Hence The Future

Ep. 156 - What’s Next for Afghanistan and The World with Brett Ewer

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Making sense of a changing world 🌏

In this episode, Brett Ewer and Mattimore Cronin discuss what the US withdrawal from Afghanistan signals about how the world is changing…

Topics Discussed:

  • Significance of US withdrawal
  • Was taking military in Afghanistan a mistake?
  • Once there, when should the US have left?
  • Mission objectives: security vs nation building
  • Which mission objectives succeeded vs failed
  • Why the Afghan government fell so quickly
  • What the US withdrawal signals to the world
  • Lessons for US to take from its longest war
  • How other countries are likely to respond
  • Three poles of power emerging in the world
  • Western liberalism vs authoritarianism
  • The blockchain and sovereign individualism
  • From "Pax Americana" to "Pax Bitcoinica"
  • Open questions that are still TBD

    • Future Scenarios:

    • Worst case scenario
    • Best case scenario
    • Most likely scenario

      • Thanks for tuning in 🔭

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