The Julia La Roche Show · Thursday, August 13, 2026
Jim Rickards discusses how geopolitical and geo-economic factors have merged into a single sphere of influence. He highlights that modern warfare increasingly involves economic and financial tactics such as sanctions and asset freezes, in addition to traditional kinetic warfare.
“the geopolitical world and the geo-economic world, they're not just interactive, they've actually merged. They're almost one and the same.”
“When we talk about warfare today, we talk about economic warfare, financial warfare, as much as kinetic warfare. It's about, you know, sanctions and, uh, blockades and freezing accounts and, uh, releasing assets, etcetera, as much as it is about, you know, bombing infrastructure and closing the Strait of Hormuz.”