tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post8336026272094720453..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: My MistakePeter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-77512237664684812502022-02-15T16:00:18.222-05:002022-02-15T16:00:18.222-05:00Peter, good points!
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MEARSHEIMER:"My arg...Peter, good points!<br /><br />----<br /><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/01/26/mearsheimer_ukraine_is_a_vital_strategic_interest_of_russia_not_the_united_states.html" rel="nofollow">MEARSHEIMER</a>:"My argument is [the United States] is playing a losing hand. And the reason you're playing a losing hand is because this is a competition between economic considerations and security considerations. The basic mindset of people in the West is that you can punish the Russians economically and they'll throw their hands up.<br /><br />My argument is: When security considerations are at stake. When core strategic interests are at stake, and there's no question, ladies and gentlemen, in Russia's case this is a core strategic interest. Countries will suffer enormously before they throw their hands up. So you can inflict a lot of pain on the Russians and they're not going to quit."<br /><br />And they're not going to quit because Ukraine matters to them."Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-48288942257667465632022-02-14T09:29:23.409-05:002022-02-14T09:29:23.409-05:00Hi Sean,
The Japanese are hoping that robotizatio...Hi Sean,<br /><br />The Japanese are hoping that robotization will reduce the need for immigrant labor, and the same is true for the Chinese and the South Koreans. But there are globalist and nationalist factions in all three countries. The American experience has been that immigrant labor discourages innovation, particularly in robotization. There are also externalities, notably health costs and pensions, and those costs are usually paid for by the taxpayer, and not by agribusiness.<br /><br />Anon,<br /><br />I'm worried about the Russia-Ukraine conflict. People sometimes ask me if I'm a nationalist, and this is one of the many cases where I have to say "no!" It's grimly ironic that the West is instrumentalizing Ukrainian nationalism (including neo-nazism) to achieve globalist ends.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17661252715687990907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-20484937575556643172022-02-13T04:29:25.278-05:002022-02-13T04:29:25.278-05:00It's great to see you blogging again, Peter.
...It's great to see you blogging again, Peter.<br /><br />I was wondering if you might have any insight or thoughts into a potential Russia-Ukraine conflict.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-61113027477463711882022-02-10T07:46:21.672-05:002022-02-10T07:46:21.672-05:00Always worth comparing projections against actual ...Always worth comparing projections against actual data as it becomes available.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-11646317971716510562022-02-09T16:03:08.912-05:002022-02-09T16:03:08.912-05:00"The approximate age of the [Korean] people w..."The approximate age of the [Korean] people working the fields right now is over 70," she says. "And once they reach 75 or older, it will be hard for them to remain in the workforce."<br /><br />Surely there could be investment in automation and organisational innovations that would make agriculture maintain farmers' output with less people; the population of South Korea is going to decline so why do they need to not reduce homeland food production? Why does South Korea need to maintain its current number of people working in agriculture to produce food? It is not an autarkic state, it's a world trading country subtly playing off the West and China so as to be a defence freerider while being able to export to the US on favourable terms. Similarly, North Korea is looked after by China although Xi gets a good deal in Kim as a sockpuppet to cause trouble for anyone like Trump who gets in the White House and threatens the access to the American market of China. The secret ICBM base in North Korea that is in the news is only 16 miles from the border with China. <a href="https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-new-taki-column-on-the-secret-pentagon-report-the-strategic-consequences-of-chinese-racism/" rel="nofollow">https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-new-taki-column-on-the-secret-pentagon-report-the-strategic-consequences-of-chinese-racism/</a>Seannoreply@blogger.com