A World On The Brink of Total War | Dmitri Alperovitch

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Government, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 361 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dmitri Alperovitch, the co-founder and executive chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, the co-founder of leading cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, and the author of the soon-to-be-released book “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century.”

Dmitri Alperovitch makes the case that we are already in the midst of a new Cold War with China and that Taiwan is the strategic flashpoint that risks triggering a devastating conflict between two nuclear powers in a way that West Berlin nearly played during America's last Cold War with the Soviet Union. He and Kofinas discuss the similarities and differences between Cold Wars I and II, including the role played by the USSR as a liberator in Europe and the strong appeal of communism as a competing ideology in the early decades of the First Cold War. They also discuss how America lost an opportunity to build a sustainable peace with post-Soviet Russia and how this has made the new Cold War with China all the more challenging and dangerous.

The episode’s second hour begins with a discussion about the importance of Taiwan and a thought experiment about what would happen in the event of an uncontested Chinese takeover of the island. Alperovitch and Kofinas discuss the philosophical underpinnings of American supremacy and arguments for its preservation, the need to build national unity by addressing legitimate domestic grievances, military-industrial reform, immigration, and what it will take to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan that Dmitri believes could happen before the end of this decade.

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Episode Recorded on 04/19/2024

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? My name is Demetric of Phoenix and you're listening to Hidden Forces, a
0:06.0	podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens, to challenge consensus narratives and learn how to think critically
0:14.8	about the systems of power shaping our world.
0:18.1	My guest in this episode of Hidden Forces is Dimitri Alperovich, the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator,
0:25.8	the co-founder of leading Cybersecurity Company Crowd Strike, and the author of the soon
0:30.3	to be released World on the Brink, how America can beat China in the race for the 21st century.
0:37.0	In the first hour of our conversation, Dimitri makes the case that we are already in the midst of a new Cold War, and that Taiwan is the strategic
0:45.3	flashpoint that risks triggering a devastating conflict between two nuclear powers in a way that
0:50.8	West Berlin nearly played during America's last Cold War with the Soviet Union.
0:56.1	We discuss the similarities and differences between Cold Wars 1 and 2, including the role played
1:01.3	by the USSR as a liberator in Europe and the strong appeal of communism
1:06.0	as a competing ideology in the early decades of the First Cold War.
1:10.5	We also discuss how we lost an opportunity to build a sustainable peace with post-Soviet Russia and how that has made the new Cold War with China all the more challenging and dangerous.
1:22.0	The episode's second hour begins with a discussion about the importance of Taiwan and a thought
1:27.5	experiment about what would happen in the event of an uncontested Chinese takeover
1:32.2	of the island.
1:33.4	We discuss the philosophical underpinnings of American supremacy and arguments for its preservation,
1:38.7	the need to build national unity by addressing legitimate political grievances, military industrial reform, immigration,
1:46.0	and what it will take to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan that Dimidry believes could
1:50.1	happen before the end of this decade. If you want access to that part of the
1:54.4	conversation and you're not already subscribed to Hidden Forces, you can join our
1:58.9	premium feed and listen to the second hour of today's episode by going to hiddenforces.io slash
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