Holding his phone up the whole time no less😂

You should check out the Duran you will get a non bias report.

There is a cut at about 11:03

@@big1boston They are Russian mouth-pieces

@@bcanuck they are British and Greek. The news is accurate.

His multi hour speeches & presentations are on YT. Or buy his books.

Get the books on Audible and be entertained for days. Start with Accidental Superpower. God shed his grace on thee indeed. You’ll realize we ourselves are our only meaningful enemy.

Google shades to feed him the words...

And never trips up, or stubs his foot, or drops his camera...

​@oldcynic6964 you consider everyone else retarded?

while walking in high altitude, so he's cross training a mental performance skill set with a physical exercise practice

@@integralmark he's simply being a typical human contrary to some degenerates

Yes, Yes, Yes

Alright, don't remember asking but fair enough.

That's my morning routine as well!

You don't shit? 😮

That's a nice morning routine! Respect

The definition of privilege.

Lmao not enough beer

Or 🧀

@@bryanreed1328 which is ironic because beer (or more accurately, ale) was a big part of pre-Islamic peasant culture in the grain growing areas of the Middle East.

Instead we made Michigan look like Iraq.

@@FamilyManMoving Hey. That's not fair. Iraq has better water.

That's because you're American

​@@prsimoibn2710 dude that's not a proper way to address them. It would be more appropriate to write 'MURICAN' or 'Yank'.

You obviously do not travel the world and talk to the average people on the street... Zeihan is incredibly out of touch with current realities

⁠@@torahislifeokay, I’ll bite, how is Peter “out of touch with current realities”?

@@torahislife He’s right about China’s population collapse and collapsing economy. The One Child Policy from 1979- 2015 makes it a mathematical certainty. Shutting eyes won’t make it not happen.

Nej, it's better that government run "teachers" stay out of (geo)politics. There is no chance they are going to give the correct story. Schools should stay to the "how to" not the "what to". How to read, write and do math.

They'd rather teach national myth and propaganda, sadly.

@@visby2548 1) Teachers are not neccessarily run by government and "government" (whatever that is) isn't neccessary incorrect. The truth is probably that no one is correct. It is probably impossible to be entirely correct when it comes to geopolitics. Things can be described from different philosophical standpoints, summarized over different timeframes and in the end the winners (and some losers) write the history books differently. What I am after isn't correctness, but that people should learn the basic mechanisms of geopolitics at an early age. I am personally shocked I wasn't exposed to Peters stuff earlier in life and that no one I know seems to know much about it. 2) Who should teach geopolitics? Ah, Peter. Well, thats great - but I feel its too late in life for me. I would litterary have lived a different and smarter life if I'd known even half of what Peter has cranked out since he started craking out his bits.

Don't miss Those Sowells assessment of African geography.

99% of the world, or 99% of the US? 😅

Presumably it's worth it rather than leaving and having isis conquer Iraq or otherwise make a country for themselves and have to deal with a much bigger thing in the future

Won't Last THAT long at the current rate of consumption, though.😱

@@LoneWolf-wp9dnwont happen the turks or Israelis would replace what the Americans been doing in the middle east

@@Premium_ZoomerTrader #doubt

@@Premium_ZoomerTrader Or more secular dictators like Saddam was, which lets remember, we made alliance with at one point.

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@@tonyrobinson1623this user does, Fake conversations

Well , I dunno. While studying fracking ,I was deep deep in oil industry sites and in an interview one oil guy stated; " It is generally understood among oil industry execs., that we went into Iraq because the Saudis wanted Hussein gone". Coincidentally, once he was gone, we got the 'ol " mission accomplished" banner put up, which does seem to confirm oil guy's statement. For what it's worth. Don't get me wrong; I love Peter's insights, and I'm from Colorado and am totally envious of what must be the most immense sunglasses collection on the front range (you really need them out here).

The video is full of misinformation. Anyone who is knowledgeable about Middle Eastern affairs would catch it easily, but if you just know superficially, you might get duped into believing his opinions. I have to give it him. He can say something absolutely incorrect with a great deal of confidence.

The problem is that most people separate geography from politics/culture.

@@green_block What was incorrect in the video?

@@RandarserousRexwe’re in Syria supporting Al-Q in order to topple the Syrian government. US is illegally occupying a third of Syrian land and stealing their oil and depriving the Syrians of income to rebuild. The US state department has admitted this in think tank conferences. Zeihan is a propagandist for the US empire, he’s trash.

Not to mention Saudi Arabia.

massive migration for Europe and America.

@@maxtenYes, and this is not so secretly keeping Western governments up at night. Plus, with climate change, all countries will face internal migration issues when certain areas are no longer livable on a practical level.

This spells mass migrations to me down the road

A few WEEKS?!

​@@bobwoods1302yeah itd be the craziest hiking trip of your life

@@hazb8026 Sure would lol

Try minutes first, you'd get bored fast trust me

@@prsimoibn2710i watch all of his presentations so I doubt it.

No chit, Sherlock. Like nobody knew that bk when everyone said they've been fighting in the middle east for thousands of yrs against 1 another & larger empires...(the early 1980s for those historically challenged) & you will change nothing by going to war there either?? That was the early '80s, after Carters team botched the 52 American Hostage rescue. Took Reagan getting elected (a Republican) to get them released w/o a shot. Think about that, PZ..?? How insightful now, 50+ yrs later to think its genius to know the middle east cannot be *_Won_* # 🤡 *_ShowInDC_*

And just leaving is a no-win situation. This is the dictionary definition of dilemma. A problem with two solutions (stay or leave), neither of which is good. Yes, it’s more complex than that, with a lot of moving parts, but the push and pull is between less engagement or more engagement. Long term, the U.S. wants to ease out, and has been easing out, getting our regional partners to take more responsibility and to start cooperating with each other in a meaningful way. The recent Iranian proxy attacks tells me that Iran doesn’t want the U.S. to leave. And that is a clue that Iran is a proxy for someone else.

@@MarcosElMalo2 we don't need to steal oil any longer (except in Syria, clearly 😆) so it is a Win Win situation to leave, & stop allowing Military Service Men & Women to be killed, so we have a reason to retaliate against Iran, by Firing Missiles into Iraq & Syria. Cuz that is intellectual brilliance that only this administration could get behind. Well, & this channel, as a Cloaked Neocon mouthpiece, bragging about the wisdom in regards to the likes of Jake Sullivan. I assume Victoria Nuland's brilliance just goes unspoken most of the time. Anyone who cannot admit this a is purely entertainment and comedy channel to get the Communist & Chief re-elected, should listen to Colonel Douglas MacGregor. The man PZ will not 1 on 1 debate regarding all the US policies that PZ stands behind & supports. While MacGregor is shredding everything on this channel *_WITH FACTS* .

@@MarcosElMalo2 Leave them and their camels to it. There is no longer a dependency on their oil. If Europe and Asia want to defend their canal connection, OK. Or ask the Turks back. They seemed to know how to handle the situation.

@@MarcosElMalo2 Wait what?! You started out well enough but every expert i have listened to has claimed that Iran is trying to actually push the US OUT of the ME through its proxies. Sure - for the short term it actually pulled the US IN - especially due to the Houthi attacks on International shipping. But the strategy of Iran I think is to A) Turn Israel into a pariah State among Arab and Muslim nations (and to some extent in other countries) so Israel and Saudi Arabia won't be able to sign a normalization treaty and B) Get the US out of the ME - once the Gaza war is over and the Houthis can claim they no longer need to support their Palestinian brothers and sisters. Then Iran becomes a regional power and nukes will seal that deal.

nah 😂😂😂

But then the question is why didn't the Middle East recover? Remember all of China and much of Eastern Europe had also been conquered by the Mongol Horde.

@@doujinflip exactly! He's a Muslim apologet. It's not worth debating with him.

I am most certainly not a Muslim apologist, far from it. I think that the Muslim religion, like all large religions, is essentially poison. I just don't like simple answers to complex problems. I think the rainfall hypothesis is actually clear and compelling but it's misleading to claim that was the only, or even primary, contributing cause. The world would be almost unthinkably different had the Mongols come in and upset the Medieval apple cart. @@chrise-ih4ix

I personally believe that any area of the world that was invaded by the Mongols was scarred badly. In Russia, the Mongol legacy is a haunting presence, its ethos of iron-fisted rule and deep-seated suspicion of the external world now mirrored in Russia's aggressive posturing and territorial ambitions, posing a stark challenge to Western notions of global peace and stability. China, too, carries the indelible marks of Mongol rule, its centralized power and strategic assertiveness echoing an era of foreign domination; traits that today fuel its rising global assertiveness, often clashing with Western interests and values. It's damned lucky that Ögedei Khan died suddenly in 1241 and the invasion of Europe was called off or it would a huge and catastrophic influence on Western society too. It would have delayed the industrial revolution by centuries. @@doujinflip

I absolutely agree. He's the man....how exactly can he do this?

What do you mean by "active role"? Do you think Turkey will simply annex Syria?

"The Turks want rid of the Kurds, whether right or wrong" how can "removing" an ethnic group ever be right, please explain that to me

I highly recommend the videos on turkey made by Kraut

@@matm4413 I’m saying that because if the issue were simple no one would argue. Turkey hates the Kurds. The Kurds are a US ally. Turkey will want to rid themselves of the Kurdish resistance. The US won’t, but will probably waffle and stumble. The Iranians aren’t fond of the Kurds. Turkey and the US will use them as pawns there. My statement is an acknowledgement that, no matter my opinion on the Kurds, and I have tremendous respect and admiration for them, there certainly are those who have a very different opinion. Just ask the Kurds. They are going to be a centerpiece of history in this region for many more years to come, just as they always have. It’s not going to be a peaceable narrative, either.

@@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg They have occupied parts of it recently already. I’m no expert, but given the situation with Russian troops in the region, Kurdish rebels, a failed state on their border, their own nationalist pride, especially concerning their history with Syria… sure wouldn’t surprise me!

No he is absolutely delusional, this is the most eurocentrist retardation ive ever seen

So with propaganda?///

Same, motivates me to get everything ready to leave for work so I can relax and listen to Peter’s insights

Same here, its why I hate weekends 🤣🤣🤣

Hey Peter are you also one of these idiots that thinks that Iran are the main sponsors of Hamas, do you know who you sound like, NEOCON Nikki with all her lies. Eg that Russia is going to go beyond Ukraine into Poland and the Baltic States - at least the Tucker/Putin interview set the record straight on that one. Or what's the other one, oh yeah ''China is going to invade, Taiwan' based off zero evidence. Repeat after me NO NEOCONS NO WARS !!!

I agree wholeheartedly

I would also add winter. Because we experience winter in Europe (which creates scarcity and other challenges), we developed a culture of planning ahead.

Hoping Nigeria can manage to overcome all the challenges you correctly noted and keep building up the economy, your country has so much potential to be a powerhouse.

House slave detected.

what is dutch disease?

Its worse in the desert, if don't have water, you have to take it from others who have. Creating a perpetual war for water control.

I was going to say it enforces a work ethic. Work hard now so you are well supplied for the lean cold times of snow cover.

People organized their way through an Ice Age. Now that's a work ethic.

@@brianjonker510 This argument never convinced me, most ppl outside the west today work far longer than them and in much worse conditions for much lower pay. Only when they do it it isn't "work ethic" it is "slavery".

Also kills bugs

You’re an expectorant?

Problem was they weren't willing to fight for it. Big difference when it is given, rather than earned. Iraq is was same.

afganistan were like that before us-soviet intervention. are forgetting US fund the taliban to fight of the soviet. last time they called freedom fighters. its the same script used in Iraq now but different player like the kurds.

Not forgetting, The US supplied the taliban and the more moderate Northern Alliance. Once the Soviets started withdrawing the taliban destroyed the leadership of the northern Alliance. Big difference was the Northern Alliance was fighting for political reasons, where the taliban lead by Osama, it was all about Religion. Which bit the US in the ass in the long run. The US bases in Saudi were "temporary" until Saddam was forced out of Kuwait. Then they were to be closed. They are still there. Osama used that fact to attacked the US, for defiling the Muslim Holy Land with infidels. One has to wonder what would have happened if we had closed the bases. The bases could have been located elsewhere.

😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah, fortress towns - that's about it.

And totally wrong.

Yea he completely left out the Ottoman empire who ran the middle east for centuries.

It’s a stupid summery.

​@@iraqisailoryour refutation of his position is stupid. Not because his answer is wrong, but because yours was lazy. Try giving reasons for your opinion.

Because he's one of the minority Americans that isn't a lard slurpper....

True. It affects the entire world. And despite the wishes of the isolationists who think we can retreat into Fortress America, we are part of the world. The isolationists want a simple answer to a complicated problem, like the kid who takes the ball and goes home, yielding the playing field to others.

With Venezuela not producing much oil and nobody buying Russian oil.... the Middle East is important, for now.

the usa and more so canada could provide the EU and korea/japan with all the oil they will ever need it will just be expensive to transport it there (though imo the costs is worth the life loss/military intervention required to rely on the middle east)

It will impact these other countries MORE, so they should be paying us if they want us to provide security for THEIR resource concerns.

Once Amerika retreats and these powers expand into the region/make themselves partners, this will mean a different perspective for the Middle East. The American paradigm is too cowboys and Indians. Other areas of the world (India, far-east) may offer different opportunities in a partnership, like more moderation and societal stability, less morals and values and greater emphasis on technology rather thank nation building via individuality and resource trading.

SE asia has Islam and no where near the amount of problems

@@StayFreshMyFriends That’s because Islam came relatively late to places like Indonesia which was previously Buddhist and Hindu. Coupled with strong Dutch and Portuguese colonial rule and influence for several centuries not long after the arrival of Islam. The countries also continued to have a very strong cultural residual effect of having been Buddhist/Hindu that it remained a part of the cultural mindset. Indonesia is also **constitutionally** secular thanks to Dutch colonial influence. That’s the difference between the status of Islam in SE Asia versus its birthplace in the Hejaz of Arabia.

@@StayFreshMyFriends But I will say this, in addition to my other comment. The places in SE Asia where Islam is the most entrenched and secularism is weakest have seen decades of problems that don't get the news media attention. Aceh Province in the northern tip of the island of Sumatra was a region of ongoing insurgency against the Indonesian government for a long time. The insugency was wiped out in a single day when the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami hit Aceh, killing 200 thousand people, including many insurgents and their support bases. Today Aceh is subject to Shari'a Law. Also investigate the recent Siege of Marawi in the Southern Philipinnes in 2017, which took the Philippines Army five months of fighting to get the largest city on the southern island of Mindanao out of the hands of the Islamist insurgents and back in government control.

​@@wattleboughi was about to write the same, but seen your comment. all over islam is a problem when taking it too seriosly as most islam followers tend to do.

@@strigoiu13 It goes all the way back to Muhammed himself and his first converts. The first Jewish blood spilled by Muslims happened in Medinah when Muhammed’s fanatical followers assaulted and killed several men of the Jewish tribes that had resided there for several centuries. Muhammed had them either driven out of Medinah, or in the case of the Jewish Banu Qurayzah tribe of Medinah, every male who had reached puberty was executed by beheading and their bodies dumped in to a trench which is under the pristine white tiles of Medinah today. The women, such as Rayhanna Bint Zayd and the children were all divided up among Muhammed’s men as war booty/ slaves and concubines. It’s well recorded in all the earliest historical Islamic records and is therefore part of the Sunnah.

With respect, I think your statement is also inexact. Much of the supposed medical, mathematical, and philosophical 'achievements' of the middle east during the middle ages HAS been clearly shown to be Muslims simply 'digesting/copying' previous (mostly western) knowledge. Medicine? Arabic medical prowess was almost entirely copied from ancient greek physicians. Mathmatics? Same thing, only this time it was pre-christian greek and persian mathematicians they copied/expounded on. Philosphy? Again, Muslim philosophy during this time period was mostly Muslim's attempt to reconcile Islam with western philosophers like Aristotle, etc. The real reason many people incorrectly attribute these achievements to Muslims is because, with the MASSIVE spread of Arabic as a common language (especially written language) as Muslims repeatedly used war during the middle ages to rapidly spread, you had, for the first time in over 500 year (since the romans and latin), a way to transmit writing/knowledge over VAST distances and have that knowledge be understood by someone hundreds or thousands of kilometers/miles away. So what did this do? Over time people, even in the west, forgot that the knowledge of theMuslims was actually once theirs, and they just assumed that it came from the Muslims, when in fact it hadn't. The only reason the false narrative of the Middle East as a place where signfiicant new knoweldge was 'discovered' in the middle ages, is, frankly, becauses of Historians who, since America invaded the Middle East have pandered HARD to muslims, even going so far as to complelty ignore the simply massive evidence that 'muslim' knowledge actually predated Islam. I will admit that there was SOME new thinking coming out of the Middle East during this time period. However, the VAST majority of this 'new' thinking was actually just Islam attempting to metabolize western knowledge. In other words its was still reactionary. Baghdad is a good example of this. Middle ages baghdad has this reputation as this center of knowledge, and it was, but it was western knowledge that was compiled, so that religious muslim scholars could have some kind of response to: such as the writings of aritstotle.

The caliph absorbed those things from the Byzantines, the Mediterranean civilizations, Spain, and India. The knowledge of medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and other disciplines has existed throughout various civilizations in history. It ebbs and flows with cataclysms and warfare diminishing it, followed by interaction through trade that expands it. The Sumerians and ancient Babylonians had much of his knowledge, as did the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.

@@LRRPFco52 of course, everyone has used previous knowledge, including the west. There was, however, undisputedly, new knowledge created, for example, in mathematics, demonstrations of quadratic equations by Al-Khwarizmi. There were not taken from India, they were new. As to the other person's statement, I would say that it has also been the case that the west has tried to deny the degree to which it has learned from others. For example, in the early XX century Miguel Asin demonstrated that the Divine Comedy took much from Arabic literature; at the time, this was fiercely disputed, and nobody wanted to recognize it. Now, even if not well known, this is considered proven.

Yep. Constantinople fell in 1453. Led directly to Columbus looking for a new route to India in 1492 (39 years wasn't that long in terms of tech progress back then.)

At one point the Ottoman's account for 10% of world GDP. But by the 17th century their GDP fell to less than 2% and that after they kept expanding their Empire into the Middle East. Deep water transportation is so cheap that they eventually imploded.

That is really the only option, IMO. There will be a humanitarian disaster in the region in due course. Without oil, the region cannot support a population of much larger than a few million - and perhaps not even that.

Meanwhile the smug face increasing drug addicted societies with greed, lack of morality in all areas & backscratching corruption from the top down....Nice...

As someone who has lived in the region, too, I agree absolutely with what you say. Most Westerners superimpose Western values on the people in the region; this is understandable because it’s difficult to disassociate yourself from the values you were brought up with. But it leads Westerners to misunderstand the Middle East.

You got that mixed up in your first sentence, I think.

​@@MarcosElMalo2You mean you don't think the US is narcissist?

My brother in Christ, Americans want OUT. They've been fighting this war with 3 arms and legs tied behind their back, trying to win hearts and minds and build tolerable social systems and infrastructure across the ME. From the American perspective, everything would have gone much better for their interests if they didn't bother pulling their punches and just went in and glassed whole countries and left. Americans do not want or need the ME, it's just a thorn in their side. So be glad we live in the 21st century where decent Nations don't genocide others anymore or allow their friends too (*cough* Israel *cough*).

it's easy to leave but Europe japsk still have interest there and those are the US's guys. It's like godfather when the turk go to vito for protection but declines. Vito by declining protection was essentially telling the turk he cant do business

So you think america I there for the kurds ?!

Hahhahahahahahahahahhahahaahhaahhahahahah😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂yeah yeaah

That doesn't really make sense.

The Kurds can't change the geography. There is no water. There are no river systems that could unite the Middle-East. Also, how would that undo the Turkish state's foundation? You probably refer to national identity. A citizen and an ethnicity aren't the same thing ^^ lol

Hard to argue that sovereign Kurdistan would be good for peace in the region

You have points. If only you could break your paragraphs into a smaller set of sentences ….

@@serafinacosta7118 Right on. It’s something I struggle with & continue to work on. Kinda like chopping up a firehose while keeping all the water focused, LOL Thanks!

Yet you have so many homeless and children that have to go to sleep on an empty stomach

​@@g.dejong7804 Well everybody knows what the Middle East is like!?!

@@g.dejong7804our homeless and poor are fat not starving.

Look at a population density map and ask yourself why that long thin strip that ends in a triangle.

what was the population of the ancient world dummy

Pre-industrial farming, Egypt could produce more food that almost anywhere else, but they have grown their population to industrial farming levels by importing food from places that industrialized. They haven't industrialized their own agricultural sector enough to support their current population.

A. They are not the same people. The current Egyptians are actually Arabs immigrating from Saudi Arabia

My wild guess is because of population. Egypt currently has a population of 110 million. The entire Roman Empire at its peak (117 AD, with Egypt under its control) had around 75 million.

Peter is from Iowa, and has expressed all those details in past work. I was introduced to him through a college (Iowa State) friend who now works the family farm.

Why would Turkey being out of Syria keep them in NATO?

By your comment i assume you are an anglosaxon with 0 knowledge of russian. The russian GDP is less than the GDP of california. They have no more money for deploying huge forces in Syria, fight a huge war in ukraine and prevent a rebellion in chechenya.

Wow such a great influence, giving the russians so much in return 😂😂😂 fighting proxy rebels all over syria for the alawites to keep their old soviet base there, wow, great job! at least they provided real training for troops, but, overall, russian influence now is low and nowhere near the soviet times. russians are unable to defend armenia today which is much closer to them, let alone provide any meaningful contribution to the middle east.

It might just be an energy limit. Making glass requires a vast amount of charcoal (the tech to use natural coal came later), and China was densely populated, so probably didn't have loads of wood to waste on it.

Glad someone pointed that out!

The saying is bringing a knife to a gunfight, which is what the Middle Easterners were doing when they fought the West. In context of how Peter was setting the stage it sounds backwards, but he used it properly.

He's glib and doesn't even touch on many things but you didn't understand what he was saying if this is your takeaway. He has talked about the fall of the Ottomans and the creation of the modern statelets imposed on the region before in other forums but not here because that set of facts didn't apply to the history of why Iranian proxies attacked American forces and their trainees in Syria, the Ottoman period had zero to do with it. Other parts of long ago history did, in a roundabout way that while an excellent bit of oration, perhaps didn't always circle back to the premise enough for you to even remember what the premise was. The Americans are there at the tail end of a big economic story that is coming to the final bits of the chapter in which they see good reason to be there in the first place. They are trying to leave, retreating the sphere of economic influence that is reshaping the world order that stabilized the last 80 years. There will be a new order that the statelets probably won't survive through, barring Turkey. It probably will be very ugly, and part of his glibness is humor to show he doesn't like it, not racism against Arabs. In economic terms, the Middle East after Babylon always has been just a crossroads for trade between the empires that shape the way things work, when it's Persia or Rome or the Ottomans holding the whole area it works out fine for the locals, but the statelets formed by Sykes-Picot definitely are not up to that task once the order imposed by Bretton Woods goes away. And it's going away, the whole thing Zeihan's been saying his whole career but most people pretend isn't happening.

Without Portuguese maritime achievements in the 1400s, Spain could not have been what it became in the 1500-1600s... but it was going West that made the bigger difference. The Spanish also made their ocean-going ships bigger sooner, increasing cargo volumes.