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"The first rule of economic warfare is simple: don’t weaponize false chokepoints."
" The United States ushered in the age of economic warfare by learning to weaponize chokepoints. Now, other countries have learned to do the same. Its advantages have eroded not only because others have built competing forms of leverage but also because Washington has too often used its own advantages carelessly."
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"The Strait of Hormuz is by far the world's most important maritime choke point... 20% of global oil supplies on a daily basis before this war went through that narrow waterway." - Edward Fishman [00:00:56]
"The dollar... functions as the lifeblood of the entire global financial system. 90% of all foreign exchange transactions happen in…
"Iran has stated that its purpose its goal its strategy is to move oil to $200 a barrel which will have a really significant impact on the global economy because the entire global economy is based on access to cheap energy." - Professor [00:01:41]
"Remember that America is sitting on $39 trillion in debt and so the American economy is a Ponzi scheme that relies on…
History.com: State Department official George Kennan, using the pseudonym “Mr. X,” published an article entitled “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” in the July edition of Foreign Affairs. The article focused on Kennan’s call for a…
A Geostrategy for Eurasia | September 1, 1997 | Zbigniew Brzezinski - To understand US Foreign Policy and NATO expansion in Europe.
The Soviet System #Rabobank #MichaelEvery
"[The Russians are winning the war]... there's no way that Ukraine can rescue the situation... the Russians are going to win an ugly victory and you're going to have a frozen conflict." - John Mearsheimer (On the inevitability of Russia's military success) [00:00:57](https://youtu.be/2VXbY4V7LCk?t=57)
"We have driven the Russians into the arms of the Chinese... it would make eminently…
"Power is the currency in international politics and that states care above all else about the balance of power... because they operate in a world where there's no higher authority that can come to their rescue." - John Mearsheimer (Explaining the core thesis of structural realism) [00:02:06]
"Liberalism alone does not provide the…
"The friends of Ukraine so-called are the ones that are completely destroying Ukraine... It's like being the coach in a boxing match and your guy is being bloodied and destroyed... and you say 'Go out there and hit them again' until they get smashed one more time." — Jeffrey Sachs (On Western encouragement of the war) 00:03:06
"We make up stories about why we oppose…
"[The] United States is principally responsible for causing the Ukraine crisis. This is not to deny that Putin started the war... but the United States pushed forward policies that Putin and his colleagues see as an existential threat." - John Mearsheimer (Core Thesis) [00:12:41]
"Ukrainian entry into NATO is the…
"00:10:27 - My argument is that the West is principally responsible for this mess, not the Russians. This of course is not the conventional wisdom in the United States." - John Mearsheimer (Stating the core thesis)
"00:23:56 - *[Putin] is telling the West in very simple terms: you have two choices. You either back off...…
Provoking and exacerbating the war in Ukraine has clearly been a shot in the foot for Europe. At this point, it's hard to decipher the cause - Stupidity, Corruption, Arrogance or all of the above