O MUNDO COMO CONHECÍAMOS ACABOU: “AGORA É A LEI DA SELVA”

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  August 31, 2026 at 23:30  |  9:09  |  Market Makers
Speakers
Apresentador — Apresentador
Gunther Rudzit — Professor de Relações Internacionais da ESPM

Summary

Gunther Rudzit argues the post-Cold War liberal order has collapsed and the world is entering a 'law of the jungle' phase. He traces the shift from the 2008 crisis through US-China trade tensions, Trump, and the current US National Security Strategy. The discussion highlights market implications such as persistent oil-driven inflation and rate pressure, and semiconductors as a strategic battleground.

  • The host frames the Gulf war as a long-lasting backdrop with high oil feeding global inflation and interest rates.
  • Gunther Rudzit calls the Gulf conflict a symptom of a durable geopolitical rupture, not a temporary event.
  • He argues the liberal international order created after WWII is now dead.
  • US policy treats semiconductors as the key strategic advantage it will not let China capture.
  • The US National Security Strategy says Washington will no longer be the world's police and prioritizes the Western Hemisphere.
  • China rejects staying only a cheap-labor producer, intensifying US-China technological competition.
Ideas
Apresentador Apresentador 0:31
High oil for long pressures inflation/rates.
The Gulf conflict is not a temporary event but one symptom of a broader geopolitical moment that will stay for a long time, implying persistent conflict risk and a structural source of oil supply-risk headlines.
Gunther Rudzit Professor de Relações Internacionais da ESPM 6:21
Semiconductors are America's protected strategic advantage.
The US has made microchips the central front of the US-China dispute because it sees the sector as its decisive advantage and will not let China close the gap; this makes semiconductors a strategically protected area in US-China competition.
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This Market Makers video, published August 31, 2026, features Apresentador, Gunther Rudzit discussing WTI, SMH. 2 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.

Speakers: Apresentador, Gunther Rudzit  · Tickers: WTI, SMH