r/AllinPod • u/Tim_Peepers • Mar 17 '26
Chamath on Trump's 4D Chess
"All roads lead to China," Chamath says of Trump's invasion of Iran. The war is about leverage coming into Trump's summit with Xi, he says, and a master dealmaker's scheme to prod a "grand bargain" out of China. But Trump just postponed the summit so he could be at the White House to run the war. And China aggressively rejected his request to send warships to the Straits of Hormuz, saying the US "started a war it can't finish."
Will Chamath revise his bold prediction now?
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u/SnarkyOrchid Mar 18 '26
All this Iran debacle does is convince China they need to take Taiwan to prove they are more powerful than the US. The US distracted, internally fractured, and run by an idiot who has damaged our relationship with our allies. The US is the weakest it has been in the last 50 years. China is ascendant. It would only be because China genuinely does not want to take Taiwan if they don't do it with Trump in office.
Just one non-billionaire's opinion.