John Mearsheimer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I told you the two principal building blocks of power are population size and wealth.
Okay?
And therefore, you want to look around the world and you want to look at what you think the demographics are of countries like Britain and
The United States, Iran, China, Russia.
Pick your country moving forward, right?
What do the demographics look like?
And how wealthy are those countries likely to be?
What you discover very quickly is that almost every country around the world is depopulating over time.
Russia is going to be much smaller.
China is going to be much smaller 100 years from now than both of those countries are.
It's best we can tell.
American women are not having lots of babies these days.
No question about that.
But we have immigration.
We're an immigrant culture.
You're a perfect manifestation of that.
You're perfect.
You're now an American.
That's wonderful.
We need more people like you, right?