Phew this took me a long time to get through! Could’ve used a lot more geography and a lot less politics.

This was heavily pro-American and a U.S.-centric take on global politics. I was annoyed there were entire chapters dedication to 1 or 2 countries, and then for literal continents, Africa and also Central + South America, had just one chapter that lightly skimmed through some of the countries.

I don’t keep up with global politics or world geography so I did learn a lot but I would also like to learn more from a non U.S.-centric author after this.