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Biggest hot take is that he sees a decentralization of power that doesn't exist in Brazil, saying the 'provinces'('states', Zeihan, not 'provinces') have more power than they actually do. There is decentralization of power in Brazil, but it is distributed around political cliques - it's not the...

Peter Zeihan's latest is about Argentina in a post-American world(part of a series he's doing). He mentions Brazil in the video... and boy, he has some hot takes(with which I partly disagree at best).

It makes some sense for the ones involved; the problem is everyone involved wants very different things from it, many of those incompatible with the desires of the other members.

Agree with the general thrust of the video, particularly agree with what he says about Brazilian foreign policy(and I say this as someone who is studying to join the Brazilian foreign service).

As an aside, one of the videos he did on the subject(I think it's the second) shows why Zeihan, although worth watching, must be taken with some skepticism(especially when he goes beyond economic trend analysis) - he basically admitted he takes the mainstream media at face value or something...

Theoretically, none, as it will be grown on the Brazilian savannah. In reality? Impossible to know, but given that the environmental agenda lost a lot of strength recently, people won't care.

Biggest problem I see with Turkey right now is their economy, there's shades of 1970's Brazil in Turkey's current situation.

My guess is no one in Russia wants to be the one to sign a peace treaty that doesn't have Ukraine surrendering to Russia, so unless faced with destruction, the Moscow elites won't depose Putin. Putin dying by himself is somewhat better to them, but they would still have to sign that treaty. So...

'Gratitude is a disease of dogs' - attributed to Joseph Stalin

He's not talking about movies, he's talking about the actors themselves. Because, you know, people can act a character that is diametrically opposed to what one believes in real life.