively refer to the Scandinavian peninsula it would include Finland and exclude Denmark
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  83.  @Alexandra-zp3gr  indeed it does you also forgot Norway in that list but if Ukraine falls it would border it moreso than it already does
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  84.  @adeveloper6653  indeed it does but it would border it more so
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  85.  @bighands69  again we are only speculating we don't know exactly what would These are educated guesses
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  86. I keep forgetting that the already competent commander for Russia is missing and presumed ded siloviken and isn't shoigu the incompetent one
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  87. Even more reason why California is a hellhole full of jerks
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  88. Ar chas donv' yelo da ouez! Watch out France
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  89.  @hhiippiittyy  you might want to recheck your history there buddy Quebec has used violence to further their cause for separation multiple times
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  90.  @bwarre2884  I agree and I never justified what they did I only gave an explanation of why
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  91. Well I say careful! we already fell into the trap that if we give business with the Chinese they will eventually drop their communist government and a popular uprising will turn them to democracy And that never happened despite all the inclusion of the Chinese into the world stage
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  92. Pretty much every former Soviet nation allied to the West/NATO or nation that was attacked by Russia in the past is trying to eliminate OR significantly reduce the population of Russians in their own borders And I can understand why, Russian government keeps using a large population of Russians living in a foreign nation as a casus belli for intervention
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  93. I'm pretty sure being born in 2000 doesn't make you a zoomer
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  94. It absolutely can
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  95. He's subscribed to a private intelligence gathering agency And he also has connections from when he used to work himself at a private intelligence agency that was founded by Hungarian-American geopolitical analyst George Friedman Remember money and influence can get you information often faster and more detailed compared to us plebs
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  96. The only downside Aussie has is that you force voters to vote and if they do not they are fined This means that candidates will have to work less hard to win votes Now some voters mitigate this because they simply "mark" the ballot with any kind of illegible mark and that then counts as them voting and thus they avoid the fine
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  97.  @tonywilson4713  my facts are straight they were very specific to the point because they had to omit for the sake of brevity and yes there is a fine if you don't give any reason at all, that's why I said what I said I simply didn't want to do a giant comment but I'm glad you did
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  98. I'm not surprised Russia withdrew from the Open Skies treaty
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  99. I don't know why but for some reason PZ's eyes look super large in the video for some reason 🤔
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  100. Don't forget about the fact China has a secret military base in Tajikistan already right in Russia's backyard
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  101. I don't think you're gonna say that regarding how France does it's elections In fact you'll feel quite at home
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  102. Peter got those Ozzy Osbourne glasses 🕶️ Looking good bro 😎
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  103. I'm not so sure because the military had to lower the physical requirements for the millennial generation twice
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  104. Lauri Torni smiling down from heaven at all of Finland and the US finally formally united as allies
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  105. China was able to do it when they banned Bitcoin and they didn't use an AI But yes it goes to show you that government resources can be successful in this regard
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  106. I think that's actually pointless semantics it's about as pointless as Putin trying to claim his military invasion was a special military operation It doesn't matter if he "paused it" "stopped it" or "withdrew from it" the point of the matter is he doesn't want to follow the rules set by that treaty
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  107.  @dannyboy218  not my circus not my not my monkeys not going to weigh in that is Scotland and their decision
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  108. It wouldn't be a "checkmate" but it would finally end overt boots-on-the-ground style of actual warfare in Ukraine by the Russians Which still is a very good thing and I agree and I think Ukraine also agrees that once this war ends they will b-line it to the NATO membership line faster than Usain bolt running on a giant griddle covered in butter Meaning that once they're in NATO Russia can't do anything overtly and they will have to just do covert and subversion tactics which hey I'm all for battling them in the covert and subversion space because it's less damaging that way
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  109. The same thing as what that happened in Ukraine in 1991 when it gained independence the new nations will inherit the physical access to that arsenal Russia or rather more correctly the Soviet Union has never given out any of its codes or procedures for launch to any of the satellite nations when it was a conglomeration of the Soviet republics Meaning even if Russia today collapsed and new nations were born out of it none of them can independently launch any of those weapons All they can do it just maintain physical control to the sites that have access to them
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  110.  @grzegorzkapica7930  Unlikely yes, but still a possibility as you said The fail-safes that are built into those mechanisms are top-notch and just because you've purchased the weapon and brought it over to your new country doesn't mean it's going to operate perfectly Especially if you don't have the know-how documentation that was kept in the Kremlin and didn't come included in your purchase
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  111.  @grzegorzkapica7930  Also not to mention selling those types of weapons is an international crime and your hypothetical country and its current leader would be placed at the top of the list to be hunted down and destroyed or removed from power And further since you can't actually operate any of those weapons that you inherited as a hypothetical breakaway Nation from Russia you don't have any means of deterrence from US coalition led army or a special forces strike team coming in to take out that leader that's trying to broker the sale of the weapon
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  112.  @grzegorzkapica7930  Yes but that's still an international crime the trade of weapons-grade nuclear material is controlled down to the gram But yes if you are a tin-pot dictator and you want to try your hand at making some money you can certainly make the attempt at selling that type of stuff but you again will find yourself placed on a list and you will become a target
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  113.  @grzegorzkapica7930  in that hypothetical scenario of a new nation inheriting Russian nukes it's much better to do what Ukraine did when they gained independence in 1991 in two years since that event in 1993 they brokered a deal to give all those weapons back to the successor state of the Soviet Union, Russia They did not want them in their country anymore and again they were pretty much useless to the Ukrainians as they could not launch them and they cannot use them as a means of deterrence And they did not want to ever be placed under any international sanctions or face an international coalition led army because they attempted to sell them to other states
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  114. Everyone always forgets the legislature branch and it's votes that stand in opposition to the current sitting president So yeah Milei better learn how to negotiate rather quick or he's going to be another unsuccessful Argentine president
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  115. They didn't do as much as the US though, it took them a while to finally start sending weapons and the armaments for those weapons Instead Germany was sending pillows and helmets to the Ukrainians
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  116. I mean California shot themselves in the foot too many times what's surprising is only now it begins to bleed
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  117. I mean you're right but you're thinking logically and often dictators like Putin don't think logically when they are backed into a corner The possibility of a nuclear threat is there because it will always be there but I do think it's unlikely What's ironic is that the simple fact that Russia has nukes is the one and only reason why the United States and NATO members haven't sent in conventional forces boots-on-the-ground style to assist Ukraine directly If they did they'd be crushing Russia and Ukraine would be free of Russian forces in its territory already, so essentially nukes are saving Putin's ass 🤣 They are the one thing that's preventing a much stronger response from the West to the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict
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  118. Maybe just don't use Twitter it serves no purpose
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  119. I knew Moldova was the next target by Russia, I'm just surprised they doing this at the same time while still fighting in Ukraine
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  120. Thank God! Welcome aboard Finland! Finally a NATO member that can pull it's own weight! Now come on Sweden! We need you next! Heck kick out turkey, those assholes have been abusing their NATO membership for decades
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  121. Saudi Arabia is only a friend to the US because the US doesn't like Iran and because the US would like Saudi Arabia to continue its supplies into Europe that's pretty much it Former president Truman who was on death's door, went to Saudi Arabia to negotiate the deal that would first begin trade between the US and Saudi Arabia almost 70 years ago
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  122. For the Love of Pete I dislike having to explain this over and over again but I will if I have to When it comes to Ukraine becoming their own Nation in 1991 and the concept of them having nuclear weapons the ukrainians did not ever at anytime have the ability to utilize those weapons that the Soviets placed in the nation what the ukrainians had when they gained independence from the Soviet Union was control over physical area of the silos in which they resided in they had no means to press the red button themselves any and all codes were kept in Moscow in the Kremlin and they were never released to the Ukrainian government when they gained independence and they were never released to the Ukrainian government when they were Soviet socialist republic And that's why Ukraine in 1994 was more than eager to get rid of those weapons because they wisely recognized their existence would be possibly be used as a justification by Russia to do a special military action to "recover" their lost technology the US happily agreed to assist Ukraine because the US just likes the idea of less and less countries having nuclear weapons and I don't blame them I completely agree with that view the less countries having them the better And Russia agreed because Russia just wanted their lost technology back and they even though don't like the US they still have the same pragmatic viewas the US: whereas the less countries that have nuclear weapons the easier it is for the Russians to exert influence over those exact same countries
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  123.  @leperabbot3343  I don't disagree but American politics and foreign policy has shifted greatly over the decades and basically anything is possible at this point
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  124.  @libraryofpangea7018  true but sometimes the government is not allowing even the citizens to do such examples of moral support such as that some nations making it illegal to go and fight for the flag of Ukraine Making it an even more confusing mess
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  125. Must be a regional speech thing, since Bush was from Texas and Peter is from Iowa 🤷
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  126. I mean this guy that's leading Wagner has no chance of successfully tearing down the head of state of Russia but I just admire his MASSIVE balls of steel to make the attempt Were he not a massive war criminal I would probably cheer on his efforts But in this regard I just hope they all battle each other and reduce their numbers fully so that they ukrainians can have an easier time defending their land It's not everyday that you get to see Caesar like event where he's crossing the Rubicon and "the die is cast"
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  127. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD KICK TURKEY OUT OF NATO!!!!
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  128. Kissinger competent?! DAFAUQ you smoking
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  129. Yeah pretty much Biden has it in the bag when in comes to 2024 election and that's just me being objective You can say it's for better or for better or worse depending on your political leanings But it stands to the current political climate of where now Trump is now in jail and Desantis is not as well liked as he thinks he is outside of Florida So yeah pretty much Biden just has to not die of old age and he's president for another 4 years
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  130. Non sunglasses Peter is weird looking lol 😂
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  131.  @PaulVerhoeven2  you are correct yet it must be said there's many spectrums of pacifism Japan obviously felt they needed more penance than most because they suffered those two nuclear explosions so Japan never wanted fully capable military industrial complex to sell its weapons around the world and even to this day despite Japan's attempts at rearming and rewriting it's constitution for the creation of a proper military, the industrial complex behind that same Japanese military is relatively small and it has no real means of trying to further improve itself because it legally only has one customer, and that is the Japanese government The Germans found themselves split in half in following WW2 with that same half in the east literally pointing guns in their faces So I'm not surprised that Germany at the time despite their policy of pacifism and foreign non-intervention still used their capital and engineering prowess to help other nations in military armament and development. With such companies as Krupp and HK
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  132.  @krakhedd  no it's correct, every nation that has nuclear weapons capability just has them simply as a deterrent for their use And as guarantee for border sovereignty, they will never be invaded by foreign hostile power as long as they have them, but at the same time they can never actually use them for fear of global reprisal Because these same powers recognize the instant that one nation utilizes that capability to strike, no matter what type of strike it is or how much they might try to "justify" it, they will be hated a hundred fold and denounced and condemned world wide Which is why enemies of nuclear power nations engage in unconventional warfare instead
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  133.  @landontesar3070  which one? I'll post it for you that way you can see it in your reply notification even if you can't see them in the comment chain
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  134. There is no proper means of pronunciation it's a regional speech thing based on whatever accent you have while living in the United States with the same reason why people pronounce ask differently Folks like to pronounce it as "AXE" which to me sounds very wrong but again I just recognize it's a regional speech and accent thing
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  135. I hope this means italy will finally stop capitulating to the Chinese government
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  136. I'm curious to see if environmental groups would oppose the repeal of the Jones act? 🤔
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  137. This is true but Germany did do colonization and atrocities prior to both WW1 and WW2 in Africa, specifically in modern day Namibia. It was the first genocide by the unified German Empire State and it went from 1904 and lasted 4 years
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  138. No they don't need to go nuclear themselves just they need to go and join NATO asap once the war ends and then by extension they'll be under the United States' and NATO nuclear armed members' (France and Britain) umbrella
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  139.  @justnot8232  the willful or unwillful vigilance to take notice of gang development And the continuation of a leniency when it comes to law enforcement, punishment, and sentencing by gang perpetrators
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  140. All social media is tbh
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  141. If I could wish an earthquake to affect only one person in Turkey it would be Erdogan Sadly that's not how nature works, my sympathies for the folks who suffered from this but my scorn for Erdogan as well and my hope he's suffering
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  142.  @ron88303  the illegitimacy from that stems from the fact the Russians very much like to downplay or sometimes completely negate the assistance that they got from the West involving them fighting the Axis and the Germans They also very much like to hide, downplay or ignore the fact that they were once allied with the Germans in the outbreak of the War in 1939 That's where the illegitimacy finds itself into the Russian mindset
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  143. Never forget the MBS sent a virus called Pegasus to the Phone of Jeff Bezos to black mail him and force him to give up a Saudi dissident Khashoggi who wrote for the Washington Post Later that poor man would be literally cut to pieces in the Saudi Consolate in Turkey on orders of MBS
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  144.  @hometown1474  it's "abundant" yes but not all lithium deposits are equal and not all deposits contain a high concentration of lithium either there's different qualities in lithium and even if you find the lithium you still need to process it before it's used in manufacturing
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  145.  @w8stral  nice comeback 👍
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  146. Lol 😂 that was the best thing ever about crypto If it's not a scam it's a pyramid scheme
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  147. Cold War 2.0 baby
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  148. Not unless they unban Zidane and take him back 🤣
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  149. I'm sorry PZ but I feel like you've got the wrong impression on ESG it's the equivalent of China's social credit score but for the moment it's just applied to companies The problem is is all of us can recognize the writing on the wall but if companies which largely dictate a lot of our rights these days we'll start to see these guys pushing this ESG on the individual And you've already seen it happen with PayPal withdrawing money from your account without notice if you say something "rude" things or that time in the Amazon Alexa locked the man out of his house for allegedly saying something inappropriate None of this should ever be applicable to the person under any circumstances
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  150. Oh yeah China already proved that things like a cryptocurrency can be cracked or outright banned in their jurisdiction Goes to show you the real privacy provided by these things 🤣
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  151. I just think its interesting that despite being geopolitical enemies the US still attempted to provide Russia with intel to prevent the situation And then when it was refused made it public so people could hopefully get out themselves
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  152. So basically they found a cache of buried Nirvana albums?
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  153. Kurofune intensifies
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  154. A suspension is the same implication at withdraw it means he doesn't want to follow or abide by the rules of the treaty it's pointless to argue semantics
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  155. Non sunglasses Peter is weird looking lol 🤣
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  156. I mean you're catching him in his part 3 of a hypothetical scenario buddy he already said all the stuff of what is known and unknown a few videos ago There's no reason to discredit him or laugh at him because of what he saying I mean it's hypothetical scenario discussion there's not much to it educated guesses is all that's in play
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  157. It would be a good idea but it's not that effective in the United States as rail transport has been dwindling over the past century and the rail network of the United States is not built up to the same effect as the road Network that already exists in the United States
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  158.  @rui.craveiro  I never said it was a result of nature that the US built up road networks over rails But I am saying that because they did the rail network will need billions of dollars in infrastructure spending to bring it up to its potential And that's a tough sell for the US gov to its citizens
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  159. @guru47pi  no it never did subsist on facts and reality government heads were being morons for decades you just didn't see it in the day to day in 1977 when I was working unless your job was a government job it was just harder to catch government Representatives acting stupid because there was no internet back then you didn't have 24-hour real-time access to everything every single government position and the people in them were doing And you didn't have the ability to see drafted legislation go through its process before it published in real time and before it's even voted on to get your opinion on it And again trying to balance the wants and needs of a competing population of 300 million people makes those failures of that government much easier to see to an outsider looking in
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  160. I also just want to mention that when China did this in the past when they tried to cover up an outbreak of another pathogen called SARS the scientific community found the culprit animal in 2 months It's been two years since the outbreak and we still haven't found the animal hmmm....🤔
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  161. So according to the logic of the left within the US all of India is "waycist" because they need an ID to vote
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