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    Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

    Dwarkesh Podcast · Sep 18, 2024 · 1 h 28 min
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    Unless you understand the history of oil, you cannot understand the rise of America, WW1, WW2, secular stagnation, the Middle East, Ukraine, how Xi and Putin think, and basically anything else that's happened since 1860. It was a great honor to interview Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Prize - the best history of oil ever written (which makes it the best history of the…

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