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Published · transcript-backedDwarkesh Patel: uncertainty
31 Oct 2025 Dwarkesh Podcast Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
“I want to ask about your, I don’t know if you call it a prediction but, your hypothesis that at some point China and Russia will finish each other off or have some sort of conflict which will be bad for both of them.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- 31 Oct 2025
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Maybe we should continue investing in it instead of canceling all the science research projects. What will be the long term effects of doing this? You’re thinking of America’s great strengths, its alliance systems. Our great strength also used to be being at the head of innovation. We’re going to eliminate those things and think it’s going to go well for us? I want to ask about your, I don’t know if you call it a prediction but, your hypothesis that at some point China and Russia will finish each other off or have some sort of conflict which will be bad for both of them. They won’t finish each other off. They’re too big to be finished off. Unless we do a nuclear war, then we might finish all of ourselves off.…
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