Borders are shifting. Wars are spreading. America is pulling back, China is pushing forward, and Russia is gambling everything. @ianbremmer says the global system that kept the world stable for decades is dead, and what replaces it will be far more dangerous.
This is not a Cold War.
This is a free-for-all.
We get into:
• Why the U.S. is losing its grip on global leadership
• How China and Russia are quietly teaming up to challenge the West
• Why Europe is more fragile than anyone wants to admit
• How NATO missteps pushed Putin toward full-scale invasion
• Why nuclear risks are higher today than in the 1980s
• And what happens when every major power is acting alone with no rules and no referee
Bremmer says the world has entered a G-Zero era. No leadership. No guardrails. No safety net. Just rising tension and a global landscape one mistake away from disaster.
01:05 – Introduction to the G-Zero world with no global leader
01:58 – Why G-Zero increases accidents and escalation
03:09 – The global economy is the most G-Zero of all sectors
04:09 – AI is a tectonic technological shift reshaping power
05:46 – “AI is the only thing that can take down the US”
07:07 – AI competition framed as a positive externality
08:08 – The need for global AI governance similar to the IPCC
09:28 – Lack of trust blocks AI cooperation between nations
10:39 – Geopolitics increasingly driven by domestic instability
12:28 – Biggest threat is internal fracture, not great-power war
13:17 – Polarization now the engine of global instability
14:38 – Israel–Gaza seen as a symptom of broader breakdown
17:09 – UN Security Council described as completely irrelevant
18:50 – US has less leverage over Netanyahu’s cabinet
21:30 – Trump’s impact on alliances and global order
23:01 – NATO revived, but the G7 is losing relevance
24:46 – Europe must wake up and pay for its own security
26:01 – US using the UN for cover, not real action
27:15 – US debt crisis emerging as a long-term threat
28:44 – Concern over the rising level of political hatred
30:35 – The US now seen as a flawed model of democracy
32:00 – China’s transactional influence without global leadership
34:02 – US–China relationship more frenemies than rivals
37:05 – Technology as the only truly internationalist force
38:50 – US, Europe, and China all facing internal crises
40:51 – Escalation risk rising across the Middle East
44:31 – Palestinian issue cannot be solved with money alone
48:02 – The end of the globalist consensus
49:03 – Climate change is the lone area where multilateralism works
52:12 – Netanyahu’s weakness threatens regional stability
55:51 – The 2024 election will define US foreign policy
58:59 – Trump’s first foreign-policy success: the Abraham Accords
