The End Of The World Is Just Beginning For Shipping
For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper.
Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days – even hours – of when you decided you wanted it.
America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.
Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy.
The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers.
American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.
All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.
In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.
The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think.
Which means everything about our interconnected world – from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all – is about to change.
‘The bottom line is that the oceans and supply lines are getting dangerous as certainty turns to a voyage in thick fog. Without the help of the US Navy, economies will collapse, famine could set in (as has been warned for months with still zero action from the US Navy in the Black Sea), and chaos could prevail. The future is not certain but new voyage plans will be required and The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning could serve as useful sailing directions.’
A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence.
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Tom O
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Drivel. The world spanning supply chains aren’t going away because the US Navy isn’t all powerful, not is it necessary to have it in the Black Sea. What kind of drugs is this author snorting? It actually sounds like he has his head someplace where it is dark, damp, and smells like an outhouse.
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T. C. Clark
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The End of the Beginning has happened. It was all about Europe and the USA buying a trillion dollars each of cheap Chinese junk…it’s ovah…due to human nature. Every nation should strive to be independent in food …energy….and technology. Don’t trade with dictators….the only international trade should be tourism….and the cases where a nation must import some food and energy and tech. If you are in a cold climate…you can buy bananas from the tropics instead of an expensive greenhouse and artificial lights.
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Tom O
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Agree and disagree. The whole purpose of trade is that you swap something you have in abundance for something that you don’t have. Very few nations have the resources to be self sufficient in all their needs, especially in our “modern” society. As for Chinese junk, well, I think that is probably just your opinion. Have I gotten “junk” from China? Yes. Have I gotten “junk” from Japan or Korea? Yes, Have I gotten “junk” from Europe? Yes. Have I gotten “junk” from the US, yes! China doesn’t hold a monopoly on junk, but I will admit, it seems to me, an American, that “we” have a monopoly of pigheaded, uneducated fools that point fingers everywhere but at themselves.
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RockyTSquirrel
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time was that the basics, were the staple of life…
Then the trader passed by and offered the bright bobble…
Then the smart men learned “necessity is the mother of Invention”, and things began to change…
Men made their own shinny bobbles, and it’s been getting more and more, shinny ever since…
Now men may not stop the ever growing trade in shinny bobbles, but nature will..
By the cycles of time and space, man’s ability to make all those shinny bobbles will come to an end..
On that day, human kind will return to the basics….
Some will say, that’s a good thing.
Others will say, but what of all the time/work saving shinny bobbles..
Rest assured, given the greed and avarice of mankind that “mother” will find a way to return…
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(as requested, this is an opinion and or SARCASM)
“Let’s Go, Brandon” (F.J.B.)
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