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The Next 100 Years A Forecast for the 21st Century

George Friedman

“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

The hosts discussed the book across three episodes, with Matt and Shane highlighting its bold forecasts about U.S. military and economic supremacy, the potential collapse of Russia and China, and long‑term geopolitical shifts through 2100, including new energy sources. They recalled a prior conversation where the author predicted destabilizing alliances and praised the work as “sick as hell.” Overall, the podcast treated the title as a must‑read for its provocative outlook.

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Episode: Ep 398 - The Enantiodromia of Vietnam (feat. Colin...

It was mentioned in passing, as Shane recalled a conversation about the book in which it was said that the US was economically and militarily superior to the rest of the world and was seeking to destabilize alliances.

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I remember that George remember the book I was talking about the George Friedman book where it was the next hundred years and they predicted all that stuff.

Episode: Ep 382 - The Easter Ham (feat. Brian Six)

It was discussed at length, with predictions about Russia and China's future, as well as global energy and political shifts in the coming decades.

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This is the book. This is the book dude. This is the next hundred years book.

Russia collapses. All those countries, Turkey's gonna start, they're all gonna start grabbing pieces of the former Russian states whatever.

Dude this book is sick as hell.

I just read that one book but pretty sick.

He basically called 2020 was gonna be chaos, bro.

Episode: Ep 381 - Pakistan In The Bag

It was discussed in the context of geopolitics, predicting the future through 2100, with a focus on America's continued power and the rise of certain countries.

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He tried to lay out what will where will be in terms of geopolitics his to define it he's saying geopolitics are the kind of like the Churning and like invisible forces that come about from a bunch of distinct countries pursuing their rational and like if you're from Yugoslavia, you're gonna want Yugoslavia to be doing as good as Yugoslavia personally possibly can do and that'll have an effect on the neighboring country Then a bigger power might have to intervene.

So he was saying his prediction is where we'll be in 2100 and The best part about it is he just comes right off the bat and he goes I you know, I'm gonna it's gonna look like I'm America centric but all this shit about America like being over. He's like, it's just hogwash He's like we're a young.

We're a young democracy. We have just unrivaled military and economic power. He's like it's not even fucking close Like he's like it's not like our Navy just our naval power It's ridiculous.

He's like they'll be the superpowers of the I fuck with that Russia collapses China collapses Poland's gonna be strong Poland's gonna be tight said hat Poland has been off the map for a while He's like they're gonna come back.

He was saying we're gonna go it's tough to predict. Oh, he said we're gonna get a Out like space generated energy, so we're gonna have a solar panel. He's like solar panels on that land. It's too much. It's too clunky, it's kind of shitty. He's like, but we're gonna go out set him up on the moon We're gonna start harnessing why try the energy back?

Episode: Ep 521 - Time Under Tension (feat. Chris Distefano...

They mentioned it as a good book that predicted geopolitical trends and wars up to the 2030s.

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There's a good book called The Next 100 Years. By George Friedman. He laid it out in the early 2000s, predicting things like Russia taking back Ukraine and the future of global power struggles.

He wrote that the United States just needs to destabilize any other power, not win wars. He said Russia's population decline will be a huge problem by 2050 and that China won't take over.

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It was mentioned as a book that predicted a weakening of Russia and China, the rise of Japan and Turkey, and a potential future world war in 2050.

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He's a geopolitical scientist and he wrote a book called The Next 100 Years where he said that there's going to be a fragmentation in China, a weakening of Russia, Japan will emerge as a more powerful...

— Episode: CLASSIC: How World War III Might Start

Episode: CLASSIC: How World War III Might Start

It was mentioned as a book that predicted a weakening of Russia and China, the rise of Japan and Turkey, and a potential future world war in 2050.

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He's a geopolitical scientist and he wrote a book called The Next 100 Years where he said that there's going to be a fragmentation in China, a weakening of Russia, Japan will emerge as a more powerful thing, Turkey will emerge and that eventually what's going to happen is that there would be a world war or a fight for world power, super power status in 2050.

Episode: CLASSIC: How World War III Might Start

It was mentioned as a book that predicted a potential world war or fight for superpower status around 2050, including fragmentation in China and the rise of Japan and Turkey.

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He's a geopolitical scientist and he wrote a book called The Next 100 Years where he said that there's going to be a fragmentation in China, a weakening of Russia, Japan will emerge as a more powerful thing, Turkey will emerge and that eventually what's going to happen is that there would be a world war or a fight for world power, super power status in 2050.

Episode: CLASSIC: How World War III Might Start

It was mentioned as a book that predicted a possible war for world power status in 2050, including a weakening of Russia and the rise of Japan and Turkey.

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He's a geopolitical scientist and he wrote a book called The Next 100 Years where he said that there's going to be a fragmentation in China, a weakening of Russia, Japan will emerge as a more powerful thing, Turkey will emerge and that eventually what's going to happen is that there would be a world war or a fight for world power, super power status in 2050.

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