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For 80 years, Western countries have enjoyed a territorial peace unlike anything the world has ever seen before. However, the Trump Administration has begun to upend the system. This video examines how the territorial peace, what Trump's strategy appears to be, and why runs against almost a century of civilizational progress, never mind millennia of human development.
0:00 Criticisms of the Trump Administration
2:17 The History of Territorial Conflict
8:15 The Origin of the Territorial Peace
18:13 A Brief History of Predatory Economic Governance
28:47 A Brief History of International Trade
45:27 A Brief History of Service Economies
53:21 The Cost of Conquest
1:06:49 The Trump Strategy
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