1370: Peter Zeihan | North American Solutions to a Breaking World Order

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A drone costing thousands of dollars can now make limited decisions on its own, fly hundreds of miles, and destroyment protected by four million dollar interceptors, which is excellent news for defense contractors and slightly less excellent news for everyone else. Peter Zion is back to explain why Ukraine's rapidly evolving drone war may be rewriting the rules of combat. Why America has burned through so many missile interceptors that it may no longer be able to project power the way it used to, and why the crisis in the Persian Gulf could take down East Asian manufacturing long before most people realize their Amazon order is the least of their problems. Because if China breaks before anybody rebuilds the processing capacity to replace it, we're not merely losing cheap electronics. We're losing the copper, steel, aluminum, lithium, and other materials required to manufacture the things that manufacture everything else. We'll also examine why advanced semiconductors depend on thousands of companies and roughly one hundred thousand production steps.

Why artificial intelligence may be one of globalization's most fragile creations And what Peter believes could still prevent the bleakest version of this future. Spoiler, Mexico might help save us. Your LED flashlight may also survive, so at least you'll be able to see how screwed we are. Here we go with Peter Zion. Peter, are Iran, Ukraine and China Three separate crises, or are we kind of looking at one global systems crisis from three different angles that people can't separate because we're just reading the news? At the moment they're still separate, but you know, I might change my mind by the time it takes us to record this video, so who knows? Uh got it. Let me give you the connections real quick. Economically.

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