#100 - Balaji Srinivasan - The Collapse of the West

In this episode of The Peter McCormack Show, I speak with Balaji Srinivasan, tech founder, investor, and author of The Network State.

We discuss the decline of the West, the rise of China, AI disruption, Bitcoin’s role in a collapsing dollar system, and why political polarisation is tearing America apart. Balaji explains why dollar inflation is global taxation, why U.S. empire is unsustainable, and how decentralised technology is reshaping money, media, and geopolitics.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction  
00:01:32 – West vs East: Power Rebalancing        
00:06:33 – Asia Rising & West Declining  
00:10:30 – Media Denial & Western Escapism  
00:14:00 – Millionaire Migration Maps  
00:18:20 – Exponential Collapse Trends Begin  
00:20:10 – Red vs Blue vs China vs Internet  
00:25:00 – Trade Wars & Tariff Illusions  
00:33:05 – Blue America vs Internet  
00:39:35 – The US Could Split Geographically  
00:43:52 – Dollar Inflation = Global Taxation    
00:49:30 – Left & Right Destroying Their Empire    
01:07:20 – Super Bitcoinization Already Happening  
01:26:00 – The Internet is the New West  
01:32:00 – Debt Collapse vs Hyperinflation   
01:42:00 – Foreign Trust in the US Collapsing  
01:45:00 – Brain Drain: Talent Fleeing America  
01:48:00 – India Rising, Fast & Quiet   
01:54:00 – Bitcoin vs State Power  
02:03:00 – America Cannot Handle Being #2  
02:06:00 – Debt & Broken Promises  
02:12:00 – Internet = West 3.0  
02:14:30 – The Internet Will Replace the Empire  

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