Konstantin Kisin
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Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British satirist, author, and political commentator. He is best known as the co-host of the popular podcast and YouTube channel Triggernometry.
What Konstantin Kisin has said on podcasts
21 statements
- on Economic, social, and cultural instabilityNegativeAug 20, 2026· The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Economic, social, and cultural problems increase the likelihood of conflict and civil unrest.
“anytime you have a combination of economic problems and social instability and cultural problems, you put all those things together, it's not a good time. It's a time when conflict, violence, civil unrest, all of these things are much more likely”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 0:04
A superior artificial species would make humans an inferior species.
“if you're creating a superior species, you will become an inferior species”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:10
Far-left and right-wing populism would rise in Western countries.
“I basically predicted that what you were about to see was the rise of far left populism and the rise of right wing populism”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 2:23
The Iran war will affect the global economy.
“the war in Iran will have an impact on the global economy”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 2:40
Europe has experienced economic stagnation since the global financial crisis.
“Europe has basically stagnated since the great financial crisis”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 3:14
Ignoring illegal immigration will drive the political right toward harder-line policies.
“as long as the political class, left and right, refuses to address that issue as they have done for this entire time, you will see more people on the right adopting harder line slogans, harder line policies”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 7:28
The Trump administration’s border closure was beneficial and necessary.
“The one thing they have done is close down the border. And I think that's a very good thing, and it was very necessary”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 10:32
Communist redistribution disincentivizes disproportionately productive people.
“what communists try, Communism tries to do is to take from the disproportionately productive 20% and spread it out across everybody else. The problem is that disincentivizes the 20% from doing anything”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 11:35
Communism reduces incentives to produce, create, and innovate, causing economic stagnation.
“you end up with a communist system like the one we had in the Soviet Union, where no one really has any incentive to produce, to create, to innovate. And so you get a very stagnant economy”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 11:47
- on India and China greenhouse-gas emissionsNegativeAug 20, 2026· The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
India and China will produce most future global greenhouse-gas emissions.
“Almost all of the CO2 emissions, not almost all, but the overwhelming bulk of the CO2 emissions of the future, the greenhouse gases of the future, are going to be produced in two countries, India and China”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 24:39
Expensive, scarce energy causes societies to become poorer.
“any society which creates a structure where energy is expensive and not abundant is going to get poorer”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 25:57
Clean energy is the only viable way to address climate change while maintaining prosperity.
“the only choice we actually have to solve this problem is to create forms of energy that do not produce CO2 but produce GDP. Clean energy”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 34:32
The Middle East intervention benefits Russia by enabling continued oil-funded war.
“This has only made things better for Russia. The fact that they've had to lift sanctions on Russian oil, for example, in order to compensate for the lack of supply. This is allowing Russia to continue this war and to fund its war”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 50:31
Andy Burnham will not address Britain’s major structural problems.
“he is not remotely going to address any of it”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:05:40
Widespread AI automation will make redistribution inevitable.
“a form of redistribution will be inevitable because as we spoke about last time, if six people in the world own all the revenue generating assets in the world, they're either going to have to share it”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:16:21
Workers will be displaced by people who use AI more effectively.
“you will not be replaced by AI. You will be replaced by someone who uses AI better than you do”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:17:49
A superior AI could reduce humans to pets or livestock.
“Best case scenario, you become a pet. Worst case scenario, you become a cow”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:18:51
A powerful AI will make decisions according to its interests rather than humans’ interests.
“It will have more power than you, and therefore it will make decisions and not you. And therefore, it will make decisions that are in its own interest and not yours”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:19:29
Superior artificial intelligence will likely take away human free will.
“it is very difficult to see how an intelligence that is superior to us, at the very least will not take away our free will”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:24:49
Silicon Valley AI developers will not stop pursuing advanced AI.
“there is no way in hell they're gonna stop”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:28:20
Advanced AI development cannot be stopped or solved through a definitive intervention.
“It's going to happen one way or another, and we don't know what that's gonna be like, but there is no solution to that issue”
Open the episode · Financial Crash Expert: He Predicted The 2008 Crash, Now He Says Capitalism Failed, It’s Too Late!Listen at 1:29:53
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2 episodes featuring Konstantin Kisin
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Peterson argues meaning, not reason, organizes human life
The discussion tests whether science, abundance, and inherited religious practices can sustain a society without a shared hierarchy of values.
Sep 27, 2026 · 1h 60m
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Commentators clash over immigration and the survival of Western capitalism
This debate highlights the polarizing economic and social theories that shape modern political discourse on immigration, climate change, and national sovereignty.
Aug 20, 2026 · 1h 34m