Dwarkesh Podcast / episode intelligence
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01 / evaluation
“Once you command the Atlantic—which means that a sustainable amount of traffic is going to get through from the Allied powers—then you can start thinking about peripheral theaters.”
02 / evaluation
“You can see why Greenland and Iceland are strategic, because for Russia to deploy, it's got to go in between those places.”
03 / evaluation
“The terminology comes from Carl von Clausewitz, who is the Western guru on conventional land warfare. It means if you're attacking in a battle, if you go too far you'll weaken yourself because the enemy will counterattack and send you further backwards than you would have otherwise been.”
04 / uncertainty
“Then he's looking at it and I don't know the details of what his timeline is, whether he thinks it's just a delaying act.”
05 / belief
“Rather, I think you will find that there are many countries that are eager to follow the Chinese model for development.”
06 / belief
“I'd claim that cryptography, radar, even oil… Even if Germany had a huge reserve of oil, maybe it would have lengthened the length at which Germany could have sustained itself. But if you change the fact that the Axis had one-fourth of the GDP of the Allies combined, I think switching that genuinely changes who wins the war, whereas these other things actually wouldn't change who won the war.”
07 / commitment
“The continental problems now are China and Russia. We will see what this case study might reveal about the ongoing things.”
08 / belief
“Yeah, I've just discussed geography because it's something I think most people don't think about.”
09 / evaluation
“It was just losing one thing after another. But once you get the big continental buddy—don't dismiss the importance of a big continental buddy—that is in the area where the fighting is taking place, not separated by the seas, but there with a big army, that was essential.”
10 / prediction
“Once the Germans maximize their territorial conquest, they've reduced the Russian population—because they've conquered all these areas—to less than that of the United States.”
11 / evaluation
“We're also coordinating with the Russians so that you're setting up not only war termination but also what postwar institutions are going to be like to hold the peace. It's a completely different event from World War I when Russia falls out of the Entente because there are bread riots in St.”
12 / prediction
“Axis, the Allies have much more stuff…" You can go, "I think the Allies are gonna win this thing.”
13 / evaluation
“There's also the Fall of France which is a mess because prior to the Fall of France, Britain is only convoying just beyond Ireland.”
14 / evaluation
“The stuff that you're talking about being sunk, they're naval ships but a lot of it is merchant marine because the British are getting things out.”
15 / evaluation
“They ignore that and remilitarize in 1936. This is important because there are a lot of industrial resources and factories and things there.”
16 / prediction
“Particularly if we think we're going to corner them in some way, corner a great power like China and think that'll go well for us.”
17 / evaluation
“When people have high seas access, it's really difficult to shut them down because China would have to go all the way around to be on the far side to shut everything down on the other side.”
18 / prediction
“If you knock off 2% growth per annum, I think the doubling time of an economy… I don't know, if you knock a couple of percentage points off, it goes from 25 years to 75 years.”