Forewarned before armed: how to predict war
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Military types need not wait until mass movements of troops to know a conflict is coming. We examine a raft of subtle and not-so-subtle market moves that would precede a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. France’s quiet volte face on the extent of NATO and the European Union will reshape European security (12:04). And how scrapyards are becoming efficient, lucrative disassembly lines (19:41).
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| 0:00.0 | Prepare to be hooked. |
| 0:03.7 | One summer evening Alex met Josie for the first time and no one could have predicted what |
| 0:08.3 | came next. |
| 0:10.4 | Two women. |
| 0:11.6 | Two very different lives. |
| 0:13.7 | Turned upside down by lives that kill. |
| 0:18.2 | Hailed as her best book yet. |
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| 0:24.6 | bestselling author Lisa Jewel. |
| 0:27.0 | Playable now from your local bookshop or online. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:41.6 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:50.2 | For many years France had been protective about the clubs that it belongs to, resisting |
| 0:54.9 | the expansion of NATO and the European Union. |
| 0:57.7 | But that view has quietly changed since the invasion of Ukraine. |
| 1:01.8 | And that could change the face of European security. |
| 1:06.7 | And you've seen footage of assembly lines with cars moving along encountering successive |
| 1:11.6 | teams of technicians. |
| 1:13.4 | Now reverse that film in your mind. |
| 1:16.1 | We look at what modern scrapyards are becoming. |
| 1:19.1 | In the early 1980s, so the story goes, a KGB officer would stand outside Britain's |
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