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Peter Zeihan
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Peter Zeihan writes Zeihan on Geopolitics, a personal blog at zeihan.com about politics and economics. Since 2016, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “Disunited Nations Maps”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Peter Zeihan an expert in geopolitics: the study of how place impacts financial, economic, cultural, political and military developments. He presents customized executive briefings to a wide array of audiences...
Most-linked posts?
- /end-of-the-world/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-12
- Disunited Nations Maps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-05
- /new-chinese-demographic-data-population-collapse/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-06
- /my-way-or-the-huawei/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-24
- /video-dispatch-chinas-demographic-decline/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-31
- My Way or the Huawei2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-19
- /newsletter/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-02
- /russias-twilight-war/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-25
What Hacker News says?
https://zeihan.com/russias-twilight-war/ Peter Zeihan predicted this in 2017. There is first of many wars to come.
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on “Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia”Submitted Maps from The End of the World Is Just the Beginning as a story · 88 points
HN discussionI don't know if he's right, but Peter Zeihan thinks the breakdown in globalization will negatively affect the ability to continue to improve the chips that AI depends on[0]. Too many steps in the supply chain, too widespread, too vulnerable to deglobalization. 0: https://zeihan.com/the-ai-race-to-regression/
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on “An Alien Mind”Submitted The End of the World Is Just the Beginning Maps as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSure, they were. This is the closest thing to Baghdad Bob's bluster, I have heard in my life. Here is a helpful read, http://zeihan.com/my-way-or-the-huawei/
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on “Google suspends some business with Huawei”Submitted The Geopolitics of American Fear as a story · 12 points
HN discussionIf geopolitics + trends is interesting to you, I highly recommend "Disunited Nations": https://zeihan.com/disunited-nations/
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on “Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?”Submitted Naval Power in the Pacific: China vs. the United States as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe product of tech companies is the tech itself. For oil, the tech is a means and can be imported. Drilling oil is technically complicated but you can hire foreign companies to do the hard work, just like most African nations. Russia relies heavily on foreign companies to drill oil. https://zeihan.com/the-end-of-russian-oil/
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on “China mortgage boycott data erased by censors as crisis spreads”Submitted What Happens When Fossil Water Runs Out? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHe's made available[1] the charts and maps used in the book. I found this one quite illuminating on demographics.[2] [1] https://zeihan.com/end-of-the-world-maps/ [2] https://zeihan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/global-fertili...
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on “The end of the world is just beginning for shipping”Submitted My Way or the Huawei as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://zeihan.com/my-way-or-the-huawei/
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on “The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android”Submitted Artificial Intelligence Isn't Ready for Mass Application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPeter Zeihan has an interesting take on it: https://zeihan.com/video-dispatch-chinas-demographic-decline...
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on “China allows couples to have three children”Submitted Mexican Demographics: Where Are All the Kids? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSomeone posted this link the other day. https://zeihan.com/my-way-or-the-huawei/ . If enough people have a cold war mentality strategically it makes some sense. Combined with the chance to annoy the Chinese govt in the middle of a trade war, Trump will love it.
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on “Huawei’s Ace in the Hole: Undersea Cables”Submitted Let's Talk California as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTo expand upon my parents take, according to Peter Zeihan's opinion piece which shows an interesting glimpse into Alberta and its conflicts with other anti-oil vested interests https://zeihan.com/albertas-tryst-with-destiny/ : Alberta oil has constantly been blocked, stalled, and given added friction from leaving Alberta by neighboring territories. Keystone xl pipeline just got axed by Biden and the transmountain pi…
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on “The void in Calgary: How office towers emptied in a once bustling downtown”Submitted The Future of Canada (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo they were not. Their geolocation and battery technology means it wasn't feasible regardless. It was sabotaged to begin with. No other efforts needed. https://zeihan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/13-globalwinds...
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on “Europe braces for mobile network blackouts”Submitted A Failure of Leadership – China (Parts 1-3) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Securing the borders from what? Russia has been invaded by land countless times over the centuries as it has few natural barriers. Securing good natural borders has been a major national security concern for Russia for centuries and up until the fall of Soviet Union they had secured all of them. They have been winning those back gradually over the last couple of decades. > If he was worried about NATO he would be…
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on “Mild autumn weather has sent European gas prices plummeting”Submitted Flipping the Philippines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you want a provocative view on China, check out Peter Zeihan: https://zeihan.com/video-dispatch-chinas-demographic-decline... tl;dr: China's population has already peaked and in 2070 there will be 50% of the current population.
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on “What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China?”Submitted Know Your World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt doesn't help that most of Europe is facing significant population decline: https://zeihan.com/demographics-part-4-the-european-breakdow...
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on “It's official: Europe turns to the Falcon 9 to launch its navigation satellites”Submitted The Future of Mexico (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionExactly. I don't think most solar & wind maximalists realize how little of the world is both optimal for solar panels AND located near a urban centre. Having solar in the middle of the Sahara is utterly worthless because transmission makes it comically inefficient (beyond how inefficient solar is to begin with), and then you take another inefficiency tax storing it in batteries. Having solar panels on a random home…
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on “When coal first arrived, Americans said 'no thanks'”Submitted Disunited Nations Maps as a story · 1 points
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