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The Accidental Superpower The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

Mr. Peter Zeihan

An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The freshman book of New York Times Bestselling Author of

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This book, focusing on geography and demographics' role in world history and superpowers, was referenced in relation to predicting Russia's capacity to invade Ukraine. The interviewee used this book's insights to explain why a Russian invasion might have been predicted.

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And at the time, it was about 2022, there's actually a book called The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeehan, where he looks at geography and demographics as far as world history and superpowers and h...

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This book, focusing on geography and demographics' role in world history and superpowers, was referenced in relation to predicting Russia's capacity to invade Ukraine. The interviewee used this book's insights to explain why a Russian invasion might have been predicted.

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And at the time, it was about 2022, there's actually a book called The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeehan, where he looks at geography and demographics as far as world history and superpowers and how that has played in.

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The book talked about the blessings of the United States, specifically highlighting the importance of the Mississippi River and other navigable rivers for the country's prosperity. The book described how the network of navigable rivers, unique to America, facilitated commerce, trade, and family connections, contributing to the country's economic strength.

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This is not a member of the church who writes this, but he talks about the blessings of this country.

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The book talked about the blessings of the United States, specifically highlighting the importance of the Mississippi River and other navigable rivers for the country's prosperity. The book described how the network of navigable rivers, unique to America, facilitated commerce, trade, and family connections, contributing to the country's economic strength.

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This is not a member of the church who writes this, but he talks about the blessings of this country.

He's a geographer.

The Mississippi is the world's longest navigable river, 2,100 miles long. It's about one third longer than the mighty Danube and triple the length of the Rhine.

And the Mississippi is only one of the 12 major navigable American rivers. Collectively, all of America's temperate zone rivers are 14,650 miles long. China and Germany each have about 2,000. America has 14,600 miles of navigable rivers. China and Germany 2,000 each. France, about 1,000. The entirety of the Arab world has but 120.

The most compelling feature of the American maritime system, however, is also nearly unique amongst the world's waterways. The American system is a network. It has tributaries that combine these. And what does this mean? It meant prosperity because people could connect, they could travel, they could expand and still stay connected with commerce and trade and family. They had this network that exists nowhere else in the world.

Episode: 2 Nephi 1-2 Part 1 • Dr. Lili Anderson • Feb 5 -...

The book focuses on the blessings and unique features of the United States, particularly its extensive network of navigable rivers, which contributed significantly to the country's prosperity and growth. It was mentioned as an example of God working in details and blessing certain lands with specific advantages.

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This is not a member of the church who writes this, but he talks about the blessings of this country.

He's a geographer.

The Mississippi is the world's longest navigable river, 2,100 miles long. It's about one third longer than the mighty Danube and triple the length of the Rhine.

Even leaving out the United States and North America's other waterways, this is still a greater length of internal waterways than the rest of the planet combined.

The result is that the U.S. has the greatest volume and concentration of capital generation opportunities in the world by an absolutely massive margin, and that opportunity is very heavily concentrated in a single unified system.

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