#79 Robert D. Kaplan: The Fall of the American Empire and The Coming Era of Chaos

#79 Robert D. Kaplan: The Fall of the American Empire and The Coming Era of Chaos

Author: Decoding Geopolitics August 23, 2025 Duration: 24:29

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This is a conversation with Robert D Kaplan - a legendary journalist, academic, and one of the most influential thinkers on US foreign policy and geopolitics of the past decades.


This year, he published a book called Wastelands in which he portrays a pretty grim diagnosis of why the world is increasingly becoming more and more unstable and dangerous, why is the United States but also Russia and China in decline that is only getting faster and why what’s coming is more chaos, more instability, violence and danger - as well, as what can we do to avoid it. We talk about all of that and much more - in what I think is pretty fascinating conversation.


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