I asked Claude to explain the chip war and ended up understanding modern geopolitics differently

I have a six-month-old habit I am slightly embarrassed about. When I finish a Johnny Harris video and my head is full of half-answered questions, I open Claude and we go three hours deep on whatever it was. War. Borders. Trade routes. The slow death of empires. I do not do this for work. I do it because I want to be a less ignorant person, and Claude turned out to be a better teacher than the textbooks I never read. I want to tell you about one specific night, because I think it explains why t...