The Peter Zeihan Podcast Series - Getting Ready for a Post-American World || Peter Zeihan

Episode Date: December 18, 2023

The end of 2023 is approaching, and that means I owe you all a gift. Sorry to disappoint, but it's not an all-expenses-paid vacation to BoraBora. Instead, I've thrown together a 'Post-America' series that breaks down what the world looks like as the US steps back as global protector.Full Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/zeihan/getting-ready-for-a-post-american-world

Hey everybody, Peter Zine here coming to you from beautifully chilly Colorado, and I have a holiday present for you. We're going to be taking some time off here at the company, and as a result, we have preloaded over the course of the last year a couple of dozen videos on the future of the world. We're calling it the post-American series. Now, for those of you who are relatively new to my work, we've got two big things going on in the world. Number one, the United States is backing away from maintaining the structures of the global order which allow for globalization and free trade to occur. And whether you're China, Germany, or Korea, or someone who has refabricated your entire system to take advantage of global access, this is obviously a problem. Second, globalization

over the last 70 years has encouraged not just industrialization, but urbanization everywhere. And when you move from the farm to the city, you have fewer kids. You play that for it a few decades. and it's not that countries are running out of kids, in many cases that happened 30, 40 years ago. They're now running out of working-aged adults. And both of these trends combine this decade to end the old system and create something fundamentally new, and that will play out differently based on what country you are. And that is the entire point of this series. So in a post-American world, what are things like in Canada?

What does it look like in Japan, in China, in Western Europe? What does it look like in Africa or Egypt or Turkey? We're going to go through a whole bunch of places one at a time, one a day over the course of the next three weeks, and hopefully you guys enjoy your Christmas present, or your Hanukkah present, or your Qua present, or your Happy Monday present, whatever it happens to be. So everybody, have a great holiday season. Even though I'll be taking off for a while, there'll still be content coming in, and I wish the best to you and yours. Take care.