Hello and welcome back you are listening to conflicted my name is Thomas small and with me of course is my co-host

Aaman Dean how are you doing today Aamanaman? I'm still alive.

Still alive, thank God.

Where would we be without you, Amen?

The land of the living, perhaps?

Oh, I think I'm there, but I can't ever be quite sure.

So in season two have conflicted so far, we have been focusing on how America has been

fairing over the last few decades in its attempt to establish their new world order.

We've examined all three of their main objectives to achieve this.

Essentially, those were first sorting out the Middle East, bringing neoliberalism to Russia, and establishing

a new relationship with them after the Cold War.

And as we learned in the last episode, bringing China in from the cold and integrating it into the global

economic system.

We learned about China's new Silk Road, which is their initiative to basically take control

of continental Eurasian trade, which, if successful,

could create a Chinese new world order to rival Americas.

In this episode, America is more clearly in our sights. We'll go back

to 2008 the last time everyone thought the world was about to end, the financial

world at least. Yes, I mean the credit crisis of

2008 and the impact it had on the West's hopes of a global neoliberal order. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there are only a dozen years left the global

warming to be kept to a maximum of one and a half degree of sizes.

We're seeing the end of California. kept to maximum one and a half degree of

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