Ian Bremmer on Why We're Fucked

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Political scientist, author, and entrepreneur Ian Bremmer -- who's also the founder and president of Eurasia Group and the founder of GZERO Media -- stops by to chat with Rick about how we're fucked, and why we're fucked. There is nothing like sitting down with a good ole expert friend at the beginning of a potential World War to discuss the American economy, AI, global politics, and the growing dangers inside and outside the U.S. democratic government. ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ Follow Ian Bremmer at @ianbremmer on X & @ianbremmer.com on Bluesky Check out more of Ian's work at @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X & @therickwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky. Subscribe to Rick's weekly writings on his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us & follow us @ProjectLincoln on X & @lincolnproject.us on Bluesky. If you'd like to help us continue this critical work, visit https://action.lincolnproject.us/helplp to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, folks, we've got a great interview with the marvelously brilliant Ian Bremmer today of the Eurasia Group and of GZero Media.
0:09.4	He is one of the smartest thinkers about international diplomacy in the world, but we live in a world where international diplomacy is changing by the second.
0:16.6	We recorded this interview just before Donald Trump went in the Oval Office and savaged Vladimir Zelensky and reset America as the pro-dictator country.
0:27.9	So keep that in mind as you watch us.
0:30.1	It's still a brilliant interview.
0:31.2	He is still just a terrific thinker.
0:33.3	Look forward to seeing you again at the next show.
0:36.3	Your task will not be an easy one.
0:38.6	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.
0:42.4	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
0:46.1	There is the United States of America.
0:51.0	Good night and good luck.
0:53.1	Hey, folks, and welcome back to the Lincoln Project podcast.
0:55.9	I'm your host, Rick Wilson, as always.
0:57.9	And today I am delighted to be joined by Ian Brimmer, who's one of the smartest thinkers
1:02.0	about American foreign policy and America's place in the world and the changing future that
1:08.6	we create with every step that we're taking right now.
1:13.1	And so, Ian, always great to talk to you.
1:15.6	And I just want to start out.
1:17.4	We have a really fundamental reset happening in Europe right now of a security structure
1:23.4	that worked sometimes better than others, but worked, broadly speaking, for 75 years,
1:29.2	as Trump has taken this shocking realignment of American interests and put them in the column
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