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# The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On

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## Customer Reviews

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    Good Read , Even In 2023
  

*by T***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023*

I don't normally read geopolitical books, they can be somewhat boring.  Trying to expand my horizons and I picked up this book in March of 2023 and his other book 'The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning' after listening to him on the Joe Rogan experience. Overall, it was a good book and I never thought how America's geography, especially east of the Mississippi, shaped its economy.Lot's of opinions in the book and at times, he sounded like a shill for the  oil industry touting the benefits of fracking and how it was / is our ticket to energy independence and exit from Bretton Woods. Maybe, but as of this writing I think fracking has come to a slow halt due to the cost of it and the current administration in office.Overall, glad I read it, I learned more about the world outside of the US which can only help.

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    Sad but true, petrochemicals make the world go round
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2023*

The book was fascinating and at the same time saddens one to realize that petrochemcials make the entire world go round, we're no where near ever getting off of them.  I suppose the good news is that the US is already energy independent due to fracking and shale oil, yet no one outside the industry seems to know this fact.  Kind of a big deal just this one fact alone isn't it?!

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    The DELIBERATE Superpower
  

*by A***L on Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2014*

I began to suspect from the outset that author Peter Zeihan was not born and educated in the USA. He appears to be only superficially acquainted with U.S. history before World War II.However, that is NOT a significant weakness of the book because its crux is what has happened, and what Zeihan interpolates WILL happen, between 1945 --- when the USA emerged as a superpower ---  and where we are headed into the mid 21st Century. On that period of current history and history extrapolated forward, Zeihan is expert, and that is why this book should be read.Zeihan's premise that the USA is an "accidental" superpower whose people just happened to stumble upon a continent of astoundingly favorable geography is dubious. Yes, the favorable geography was there, but the creation of the United States as a continent-spanning and then global superpower was no accident.Zeihan seems to believe that it was a cakewalk for American pioneers to secure possession of our country from coast to coast, and that not much in the way of man-made "artificial infrastructure" (i.e. canals, highways, and railroads) needed to be built:======One of the things that the Americans have traditionally not needed to spend that money on is artificial infrastructure.======Mr. Zeihan needs to call up an 1850's canal map, an 1860s through 1940s railroad map, or a modern road atlas with its 40,000 miles of Interstate highways. We've spent the modern-day equivalent of trillions of dollars on transportation infrastructures since our founding, and we're still at it, with the chorus of calls to commit money to high-speed passenger railroads. Transportation infrastructure is the LIFEBLOOD of America. The necessity of unifying the country with man-made transportation has always been an instinct of our national consciousness. Every great man-made transportation corridor we've built --- from the Erie Canal to the Panama Canal to the Transcontinental Railroad, to the Interstates, to the airports has been constructed out of necessity to unity the country economically and politically. Even the "natural" waterways like the Mississippi and Ohio and Potomac were made navigable by man-made operations of dredging and locking.It took a century of intensive canal, highway, and railroad construction to make it possible for Americans to consolidate sovereignty over the Continental USA. Astounding amounts of capital were poured into canals , railroads, and highways that linked the interior USA , separated by 200 miles of barren Appalachian Mountain "desert," to the East Coast ports.Indeed, the United States exists in its continental form because George Washington saw the need to link the interior of the continent to the coast before the trans-Appalachian settlers joined up with the British in Canada or the Spanish in Florida. He organized the Potomac Company as a joint venture between Virginia and Maryland to accomplish that. Other states joined the compact, and the final result was the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention. Then came the era of railroads, of highways, and now of air travel. The USA exists as a continent-spanning sovereignty BECAUSE of the enormous expenditure of capital allocated to the DELIBERATE construction of trans-continental infrastructures.Mr. Zeihan also appears to be only superficially acquainted with Canadian history. His conception of Canada as a fragmented quasi-nation that is probably destined to be absorbed into the USA has a 1960-ish or 1970-ish retro feel to it. These issues of Quebec seceding and Alberta becoming the "51st State" were front-page stories on foreign policy magazines 50 years ago. Those scenarios never panned out  because Canada is a deeper-rooted nation than it often appears, even to Canadians. Mr. Zeihan (who Internet research reveals to be Australian-born)would not be expected to understand the history of Canada or the USA the way a person who has lived their entire lives in either country would understand it.However, the meaningful aspect of the book is how Mr. Zeihan analyzes the world from 1945 going forward and then extrapolates how the mid-21st Century (2030-2080) will look. That last part, which reaches its climax in the Epilogue, is eye-opening.It is a contrarian-positive view of the USA. Instead of declining into a dystopian post-Superpower anarchy, as many today feel is our destiny, Mr. Zeihan makes the case that the USA's role as the world's ONLY Superpower will be ENHANCED. And, yes, he does explain why our geography is a big part of that. But the character of our people, and especially the vision of our leaders to bridge the gaps in our continental geography in order to make us a unified nation, are the largest part of the equation.Our geography IS accidental. Our status as the world's only Superpower is DELIBERATE. But that aside, the book has given me a clear vision of what the USA and the rest of the world is probably going to look like in 2030-2080. We make better decisions in the present if we have a good intuition of what the future will bring. I think Mr. Zeihan has foreseen IN SPECIFIC DETAILS, NOT JUST GENERALITIES, the mid-century future of the USA and the world and has described it lucidly in this book.===btw. this book was released barely more than six WEEKS ago and its main theme of decline of American adversaries in the oil-producing countries of Russia, Venezuela, Iran, etc. is ALREADY happening. Oil prices plunged 50% in the last six weeks and knocked the stuffing out of these American adversaries, just as Peter Zeihan predicted would happen around mid century. This happened because our oil production nearly DOUBLED in the last two years due to fracking. There are also incidental signs that China's economy has reached the limit of its growth curve, as its recent economic growth rate is the slowest since the 1990's. America is once again viewed as the preeminent economic power on the planet. I'd say author Zeihan "hit it out of the park" in predicting this one!

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