Soviet Union
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 31, 2022 by Dr. Mark Esper · said 73 times in 36 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Joe Lonsdale (12), Tom Cotton (7), Dmitri Alperovitch (6), Shyam Sankar (4), Niall Ferguson (4), Maria Davidson (4), Steve Blank (3), Stephen Harper (3)
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2026 12 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- America’s $700 Billion Defense Tech Rebuild
- Why this Billionaire Just Took Over NASA · Joe Lonsdale
- Palantir CTO: We Need More Heretics · Joe Lonsdale
- Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
- Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- Top Tech Investors: This AI Wave Is 10X Bigger Than SaaS · Joe Lonsdale
- Pentagon Chief: 6 Weapons That Will Prevent WW3 · Joe Lonsdale
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2025 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Billionaire vs. U.S. Senator: Should TikTok Be Banned? · Joe Lonsdale
- How AI Robots Are Taking Over Construction · Joe Lonsdale
- This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale
- Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale
- From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
- $2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
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2024 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- He Predicted Putin's Invasion. Now He Predicts When China Will Invade Taiwan. · Joe Lonsdale
- How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi · Joe Lonsdale
- The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep 90: A Conversation with Wall Street Pioneer Ethan Penner · Joe Lonsdale
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2023 16 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Ep 56: A Philosopher Reinventing Construction? Maria Davidson & the Story of Kojo · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep 74: Niall Ferguson & Pano Kanelos on Building the University of Austin · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep 59: Adi Berlia Explains India's Remarkable Rise Out of Socialism · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep 72: Illegal Chinese Bio Labs & Secret Police Inside America! Congressman Mike Gallagher · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep 69: How a Teenager Set Out to Rid the Ocean of Plastic; Boyan Slat & the Ocean Cleanup · Joe Lonsdale
- Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale
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2022 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Oklo's Amazing Small Reactor That Can Reuse Nuclear Waste · Joe Lonsdale
- Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale
- Dr. Mark Esper: Lessons from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine · Joe Lonsdale
- Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale
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2021 10 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Stephen Harper: Rejecting Wokeness, Addressing China, and Defending Western Values · Joe Lonsdale
- Niall Ferguson: Why Great Civilizations Rise and Fall · Joe Lonsdale
- How to Fix Dysfunctional Government with Esper CEO Maleka Momand · Joe Lonsdale
- Force Fields & Directed Energy Are Here! How Epirus Is Changing Defense Tech · Joe Lonsdale
- Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin, China, the "Woke" Mob, and the Future of the Internet · Joe Lonsdale
- Arthur Brooks: Finding Happiness -- What Most People Get Wrong and Few Get Right · Joe Lonsdale
- Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions · Joe Lonsdale
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Everything said about Soviet Union, oldest first
Mar 31, 2022 negative
Esper: Russian Military Has Reverted to Soviet-Era Tactics in Ukraine
“Well, I did think we thought we would see a difference, but it appears to be not unlike what we saw during Soviet times. So the heavy use of massed forces, a reliance on artillery if you will, barrage tactics to take down cities. But we thought that they would…”
Nov 8, 2023 negative
Lonsdale: Many green activist leaders are former Marxists opposing capitalism
“There was a very, very big movement in the seventies and eighties that was very Marxist. And then when Soviet Union fell, A lot of the Marxists became kind of the leaders of the green activists. So I think a lot of their solutions are, let's get rid of capital…”
May 19, 2026 neutral
Helberg: China Resembles Late-1970s Soviet Union with Low Growth and Tech Power
“And so the interesting thing is that they are actually entering a phase where they're becoming a little bit more akin to, you know, where the Soviet Union was back in the late seventies, which is low growth, but still very, very technologically formidable.”