Slouching Towards Oblivion

Showing posts with label globalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label globalization. Show all posts

Thursday, February 01, 2024

Today's Zeihan

Peter Zeihan observes the world, and while he's not glum, he's also not crazy about our longterm prospects.

Remember:
Geopolitics is a poker game with 200 players who're all cheating. They all know they're all cheating, and the fact that they all know they're all cheating helps them rationalize their cheating.



Wednesday, October 25, 2023

A Red Flag (ish)

Peter Zeihan is a smart guy.
Peter Zeihan doesn't always get it right.
Peter Zeihan is worth a listen because he's not all that wrong all that often.


Friday, December 16, 2022

Today's Explainer

Here's a guy who kinda knows what he's talking about - as long as we take what he says as an outline of what's happening, and what some of the possible outcomes could be, and not consider him some kind of Magic Eight Ball.

His conclusions about Putin's massive fuckup in Ukraine seem pretty solid. I just wish these guys would try a little harder to stay out of the predictions business.

This is generally centered on Hungary, but as he points out, nobody stands alone.





Wednesday, November 18, 2015

New Concept

New to me anyway - Coercive Engineered Migration: The use of internal upheaval in one country to force the populations to move to another country in an attempt to destabilize that other country's economy and/or government.

This is Russia Today, so grains of salt are in order.  That said, differing perspectives are generally a plus when trying to figure out just what the fuck is actually going on here.


hat tip = Facebook pal DR

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Wal-Mart Effect

Longer than the average attention span, but greatly informative. Stay with it.