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141 | Bruno Maçães: Geopolitics for the End Time

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Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Apply to attend The Realignment’s conference in Miami on October 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-realignment-conference-tickets-158996058491 Use code “realignment” to get a 50% discount to Lincoln Network’s evening event with Peter Thiel in Miami on October 20th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-peter-thiel-tickets-157672156665 Bruno Maçães, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Dawn of Eurasia, Belt and Road, History Has Begun, and the forthcoming Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis, returns to the Realignment to discuss the transformation of the international system before, during, and after COVID-19, and how the U.S. can accommodate the new status-quo.

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0:00.0

Marsha and Saga here welcome back to the realignment.

0:09.3

And I now fear that we may be witnessing a kind of reversal of roles.

0:14.6

India, Japan and even smaller countries in Asia are rising in importance and status in Washington.

0:22.9

And the danger we have in Europe is that in fact within a decade or two,

0:27.9

and we already had an inkling of that during the Trump years, that these European allies

0:32.9

are going to become what the Philippines was during the Cold War. They are given instructions,

0:37.6

they are given fairly incomplete. And this happened a lot during the Trump years.

0:43.0

Threats also. Direct threats, open threats. And this is delicate, I think Biden is struggling

0:51.2

a little bit with this.

1:00.4

Today we are bringing Bruno Masaith back to the show. We did an episode with him last fall and it

1:06.6

was one of everyone's favorite episodes of all time. We're covering foreign policy,

1:12.1

geopolitics, the US-China, new and different subjects under the sun. He's got a new book coming out.

1:17.6

Geopolitics for the end time, from the pandemic to the climate crisis is going to be out in

1:22.3

September. Unfortunately, that is the UK publication date. So I don't quite know when the book is

1:28.1

going to come out in the US, but he's written so many different books that you are going to get a

1:33.2

kick out of history. He's begun the birth of the new America. Coach, you interviewed him about

1:37.2

last year, Belt and Road, a Chinese word order, and the dawn of Eurasia on the trail of the new

1:43.5

world order. So what's a great stuff for everyone here? I love talking with Bruno. He's a fascinating

1:48.4

guy. He's both a European, but has various astute observations about American politics and how

1:54.3

that impacts our image with the rest of the world. How are geopolitics are working with China?

1:59.6

And really just how the entire world is shifting. Where does the center of gravity of power lie?

2:04.4

Woke politics does affect our foreign policy. There were some really, really fun moments in this

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