Peter Zeihan Returns: China, Ukraine, and What Comes Next - Danger Close w/ Jack Carr

This, in fact, is a lovely discussion that has potency both for (1) waking up the sleeping patriotism of Americans and inspiring more those already patriotic the right way, and (2) can do wonders for promoting the US against anti-American and anti-West sentiments out there. Great job. By the way, am new to this channel.

Awesome interview and discussion. Both of you bring so much understanding to much of what concerns us all. I like that Peter has a positive outlook for our future.

I always instinctively believed bringing energy and tech development and production closer to home was a good thing, it's good to hear in real, unbiased terms that most people can understand that it is indeed the case moving forwards.

Peter seems like such a gentleman academic. I enjoy listening to his very a keen insights into the players and risks involved. Occasionally he does make dramatic comments then fails to substantiate any backing. Albeit it can't be easy managing all these working parts I would find it less then shocking if some of his recent comments are in fact completely contradictive in nature.

This is a fascinating lesson, he was a whole different perspective on what’s going on in the world. Thank you for the podcast.

I don’t know what we’d do if great men like PZ & JC didn’t exsist ! Another amazing podcast !
May peace be upon you ❤

Thank you Jack. Please have Peter on from time to time, he is a great guest and offers an incredibly comprehensive view few rarely hear.

Love his books. Led me to read some other guys. Love this topic and hope to dedicate more time to it.

*Peter is the best! I’ve been following him from ~2016! He deserves all the attention he’s getting now!*

I'm delighted to hear Carr say these provide inspiration for him. I've enjoyed some of his books, and this just adds a smile to my face. I'm looking forward to your new book Jack.

I try to catch this dudes appearances all over YT. This is the best interview that I’ve ever seen conducted with him. You got a new subscriber, brother.

These are 2 of the best people you'll ever get to see or hear discussing important issues today. Excellent content, thank you!

Very good conversation. I've been a big fan of Peter's. I have never heard Jack before and will look into more of his stuff

Great podcast. I’ve been keeping up with Peter since the 1st time Jack Carr interviewed him. I recommend Peters Audio books. It’s a great chance to stack the fire wood and learn a heap 👍Thanks from 🇳🇿NZ

Really good stuff! Refreshing to say the least. Hopeful. What the world needs, intelligent, genuine, easy to listen to, good people that leave politics and religion out of their narratives and presentation.

New subscriber, love your podcast and the production value you put into it. As a fan of your work I shouldn’t be surprised at the perfection and attention to detail you’ve put into your set, production and podcast as a whole. Great guest/interview and great job putting this whole thing together, thank you!! I’ll definitely be listening from here on out.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the current state of the world and where you think we’re headed in the next couple years as a country. A major world war seems like it’s just over the horizon at this point.

I’ve been aware of /follower of Peter Zeihan since The Accidental Superpower. I read it about 5-6 months prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.But never heard of Jack Carr. After listening to this I’m going to have to check him out. Thanks for the video.

Just found your podcast, I've read all of your books. Can't wait for the next one!!!!!

I love listening to Peter's insights in the midst of such conflicting narratives.

Zeihan is FANTASTIC. Period!!! I love ALL his stuff and listen to him as much as possible.

What an absolutely amazing podcast your guest Peter Zeihan is brilliant I love the amount of knowledge and his take on world at hand, thank you for having him on. First time I have ever listened to him and now I think I will follow him. Amazing and interesting take on everything.

I learned so much, great guest. He makes sense, not just some weird opinions and conspiracy theories.

Two great men having an important conversation. I wonder how many other amazing interviews have been on Jack Carr?

Peter was on fire in this episode. His takes on China are really amusing.

Great discussion, as usual whenever Peter is involved. Totally agree his books should be high school reading and required texts for college courses.

It's really nice to listen to somebody like Peter who speaks logically and doesn't use every opportunity, no matter how small, to engage in creating irrational fear... Wish the media behaved like this

Have a cousin that was a missionary and opened a orphanage in China during the one child policy. The stories and children are absolutely heartbreaking.

this guy never claims he doesn't know, he seems to have the answers for everything, an expert at everything lol

I love listening to Peter, thank you for the interview

Happy to see Peter in an interview! Nice change of pace

Two of my favorite writers and thinkers having a conversation. It was a good day to wake up! Thank you Mr. Carr and Mr. Zeihan.

I first saw Peter on your podcast. I went back and saw everything He has done. Remarkable. I wish he had been around when I was younger. I thank you for your commitment to the truth and for writing such good books. Read then all. Pre ordered next one. I enjoy the guests on your podcast. Keep up the good work. God Bless America.

I learn something new every time I hear Peter speak. What a great analytical mind!

The cynic in me says that if a clever man set out to sell a ton of books, a great way to do it would be to assemble the facts in a way that provides a tremendously optimistic view of the future for the target audience. But, props to Peter for being one of only a few folks that put themselves out there and make anything clear. Imagine hearing anything like this from MSM.

Brilliant conversation with a brilliant mind. Thanks for having Peter!

Thanks gentlemen for the video. Who could afford one hour of Peter’s time like this. Thanks.

Peter's take on geopolitics is an inspiration for my next novels as well. Nice job with this interview, Jack.

Thank You Mr. Carr. Your Guest, and questions where fantastic.

Great update love your work

Thank you for this great interview!

Excellent interview. Peter Zeihan is persuasive and clear eyed as usual.

Absolutely Love Peter Zeihan and Jack Carr in same podcast 😮LOVIN IT absolutely love Jack Carr books

Great to have Pete back. Love his ability to articulate these hard to comprehend geopolitical topics. Cheers Jack! 🤝🏼

long time fan of Zeihan ... now I'm a fan and subscriber of Danger Close!

Just heard this guy and you on here about 24 hours ago, just woke up now and YT must have known I enjoyed it a lot because luckily you 2 are recommended first today also 🎉
New sub here and now. Excellent coverage on topics many choose to ignore day to day

This guest is a walking encyclopedia, wow he is awseome.

Good podcast guys! I got Peter's first book on audible fascinating stuff I love history, I live in Arizona and they already built a huge Intel plant and they started to build another big one. Take care

Pete's smooth speak keeps a novice on this subject interested. A ton of information that he probably studied and learned to near perfection. I guess I 'll have to watch it a few more times. I'll be a wonk in no time.

Thanks for this excellent interview. I love Peter Zeihan's books and have learned a ton over the past couple of years. I love your books, too :) Can't wait for the new one!

Great podcast nicely done

Put Zeihan and Carr in the same conversation it's a pretty good idea to tune in.

very good interview, i like the way Jack asks non-wordy questions and sits back and lets the interviewee talk, perhaps he knows Peter well and knows he has a lot to say.

I started following Peter Zeihan after you mentioned him in your 2nd book. So glad you did because when I looked him up, my world view expanded 10 fold. Love your books Jack and now I love Peter's as well. Thank you both.

Peter seems very optimistic while so many others are not. I’m not sure I believe him but I would like to.

As someone that has been following Zeihan since his first book, I am so glad people are finally starting to wake up to his logic. Great to see him back on the podcast.

Amazed of your interesting facts. I love your military videos however videos like this are also very entertaining

great interview. Peter just filled in the gaps that I had in my overall opinion. Glad I listened

Zeihan's explanations are comforting, especially on China, which makes me highly suspicious of them. I hope he's correct, but I'm preparing myself for him being dead wrong.

Thanks a bunch. Given me a larger perspective to the Ukraine/Russia war

What a Breath of fresh Air listening to Peter

Great content, Jack.
Appreciate you!
Looking forward to more.
And congrats on the book and 2nd season of the terminal list! Awesome!!

Those were some great questions Mr Carr, well done and thank you.

Peter Zeihan proves that you can be a brilliant thought leader and still pronounce the word "nuclear" as "nook-yoo-lar".

I've visited China and have a few Chinese's friends there and they explained the one child policy to me. In order for the government to enforce it they had to change the people's mindset to the point that if a coupe accidently had a second child that the second child would be shun by the community. This has made if difficult to rapidly change people from only having one child now. That and there are economic reason too. The Chinese government is trying to encourage women to get married and have more children telling them to stop being so picky about who they pick as a mate.

“Type it into your search engine abs things will pop up” is how Peter does 99% of his research for his books

I like how Peter Zeihan says with absolute confidence all of those things even that he is wrong in most of the cases... :D:D:D

Wow, amazing interview! You got so much great stuff out of Peter. Lots of new conversation. Thanks and great job!!

Always fascinating to listen to Peter Z. Thanks for having him on Jack!

Love the Terminal lists books. Love that you are letting main character age. Just a word on Peter Zeihan remember everyone has their biases. I do like his work but there are reaches in his logic.

Zeihan is brilliant.

I love Peter's work. I do find his prognostications about China a little bit too rough and ready, though. I seriously doubt Xi Jinping is surrounded by complete idiots and some analysis and examples are needed to back this up. China may be a dictatorship but it's a pretty sophisticated and well-oiled one.

Peter really is on his way to being recognized as a national treasure. His insights are thoughtful and provocative. Much respect for having him as a guest. Many thanks!

Love both yours and Peter's books. Thanks for the great conversation

What a great interview!

Very interesting discussion, thanks for posting!

When Brilliance meets Genius.. One of the best guests ever..

This guy is the most optimistic person in the world..... definitely being paid to be 😊😊

Appreciate you doing these vids - thank you!

Love Peter!!! Thanks so much for hosting him again Jack!

A very interesting & insightful video. Loved it. When Peter Zeihan said that " the problem is the primary system...[as it] encourages people to play to the base rather than play to the middle". Not sure how you overcome that though. Maybe the adoption of compulsory voting would overcome the problem of appealing to the base.

This guy Peter Zeihan knows everything lol. But kudos to the host. He is a really good interviewer.

Peter Ziehen is always good for some chuckles 😂

Great show Jack! Cheers 🥃

If only any human was a tenth as smart as Peter thinks he is.

Zeihan is great. Ther only complaint I have is he rarely does more than an hour. I know he is a busy guy buy I could watch at least 3 & as much as maybee 4.5 hours. But thankfully he shows up in many places at once. Have listened to one of his books so far & will do the rest. Subbed. Awesome channel. Thanks

One thing Peter couldn't be, is a politician... He just tells it like it is

One thing overlooked was that prior to that disaster known as the "withdrawal from Afghanistan," the Taliban assumed we were going to keep Bagram. That would have been a huge strategic advantage in dealing with China and Russia. Oh well.

One thought is that China won’t need a larger Chinese workforce in the future when they can put other nations in debt and leverage that nation’s wealth to their advantage

I have had an account with Navy Federal Credit Union since 1995. Awesome service over the years.

Such insight is appreciated and makes me hopeful for our country.❤

I have yet to find anyone who has a better combination of grim, unvarnished realism, evidence-based intelligence, and civilized honesty than Zeihan. Every time I listen to him, I end up coming out of it more enlightened. Thanks for having him on the show, I've watched a ton of his videos lately and yet still learned several new things from this one.

It was a minor part of Zeihan's talk--which I found extremely fascinating and informative--but his bit at the end about California's version of producing electricity versus Germany's version (both of which are based on sunshine hours) was accurate. I served in Germany for two years in the Army, and after the first dreary year (weatherwise), I counted the number of days the second summer in which we had sunshine all day long, and the sad little number was 7. Yes, 7 days of actual sunshine all day long. No wonder I (and countless others) were depressed. Thank God for lovely young frauleins!

So, was that American rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan in part inspired by a need to prepare for Ukraine? Good interview. Thank you.

I love this guy I hope he is right about China

I like PZ and always look for his analysis but I become sceptical when he talks about some things where I do have a literal autistic level of interest.
As a tech enthusiast and investor it seems to me that he has only a very surface level of understanding on semi conductors and the industry. I don't know if he understands what analog and digital actually means being older or slower doesn't make a chip 'almost analog' the reason Analog chips are often (not always) made on older nodes is because analog components don't scale with lithography as well as digital components do and start having issues below 90nm. There are analog components on just about all ICs and micro controllers regardless of the node.
Also China's semi conductor industry is no where near as bad or as incompetent as he asserts. They are hitting a wall to progress further but that's because they can't access extreme ultraviolet EUV lithography machines. EUV machines took decades to work with the combined effort of multiple governments and most of the industry pouring billions into research. ASML which is a Dutch US co owned company is the only company in the world that can make them and TSMC and Intel own like 99% of the machines in existence.
Because EUV was behind schedule for literal decades Fabs like TSMC, Samsung, Intel and global foundries created clever work around to continue to reduce feature size of components on integrated circuits. Most notably double patterning and quad patterning. TSMCs first 7nm node was achieved WITHOUT EUV but the later enhanced revisions of the node did include EUV for some layers which reduced process time costs and increased performance.
SMIC has been able to achieve a working 7nm node in China without the use of EUV. It's more expensive and not as good as Intel's 10nm (now renamed intel7) or TSMCs N7 nodes but it's within the same ballpark. It doesn't clock as high, seems to yield worse with larger rheticals and is less power efficient. BUT it performs better overall and well enough to beat 14 and 16nm nodes as well as 12nm nodes for density and efficiency.
SMIC is not the best and they will struggle with new nodes without EUV lithography but it's good enough to keep enterprise and research alive. It's also good enough for AI chips in the future with some AI accelerators produced on slightly older nodes like 12nm. China is behind on the design side of chips too so embargoes of Nvidia, AMD and Intel hardware that specialise in AI will slow research down but it won't stop it.
The idea that China couldn't use TSMCs advanced fabs is just laughable. Assuming that they didn't kill all the engineers and operators they would be able to bring those facilities online pretty quickly and they could probably start making their own bootleg copies of various high end products in Taiwan as for many of these products the entire assembly is done there along with some of the design teams etc. Even if they did do a lot of damage to all that, if they can get their hands on a significant number of EUV machines they suddenly lose a huge handicap.
On another note: devices that operate in space often use the OLDEST biggest nodes they can. The Mars rovers main CPUs are derived from a pentium 3 on about 300nm. Larger feature sizes on older chips are far more radiation resistant than modern smaller transistors. It's also easier to design in fault tolerance on older nodes as they have had more of their bugs ironed out over time. I wouldn't be surprised if most satellites most advanced silicon components were fabricated on mature nodes a few steps behind leading edge let alone bleeding edge.
I noticed more errors but this is enough I think to demonstrate that some of his claims should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm not saying his broader analysis is wrong but simply there are clearly blindspots.

Well, I’d sure like to know his thoughts on Canada relative to North American stability. Canada crossed a precarious threshold in the last couple years by eliminating constitutional rights and within the next year could cross over to full on Socialism with the support of China. For reference, look in to China’s support of Canadian politicians, some of whom are first generation Chinese. It’s a dangerous time geopolitically.

Peter Zeihan opened my eyes to the inner workings of the world.

Why cant we ever get a person with brains like Peter to run for president ?

Peter is brilliant and a tool of the elites

Good talk jack and great questions. Cheers