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Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
I guess I don't understand how they have conceived of an America alone world.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
They don't think about it.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Right.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Is this just a LARP in the purest sense of the word?
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
You know, it's like the, there's a, there's a, it was a, it was a huge, I'll tell you what happened.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
It was a huge pot of money was given to a bunch of people and it never got spent because no one knew what to do with it.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
You're not going to be able to go to Europe without like a visa basically now.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
But Europe is imposing certain restrictions.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
No, I could listen.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
This is kind of a, I think we're tanging a little bit because I think, I guess like there's, there's a few resolutions that I see and like,
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
One resolution that I've kind of nihilistically come to that might be the MAGA game, actually, but I don't know, is, like, Chimerica and everyone else... Like, because, you know, everyone else basically becomes... Like, we get a Chimerica, we divide the pie in half, um...
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
And then everyone else becomes irrelevant and we dominate our hemisphere again in a way that we haven't for a hundred, you know, in a more aggressive fashion.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Like that's what's going on with Cuba.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
That's what's going on with Venezuela.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
And we just do it to America.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
We hand them Taiwan because it doesn't make sense to do it anymore.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
And we just, we go from there and like, we like live in that world where Europe gets fed to the Russians and like, you know,
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
Like, not really, because Russia's pretty irrelevant now.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
But, like, Europe kind of fades into Islamic republicanism, becoming an Islamic republic, and maybe the Baltics get eaten by the Russians, and then we divide the world with China.
The a16z Show
Balaji and Steven Glinert on Network States, Supply Chains, and Allied Coalition Strategy
And that's the MAGA end of the story, right?