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Revolutionary Left Radio

Peter Zeihan's Anti-China Fairy Tales & Lullabies

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

PATREON TEASER: Breht responds to geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan's Anti-China rantings and predictions. Note also that the major disagreements articulated in this episode will be decided objectively in time. Is Peter right that China is an incompetent, flailing, and doomed country bound for total collapse and probable balkanization, or is Breht correct that Peter's knowledge of China is severely limited, his predictions are wildly over-confident, and no such collapse of China is imminent or likely at all: one of them will be proven correct in the coming years...

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0:00.0

Now the next thing I want to cover is the rise of Peter Zahan.

0:05.0

So Peter Zahan, let me pull up his credentials here.

0:10.0

Let me see what they say about him.

0:11.0

I've actually read, unfortunately, all of his books.

0:15.0

Well, I have audible, and I listen to his books.

0:18.0

He's like a geo, he's, okay, let me see.

0:20.0

Peter Zahan is an expert in geopolitics, the study of how place impacts

0:24.0

financial economic, cultural, political, and military development.

0:27.0

So he's kind of passed off as this geopolitical analyst, this expert in geopolitics,

0:34.0

and he offers geopolitical analysis to investors or to corporations, maybe to governments,

0:40.0

to help them get a better idea of the lay of the geopolitical land, where it is safe to invest,

0:46.0

where it is not safe to invest.

0:48.0

But as of late in the last year, he's really, really blown up, and he's everywhere.

0:53.0

Podcasts, all the radical centrist bros out there having him on his podcast.

0:59.0

I know Sagar and Jettie from the breaking points with Crystal Ball have had him on many, many times.

1:06.0

And I can say that I'm not just talking from ignorance here.

1:10.0

I've read all of his books except maybe one, but his three most recent books, at least, I have fully read.

1:17.0

And there is some interesting stuff.

1:19.0

I mean, I'm not saying everything he says is completely wrong.

1:22.0

He kind of has ways of thinking about geopolitics that are just different than what I've come across.

1:28.0

And you know, I read books from people I adamantly disagree with, and I can always take a few things of value from them.

1:35.0

But he's really blown up in the last year.

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