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18 published records
“The communists get to claim the prestige of fighting the Japanese with a fraction of the effort. This just seems like a brilliant move on Stalin’s part in retrospect, because if they had killed Chiang Kai-shek, the Nationalist forces might have dissolved.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“If you haven’t got anything else for you, play jingoistic nationalism, because we human beings seem to be particularly attentive to that one.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Leonid Brezhnev was in power for 18 long years and not only did he collect cars, that was apparently the go-to gift for him, but in addition he was collecting a bunch of non-performing piles across the Third World because this is manifesting Russian power.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“For Russia it’s really devastating having China as an enemy because it’s going to have to deploy mechanized nuclear-armed troops all along its really long Chinese border, Central Asia, the works.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Mao goes there and kowtows in Moscow and does what Stalin wants him to do. That’s Stalin’s experience until he, I don’t know, chokes on his Cheerios or whatever happened to him that morning.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“The Chinese, I think, their takeaways from what Gorbachev did is don’t hesitate to deploy the tanks.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“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 Podcast
“When we think of concession areas in the age of imperialism in China, you think of British ones: Hong Kong.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“It takes a decade to play out. I don’t know how it’s going to go for Vladimir Putin on all of this.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Also because China is so isolated by this war, it has no international friends but Russia, it’s going to tie China to Russia ever more firmly and give Russia breathing space to rebuild after World War II while its Western enemies are wasting time in Korea.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“In particular they want water because they’ve blown through their water table in North China.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“He’s not going to war with anyone, but his internal situation is devolving so rapidly because their economy collapses.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“If you want to disintegrate the neighbors in order to delay their rise, well then you fund all sides of their civil wars and any side in between because you just want them to go at it.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Let’s not try because I don’t know anything about it either. On China and the Chinese Civil War, there was an understanding that it was a really big deal.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“With the Korean War going on and on, I don’t know what the implications are for us or for Mao.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“The Russians fancy themselves being Europeans and have a whole, I believe, racist package that goes with the Chinese so that they won’t like that whole situation.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I could be wrong, but I believe that Putin wants not only all of Ukraine, which he says he wants, but also he wants the Baltic states and he wants to keep on going.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Also what Stalin does—I think Saddam Hussein imitated him, but I could be wrong about that one—is have multiple security agencies with overlapping jurisdictions.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast