Dave Collum – What Should the US Be Doing in Ukraine?

<p><strong>BIO: </strong>Dave Collum is a professor of Organic Chemistry at Cornell University who developed an interest in markets, which, in turn, led to an interest in geopolitics.</p><p><strong>STORY: </strong>Dave talks about his 2022 Year in Review: All Roads Lead to Ukraine.</p><p><strong>LEARNING: </strong>Never trust politicians and bureaucrats.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="ql-align-center"><strong>“The more the fact-checkers, the more likely the thing they’re checking is true.”</strong></blockquote><blockquote class="ql-align-center">Dave Collum</blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Guest profile</h2><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-collum-896a2045/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Dave Collum</strong></a> is a professor of Organic Chemistry at Cornell University who developed an interest in markets, which, in turn, led to an interest in geopolitics. He enjoys the human folly of it all. He has a natural predilection for being contrarian, which makes him a “denier” on almost all hot topics.</p><h2>2022 Year in Review: All Roads Lead to Ukraine</h2><p>Given his interest in geopolitics, Dave has strong opinions about many things. For him, it’s a natural thing to go against everybody. Today, we’ll not talk about his worst investment ever but rather hear more about his <a href="https://amzn.to/40aAOcr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2022 Year in Review: All Roads Lead to Ukraine</a>.</p><p>Every year, Dave writes an annual survey of what is happening in the world. The reviews started as a handful of pages for friends and family on a simple website, and then it just got bigger. One year he decided to do a serious job. Now every year has gotten bigger and bolder. Dave has a friend who’s binding all the views so he can sell them all on Amazon.</p><p>Every year, Dave writes about human folly. In his 2022 review, his primary focus was Ukraine. In his true controversial nature, he took the pro-Putin stance. Dave says he can easily make the case that NATO is bad.</p><p>Dave ar