Stephen Kotkin
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
because there could be a World War III.
But in the long run, we're all good because our system is better.
So we have to elongate the short run.
No world war between the U.S.
and China.
Get to the long run.
Get to the competition.
Get to the cold war instead of hot war, where we're not having hot war,
That's the beauty of Cold War.
It's not hot war.
You can compete.
You can have tensions.
You can have rivalries, but you don't have hot war.
And so in the short run, potentially, we're all dead because the World War with great powers, it was 55 million in World War II, the low estimate of deaths.
That was a multiple of World War I, and World War III would be a multiple of World War II.
If we can avoid that,
In the long run, we're good.
It's the opposite of what Keynes said about in the long run, we're all dead.
It's in the short run that we're potentially dead.
But I like the long run.