Ian Bremmer
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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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they're doing at a small level, and we should be very happy that OPEC is gone because it is a cartel monopoly over oil.
That's not good for the United States.
It's not good for anyone globally to have a cartel except the people that control the cartel.
They're doing at a small level what the Chinese are doing at scale.
which is they want to be dominating the investments in energy that will power compute, that will power AI at scale and cheap.
And they want to do it for their own country and they want to export it.
Now, Texas understands this, right?
Red State, Texas, at least for now.
We'll see where Tallarico goes or Paxson, whatever.
Point is, they are driving more renewable energy production than any other state in the United States.
They're also driving more petro production than any other state in the United States.
That is the appropriate response for the world's most powerful country is we should be able to do both of those things.
Yeah.
So in the same way that the critical minerals gives you that influence, because if you don't have them, you can't allow your economy to grow.
And if you don't have the infrastructure that allows your energy to be built at scale and cheaply from China, then your economy won't grow.
And you can't have AI if you don't have the ability to drive energy for compute at scale.
So China wants to be at the commanding heights of where the global economy is going.
Now, I mentioned before, we are very short term in the way we've thought about these investments.
That's why the Europeans got into trouble on gas.
That's why we're all in trouble on semiconductors in Taiwan.
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