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Are We Living Through 'End Times'?

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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The Importance of Outside Geopolitical Forces

The last harbinger of possible decline, which you call outside geopolitical forces. And I wondered what you think of right now when you say that? Well, first of all, I want to say that large empires like United States or Imperial China, they are so big that they're reasonably insulated from those external forces. So we need to think about middle-sized countries, like Egypt, for example. To tell the truth, in this theory that I explained, I don't talk much about them because they are sort of secondary in many ways. Why is it inevitable that a society will have elites at all? This is a very important question.

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