Peter Zeihan

The alternative is absolutely limitless mass immigration, which from a cultural point of view, no one's a real fan of.

At this point in time, it's at best like a really thin cane.

If you...

If your goal is to use someone else's young people to pad your demographics, so you don't fade away, you need to start before you have a problem.

And this is one of the reasons why the settler societies have always had faster growth than the rest of the world.

So the Aussies, the Kiwis, the Americans, the Canadians, uh, this has been less of a problem for us because none of us are from where we're living now.

And we've been bringing in waves of people over and over decade and decade into the centuries.

Um,

But if you started today, so let's just take Germany because the numbers there are really clear and the Germans are great with numbers so we can trust them.

The Germans, just to hold where they are, average age of like 50, just to hold here, already export dependent, just to not slide anymore.

They need to bring in 2 million people a year that are under age 25 forever in a country that only has 80 million people.

Wow.

Fast forward 20 years and the Germans are less than a third of the population.

It's not viable anymore.

Had they started back in the 50s, it'd be a different conversation.

I mean, if there is a trend for Mandani, it's the same trend from Trump.

These are two people who never had a real job in their lives and all of a sudden are now political leaders.

We should not expect this to go well.

in New York, just like it hasn't exactly gone well in Washington.

Well, a couple of broad demographic thoughts.