“Some countries just aren’t going to emerge from the Coronavirus.”

Peter Zeihan is one of the world’s foremost geopolitical experts. In his new book “Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World,” Zeihan argues that we’re at the end of the largest expansionary period in human history. As America withdraws from global leadership, a totally new (and for most parts of the world, more painful) ‘normal’ will emerge. 

On this episode of The Breakdown, Zeihan joins @NLW to discuss why the Coronavirus crisis is rapidly accelerating the end of the era of globalization. 

• How the American-led global order used the dollar as the tool to keep the world together 
• Why geopolitics and demography are coinciding to end the era of globalization 
• Why Covid-19 will spark a massive return of American manufacturing 
• Why, when it comes to the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency “Never before has the “exorbitant privilege” of being the world’s reserve currency felt more exorbitant or more like a privilege. 
• Why the crisis could spell the end for the Euro 
• Why China isn’t nearly as well positioned in the post globalization era as many assume 
• Why the best positioned countries in the coming era are the US, Japan, Argentina, France and Turkey