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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