Ian Bremmer
speaker
4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
Ian Bremmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's coin operated.
It's controlled by money.
There's a two tier system.
It doesn't apply to me.
It applies to other people.
I can't get what I want.
for my kids.
And by the way, I'm super sensitive to this because my mom was just like that when I grew up as a kid.
And she didn't finish high school.
She had a feral intelligence that was very supportive of her two kids, but it wasn't book smart.
She read The Inquirer every weekend.
And a lot of the way she felt about her family, I will steal, I will cheat, I will do whatever is necessary to support them because I know the system is rigged.
I think that there's an enormous amount of that that exists across the country today in 2026.
So I'm really glad, Ezra, you framed the question that way, because I think there's a lot of truth to what you're saying.
I also think that there are really good reasons that are legitimate for why Americans feel increasingly hard done by.
But let's start with the big picture, the macro.
The macro is that, so Xi Jinping recently met with Trump and he said, we're in a Thucydides trap and want to avoid that because that usually leads to war.
Thucydides trap, so that everybody listening here knows what it's all about.
It's that historically, when you have a lead power in a system that's in decline and a rising power that's challenging it,
I mean, the lead power is trying to hold on to power, hold on to its system, hold on to its advantages for too long.
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