Peter Zeihan is not the man to pay attention here. It's the other guy. Pure Narrative framing going on here; I've heard this framing before- this cohort of Globohomo ain't slick. Other guy's openly repeating the old Globohomo position on Russia: wear it down, bleed it out, break it up (implicitly, take it over).
Zeihan's there purely to give substance to the other guy's framing. For all his gainsaying of the other guy, it's not disagreement on the core point- just the details. Zeihan's role in this video is to give the audience an illusion of facts and logic for the other guy's Rhetorical statements that do the framing.
The takeaway here is that it is now thinkable to outright conquer, occupy, and Westernize (poz) Russia. "If Putin doesn't make it happen sooner due to incompetence, "business forces" and demographics will make it happen soon enough, so get ready to seize the new opportunities soon to come the West's way!" Narrative Good Cop/Bad Cop in action. It's the goal of the post-Cold War Establishment reiterated.
This video is meant for a Globohomo-friendly audience of "Outer Party" types that think they're insiders, which is the sort of audience that men like Zeihan in particular speak to on the regular. Events like this are how Establishment narratives are promulgated before they go wide with mass media, so if you want advanced warning of narrative shifts this sort of thing is what to watch out for- and Zeihan's the sort of man to follow since this is his beat.
This makes me miss Frame Game Radio. He'd be all over this video if he were still around. Classic "unthinking" (rethinking) framing in action. Learn this and you won't be surprised at what Globohomo does. Master it, and you'll see what the other Imperial Powers (and those aiming to be like them) do differently to achieve the same end. Seeing the tells is a necessary step towards making Empire fall.
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