Peter Zeihan again: and also other thinkers:

Void · 2025-04-01 10:15:18

The relationship by an initial bribe, I guess it clicks now that you said it.

The Roman lines are still important. If a culture can bridge them, then some interesting powers are enabled. I do not understand why, but I see evidence. The evolution of such a culture able to bridge, has been over a long duration of time.

The Greeks had the ability to function in "True Asia". Here I mention ethnographic rather than geographic identifications. India for instance like North America Eurasian, and Eurafrican. Iran is Eurasian, the Arabian Peninsula is Eurafrican.

Romans had little ability to function in the Eurasian realms. Why? Well, I don't know, but some evidence is apparent from history. But the Greeks, Icelanders, and here and there people on that fault line, have to some degree achieved representative government in history. The Romans had some success, but lots of failures in that regard.

Slavery prohibition is a massive advancement beyond that. I guess it may be true, that with machines it was possible to have enough wealth without formal enslavement of people.

To see the Brits go into bondage, is an indicator that something is wrong. It invites worse things.

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RobertDyck · 2025-04-02 17:15:48

YouTube: The Future of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander || Peter Zeihan

Video release date March 26, 2025
Last week we had Donald Trump repeating some particularly interesting propaganda. Notice he was saying in Truth Social posts and in interviews that the Russians had surrounded several thousand Ukrainian troops and he was pleading with the Russians to not kill them in what would be a bloodbath. Here's the thing: that never happened. In fact that didn't even occur in Russian propaganda in American political circles. That was Russian propaganda for Russian citizens, to try to convince Russian citizenry that the war in Ukraine was going very well. Somehow that little bit got lodged in Trump's mind and it didn't come from the CIA or the FBI or the Defense Department. It either came directly from Vladimir Putin, or through one of the other vectors that the Russians have been using to influence his administration. So we have a White House that is making public statements and policies basing on an internal Russian propaganda now. And if I could think of one thing that the Russians want in the short term from this administration it's to destroy the NATO alliance which was always formed to contain Russian aggression. And here we are.

Void · 2025-04-02 18:45:10

Given the option it would be preferred to leave Europe and forget that they exist for a while. But Canada and Mexico have shown decent behaviors just recently, and so, in spite of our spite for Europe, I guess we have to try harder.

The great concern is that an all-out clash between Russia and West Europe with the North Americans backing them would end in vast carnage, at best, and there are other players not necessarily of a savory type that will take advantage of the resulting vacuum.

The best outcome is a draw where Russia does not possess all of Ukraine. The second best is where Russia takes possession of all of Ukraine the worst has another party occupying and colonizing the Ukraine.

The globalists don't care western and near western peoples are those who you can betray to gain Judas money.

There are deeper dangers in this than your simple minded analysis can see.

Unfortunately, our P.Z. does not so much value American or Western values. I think he values power. A great guy, but I don't think he plays entirely for the good guys.

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Void · 2025-04-03 19:08:43

I think that this is pretty good at saying what current events are up to: https://turleytalks.com/videos/trump-of … list-order
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Dr. Steve Turley, Tump Officially DESTROYS the Liberal Globalist Order!!!

I think it has been said by others now that liberal is not left. Not anymore.

But I think Liberal has perhaps discovered moderation. A source of warmth is nice on a cold day, but your house on fire is not nice, for example. That is my opinion.

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Void · 2025-04-09 15:40:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYRWxCb1iPw
Quote:

Empire of Money SHRIEKS as Trump UNLEASHES American Producers - Midweek Update - April 9, 2025
Promethean Update

I am beginning to think that the basic conflict is Capable Man vs. Dominant Man.

Dominant Man would be a regression into apehood.

But the toolmaker, first a weapon maker, then developed increasing capabilities sliding into what we might call technology.

But the Dominant Man always only wants to own controllable subordinate people.

Somehow Trump is in the correct side. I suggest that in a different life he might have been involved in technology. But he knows his way through the Snakepit as well.

The green movement was simply an effort to return to serfdom, I am thinking by now.

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Void · 2025-04-14 11:09:14

More of this sort of thing: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … afca040122 Quote:

For Globalist Trump Haters, The Chickens Come Home to Roost This Holy Week - Monday Brief - Apr 14
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Promethean Updates
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Just as for others such as P. Zeihan, I have a saltshaker full of grains which I might use from time to time.

I would say at this point that Globalization made some sense in the late 20th Century.

However, I think it is very important that Americans try to find their own way and to ignore the arrogance that even our so-called friends, may show towards us.

I believe that America is a reservoir of special people. Not the only place they exist, but a large amount of those that I feel matter. As an example, I am technically 1/4 Canadian. Even Canada donated people, and lots of them to America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Americans

One of my sisters' best friends was French Canadian, but American, so it is not uncommon.

The flow is from places where rigid power of the Dominant Man prohibits much of what Capable Man can do. But even in America we have had problems with Dominant Man. (Includes female familiar spirits also, as facilitators).

The emergence of new sources of robotic labor, takes away from the motivation for Globalization. The reduction in our responsibility to protect Europe, is another factor.

So, I mention the linear flow, of the capable from the chains that the Dominants always want to impose.

There is another feature however, power has flowed on another vector, from Spain and Portugal and up the North Sea Coast. The British had a great run, but they don't even seem to be able to protect their culture from intruders with bad intentions. Being on their back foot, it is inevitable that we cannot trust them, as they may sell us out to protect some things that are more internal to their interests.

So, for various reasons I think we have to become more America Centric, in most ways. That does not wash away everything about the past but makes trying to hold onto the past often to be a losing game, I think.

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Void · 2025-04-16 12:12:59

Here is some more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWuGb_R … eanUpdates
I know that there is a great discomfort here with the seeming Anti-British tilt in this material.

I will say from the start that America is more "Native" to North America, than Canada or the British, or the French.
As become native to North America, we are not just Latin or African or South Germanic (English), in nature. We are also Slovick, East Asian/ Pseudo Siberian, and North Germanic in nature.

So, in my opinion we are more capable of operating in all the worlds, but allergic to Old World methods.

The British have been useful to us, as to better handle the things that we are more allergic to. But London, cannot operate well in Slovick, East Asian/Pseudo Siberian, and North Germanic worlds. London only wants to clash, with these people many of us here in America are the result of genetic and cultural cross breeding.

The idea of an upper class that is worthy to impose eugenics, on a presumed lower class(s), is barely tolerated by us, and less so now. The idea that the Dominant Man is worthy to exterminate and replace the Capable Man, is offensive.

And we know that we can never be of the ruling class of the Dominant Man, except criminal types who are in our country, and have not evolved to be American or not enough.

At this time at least, it is apparent that the deletion of "Inferior" genes, can do little to improve the capabilities of our people.

But it is apparent that whoever is running Britan and Europe, has little regard for the existence of a Free Capable People. Rather, it seems they are on a backsliding path towards the old world, which much of the commonwealth is embedded in.

So, no surprise that these two pathways are incompatible. And we cannot be murdered into compliance with the wishes of the Zombie peoples of the world.

I think that most of you should not say anything in agreement with me here as, I don't want you to get into trouble and I cannot protect you.

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Calliban · 2025-04-16 13:12:28

The British State is entirely captured by globalist extremists. None the less, the idea that the US is a puppet to British foreign policy is hard for me to believe. The UK government is a plague upon the British people. But why would the US government be beholden to what they want? Outside of its borders, no one cares much about what they want. They clearly aren't at all interested in rebuilding the British empire. They are doing a lousy job of that, considering that they just paid to get rid of the Chagos islands. The British government see themselves as post-nationalist. They think that they have transcended national and ethnic boundaries. So when they see nationalists like Putin and Orban acting in their own ethnic interests, they are disgusted by it.

Void · 2025-04-16 14:02:24

I would say not puppet, neither is the UK a poodle as I have heard said.

Alignment was possible but becomes less so now. We were thinking of getting the UK into NAFTA, but I think they are not interested. More they may want the commonwealth and to diddle, Europe and North America.

But time will tell, if it allows us to be here to see what will be.

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Void · 2025-04-23 09:50:01

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … 4e26a538ca Quote:

Psychologist breaks down 'assassin culture' in the left: 'WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING'
YouTube
Fox News
30.7K views

While male psychopaths are very much suspected, because women are the mothers of any children that exist, we seldom think that there could be trouble from female psychopaths. I think those will be found in hive mind subgroups along with some of the males.

I think sometimes the only payment these people need is to know that they set someone else back in a cruel way.

A greed about pulling other people down while hoping that may get you into a more favorable situation.

I think one action of particular cruelty has been to convince women and some men that having children is not in their interest. So, I think the problems are primarily caused by a cycle of promiscuous, opportunity being promoted, and yet to make all sex, including reproductive sex as wrong and even criminal.

Gentetic selfishness. Interfering with the reproduction of others, in hopes of dominating the gene pool as to be a "Winner", and to be cruel to those you can deceive. As for some of these people the suffering of others is a pleasure for their selves, giving them a sense of power.

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Void · 2025-04-26 10:47:41

George Friedman is one of my favorites: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE Quote: George Friedman Predicts the Next 50 Years of Global Affairs and the Importance of Space Domination
YouTube
Tucker Carlson
8K views

I have learned about the problem of Specialization from his articles. Basically, after WWII we had "Generalist Thinkers" who while alive kept the country in line. This allowed us to prosper with specialists until the Generalists died off.

Now we have had the problem of specialists trying to run things, but they only understand their own specialty, so they are not suitable to be "Generals".

As it happens, I think that we have some fairly broad generalists in government now, somehow.

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I think I will need to review this diagram. Looks like I screwed it up. I'm not sure. But I don't have time now.

China is indeed surrounded, but everyone is surrounded on the surface of a sphere.

But the importance of India to us, among other things such as marvel of their culture, is that if China is not nice to us they have to wonder what India might do. And if China is not nice to India, they have to wonder what North America might do.

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Void · 2025-05-08 12:05:08

This seems significant: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE
Quote:

BREAKING: Pres. Trump makes major trade deal with UK 'very big deal'
YouTube
LiveNOW from FOX
43.4K views
2 hours ago

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Void · 2025-05-12 10:03:48

Promethium Update again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDT-83y … eanUpdates Quote:

Trump's Global Peace Offensive ROCKS Globalists, OUTFLANKS New World Order - May 12, 2025
Promethean Updates

In realty, I think the "World is going my way now". It was not before. Before it was "Hell on Earth".

Prussian Authoritarianism is not my cup of tea. People can to America to escape from a system where unqualified rulers were installed above the farm animals. The world wars sucked us into the Deamon world for some time unfortunately. But I think now that is over. I think there are magic people making changes to get us repaired, but the truth is the old order was worn out and tearing at the edges. This is not to say that at some future date, say 80 years or so from now we will not want to reexamine the methods of the 20th century. Or rather the 4 parts of the last Saeculum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system

America had imported lots of immigrants, and also the descendants of the former slaves, had been raised poorly, so a social system with strong guard rails was of some importance. This was convenient to the government, and also convenient to a ruling class. Stifle, domesticate, and tame.

Old money always resents new money. Letting common people develop skills of invention are a potential rupture of the order.

We who are at least in part of European Descent, are mostly farm animals, domesticated and tamed, by Greeks, Romans, and the post Roman rulers. We are despised for not being Stone age heroic in nature of body, and not appreciated for talents.

College can identify true talent and get it harnessed to the ruling classes as a utility. The actually not talented, can be brainwashed, and turned into a subordinate crew of slave-masters. Or at least given the promise of dominion over other less worthy people.

The sex drive of young people is exploited and perverted to toy with reality. The young male desire to be worthy, is paired with the female desire to capture a winner. Or perhaps more so to be captured by a winner.

This I think is why they enjoy bringing in new violent men from overseas to disrupt things on campuses. Probablly those who foster this think they are clever and that it is funny.

You have to remember that the ruling classes or those who think they are think that their are lots of unworthy people, "Useless Eaters", and girls like anyone else prefer to win rather than to lose.

So I am quite suspicious of our culture when the females decide that it would be good to send the boys off to a war, so that they can get "Hero" back and (Silent thought: Get rid of the weaklings).

The people who are meddling with human sexuality on the campus locations, need vast amounts of ass-kicking, and to be removed from such positions of power.

But as I have said, I feel that things are going our way. Due to the internet and probably due to things like Optimus, our access to knowledge that was previously hoarded by those evil librarians, we have means to compete in the struggles of life.

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Void · 2025-05-13 03:25:02

I think this might be one of the best condensed source of understanding how civilizations function.

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE Quote:

The 7 Emotions that Push Civilization
YouTube
Whatifalthist
454.3K views

I think that this material may deserve its own topic. Maybe I will do that.

I found some of this understandable especially for cultures resembling what I am embedded in.

I found that one of the 7 Emotions, "Envy" is mentioned for Marxism and such, and is deadly to itself, as it is not able to value productive people but to envy them and the seek to harm them even if it damages the culture. Really amazing.

Also the video sort of explains woke culture also.

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It is like being given a mirror to see myself, or eyes to see ways of life that are not mine. I don't seem to be very self aware on these things. Some of them are just in me.

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RobertDyck · Today 10:48:04

YouTube: The Fire Hose of Chaos: American Brands

kbd512 · Today 12:23:33

According to Peter, all those brands were eventually going to fail if they continued doing "business as usual" until China's demographic collapse precluded meaningful participation in the global trade system as an export-led economy. American companies that moved operations overseas did so at the expense of American jobs, so if they're now history as a result, then at least everyone else will know why "fast money" comes with "slow painful problems". American and Chinese workers will not be held captive to a slow-motion train wreck over the next 20 years. The pain is here, we're all eating our slice of humble pie, and then we can move on to endeavors that are actually good for our respective countries. I hope this leads to China's government cleaning up their incredibly polluted environment so that their people can lead better lives by primarily making things for their own domestic consumption.

The warning signs that China was contracting were all over the place, but nobody wanted to see how the sausage was being made, so-to-speak. Now there's no ignoring that painfully obvious demographic decline / early stage collapse. Absent radical change, China's demographics are terminal. They vastly over-stated their population to obfuscate massive internal problems at the family unit level. Their government and corporations have never been good faith actors when it comes to intellectual property or human rights. Good riddance to that, and I sincerely hope average American and Chinese workers get a better deal from their government. We've been crapped on by these cretins for the last 40 years. I'm sick of them, and I'll bet most people who are not part of the upper butt-crust of society are equally fed up with the predatory government / major corporation manipulated form of capitalism.

RobertDyck · Today 14:04:16

He also said the pain could have been greatly alleviated if coordinated with Canada and Mexico. In other words, apply surgical targeted tariffs on China and overseas locations where manufacturing has located, do not attack the North America free-trade zone.

Calliban · Today 14:30:51

The Chinese economy is crumbling.
https://youtu.be/-qRNJMttBhE

The impact of the tariffs is still to come. Deflation is primarily the result of insufficient demand in the Chinese home market. This is a direct result of the demographic crisis which is now irreversible on a timescale shorter than several decades. The Chinese made the mistake of combining the one child policy with rapid urbanisation, which was associated with rapid growth in the manufacturing economy. The result is a generation of Chinese without kids. Not having kids gives a short term boost to an economy. Without children, adults can work long hours. The money they make can be reinvested, resulting in high economic growth. But there is a terrible price to pay. Without children, there is no long term future. Back in the 1990s, the time of reckoning must have seemed a long way away. But however distant the future may appear, it eventually turns up.

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tahanson43206 · Today 15:01:00

For Calliban ... re #268

Thanks for your comments on this important development.

I would note that the world taken as a whole does NOT appear to be in population crisis!

It is only certain ethnic groups that appear to be on the wane, but that could change by the simple expedient of providing an environment in which any woman would want to take the enormous risk of raising a child.

In past centuries and millennia for that matter, women had no control over the amorous instincts of males.

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RobertDyck · Today 15:25:31

tahanson43206 wrote:

I would note that the world taken as a whole does NOT appear to be in population crisis!

Oh, there's so much there. First, absolutely every developed country now has a major problem: birth rate. You may think a couple needs 2 children to replace themselves, but due to child deaths and various technical factors, it must be 2.1. And since families can have various forms these days, it's presented as 2.1 babies born per woman during her entire life, on average. That includes all women, including single women and lesbians. If the number is above that, the country has a growing population. If the number is below, it's a shrinking population. But the population won't shrink right away; at first it results in increasing number of retired people with decreasing number of working people. With fewer working people to pay taxes, that increases the burden per person to support pensions and healthcare for retired people. And including working people needed to maintain infrastructure: roads, electrical power grids, power generating stations, water source, water mains, sewers and sewage processing. Plumbers, electricians, and roofers to maintain houses. Farmers to produce food, grocers to deliver the food to your local store. China manufactures stuff; who's going to work in the factory?

Every developed country has significantly increased immigration to compensate for the birth rate crisis. Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he believed developed countries would compete for immigrants, so he wanted to attract as many immigrants as possible. He brought in too many; we don't have enough housing for them all. This has caused price of housing to skyrocket. Other countries have experienced other problems from immigration, but again realize immigration is to compensate for the birth rate crisis. And yes, it is a crisis.

Many third world countries still have a positive population growth, so can provide people. But their birth rate is falling as well. They want a rich lifestyle like modern western countries like Canada and USA. As they adopt our lifestyle, they're also adopting our problems. Total population of the world has peaked. At this point the population shrinkage of developed countries is offset by population growth of third world countries, resulting zero total population growth. But it will result in world-wide population shrinkage soon.

Blaming population growth on "amorous instincts of males" is wrong and offensive. Females have the same drive and same instinct for sex. The current crisis in the US is marriages breaking up due to females committing adultery. Women have always had as much of a sex drive as men, but since introduction of birth control pills in 1961, females no longer have consequences of infidelity. This has resulted in crashing birth rate, and increasing rate of female infidelity. In the 21st century, female infidelity is a plague.

A book written by experts:
Amazon books: Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

kbd512 · Today 17:27:24

tahanson43206,

I would note that the world taken as a whole does NOT appear to be in population crisis!

I see that Calliban has already responded to this fictitious idea. The birth rate in virtually all developed countries is well below replacement rate. We're not growing. We're not even "mostly staying the same". Real population in all countries that matter at a global scale, from nations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, is crashing and burning. Even the birth rate in India, which is actually the world's most populous nation, not China, is already below replacement level. We can afford to play a shell game with people a bit longer, as a nation of immigrants, but even our population won't last forever because there won't be enough people to import from elsewhere.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world's only region with an above-replacement total fertility rate (TFR), currently estimated from 4.3 to 4.6.

Sub-Saharan Africa's crude birth rate is dropping like a rock as well. Anyone who thinks nothing is wrong is either a Malthusian or they don't pay much attention to the numbers. The stats don't paint a very pretty picture.

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