>>509752156It's ironic because everyone knows Zeihan was wrong. That's why these threads are always filled with 'two more weeks' there's no one who takes him seriously. Zeihan also thought Russia would collapse because of population issues, fucking everything is automated now. A few thousand technicians can support a public several magnitudes their number, Russia has boundless resources and is anti-globalism so they can just undercut Saudi oil no problem. China was nominally on course for a 2008 style collapse, but Russia stepped in and dumped cheap food/oil on them before they were gutted by the dollar. In effect China right now has their economy hinging on Russia's resources, otherwise they'd need to go back to fundamentals to correct their food and energy securities. Back to farming and coal mines, so their development growth is almost entirely tied to how much Russia decides it wants to fuck over the global oil monopoly.