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Hello Peter. What's going on man? Nice to meet you. Right back at you. It has been a crazy year.

Yeah, it's been a crazy year for everything, right? Yeah, it's one thing when you talk about how the world's going to be coming to an end.

It's quite another one it's like here and now.

Yeah, well you've been working on this type of material, this subject matter for quite a long time so tell everybody your

background let's see my background is an economic development it's all about

figuring out what works where and why and why if you try the same policies in the

next town over it's usually a disaster.

And then I worked actually here in Austin at a company called Stratfor for 12 years and I was their

sole generalist.

So it was my idea to kind of plug everything together and figure out what

the map of the world looks like and how if you pull a string on one side of the world, something

changes on the other side.

Well your perspective on sort of global interactions with China and Russia and the United States

and energy supply and the food supply I have not heard before I haven't heard it as comprehensively as I've seen you put it together so I'm kind of

excited to talk to you about this. So when let's let's I guess we should start it with

Russia when Russia invaded Ukraine. And I guess we should start it with Russia.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, you were not surprised.

Not even a little.

No.

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