Never Bet Against America - by Tomas Pueyo
Why the US Is Overpowered| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Why the US Is Overpowered| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
In the previous article, we explored how climate predestined the North and South of the United States to go to war.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The story people know about the US Civil War is that the South had slavery and the North was free.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
1. Russia is a colonial empire. 2. Will China take over Siberia? 3. Why Mongolia exists. 4. Why the capital moved from Moscow to St Petersburg and back again. And more.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Slavery, ice highways, the Orthodox Church, and more| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Why so far north? So cold? Why not on a big river or a coast? Why the biggest city in Europe? Why the capital of the biggest country on Earth?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Each quarter, we apply the UT lens to the world’s chaos to extract clarity.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Each quarter, we apply the UT lens to the world’s chaos to extract clarity.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Catching up on articles from the previous weeks, today we’re covering the most important things that have been happening in the world of Robotaxis and AI since we last discussed them six months ago.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The Economics of Space, Starbase, Trade Wars, Phantom Maps, Druzes vs Syria, Forgotten civilizations in the Sahara, Brazil, Roman volcanoes, Poland vs Russia, English as the Lingua Franca, Mountains vs flatlands, why do we see the light we see, A revealing 11 meter painting, ancient influencer strategies, failed global taxes| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
A hidden way climate shaped cultures| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Worry but don't panic, 2 things might solve the problem| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Incentives| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
And Unmade Them| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
And how that determines the China of today| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
What are their function, aesthetics, signaling, and path dependency?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
And why demonstrations don’t usually work| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Yes. What will happen next?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The answer to this question depends on Israel.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Ideology, bombs, and timing| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
After Israel’s attack on Iran, the big question is: What will happen in Iran?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
And what that tells us about the future of nation-states| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
How technology, peace and force go together, and how they engendered nation-states| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The Economic Value of Global Warming| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
And determined its History| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
In three spots that are disconnected?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The force that split Korea in 1945 in two is not recent: It has been pulling it apart for thousands of years. If you understand it, you can understand all of Korea's history.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
From the last 6 months | Q4 2024 and Q1 2025| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The crazy story of a few days that changed Korea forever| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The Five Beliefs That Cripple a Continent| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The Magic Development of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and China, and What That Tells Us about US Tariffs, China’s Future, EU Protectionism, Japan’s Zombie Debt, Argentina’s Arrested Development, and more| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."—Evelyn Beatrice Hall, conveying the ideas of Voltaire| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The future of Ukraine, of Europe, freedom of speech, and Germany’s economy| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Demographics & lending vs housing, culture & immigration| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
How fast AI is improving, and how that's impacting jobs today| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Israel & Palestine, One Year Later| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
How to build new cities near existing ones| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
A city of dreams| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The geographic and historical reasons that have made some spots in the country the most populated ones| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Deserts, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Snow, Paradises, Swamps| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Where are today’s Michelangelos?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Most "experts" don't understand technology or economics| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The world can carry them!| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Which countries are doing it already? Are they happy? Is desalinated water safe to drink? Does it taste good? Does it pollute too much? Can we shrink its cost?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Desalination is finally cheap, and it’s only getting cheaper. Will this usher a world of plentiful water everywhere? Will we be able to build in the Sahara?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
I’m running a 2nd cohort of my course: How to Become a World-Class Communicator, starting in two weeks, on November 4th!| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Mountains, seas, and a shitty region| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
How viruses kill cancers, which viruses to use, how many injections, at what stage of the cancer, and much more| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the treatments weren’t working. She decided to treat it herself.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Why we've modified rivers the way we have, how they have come back with a vengeance, and what we can do about it| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The Surprising Solution to Mitigate Climate Change, Create More Life, and Grow the Economy| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Cheaper development costs, lower barriers to entry, increased competition| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The costs of some parts of solar farms will drop to near zero. But some obstacles remain to make this energy cheaply available everywhere. As a result, the entire energy industry will change. What are those obstacles? How will the industry change?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
How viable is vertical farming? Will we even need vertical farms? If we think of food as energy, how can we foresee where the food industry could go from first principles?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Why have they failed so far? Where will they be successful? What plants will they produce? In what order? What are intermediary steps to vertical farms? When can we expect a sizeable share of our produce coming from vertical farming? What will happen to rural land then?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Our relationship to food, agriculture, land, and rural areas is about to change dramatically.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
(and before the Aztecs)| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Mountains, Oil, Drugs, Borders| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
A Terrible Geography, Spanish Heritage, and (Mis)Management| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Real estate has been a great investment all your life, so you think it will continue. But your life experience has been an outlier. Housing prices might stagnate or shrink in the coming decades.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
This woman will replace you| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
I used to feel powerless about climate change. Then I learned about this, and now I feel confident we can delay it at any time.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
And how did it grow from a backwater to a global capital?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, I’ve suddenly started blasphemous research. Is it good for society? What should we censor legally? What should we censor socially? What should be the rules of engagement?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
It's the safest, most environmentally friendly, most reliable and sustainable, the best for politics, and can be the cheapest| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (“COP28”) finished last month with many promises that obscure a key fact: We could easily stop climate change right now if we wanted.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
We don’t know how to contain or align a FOOMing AGI| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Peace can only be reached if we acknowledge the elephant in the room| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Gazans are trapped because of geography, religion, politics, neighbors, and psychology.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Arabs say they support Palestine, but their actions betray them. Why?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Israel? Palestine? Who has a stronger claim? Who was there first? Who deserves to have a country there? We can't answer this question without understanding the history, geography, politics, and morals of the region.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
How exposed is Israel to war with other countries?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Physically and psychologically| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The near infinite ramifications of having a uterus| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
And are suburban areas safer? Actually...| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
For thousands of years, a hidden rule limited the size of empires, unbeknownst to their rulers.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
We don’t realize it, but the shape of our cities—from how big they are to what services they have—is mainly driven by one thing: transport technologies.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
The hidden forces behind the success of some cities and not others| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
France is weird. Why is it the biggest sea country in the world? Why was it the most powerful? Why is it not even the most powerful in Europe anymore? Why is it the only country in the continent that belongs both to the north and the south? While most nations in the continent have formed in the last couple of centuries, France has been around for over a thousand years. Why so long?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
