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Soviet Union

also referred to as: the soviet union

4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2022 by David Sacks · said 74 times in 46 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by David Sacks (35), David Friedberg (6), Graham Allison (4), Vivek Ramaswamy (3), Tucker Carlson (3), Chris Christie (3), Chamath Palihapitiya (3), Tony Robbins (2)

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Mar 5, 2022
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Sacks: Great powers act ruthlessly against perceived national security threats
“Great powers, whether it's Russia or the Soviet Union or us will behave viciously and ruthlessly towards anything they perceive as a threat to their national security and their vital national security interests.”
David Sacks Mar 5, 2022 ▶ 1:00:26 E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
Sep 20, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Allison: 1960s textbook falsely claimed Soviet economy would overtake US by 1970s
“Samuelson was the, you know, basically for economics, it says, by the seventies, the Soviet Union will have overtaken the US economy.”
Graham Allison Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 22:23 All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
Jun 28, 2025
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Ukraine gave up little in 1990s as Moscow retained launch codes
“At the end of the Soviet Union, there were a bunch of Soviet nukes that were in Ukraine. But as I understand that the launch codes were in Moscow. So these were Soviet nuclear weapons that happened to be on Ukrainian soil. And then when the Soviet Union came a…”
David Sacks Jun 28, 2025 ▶ 39:16 12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
Aug 9, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Baker: 2% privatized Soviet farmland produced majority of nation's food
“Towards the end of the Soviet Union, they could not produce enough food using kind of socialist systems. So they let two percent of the acreage in the Soviet Union kind of like be, you know, more entrepreneurial and self-organized. And that two percent of the …”
Gavin Baker Aug 9, 2025 ▶ 37:30 OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
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