Sir Niall Ferguson

and can't withstand a ceasefire.

That's often the way about wars.

And then finally, China.

China has these profound structural problems that aren't really fixable.

Demographics, the debt dynamic.

So although we can see it all going to hell and public intellectuals get paid more when they say things are going to hell, there's a scenario in which it turns out better than most people expect because Trump gets lucky and the other side is actually quite weak.

And that's the future that not many people are betting on at the moment.

Well, I have a sub stack, which is called Time Machine, where I post everything that I write.

My core competence is writing books.

There are still bookshops as well as Amazon.

And I think there are 16 books by me to choose from, of which maybe the most relevant to this conversation is War of the World.

The most recent book is Doom.

And as I think I mentioned, Azim, I'm in the midst of volume two of the magnum opus on Henry Kissinger, who had quite a good handle on all the issues that we've been discussing.

And though he's not around to comment anymore,

He left quite a lot of commentary for me to plow through as I write this second volume.