Apartunis
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I think ebikes have changed the formula somewhat. They have also brought in hordes of new riders who are just as dumb, inconsiderate and callously indifferent as car drivers.
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I think ebikes have changed the formula somewhat. They have also brought in hordes of new riders who are just as dumb, inconsiderate and callously indifferent as car drivers.
To be fair the dislike of car driver or indiffrence to anything thats not myself i do not share.
To me I've studied enough of the past to see a picture of the future and ive made my mind up on the youtube professor by listening to what he has to say.
He has contradicted himself and formed his opinion of the future totally from an American perspective controlling choke points on earth.
I find it amusing as country's will rise up against america not unite with it, even its own citizen need to be placed under martial law its very far fetched and placed upon a failing economy.
Take a look at your local supermarket waste and tell me this world is not producing enough to support 2 fold of what it does just theres so many inefficiencys most produce goes to waste just like the american tax payer dollar for the military and here come the downfall of it all.
Inefficiency corruption and greed will bring the house of cards tumbling down and people lives will carry on regardless around it.
Future is not what we have been told by media as its a propaganda channel your only a sheep if you allow yourself to be dont let the wolf scare you theres a dog in all of us.
To me I've studied enough of the past to see a picture of the future and ive made my mind up on the youtube professor by listening to what he has to say.
He has contradicted himself and formed his opinion of the future totally from an American perspective controlling choke points on earth.
I find it amusing as country's will rise up against america not unite with it, even its own citizen need to be placed under martial law its very far fetched and placed upon a failing economy.
Take a look at your local supermarket waste and tell me this world is not producing enough to support 2 fold of what it does just theres so many inefficiencys most produce goes to waste just like the american tax payer dollar for the military and here come the downfall of it all.
Inefficiency corruption and greed will bring the house of cards tumbling down and people lives will carry on regardless around it.
Future is not what we have been told by media as its a propaganda channel your only a sheep if you allow yourself to be dont let the wolf scare you theres a dog in all of us.
OlderGiantFan
Regular
Well I won't argue with you there.
OlderGiantFan
Regular
There is a tuber called peter Zeihan, an American author and geopolitical analyst who makes his money selling an image to older Americans who believe the American empire can't fall, unlike every other empire in the history of the world
His hair is sculptured perfectly, it reminds me of that totally meaningless Blondie song 'Atomic' and he usually ensures his backdrop is Big and Open, From sea to shining sea sort of stuff. If he started to tell the truth he'd lose a lot of subscribers and payments to his company. So he spins a tale of a weak Russia and China and a resurgence of American dominance.Many thousands of Australian men died in WWI, many on the shores of Gallipoli which was a failed Allied amphibious operation intended to control the Dardanelles chokepoint, capture Constantinople, and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war. It was well know to the British Empire that the oil reserves under the control of the Ottomans were Immense , Winston Churchill as Lord of the Admiralty had been a big advocate of converting the British fleet from coal to oil. WWI was in effect the first oil war.
There is nothing new under the sun.
They admit it all now.
Oil: The Underlying Reason for Gallipoli - Australian Institute of International Affairs
A desire to control significant oil reserves can dictate the course of action during wartime. The Ottoman Empire, which controlled the Middle East in 1914, became the centre of conflict between [...]
www.internationalaffairs.org.au
ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps)
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Hillhater
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Err ?….oil in the middle east was first discovered in Persia in 1908 , which was never part of the Ottoman Empire, and a long way from Galipoli or istanbul .
OlderGiantFan
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No, it was never a part, true. But Iraq was, and oil was discovered there around the same time. Don't let the ANZAC propaganda overshadow the reality of wars. Nations go to war over resources and sometimes ideology, never to protect "king and country" Unless they are the ones being invaded of course. The ANZAC legend keeps war on the back-burner in the minds of Australians. It's a glorious thing, a thing to be honored. Look at how all of Europe, Britain included are tooling up for war with Russia. It has nothing to do with the ukraine and everything to do with the massive natural resources Russia possesses. They want them, badly! They are energy starved.
In 1907, Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, dividing Persia (now Iran) into spheres of influence to secure their interests, despite not having Persian consent. I'll take your word on the first discoveries of oil, but the simple fact was that to get that oil out and up to Britain and Russia they had to have undisputed control of the med. And the Germans were already negotiating with the Ottomans over the Berlin Baghdad Railway, they had to be marginalized. An overland route designed to circumvent the British control of the seas was the German plan. Why else do you think the English were down there fighting.
Plus if you look at the extent of the Ottoman Empire in 1914 you'll see in encompassed Iraq and swathes of Saudi Arabia. It was all a very complicated geopolitical event but at the heart of it was Britain's desire to control the globes oil and industry, which Germany and it's amazing industrialization was a direct threat to. It's just the same as America is doing today. Once the Ottomans were crushed the English went on to build a pipeline from the oil fields straight to the Med that could bypass the Suez.
ZeroEm
Minor legend
Now! I see how oil brings out the evil.
This is not the USA that I grew up in. You were shamed if you had debt, now the more debt the higher credit rating you have.
This is not the USA that I grew up in. You were shamed if you had debt, now the more debt the higher credit rating you have.
This theory makes little sense considering all the easily (cheaply) extracted oil was already pumped out in Russia. There are plenty of other countries, far weaker militarily, and without having the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, that have oil that could be extracted cheaper.
OlderGiantFan
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Oil? Russia never shipped much oil West. It was their cheap Gas the Eurozone had become dependent on. The eurozone is broke, in debt up to it's eyeballs, they are thinking of the future. It's no crackpot theory. Germany tried it under the Fuhrer, France under Nepolian.
You're thinking in terms of the interwar years when we all trade and things are peaceful, but when we have a global war it's a different game, an insane game. So we've just lived through 80 years of relative peace, the inter-war years. Soon it will be every nation for themselves again. What do you think stays China's hand over Taiwan and the contested islands? They are just waiting for the kickoff.
Some news headlines from the Eurozone.
2 days ago — France is strengthening its reserve forces amid growing threats in Europe and the need to prepare for a possible major conflict by the end of ...
5 Apr 2026 — Uproar in Germany over law requiring men get military approval for long stays abroad. The legislation, which went into effect on 1 January, aims to bolster the military and demands all 18-year-old men fill out a questionnaire to gauge their suitability to serve in the armed forces.
22 hours ago — Military planners need to urgently scale up plans to draft recruits into the UK's armed forces as “the window of orderly action is limited”, analysts say
It won't be long now.
USSR/Russia has been shipping oil west in very large quantities for about 70 years now. It's how the USSR was able to sustain itself for so long, it was getting foreign currency for that oil which allowed it to trade with "capitalist" countries and get a lot of very much needed things that communism could not produce.
Fossil fuels were not a thing during Napoleonic wars obviously, and Russia was invaded because it was one of the largest European powers and Napoleon wanted to rule Europe.
Germany unquestionably invaded Russia because they were very much against the spread of Communism. Nobody even knew Russia had oil in Siberia at that point anyway. Oil in Siberia was discovered 15-20 years after WWII ended.
I'm not sure who is teaching you history.
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OlderGiantFan
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I know who's teaching you, the potted western histories and the TV set. Read Hitler's Mein Kampf, his aims were to secure Lebensraum (living space) in Eastern Europe and eradicate his racial enemies, the slavs. Communism had little to do with it, they were no more important than the Jews Gypsies and homosexuals in his eyes. But after Russia became the Enemy, post WWII, the history books had to be rewritten.I'm not sure who is teaching you history.
Caucasian oilfields
the-past.com/feature/case-blue-the-eastern-front-between-barbarossa-and-stalingrad/
Oil, minerals, farmland.
ZeroEm
Minor legend
So is Gasoline still going up? I hear all kinds of numbers.
OlderGiantFan
Regular
It's been coming right down here in Oz. A variety of things, slashing federal tariffs probably the main one, but the Oz dollar has been going up against the $US for over 3 weeks. It's something a domiciled US citizen wouldn't be particularly aware of but Oil and many other things are priced globally in the buck. So when our local currencies change relative, so do the prices of those commodities, regardless if we extract them here or not.
But it's not a fixed law, any nation can choose to trade oil outside of the dollar based system. After all, it's a free world.
In 2000, Saddam Hussein announced that Iraq would switch its oil sales from dollars to euros under the UN Oil-for-Food program. In 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq and removed his regime. Afterward, Iraqi oil sales reverted to dollar denomination.
Muammar Gaddafi later advocated for a pan-African gold-backed dinar for trade, including oil. In 2011, NATO forces—including the U.S.—intervened in Libya’s civil war and Gaddafi was killed.
Nicolás Maduro has promoted oil trade outside the dollar and strengthened ties with China and Russia. U.S. sanctions and pressure intensified over time, before the Trump administration captured him in January of 2026.
An interesting take on the petrodollar
www.independent.org
But it's not a fixed law, any nation can choose to trade oil outside of the dollar based system. After all, it's a free world.
In 2000, Saddam Hussein announced that Iraq would switch its oil sales from dollars to euros under the UN Oil-for-Food program. In 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq and removed his regime. Afterward, Iraqi oil sales reverted to dollar denomination.
Muammar Gaddafi later advocated for a pan-African gold-backed dinar for trade, including oil. In 2011, NATO forces—including the U.S.—intervened in Libya’s civil war and Gaddafi was killed.
Nicolás Maduro has promoted oil trade outside the dollar and strengthened ties with China and Russia. U.S. sanctions and pressure intensified over time, before the Trump administration captured him in January of 2026.
An interesting take on the petrodollar
Unpacking The "Petrodollar War Theory": News Article - Independent Institute
Great powers rarely separate economic production from monetary policy. Behind every strong trade route and factory is a currency that the government has
www.independent.org
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