Iran, Hungary, Ukraine: The World Is Running on Outdated Legacy Software

About this episode

The episode discusses the inadequacies of current global leadership in adapting to a changing world order.

The old rules are gone. The new ones aren’t written yet. And no one in charge knows how to write them. Detail in my recent WhoWhatWhy podcast. The old world order is dead. The new one hasn’t been written yet. And the people currently in charge — on both sides of the Atlantic — are structurally incapable of writing it. That’s not a provocative opinion. It’s an analytical conclusion, and few people are better positioned to make it than Bianka Banova . Bulgarian-born, Switzerland-based, she runs the Waronomics Substack with what she calls Balkan candor and systems thinking — no institutional affiliations, no ideology to protect, and two decades of pattern recognition developed by someone who grew up watching history happen to her country. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Schechtman

Guest: Bianka Banova

Topics covered

• world order
• politics
• legacy systems
• geopolitics
• analytical conclusions

Keywords

• legacy software
• world order
• geopolitics
• political analysis
• Balkan candor

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Waronomics

Places: Hungary, Ukraine, Iran, Bulgaria, Switzerland

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