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Originally Posted by freebeard
Hadn't. The thumbnails look click-baity and one that you posted was an hour long. But I took up the challenge and picked a short one. Peter Zeihan - "Putin Is Terrified Russians Have Only One Week Left To Stop War Or Face Defeat"
Month old title did not age well. To be fair, he did say the window would/could close. The Kerch Bridge was repaired and reopened. Almost as fast as DeSantis's bridge in Florida. 
I think Scott Adams is right about Russia being a natural ally. Did you know an American Expeditionary Force invaded Russia in 1918-20? |
Like most things, I didn't know about the US invading Russia. Was it Russia then, or USSR? More things I don't know. So Red Dawn already happened for them. That was my boyhood fantasy, before I knew about the movie. Fight off the invaders and provide comfort for worried women. Weird how that's internal programming and not a social construct.
Try one of the longer videos. He's as egotistical as any other interesting person. Smug confidence. As I argued on another forum that introduced me to him, I agree that all his premises are sound, and his predictions about the future are wrong like everyone, because the number of variables and the timeframe act to confound understanding. He's not wrong because he's dumb, he's wrong because he's finite.
Here's a tangent to chew on; recently I commented that Obama was not wrong to try something new with regards to the US system of healthcare, despite having found among the few ways to make the system worse. It's close to as bad as it could be, so that's a good problem to work on. Making it better should be achievable.
To really annoy folks, I bet healthcare would be better in the US if Obama had implemented his vision of healthcare dictatorially rather than promote a plan that could pass for a time.
I'm not saying expanding bureaucracy and state dependence is good; only that there's a limited set of ways one could make our healthcare perform less optimally. We leverage all the hazards of socialism and capitalism while managing to avoid most of the perks of each.