Peter Zeihan

Just keep in mind that “normal” is far from synonymous with “comfortable,” much less “favorable.

France will lead the new Europe, not Germany

In creating their anti-Soviet Cold War alliance, the Americans by hook, crook, carrot, and stick brought every significant power of the past five centuries together under a single banner

the most common way an empire perishes is by way of another empire waltzing over and punching it in the face

deepwater navigation and industrialization enabled all the empires to engage one another everywhere at the same time. The resulting ultimate, inevitable, catastrophic, system-ending conflict was the most deadly, destructive war in history

The United States is not an empire. There is no clear political or economic core.

The American policy of global Order was a strategic one, designed as a means of doing battle in a global conflict. With the Cold War over, it was time to rejigger that Order toward a new goal.

The Order had been so successful, most forgot—or never learned—that it was even there in the first place.

The American Order is in essence based on bribes. Think of the American management strategy as having four carrots of success.

From a geopolitical point of view, nationalism’s defining characteristic is its capacity to better harness national power.