Episode Transcript: #1921 - Peter Zeihan
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Hello, Peter.
What's going on, man? Nice to meet you.
Right back at you. It has been a crazy year.
Yeah, it's been a crazy year for everything, right?
Yeah, it's one thing when you talk about how the world's going to be coming to an end.
It's quite another one it's like here and now.
Yeah. Well, you've been working on this type of material, this subject matter for quite a long time.
So tell everybody your background.
Let's see. My background is in economic development.
It's all about figuring out what works where and why, and why if you try the same policies in the next town over, it's usually a disaster.
And then I worked actually here in Austin at a company called Stratfor for 12 years, and I was their sole generalist.
So it was my idea to kind of plug everything together and figure out what the map of the world looks like,
and have you pull a string on one side of the world, something changes on the other side.
Well, your perspective on sort of global interactions with China and Russia and the United States and the energy supply and the food supply,
I have not heard before. I haven't heard it as comprehensively as I've seen you put it together, so I'm kind of excited to talk to you about this.
So I guess we should start it with Russia. When Russia invaded Ukraine, you were not surprised.
Not even a little. No.