CSF 2014 | Robert Kaplan: The Geopolitics of the World

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1. USA: the bully of the world... Be proud of it.
2. I'm sure you killed  Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi for those reasons, yes, it had nothing at all to do with the fact he wanted to move away from the Petrodollar and towards a Gold Standard Backed currency.
   
   Nothing to see there, move along.
3. So africa, south asia, south america and australia are not on this planet
4. Boring. No insight. Missed predictions. This dude is getting money for nothing.
5. This perfect example how difficult, actually imposible it is for Americans to understand that their way of life is BS and the goal is to slave every Nation under its Economy.
6. A very good talk except he is wrong when he says the person who set himself on fire in Tunisia that started the Arab Spring,Mohamed Bouazizi, who he doesn't name did so to protest economic conditions. Not so. He did so to protest police corruption, harassment, & brutality. It certainly is the case that the economy was very bad and he had to resort street vending but his immediate reasons were government/police harassment and rights violations.
7. How it's possible to claim that syrians didn't erect any kind of nationality or country in ancient history. So who made Palmyra? And what was Herodot writing about in V cebtury b.c.?
8. You should better ally with Croatia or we will crush you with our mighty MiGs from like second world war,beware!!
9. This is where one actually gets to learn something about real politics in the world, not the boneheaded cheesy self masturbating mainstream media where the majority people get fed by on daily basis.
10. that Arab guy at the end cracked me up LOL is there another movie from Sacha Baron Cohen incoming?
11. Oh the pride before the fall. The hubris of empire... Hopefully the US has the good sense to collapse peacefully in its own footprint without setting the world ablaze like the British set themselves to in 2 world wars just because they couldn't contemplate anybody else taking any independent action.
12. And now let's hear from a prominent neocon on US geo-political issues since we were so successful circa 2000-2009.
13. What a poor explanation of the Arab spring. I´d recommend read some books.
14. What an awkward moment when that guy started rambling on incoherently at 00:14
15. What an awkward moment when that guy started rambling on incoherently at 36:34
     
16. He's wrong on China. China's geography makes the entire region very separated. Also note that the Yellow River is not navigable and the Yangtze is only navigable until you hit the Three Gorges Dam.
    
    Foreign powers have always been strong in South China. Basically, any foreign power with a boat can come in and set the policy. The classic example would be Hong Kong, but there are other examples as well.
    
    Kaplan also has a poor understanding of economics, but that's a different issue for a different day.
17. Bob needs to be talking to the folks in the executive branch. Not the archetypes who go into military intelligence. By the time they get this info anyway, its too late. What good will these over-funded squids cull from Kaplan's speech ?  Military brass still sends our ignorant 19 yr olds into destroyed cities to occupy and think they will be positive "good will ambassadors" Have you talked to a 20 year old soldier recently? Not the people you want representing you. Nor should that be expected of them. Its a f-ing blow-back machine, this Military industrial complex. Take a drive to the rustbelt, southern border and Appalachia. We have no place giving the Pakistanis ($16 billion since 2002) and Israel $4 million a day. I say enough Bob !!! You should say Enough !!!!! .....Bob .......H
18. Syria, vague geographical expressions...Syria exists for at least 3000 years!