Peter Zeihan

Disunited Nations

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  • Stepan Dudnikhas quoted2 years ago
    Just keep in mind that “normal” is far from synonymous with “comfortable,” much less “favorable.
  • Stepan Dudnikhas quoted2 years ago
    France will lead the new Europe, not Germany
  • Evgeny Kharyushinhas quoted2 years ago
    Higher birthrates among both the occupied Palestinians and deeply conservative Orthodox Jews means that by 2030 an enlarged Israel will be a Jewish-minority state that will not even want to converse with the Palestinians, much less grant political or territorial concessions.
  • Evgeny Kharyushinhas quoted2 years ago
    The goal here—very unofficially—is the end of Russia as a state.
  • Evgeny Kharyushinhas quoted2 years ago
    America’s inability to voice what it wants from the world is condemning it to a series of future conflicts that are both eminently preventable and wouldn’t have to be fought alone
  • Evgeny Kharyushinhas quoted2 years ago
    Had the 9/11 attacks not occurred, American strategic policy versus both rising powers would have been quite different.
  • Evgeny Kharyushinhas quoted2 years ago
    The inability of the Clinton, W Bush, and Obama administrations to even begin the conversation as to what might replace the Order, complemented by the breakdown in the Democratic and Republican parties, means Americans cannot even begin to define what they want out of the world until at least 2030.
  • Evgeny Kharyushinhas quoted2 years ago
    Colonial Brazil wasn’t settled by pioneers who could work the land to become wealthy, but instead by people who started wealthy and so already had the money to lay down to build the necessary infrastructure.
  • Evgeny Kharyushinhas quoted2 years ago
    Even if the Syrian Civil War ended today, there isn’t enough water and oil to feed the population. Syria will not—will never—recover.
  • Evgeny Kharyushinhas quoted2 years ago
    In a bizarre turn of events, easily defensible, militarily potent, politically stable Iran now needs the global Order more than indefensible, militarily weak, politically unstable Saudi Arabia—just as that Order bleeds away.
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