Fareed Zakaria
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2,161 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Fareed Zakaria’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And why did it happen?
It's because the United States conceived of a system that was not this traditional real polity law of the jungle.
It was
You know, let's try to create a world in which everyone has an incentive for peace.
Let's create an open economy so everyone can grow and prosper.
And they have this much more dark, you know, Machtpolitik.
It's like the 19th century German view of how to be powerful.
And the only thing I would point out is,
Right.
Trump says the European Union was created to screw the United States.
We basically encouraged the Europeans to come together because we didn't want them to fight wars again.
We thought that they would understand the advantages of commerce, and it worked brilliantly.
But the point you make, John, which is very important, is that the whole MAGA premise
is that the United States has gotten screwed over the last eight years and particularly the last 30 or 40, right?
Here's the data.
About 25 years ago, US and European wages were roughly the same.
Today, US wages are 50% higher than European wages.
About 15 years ago, the Eurozone economy and the US economy were the same size.
Today, the US economy is 70% larger than the Eurozone economy.
If you look at one company, Nvidia, it has a higher market capitalization than the entire German stock exchange.
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