Seeking Truth From Facts: Israel and Iran, Missile Defense, China Economic Development

This is a crossover episode with the Seeking Truth From Facts podcast.

00:00 Iranian missile attack vs Israel and missile defense
13:11 Is there potential for a 1973-style oil crisis?
21:42 Is NATO getting tired of the proxy war in Ukraine?
25:44 Why has Europe declined since 2008 and what are the consequences
of said decline?
30:14 Is procyclical European fiscal policy to blame?
34:52 Has China's infrastructure boom been a white elephant?
41:37 China's energy grid and solar energy transision
46:58 Will India catch up to or overtake China?
57:07 Is liberal democracy necessary for long-term economic prosperity?
1:00:15 How did Lee Kuan Yew transform Singapore?

Links:

Iran ballistic missiles and missile defense

Pershing 2 Missile

Russia-Ukraine war and Iran blowback

India development

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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[kooperinterstellar-sm]

Greetings from Pakistan. I keep coming back to your channel for new insights into so many awesome topics. It is really a pleasure to be listening to you.

[kooisengchng]

Alistair Crooke was the first to tell the world about the failure of Israeli air defence against these Iranian missiles. Times have changed. Israel used to be the numero uno in ME but now it is being reduced to attacking civilian areas in Lebanon and Gaza. In the meantime, its economy is tanking. Something has to give sooner rather than later.

[Hystericall]

Your analysis one of the best I've heard.

[lifefun]

coal plant usually run 4500 hours per year. peaker target to run as little as 1500.

china carbon peaked last year. coal comsumption declined from last year. oil import down 2.4%.

new energy car sales now over 50%. will go over 90% by 2027.

something huge is happening. oit of china no one see it coming.

[iechuanlee]

1st China has not problems if & when India catches up. They had a 1.4 bn population to keep happy & fed. They are prepared to collaborate and live in a harmonious world.
Every government are.monitoring their citizens and depends on how each government made use of the data, no one knows.

[PhongLe-odfo]

If China's feedback mechanism worked so well, as Hsu explained, what accounted for the years of zero covid policy?

[lonecandle]

The Russia-Ukraine war is not primarily a proxy war. To simply describe the war as a proxy war like that tells you what we need to understand about the conflict is highly misleading. Yes, it is a proxy war because one great power is supporting a smaller country who is fighting another great power. But, the war is a strong country trying to conquer, steal territory from, or/and force a regime change in another country. The war is about Putin ideologically believing that Ukraine is an inherent part of Russia and refusing to let it side with Europe economically. Because the U.S. and Europe do not want to set the precedent that a great power can invade its neighbor without consequence or resistance, and because Europe fears that Russia, emboldened from a victory with Ukraine may decide to gamble and invade another country, and because of the moral outrage of a country unjustly invading its neighbor...the U.S. and the West are supporting Ukraine, but the essence of the conflict isn't simply a proxy war.

[lonecandle]

NATO or the West did not force Russia to invade Ukraine. There was no serious military threat from Ukraine or NATO to Russia. Maybe the U.S. should have been more careful about Russia's fears and concerns, but there was no military strategic imperative for Russia to stop Ukraine from turning toward Europe.