Thank you, I came here to mention Zeihan’s excellent book also. I am totally into studying geopolitical stuff while my wife generally hates these topics. I played this as an audiobook while driving for 5 hours yesterday and my wife loved it. My point is that he writes in a generally interesting style.
I am only half way through so I don’t yet know how good his ‘end of the world’ case is.
He does make a compelling case for the advantages that the US has in the potential for self sufficiency, but those advantages go away if we can’t control our political bigotry (i.e., democrats and republicans make sweeping generalizations against the other side with no interest in meaningful dialog - but to be fair, this is planned for easier control of the population).
I am only half way through so I don’t yet know how good his ‘end of the world’ case is.
He does make a compelling case for the advantages that the US has in the potential for self sufficiency, but those advantages go away if we can’t control our political bigotry (i.e., democrats and republicans make sweeping generalizations against the other side with no interest in meaningful dialog - but to be fair, this is planned for easier control of the population).