Ep. 156 - What’s Next for Afghanistan and The World with Brett Ewer Hence The Future

Making sense of a changing world 🌏

In this episode, Brett Ewer and Mattimore Cronin discuss what the US withdrawal from Afghanistan signals about how the world is changing…

Topics Discussed:


Significance of US withdrawal
Was taking military in Afghanistan a mistake?
Once there, when should the US have left?
Mission objectives: security vs nation building
Which mission objectives succeeded vs failed
Why the Afghan government fell so quickly
What the US withdrawal signals to the world
Lessons for US to take from its longest war
How other countries are likely to respond
Three poles of power emerging in the world
Western liberalism vs authoritarianism
The blockchain and sovereign individualism
From "Pax Americana" to "Pax Bitcoinica"
Open questions that are still TBD

Future Scenarios:


Worst case scenario
Best case scenario
Most likely scenario

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