For a nation that hasn't been in a fight in 71 years, North Korean generals have more decorations than a Christmas tree. We don't know if they can fight, but they sure are colorful.
One would think that it started to look a bit silly when they due to lack of space place medals om their pants. Oh well, at least they get some minor armour effect out of them. 😅
Imagine, you're a North Korean soldier. You've barely figured out what a smartphone is, and your home town doesn't even have electricity. You arrive in a foreign country probably thinking your army is the superior fighting force only to have exploding bees fly down from the sky and rockets that explode into 1000 other bombs. You would very much not like to be there anymore. I can see how this may lead to tension.
@@mjolnir4639new drones contains grenade like fragments the drone literally flies its self with ai and knows how to position it self to destroy the vehicle and anything inside just using the fragmentation from the explosive projectile
Fidel Castro did the exact same thing with Cuban soldiers: He paid for the Soviets' propping up his economy by providing them with cannon fodder in Angola and Ethiopia. About 10,000 dead in Angola, 400 dead in Ethiopia in 1978. (The "Ogaden War" versus Somalia was a quick victory for the Soviet Bloc nations. The Angolan Civil War dragged on for years.)
Russia is not Cuba or a peasant Arab army as the collective west are finding to there cost🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Ukrainato will collapse just like south Vietnam did. It’s on 24 hr life support🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
As a Cuban who has several relatives that fought in both conflicts I can tell you that the Soviets were not too happy with Castro's adventure in Angola, they basically had to play along once they realize that Cuba had deployed hundreds of soldiers in Luanda and Cabinda in total secrecy (As secretly as one can move troops in an old Bristol Brittania fom Cuba to South West Africa with lay overs in Canarias and Cape Vert.)Castro became a real pain in the ass for Brezhnev who at the time was trying to patch things over with the Americans in view of the fact that the Americans were getting cozy with the Chinese . When it comes to the Ogaden war the Soviets were betting both sides (The Ethiopian Derg and the Somalis) and ultimately choose the Ethiopians given Castro's close relation with the Ethiopian leader Menghistu Haile Mariam. Cold war politics is a bitch. By the way, I'm not in any measure a Castro supporter but to potray Cuba's expedition in Africa as mere puppet act is a gross simplification to say the least. We were no cannon fodder to no one; that part was played by the UNITA, the SADF and the Somalis. Also where did you get that 10000 dead figure?
*AUSTRALIAN HERE* - Please do not forget where South Korea gets all of the raw materials they need to make stuff. ALL of their iron ore, coking coal, alumina, nickel, copper comes form other places and the place they get most of it from is Australia. *HOWEVER* almost all of the raw materials Australia exports to South Korea (and Japan) especially iron ore comes out of Australia's WEST and it goes via the South China Sea. A few things like coking coal and food comes out of Australia's East Coast. So if the Chinese get "upitty" and block access to the South China Sea via their bases in the Spratly's then all that stuff has to get to South Kore via another route and that can get complex because some of the routes that might seem possible by looking at google maps are not viable because the water is too shallow and there's reefs and ships with 80,000tons of iron ores are not that manoeuvrable.
@elektrotehnik94 ya fleet an marine presence being beefed up in region and chinese navy's basically shallow water hug coast fleet they're only able to bully fishing boats
When was the last time USA defeated a country that had the same military equipments and financing as Ukraine? Russia is doing it with a fraction of USA's budget and half of USA's population.
Well this news is nonsense, ukrianian tabloid media just say stuff like this. I remember they said cubans were kidnapped and sent to the front. They based it on cuban volunteers. There were like 3 of them.
While I agree with your conclusion, comparing the two isn't really fair. Iran is an actual country with real people living out their lives. Sure women's freedom is limited, but they have the right to vote and work, and several ministers have even been women. *While North Korea is a high security prison masquerading as a country.* Just pointing out that if all you know about Iran is from American(not European) media, you might mistakenly believe they are similar.
There is no substitute for combat experience. If N.K is deploying troops it is because they want/need the experience for something they are planning on the near future
I tend to agree, but I think FOOD is probably what N Korea needs more than anything.(Along with oil and coal). Kim seems to be distancing himself from Beijing and getting much cozier with Moscow.
@@DavidCooper-bn6te North Korea has been dealing with a food shortage since its inception. Have you seen the increase in activity across the border the last week. Everyone is preparing for something big and soon.
1000 Russians dying daily...Koreans are heading to meat grinder. Kim won't be sending his best. Making headlines by sending nk troops can only help Trump, so stirring the pot seems like enough motive. That said, Trump saying him and Kim are friends is 🤮
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I would love to be able to donate as I have mental health issues I'm unable to work anymore but I will pray for everyone caught up in this horror keep going Peter you're making a difference!!!!
i wonder if this might backfire. leaving their country for the first time in 70 years and seeing their leader hasn't been telling the truth in mass numbers.
@@nurfuis well that's not realistic and where did you hear that? north korea isn't going to just see them gone forever and where they would go after the war is not really realistic that they just won't go home
@@007kingifrit the Russian army will treat them as cheep cannon fodder, like they do with most of their army. They will have very few go back home, and those few will know as well as every other fellow citizen. Saying negative things about the SK government is not healthy.
the last Tsar, along with jis entire family, was murdered over 100 years ago by bloodthirsty jews. This Russia is the husk leftover after those jews terrorized and genocided the country.
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A Free current affairs video like all the other ones you were doing before you started pushing the patreon thing. Right? Okay good now that we have that out of the way on to the video ty 😊
Russians bought the licence to manufacture the Shaheed drones they have and entire factory in Yelanuga Tartarstan province. The Russian produced drones are named Geran. I am surprised you didnt know this.
An interesting point is that Ukrainian special forces deployed to Sudan to fight russian forces there. Gold mines in the area being a source of Russian funding. If Israel was suddenly more involved and anti russian this conflict could get some Mussad specials......
Koreans are not know for make shit up. 1. Hamburger creator Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-il claimed he invented the hamburger, calling it "double bread with meat", with grand dreams that it would become a new national dish as he unsuccessfully introduced it to the nation's universities. 2. Speaking of food The older Kim was also fond of claiming sawdust was full of nutrients, encouraging his citizens to chow down on the building byproduct in their regular times of famine. 3. Supernatural bodily functions Kim's official biography stated he never needed to use a toilet because his body was so well calibrated he didn't urinate or defecate. 4. Magical Beginnings According to his official biography, Kim Jong-il's birth atop a sacred mountain saw a new star created and winter turn to spring. However records kept by the country's Soviet allies show he was born in a Siberian village in 1941. 5. Fashion icon Shortly before his death in 2011, Kim Jong-il's signature grey military styling was being celebrated by the world's top fashion designers, according to state media, who quoted an unnamed French designer saying "Kim Jong-il mode, which is now spreading expeditiously worldwide, is something unprecedented in the world's history". 6. Everyone loves us Despite having one of the worst international reputations, North Koreans are told their leaders are beloved around the world and that each country celebrates their birthdays. 7. Time thieves For decades North Koreans believed the Japanese stole time from them back during their 1919 occupation. Kim Jong-un finally righted this injustice and set North Korea's clocks back by half an hour on August 15, 2015. 8. Greatness of hereditary Kim Jong-un is just as amazing as his father, according to North Korea state media which revealed he was a gifted sailor as a youth - who also learned to drive at the age of three. The younger Kim is also a celebrated musical composer and artist, who is celebrated around the world. 9. No such thing as the internet The only people with access to the internet in North Korea are government officials and the state tells its citizens it's a notion invented by the west. 10. Fake village Keen to encourage South Koreans to migrate, the North Korean government built Peace Village near the border in the 1950s. Propaganda says 200 families live happily and work in the village, but observers say it houses North Korean soldiers manning artillery stations pointed south. North Korean dictator/superstar golfer Kim Jong-Il has died at 69 -- a fitting age, because 69 is under par on every regulation golf course. Kim shot 38 under, including 11 holes-in-one, at the 7,700-yard championship course at Pyongyang in the VERY FIRST golf round of his life, according to North Korean state media.
Interestingly so Sudan functions as the main weapon smuggling route to Hamas from Iran, and on several past occasions Israel has bombed large weapons caravans in Sudan. More so, both Iran and Israel are reported to hold secret bases on Sudan's neighbor Eritrea. It seems like the world is already on a low key ww3.
There are a lot of Jews living in Russia. Israel wouldn't put their lives at risk (and the large Russian Jewish population inside Israel wouldn't let it happen even if the government were so inclined to put them at risk). And Israel is kind of occupied right now with more pressing matters anyway. The "recapture the Pale" project was a fun little side quest but with war against Iran, Lebanon, and Syria looming, Israel has no time for such games anymore.
@@GeopoliticsClips-r1x The difference? Aside from the sarcasm and general fuckery ? Most people who insult their audience by pointing out their "generosity" or call their audience "cheapskates" don't keep that audience for very long. And they definitely don't make people want to pay them.
@@SpookyEng1 we've rebuilt a lot more industrial capacity in the last ten or so years than most people realize. The shale oil boom drove a big chunk, and the reshoring that followed it once people noticed that we had really cheap access to the feedstock for all the types of plastic drove a big chunk, and then Covid scrambling international supply chains drove another chunk. That grown just hasn't been particularly well spread out over the country.
Zeihan’s analysis is geopolitically relevant and mostly accurate, especially regarding Russia’s dependency on unconventional allies like North Korea and Iran. However, the conclusions about the involvement of Israel and South Korea, while strategic possibilities, may overstate the immediacy and scale of their engagement in the Ukraine conflict. The analysis is thoughtful but could benefit from more nuanced consideration of the diplomatic consequences surrounding such escalations.
His analysis of macroeconomic trends is mostly accurate. His military analysis has a terrible track record. Just rewatch his Kursk video. Ukraine took a 6000 population town early and has been slowly losing ground over the past 2 weeks. In the meantime they've lost the 14 000 pop town called Vuhledar.
Peter draws linear conclusions from computer simulation, and he (it) is often wrong. Mostly because the computer info he's glibly regurgitating does not allow for Deus ex machina.
Who would you rather have backing you, North or South Korea? The North has half the population, is starving, has artillery which has destroyed more Russian systems than Ukrainian, and a totally untrained army which last fought 75 years ago and got annihilated. The South is one of the worlds biggest arms exporters and producers, has been trained and supported by the US for 75 years, is wealthy, is technologically advanced, and has weapons known for their reliability. I don't know about you, but I choose SK.
Don't underestimate poor, miserable, traumatized troops. Comfortable troops from wholesome places may have whizbang toys but they are softer than the guys who grew up in hard circumstances. The Vietnamese and the Afghanistanis proved this more than once each.
@joemerino3243 Russia and Chechnya have poor, miserable troops too. And Ukraine is annihilating them. Are there even anymore Chechnyans still fighting in Ukraine?
- Pro-West Ukraine vs. pro-East Russia - pro-West Israel vs. pro-East Iran At this point the question arises: are these actually wars on their own or only two fronts in the same big war?
Depends on what's your definition of a world war. I would not call this a world war. At least not at the same degree as WOI and WOII. And I don't think it will come to that. But then again, I wasn't expecting Russia to invade Ukraine either, so who knows.
This is like when you scan and see them pop all the larva into lings. You still have time before they hatch and you can throw down a bunker or hold position a scv with some bio on your ramp.
Not as desperate to be used as western cannon fodder for Blackrock hedge funds. The crooks in Washington busy laundering money are well matched to the Neo Nazi gangsters in Kiev busy stealing money. But the end game is now in sight🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪🏽
Same. I just do t like subscription model (as a buyer…it’s great for sellers) so I wait a week. Nothing in this video is degraded by a 1 week wait. I would play if it entailed listening to ads on RUclips or paying as I go without an auto debit
@@raymondnoel6053 If they actually were, Russia already would have been defeated. Of course now that NK is involved, maybe more countries like Poland or France might decide to get actively involved since Russia has now changed the rules of the “game”.
@@EyeOfMagnus4E201 Its fake news tho. NKs arent in Ukraien or Russia. Come on. People even saying this for more than a year. Pro-urkaine channels are so fing sad. I always have to watch the exact same videos because you guys are recyceling talkingpoints every few months. Its a sign of failure.
South Koreans tanks? What happened to all the leopards and Abrams? Or even the F16s? Anti missile tach? I think u haven’t seen the Iranian missiles hitting Noatim air base yet!
Peter - there are about 30 content creators I regularly follow on YT - most of them have a subscription channel on another platform - like Patreon - for approx. $5 / mo - but obviously the model doesn't work for me - as it doesn't work for most people - I don't have $150 / mo to spend - or rather - I don't value the content that highly
Strange that Russia had the second largest military, brags about their production and technology, but yet needs Iran, China and North Korea just to keep their war going. Not to mention all the Africans they have to pay to use for their meat wave attacks. Odd.
yeah, Ukraine can easily counter four nuclear powers: Russia, North Korea, Iran and China in the shadows while the west is deeply concerned and chilling on its couch.
I agree but I have another analogy with Russia Iran and DRPK on the same team, is like Larry, Curly, and Moe, The 3 Stooge's which always ends in chaos and laughter.
Hmmm. South Korea has huge manufacturing of weapons systems just a little less capable than the big guys. Israel has a history of reworking weapons systems to make them just a little bit better than the big guys. Those two join forces....
I wonder if South Korea is also involved in the Iron Beam (energy weapon air defense) project. I can well imagine the ROK really wanting the ability to shoot down incoming artillery barrages.
WTF are you talking about? The US increased it's industrial arms to over 6 times what it was producing just 2 years ago. The US army didn't think artillery was that important, then the Ukraine war happened, now the US is pumping it out like crazy. The US didn't have a large stock pile, because they didn't think it was important, now they're producing more artillery than any country in history.
American ammo manufacturers are running all day and night to provide for Ukraine, but it's only a fraction of what we were once able to do due to the historically smaller need and rising standards for weaponry. Plus there's also all the air and sea equipment necessary to defend the status quo in the Western Pacific, which has a much longer lead time to get into production.
@@doujinflip Kamala is going to lose huge. Now Trump I personally believe is a lot more compromised than his first go around. Some incident could be ginned up to get us involved. Trump and the elites might be fine with using that to get us involved I'm not sure how that goes with the people. America has a long recent history of not caring what the people want, but the government caring more about illegal immigrants and other countries above its own has about reached the breaking point.
Pound for pound, the Israelis might be the most dangerous force in the world. As for the US military, we can fight anywhere at any time with more quality stuff than anybody else, but we probably arent THE best as foot soldiers
Most of this stuff is Zeihan wet dreams. Russian is the 2nd most spoken language in Israel. The vast majority of Jews in Israel come from the USSR. A lot of "Jews" are actually Russians and other Slavs who have married actual Jews and moved to Israel. Russia and Israel don`t really have any beef with one another. Countries trade with each other all the time. Russia can by whatever from whoever and same goes for Israel. I don`t see why South Korea should have any issue with what Russia is doing either. If anything North Korea depleting it`s manpower and munition supplies is probably a good thing.
@peterflohr7827 find me a country who doesn't. It's just the context means he misspoke for a second there. Further along his monolog it is clear he means Israelis.
For a nation that hasn't been in a fight in 71 years, North Korean generals have more decorations than a Christmas tree. We don't know if they can fight, but they sure are colorful.
One would think that it started to look a bit silly when they due to lack of space place medals om their pants. Oh well, at least they get some minor armour effect out of them. 😅
Brass body armor, because they can't afford kevlar
And those hats are the bomb.
That's why they're coming, for the experience. The Poles, French, Americans and Canadians have been there as well so let the party begin
They have probably had as much stress inoculation as soldiers anywhere even without a war.
Imagine, you're a North Korean soldier. You've barely figured out what a smartphone is, and your home town doesn't even have electricity. You arrive in a foreign country probably thinking your army is the superior fighting force only to have exploding bees fly down from the sky and rockets that explode into 1000 other bombs. You would very much not like to be there anymore. I can see how this may lead to tension.
Just pure cannon fodder. I wonder how many men will be slaved off from north Korea to help the Russians. It's disgusting, not like war isn't anyways.
what rocket "explodes into 1000 other bombs"? Do you mean the North Korean KN-09 MLRS bomblets?
And then you get captured and told your whole life is a lie then sent home
@@mjolnir4639new drones contains grenade like fragments the drone literally flies its self with ai and knows how to position it self to destroy the vehicle and anything inside just using the fragmentation from the explosive projectile
@@mjolnir4639 M39 (ATACMS Block I), which is equipped with a cluster warhead containing 950 M74 bomblets.
Fidel Castro did the exact same thing with Cuban soldiers: He paid for the Soviets' propping up his economy by providing them with cannon fodder in Angola and Ethiopia. About 10,000 dead in Angola, 400 dead in Ethiopia in 1978. (The "Ogaden War" versus Somalia was a quick victory for the Soviet Bloc nations. The Angolan Civil War dragged on for years.)
Russia is not Cuba or a peasant Arab army as the collective west are finding to there cost🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Ukrainato will collapse just like south Vietnam did. It’s on 24 hr life support🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@paulstewart4195 So we've been getting told for a couple of years now.
As a Cuban who has several relatives that fought in both conflicts I can tell you that the Soviets were not too happy with Castro's adventure in Angola, they basically had to play along once they realize that Cuba had deployed hundreds of soldiers in Luanda and Cabinda in total secrecy (As secretly as one can move troops in an old Bristol Brittania fom Cuba to South West Africa with lay overs in Canarias and Cape Vert.)Castro became a real pain in the ass for Brezhnev who at the time was trying to patch things over with the Americans in view of the fact that the Americans were getting cozy with the Chinese . When it comes to the Ogaden war the Soviets were betting both sides (The Ethiopian Derg and the Somalis) and ultimately choose the Ethiopians given Castro's close relation with the Ethiopian leader Menghistu Haile Mariam. Cold war politics is a bitch. By the way, I'm not in any measure a Castro supporter but to potray Cuba's expedition in Africa as mere puppet act is a gross simplification to say the least. We were no cannon fodder to no one; that part was played by the UNITA, the SADF and the Somalis. Also where did you get that 10000 dead figure?
And they freed Angola and Namibia from the white colonialist
@@prometheusunbound lol no. That's not what happened.
The Israel/South Korea collaboration is something very interesting and novel. Thanks for the insight Peter.
I heard a rumor they had a infantry vehicle collaboration, that will be sold as a South Korean, South Korea wants Israeli Iron Dome.
*AUSTRALIAN HERE* - Please do not forget where South Korea gets all of the raw materials they need to make stuff. ALL of their iron ore, coking coal, alumina, nickel, copper comes form other places and the place they get most of it from is Australia.
*HOWEVER* almost all of the raw materials Australia exports to South Korea (and Japan) especially iron ore comes out of Australia's WEST and it goes via the South China Sea. A few things like coking coal and food comes out of Australia's East Coast. So if the Chinese get "upitty" and block access to the South China Sea via their bases in the Spratly's then all that stuff has to get to South Kore via another route and that can get complex because some of the routes that might seem possible by looking at google maps are not viable because the water is too shallow and there's reefs and ships with 80,000tons of iron ores are not that manoeuvrable.
And the west would immediately close China oil from middle east. China would lose much and gain nothing
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@@elektrotehnik94 I'll pay that.
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@elektrotehnik94 ya fleet an marine presence being beefed up in region and chinese navy's basically shallow water hug coast fleet they're only able to bully fishing boats
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It always does now-a-days...
I forward till the change in shirt/background.
The scenery change is quite obvious
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@5:15 He meant to say Israeli not Russian but its also true about the Russians, but to a lesser extent.
I wanted to comment the same, so thank you for commenting it. I had to listen to it twice before figuring out what he meant is not what he said.
I also came to the comments to say this, but I'll boost your comment instead.
Yeah, I thought he misspoke there. No Israeli use of polonium yet though, that was "innovative" and almost not solved.
Spot on
yeah, I had to listen to it twice, because it made no sense
Using North Korean troops.
Tell me your military is just a rotting husk of what it once was without telling me.
The US uses ukraine troops to fight russia
cannon fodder
When was the last time USA defeated a country that had the same military equipments and financing as Ukraine? Russia is doing it with a fraction of USA's budget and half of USA's population.
@@user-hg4jk2q russia is spending far more on their invasion that what ukraine is receiving from the US.
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Utter rubbish, Russia is now the second best army within Russia 🤡
When you have to phone a friend and it's North Korea or Iran...you've run out of friends.
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North Korea sent more artillery shells to Russia than the whole NATO to Ukraine. So who has better friends?
Well this news is nonsense, ukrianian tabloid media just say stuff like this. I remember they said cubans were kidnapped and sent to the front. They based it on cuban volunteers. There were like 3 of them.
When you have to call USA, you know you're really screwed
While I agree with your conclusion, comparing the two isn't really fair.
Iran is an actual country with real people living out their lives. Sure women's freedom is limited, but they have the right to vote and work, and several ministers have even been women. *While North Korea is a high security prison masquerading as a country.*
Just pointing out that if all you know about Iran is from American(not European) media, you might mistakenly believe they are similar.
There is no substitute for combat experience. If N.K is deploying troops it is because they want/need the experience for something they are planning on the near future
I tend to agree, but I think FOOD is probably what N Korea needs more than anything.(Along with oil and coal). Kim seems to be distancing himself from Beijing and getting much cozier with Moscow.
@@DavidCooper-bn6te North Korea has been dealing with a food shortage since its inception. Have you seen the increase in activity across the border the last week. Everyone is preparing for something big and soon.
@@Mikeymoowix very very true brother! the cast are die. you are like the only one beside me seeing this. to many people living on seeing nothing...
1000 Russians dying daily...Koreans are heading to meat grinder. Kim won't be sending his best. Making headlines by sending nk troops can only help Trump, so stirring the pot seems like enough motive. That said, Trump saying him and Kim are friends is 🤮
Not necessarily, could just be an integration exercise like we see nato states doing all the time 🤷♂️
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Not for much longer it sounds like
I would love to be able to donate as I have mental health issues I'm unable to work anymore but I will pray for everyone caught up in this horror keep going Peter you're making a difference!!!!
dog, just put one foot in front of the other....."i cant" smh
@@Th3Mast3rL0ck I wish for you a walk in their shoes.
@@paulgray1699 i wish to not be disabled and here the whines of capable people saying 'i cant"
i wonder if this might backfire. leaving their country for the first time in 70 years and seeing their leader hasn't been telling the truth in mass numbers.
Both Russia and Ukraine are way worse off than North Korea. If only you knew how bad things actually are. They won't take grunts to center Moscow.
It's just another fake news story, so it won't backfire...
You are assuming that they are returning home. Those soldiers were given to Russia, not loaned.
@@nurfuis well that's not realistic and where did you hear that? north korea isn't going to just see them gone forever and where they would go after the war is not really realistic that they just won't go home
@@007kingifrit the Russian army will treat them as cheep cannon fodder, like they do with most of their army. They will have very few go back home, and those few will know as well as every other fellow citizen.
Saying negative things about the SK government is not healthy.
Russia is using North Korean soldiers!? 😂😂😂 Poor Russia. The Tsar's empire really is shit.
the last Tsar, along with jis entire family, was murdered over 100 years ago by bloodthirsty jews. This Russia is the husk leftover after those jews terrorized and genocided the country.
Don't insult the Incompetent Dictorial Tsars.
Would it be legal to de-orbit a large satellite and accidentally have it fall on the Kremlin?
Im sure Russia will take great care of these North Korean soldiers, they treat their own soldiers so well!
I think it was Sun Tzu who said "be an armchair general on the internet, laugh at, and under-estimate your enemy."
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Hopefully you do not live in a disaster prone area.
Peter, thank you. I'm in Tampa area and the SW Florida area got hit. We did pretty well with wind damage but others not so much. But weather you escaped serious damage we still deal with no power, no gasoline, no food. Until the trucks start rolling again, you eat whatever is in your pantry or ice cooler. Pray for NC
Haitian (tastes like chicken) bbq is sounding pretty good!
A Free current affairs video like all the other ones you were doing before you started pushing the patreon thing. Right?
Okay good now that we have that out of the way on to the video ty 😊
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All the best to you and yours
Russians bought the licence to manufacture the Shaheed drones they have and entire factory in Yelanuga Tartarstan province. The Russian produced drones are named Geran. I am surprised you didnt know this.
and they just got a complete factory online in china making the shaheed drones but they are making major improvements to them. bad news
this clown does not even know how the russian political system works despite being a so-called "expert" on Russia.
Russia political system is the leader is king and as Stalin said the people that count the votes decide the winner not the voters.
@@DeborahLokken-yz1bg Do you have any doubts that 90% of Russians support Putin? I don't. But of course I agree with Stalin.
An interesting point is that Ukrainian special forces deployed to Sudan to fight russian forces there.
Gold mines in the area being a source of Russian funding.
If Israel was suddenly more involved and anti russian this conflict could get some Mussad specials......
Koreans are not know for make shit up.
1. Hamburger creator
Kim Jong-un's father Kim Jong-il claimed he invented the hamburger, calling it "double bread with meat", with grand dreams that it would become a new national dish as he unsuccessfully introduced it to the nation's universities.
2. Speaking of food
The older Kim was also fond of claiming sawdust was full of nutrients, encouraging his citizens to chow down on the building byproduct in their regular times of famine.
3. Supernatural bodily functions
Kim's official biography stated he never needed to use a toilet because his body was so well calibrated he didn't urinate or defecate.
4. Magical Beginnings
According to his official biography, Kim Jong-il's birth atop a sacred mountain saw a new star created and winter turn to spring. However records kept by the country's Soviet allies show he was born in a Siberian village in 1941.
5. Fashion icon
Shortly before his death in 2011, Kim Jong-il's signature grey military styling was being celebrated by the world's top fashion designers, according to state media, who quoted an unnamed French designer saying "Kim Jong-il mode, which is now spreading expeditiously worldwide, is something unprecedented in the world's history".
6. Everyone loves us
Despite having one of the worst international reputations, North Koreans are told their leaders are beloved around the world and that each country celebrates their birthdays.
7. Time thieves
For decades North Koreans believed the Japanese stole time from them back during their 1919 occupation. Kim Jong-un finally righted this injustice and set North Korea's clocks back by half an hour on August 15, 2015.
8. Greatness of hereditary
Kim Jong-un is just as amazing as his father, according to North Korea state media which revealed he was a gifted sailor as a youth - who also learned to drive at the age of three. The younger Kim is also a celebrated musical composer and artist, who is celebrated around the world.
9. No such thing as the internet
The only people with access to the internet in North Korea are government officials and the state tells its citizens it's a notion invented by the west.
10. Fake village
Keen to encourage South Koreans to migrate, the North Korean government built Peace Village near the border in the 1950s. Propaganda says 200 families live happily and work in the village, but observers say it houses North Korean soldiers manning artillery stations pointed south.
North Korean dictator/superstar golfer Kim Jong-Il has died at 69 -- a fitting age, because 69 is under par on every regulation golf course.
Kim shot 38 under, including 11 holes-in-one, at the 7,700-yard championship course at Pyongyang in the VERY FIRST golf round of his life, according to North Korean state media.
Interestingly so Sudan functions as the main weapon smuggling route to Hamas from Iran, and on several past occasions Israel has bombed large weapons caravans in Sudan.
More so, both Iran and Israel are reported to hold secret bases on Sudan's neighbor Eritrea.
It seems like the world is already on a low key ww3.
Anyone investigate Putin's proctologist?
Can't sell oil? Steal gold then...
There are a lot of Jews living in Russia. Israel wouldn't put their lives at risk (and the large Russian Jewish population inside Israel wouldn't let it happen even if the government were so inclined to put them at risk). And Israel is kind of occupied right now with more pressing matters anyway. The "recapture the Pale" project was a fun little side quest but with war against Iran, Lebanon, and Syria looming, Israel has no time for such games anymore.
We have to fund Peter's hiking trips. He needs them! Who will think of Peter if not us?
CIA are well paid don’t worry about Peter
Zeihan should promote Patreon more discreetly like most RUclips channels that has it.
I mean he promotes his 5 books. What is the difference?
That was a particularly obnoxious opening
@@JayPhelps-vt5qywhy?
@@GeopoliticsClips-r1x The difference? Aside from the sarcasm and general fuckery ? Most people who insult their audience by pointing out their "generosity" or call their audience "cheapskates" don't keep that audience for very long. And they definitely don't make people want to pay them.
So have you bought his books? Or at least listened to them on Spotify or something?
Very good of you to make that contribution, Peter. Fair play.
"Some damn fool thing in the Balkans."
The US should really be building military equipment like there's an extremely hot war on the horizon.
Unfortunately, we have offshored a large portion of our industrial base and crippled our mining industry. This is going to bite us in the near future.
@@SpookyEng1 we've rebuilt a lot more industrial capacity in the last ten or so years than most people realize.
The shale oil boom drove a big chunk, and the reshoring that followed it once people noticed that we had really cheap access to the feedstock for all the types of plastic drove a big chunk, and then Covid scrambling international supply chains drove another chunk.
That grown just hasn't been particularly well spread out over the country.
it will take decades to rebuild war time capacity.
Thanks for being honest about the bribing. ❤😂
The crazy thing is, the West is fighting using only a single thumb. Do these other countries not realize this?
The West is not fighting at all. Ukraine is fighting using western weapons. If I give somebody my rifle to fight doesn't mean that I am fighting.
With the losses the Russian black sea fleet has taken against a country with no navy, how would they stand up against a carrier battle group?
We know where it's at, too!
@@TheMrplunk How would a carrier battlegroup reach the black sea?
The West is pampered and soft. Obsessing about Palestinian jihadists. Negative child birth. Not a real threat.
Zeihan’s analysis is geopolitically relevant and mostly accurate, especially regarding Russia’s dependency on unconventional allies like North Korea and Iran. However, the conclusions about the involvement of Israel and South Korea, while strategic possibilities, may overstate the immediacy and scale of their engagement in the Ukraine conflict. The analysis is thoughtful but could benefit from more nuanced consideration of the diplomatic consequences surrounding such escalations.
He was cautious. Not saying SK and Israel would cooperate or involve but only indicating potential benefits.
Your comment is relevant
Russian sending advanced military equipment to NK has changed the calculus for SK.
His analysis of macroeconomic trends is mostly accurate. His military analysis has a terrible track record. Just rewatch his Kursk video.
Ukraine took a 6000 population town early and has been slowly losing ground over the past 2 weeks. In the meantime they've lost the 14 000 pop town called Vuhledar.
Peter draws linear conclusions from computer simulation, and he (it) is often wrong. Mostly because the computer info he's glibly regurgitating does not allow for Deus ex machina.
Peter, your chat is top drawer. Thanks, great vlog.
Who would you rather have backing you, North or South Korea? The North has half the population, is starving, has artillery which has destroyed more Russian systems than Ukrainian, and a totally untrained army which last fought 75 years ago and got annihilated. The South is one of the worlds biggest arms exporters and producers, has been trained and supported by the US for 75 years, is wealthy, is technologically advanced, and has weapons known for their reliability. I don't know about you, but I choose SK.
How embarrassing that you actually believe that bullshit
@@vknight7497 I don't believe you even exist.
Don't underestimate poor, miserable, traumatized troops. Comfortable troops from wholesome places may have whizbang toys but they are softer than the guys who grew up in hard circumstances. The Vietnamese and the Afghanistanis proved this more than once each.
@joemerino3243 Russia and Chechnya have poor, miserable troops too. And Ukraine is annihilating them. Are there even anymore Chechnyans still fighting in Ukraine?
@@srp7038 Yes. In Kursk, Chechan special forces with Siberian forces do the recons. Patrick recently travelled with Chechans in Kursk for a report.
- Pro-West Ukraine vs. pro-East Russia
- pro-West Israel vs. pro-East Iran
At this point the question arises: are these actually wars on their own or only two fronts in the same big war?
Well, for Israel and Ukraine the US is a common friend while for Iran and Russia a common friend is China.
Nopes - not East. Just China. And China is not all of east
Israel's conflict with Iran, sure that fits the paradigm, but the other stuff Israel is doing, not so much.
Maybe anti-west is more accurate than pro-east. Or anti-USA; or anti-current-international-order.
@manwiththeredface7821
So you're claiming that Iran is helping defend Japan 🇯🇵 , South Korea 🇰🇷, Taiwan 🇹🇼, etc?
...tell me how this isn't a world War again ?
Much more like a Second Cold War. The original Cold War involved lots of fighting through proxies.
Depends on what's your definition of a world war. I would not call this a world war. At least not at the same degree as WOI and WOII. And I don't think it will come to that. But then again, I wasn't expecting Russia to invade Ukraine either, so who knows.
Because it's tiny with a minor number of belligerents. This is nowhere near WW. Like the other guy said, it's somewhat comparable to cold war 2.0.
Bingo
This is like when you scan and see them pop all the larva into lings. You still have time before they hatch and you can throw down a bunker or hold position a scv with some bio on your ramp.
I’m sure the Ukrainians and friends will welcome them whole heartedly.
Love your videos!! Bron from South Africa
This is the video post that finally persuaded me to ante up on Patreon.
Kudos to Peter for his upbeat humor and generosity!
Yes where is the Holywood Elite?
So generous to take pity on the poors
Q) How desperate would you have to be to fight for Russia.
A) North Korean levels of desperate.
Russia is to NK as Amazon is to American labor, so the most dangerous ordnance that they have is plastic shopping bags of 💩
B) All of the above
Not as desperate to be used as western cannon fodder for Blackrock hedge funds. The crooks in Washington busy laundering money are well matched to the Neo Nazi gangsters in Kiev busy stealing money. But the end game is now in sight🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪🏽
@@paulstewart4195I hope typing that out soothed your butt-hurt.
@@paulstewart4195 Oh… You still believe in this nazi bs….
A real puppet…
Good boy! Putin needs people like you in his army…
enjoy your videos peter respect your right to earn an income 👍
Same. I just do t like subscription model (as a buyer…it’s great for sellers) so I wait a week. Nothing in this video is degraded by a 1 week wait. I would play if it entailed listening to ads on RUclips or paying as I go without an auto debit
It is difficult to think of a more smug person than PZ. Maybe Jerry Seinfeld.
Thanks Peter for your free commentaries. I am disabled and can’t afford your Patron channel and i will miss your content!
Hello from WNC. Thanks for using your platform to support the relief effort. A bunch of my friends still dont have running water. Helene was brutal.
Thanks for this, Peter. I wish I could afford Patreon. I don't always agree with you, but I always appreciate your insight.
Tell me you are having manpower issues without telling me that you are hiring North Korean soldiers like Hessian soldiers.
Like if NATO and western mercenaries weren't fully involve in the war.
@@raymondnoel6053 If they actually were, Russia already would have been defeated. Of course now that NK is involved, maybe more countries like Poland or France might decide to get actively involved since Russia has now changed the rules of the “game”.
I dont understand the making fun of them. Ukraine has the same exact problem but Russia has a solution
@@EyeOfMagnus4E201 Its fake news tho. NKs arent in Ukraien or Russia. Come on. People even saying this for more than a year. Pro-urkaine channels are so fing sad. I always have to watch the exact same videos because you guys are recyceling talkingpoints every few months. Its a sign of failure.
The soldiers from N Korea have no choice. no western.government is sending thousands of their soldiers to the front line.
One thing I learned from the storm. Is food an water is great an all but generators chainsaws and gloves gas cans etc is way more helpful.
What are you saying?
Be prepared I guess? Or he works for a chainsaw company ?
@@t.r.2283 yes be prepared etc we was 6 days with out power etc others I know lost entire home etc..
@@101spacecase okay I was confused as to if those were things you needed or if those were things you have.
What are you mumbling about
You are amazing! My favorite geopolitical news 😊
ZEIHAN. MAKE LONGER VIDEOS PLS. THAK YOU.
So if we don’t signup to his subscription service we won’t be able to access him random guess content, sounds like a win to me.
Thanks for your deeply insightful reporting. Good fortune behind the pay wall, I will always be waiting out here for your fascinating observations.
So could Ukraine get South Korean Tanks and Israeli Anti Missile tech?
That would be great but Zeihan talked about SK and Israel cooperating with each other.
Bingo.
@@peterflohr7827 *I know* That’s why I asked a question that wasn’t covered.
South Koreans tanks? What happened to all the leopards and Abrams? Or even the F16s? Anti missile tach? I think u haven’t seen the Iranian missiles hitting Noatim air base yet!
Glad I found your site...
I would think that this gives a N. Korean the opportunity to defect away from .....
Thank you for this video
How hard is it to operate a steam powered tank. 😂
😂😂😂😂
Thank you for the content, Peter.
Peter - there are about 30 content creators I regularly follow on YT - most of them have a subscription channel on another platform - like Patreon - for approx. $5 / mo - but obviously the model doesn't work for me - as it doesn't work for most people - I don't have $150 / mo to spend - or rather - I don't value the content that highly
What jim said.
"most of them have a subscription channel on another platform" - that's because most people prefer to get paid for their work.
then don't buy it!
@@michaelcrossley4716 Wow, I thought that I was played 2 ads when I clicked on the video. Perhaps my brain just glitched.
@smiley_7428 You barely see any money from that, hence why everyone makes a patreon
Luv the content, I will sign up, I will sign up!
Great analysis and some positive news for a change!
Good thing Ukraine doesn't need any foreign assistance unlike Russia with North Koreans.
Ukraine doesnt need any assistance good joke.
@@kim222221000 his comment went over your head
Ukraine is defending itself, you brainwashed russian puppet
Strange that Russia had the second largest military, brags about their production and technology, but yet needs Iran, China and North Korea just to keep their war going. Not to mention all the Africans they have to pay to use for their meat wave attacks. Odd.
yeah, Ukraine can easily counter four nuclear powers: Russia, North Korea, Iran and China in the shadows while the west is deeply concerned and chilling on its couch.
Russia, China AND North Korea working together is like three drunks trying to hold each other up...
I agree but I have another analogy with Russia Iran and DRPK on the same team, is like Larry, Curly, and Moe, The 3 Stooge's which always ends in chaos and laughter.
I would love to see Israel and South Korea team up. They would make a truly dynamic team, especially if SK could make Israeli tech at scale.
way to go Peter.
You're. Top. Shelf. For. Helping
Hmmm. South Korea has huge manufacturing of weapons systems just a little less capable than the big guys. Israel has a history of reworking weapons systems to make them just a little bit better than the big guys. Those two join forces....
Video starts at 1:40
"This is free because I'm trying to bribe you..." Made me laugh, then made my heart heavy...
Man the world needs to stop having big shocking events, it completely destroys Peter's ability to delay talking about it for a week.
As a free American, I choose not to watch Israeli apologists anymore. So long Peter. You've been 'cancelled'.
Does russia looks like the world second strongest army..? I DON'T THINK SO...👈🤣🤣🤪🤪
Second best army … in Russia
Empire of Lies is crumbling infront of the global south eyes
South-Korea is one of the main investors (Through Raytheon) in the Iron-Dome project.
I wonder if South Korea is also involved in the Iron Beam (energy weapon air defense) project. I can well imagine the ROK really wanting the ability to shoot down incoming artillery barrages.
Always great explanations.
Good analysis Peter. Thank you.
When the American Empire falls, how will Peter react?
5:15 Zeihan misspoke here, right? He meant the Israelis are among the best...?
The Russians are as well.
@@gazamancraazii8777may as well be, but the context is wrong.
Yep I noticed too
Remember when Boris Johnson, 2 months into the conflict and on behalf of the West, told Zelenski not to hold peace talks with Putin? Well done!
Remember when pro-Russia talking points got old fast? Like, over two years ago? Read the room.
Why is YT hiding the reply below? I can't read or respond. 1984. This comment never existed....
@@celicagt007 Meh, probably best you don't reply. You're only going to make a fool of yourself in public again anyway.
@@celicagt007idiot, u r talking with urself
Feed the RUclips algorithm with a comment. Great video. Thank you!
You know you're going to lose when you're relying on north Korean troops...
Did anyone else notice that the US is not an option for producing industrial scale arms for Ukraine?
Yeah. Things are going great.
WTF are you talking about?
The US increased it's industrial arms to over 6 times what it was producing just 2 years ago.
The US army didn't think artillery was that important, then the Ukraine war happened, now the US is pumping it out like crazy.
The US didn't have a large stock pile, because they didn't think it was important, now they're producing more artillery than any country in history.
American ammo manufacturers are running all day and night to provide for Ukraine, but it's only a fraction of what we were once able to do due to the historically smaller need and rising standards for weaponry. Plus there's also all the air and sea equipment necessary to defend the status quo in the Western Pacific, which has a much longer lead time to get into production.
@@doujinflip Kamala is going to lose huge. Now Trump I personally believe is a lot more compromised than his first go around. Some incident could be ginned up to get us involved. Trump and the elites might be fine with using that to get us involved I'm not sure how that goes with the people. America has a long recent history of not caring what the people want, but the government caring more about illegal immigrants and other countries above its own has about reached the breaking point.
Do not screw with the Israelis, the South Koreans are not to be trifled with.
Nothing compared to the American Kung Fu Jesus
Pound for pound, the Israelis might be the most dangerous force in the world. As for the US military, we can fight anywhere at any time with more quality stuff than anybody else, but we probably arent THE best as foot soldiers
Most of this stuff is Zeihan wet dreams.
Russian is the 2nd most spoken language in Israel. The vast majority of Jews in Israel come from the USSR. A lot of "Jews" are actually Russians and other Slavs who have married actual Jews and moved to Israel. Russia and Israel don`t really have any beef with one another. Countries trade with each other all the time. Russia can by whatever from whoever and same goes for Israel.
I don`t see why South Korea should have any issue with what Russia is doing either. If anything North Korea depleting it`s manpower and munition supplies is probably a good thing.
Iran and North Korean vs Israel and South Korean! wow!
@@Erik_Ice_Fangwhen was the last time they did anything impressive lol
Does any of this impact my Amazon delivery?
Priorities 😂
You are the best!
Thank you
5:17 he probably meant Israel good at asasination,not russians
I have notices it too, had to rewind. He meant Israelis.
True, but ruSSians don't shy away from it either.
@peterflohr7827 find me a country who doesn't. It's just the context means he misspoke for a second there. Further along his monolog it is clear he means Israelis.
'No money?... no intelligence info for you!'
This guy openly lies about everything he says I don’t know why any of you guys are listening to him. I just tune in to laugh.
CIA spokes-hole. YT deletes my comments on this channel.
Wow, that was fascinating and extremely illuminating.
Excellent observation. Excellent synergies. Israel and SK.
Peter shaming us and asking to pay for what was free like 1 week ago...
I mean he promotes his 5 books. What is the difference?
If uou felt shame, that's on you
He is allowed to change his business model. You are still watching for free aren't you?
Guy's gotta eat.
@robd8577 Oh stop with the self-righteous bs.
Israel + South Korea = BIG TIME SYNERGY
Hi guy,
Are they opening up polling/early polling in the affected states?
Good commentary
Great analysis
God bless you Peter
Thank you peter
Thanks Peter
Thankyou 👍🏽👍🏽
Zeihan, you are the man 👊🏻
Sold! Thank you.
Thanks!
I'm signing on your Patreon.
a man that has everything needs more. HOW GENEROUS!
Peter, opinion is free and you’re not bottling something so rare it can’t be attained from other sources