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Category Archives: Peter Zeihan
Elon Musk, Peter Zeihan, Peter Diamandis On the Future
Will the Future Be More Abundant? Unlike the billionaires of the nihilist left, Elon Musk wants to see more people in the world. A lot more people. According to Musk, the overpopulation narrative is a big lie. The video just below is a … Continue reading
Posted in Elon Musk, expansive future, Optimism, Peter Zeihan
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Iran, Russia Goad Hamas into Lightning Raid on Israel
Iran closely coordinated the attack, while Russia tries to play its hand mostly from backstage. As Peter Zeihan explains above, Russians (and Iran) may be hoping to shake up Saudi Arabia into making a mistake that will inflame an internal … Continue reading
Posted in Islam's Bloody Borders, Military, Peter Zeihan, Russia
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Space Alien Ambassador Unimpressed by Joe Biden
Yes, judging by its political class and by its elites in media, academia, and corporate culture, the US is in serious trouble. It doesn’t take a space alien to see that. A number of the global cities with highest homicide … Continue reading
Posted in Peter Zeihan, Politics
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Will Canada Disintegrate? Peter Zeihan Weighs In
In the video above, Peter Zeihan is interviewed by a Vancouver-based investor who is especially curious about the future of Canada. Peter takes 15 minutes to lay the demographic groundwork for his free-ranging geopolitical discussion — which just happens to … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, China, Peter Zeihan, Putin
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Peter Zeihan on Joe Rogan; Brian Wang Responds
The business world’s turn away from China is gathering momentum. Even Apple is now preparing to shift its manufacturing away from China, bringing with it the firm’s enormous productive and engineering power. The ‘China Dream’ is rapidly fading as the … Continue reading
Posted in China, Peter Zeihan, Space Future
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Peter Zeihan: 1 Hr. to Map the Collapse of Globalization
Brought to you by the Commonwealth Club of California: Peter Zeihan’s video interviews over the past 8 months have taken on a darker tone. His talks and interviews have always begun with a discussion of America’s retreat from the Bretton … Continue reading
Posted in Peter Zeihan, Russia, Ukraine
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Peter Zeihan in Canada: A Very Sober Presentation
Peter Zeihan spends the first ten minutes of his talk telling Canadians in Manitoba how their province can profit from the coming shortage of global metals and other minerals. Then he turns very sober as he brings the audience up … Continue reading
Posted in Peter Zeihan, Russia, Ukraine
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Putin’s Vanity War is Ukraine’s Struggle for Existence
The Motivation Differential in the Ukraine War Young Russian men are fleeing Russia even faster than normal, because it is beginning to look like they may have to fight for the corrupt mafia state, if they stay. Russian men facing … Continue reading
Posted in Peter Zeihan, Russia, Ukraine
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Annexation on the Nukes: A Deadly Cocktail
Putin chooses a queer tactic of desperation. First, annex territories that you do not control and never will. Then threaten to unleash a nuclear war if “your new territories” are threatened with attack. Peter Zeihan looks at which cities Putin … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Peter Zeihan, Russian Decline, Ukraine
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Peter Zeihan on Collapse of Russian Empire
Putin did not have to invade Ukraine. He was having one of those Peter the Great moments and he suddenly felt like having a nice satisfying conquest. The funny thing is, it had not been going too badly for Russia … Continue reading
Posted in Empire, Peter Zeihan, Russia, Russian Collapse, Ukraine
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Two Devastating New Videos: One from Peter Zeihan and Another from Jordan Peterson
We are becoming accustomed to hearing doom and gloom from Peter Zeihan. The problem is that the message is getting worse as time goes by. Zeihan is the long range herald for the darker future, but others are slowly catching … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Doom, geopolitics, Jordan Peterson, Peter Zeihan
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Peter Zeihan Book on New York Times Bestseller List
Peter Zeihan’s new book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning, has hit the NYT Bestseller List. I have read much of the book and skimmed most of the rest. The graphics are informative and the factual content … Continue reading
Posted in geopolitics, Peter Zeihan
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A 90 Minute Ultra-Depressing Look at the Future
Some people think that totalitarian dictatorships are the only workable approach to governing in the complex unpredictable world of the future. They look into the future and see an Orwellian “1984” network of dictatorships spanning the globe. In the 90 … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Future, geopolitics, Peter Zeihan, Russia
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Fossil Fuels: Still How Energy Gets Done
There is a popular fantasy shared by large numbers of politicians, media hacks, and the recently university educated. It is a fantasy of a great “energy transition” away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy and electric vehicles. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Peter Zeihan, Poland, Ukraine
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India Economic Enclave Grills Peter Zeihan
This is Peter Zeihan’s third consecutive annual appearance at the India Economic Enclave. They keep inviting him back because his predictions keep coming true. One of Peter Zeihan’s recent predictions which is now coming true, is his prediction that Russia … Continue reading
Posted in geopolitics, Peter Zeihan, Putin, Russia, Ukraine
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Peter Zeihan: Russia Without Choices
Russians Do Not Make Choices: Elites Make Choices for Them Putin Now Sending Young Teens to Fight and Die In the midst of a dark demographic disaster, Vladimir Putin is sending early teens to Ukraine to fight and die — … Continue reading
Posted in Peter Zeihan, Putin, Russian Decline, Ukraine
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Peter Zeihan: Global Famine, Depression, War Coming
Peter Zeihan predicted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine when most analysts thought the little dictator was bluffing. Now he is predicting the aftermath. Read his books, and you can see why Zeihan and his readers may be the only ones who … Continue reading
Peter Zeihan: Prepare for All Hell Breaking Loose
Podcast Interview of Peter Zeihan by antiwar.com’s Scott Horton: An interesting dialogue between geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan and Scott Horton of antiwar.com fame. Zeihan continues his argument laid out in his books, Accidental Superpower, Absent Superpower, and Disunited Nations, that … Continue reading
Posted in China, Peter Zeihan
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Iran Proxy Bombs Saudi Oil Facilities: Start of Peter Zeihan’s Oil War?
Update 17Sep2019: Latest reports suggest that Iran launched more than 20 drones and cruise missiles from southern Iran in the attack on Saudi Arabia. Coordinated drone strikes on the heart of the Saudi oil industry forced the kingdom to shut … Continue reading
Three Wars for Tomorrow Morning’s News
Speaking at a 2019 Land Investment Expo last month, geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan predicted a “hot war” along Russia’s western borders, another “hot war” between Saudi-led Sunnis against Iranian-led Shia, and a war for Taiwan and China Sea maritime rights … Continue reading
Zeihan: The US Shale Patch Has Not Drilled a Dry Well in 3 Years!
No dry wells for the last 3 years and no low-productivity well for the last 2 years. The reason for this long string of good luck in the US shale oil patch — according to Austin-based geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan … Continue reading
Posted in Oil Prices, Peter Zeihan, Shale Oil & Gas Revolution
Tagged Shale Boom, shale oil
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The 3 Empires of the 21st Century
Just over 100 years ago at the dawn of the 20th century, the world was awash in empires. Once strong empires such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, The British Empire, The German Empire, The … Continue reading
Posted in China, Empire, Europe, Peter Zeihan, Russia
Tagged China_Russia, Rise and Fall of Empire
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Is China’s Goose Cooked? And Other Bedtime Stories
Economically, China needs a powerful recession to get rid of businesses being kept alive by loans. Politically, China can’t afford the cost of unemployment. The re-emergence of a dictatorship in China under President Xi Jinping should be understood in this … Continue reading
Posted in China, Demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Empire, geopolitics, Peter Zeihan, Politics, Russian Decline
Tagged china bubble, China_Russia, Immigration
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A World Ripe for Disruption
The global economy has been in a state of rapid ferment for several decades. Although the US has operated the world’s largest national economy for the past 127 years, some of the world’s other former economic giants are beginning to … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Draining the Swamp, Economics, Future, Genetics and Gene Expression, geopolitics, Peter Zeihan, Politics, Science, Space Future, Technology
Tagged geopolitics
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Through the Looking Glass: The Black Swan Called Trump
No One Believed Peter Zeihan Until Now In the 2014 book “The Accidental Superpower,” Zeihan predicted the withdrawal of the US from a wide range of longstanding international agreements, leading to a weakening of the present world order. With the … Continue reading
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