Posted on 11/20/2008 11:12:41 PM PST by Doofer
US economic, military and political dominance is likely to decline over the next two decades, according to American intelligence agencies. US clout will weaken as China and India grow more powerful, the National Intelligence Council (NIC) predicts in its latest report on global trends. The US dollar will no longer be the world's major currency and food and water scarcities will fuel conflict. The NIC report comes as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office. It will make sombre reading for Mr Obama, says the BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington, as it paints a bleak picture of the future of US influence and power. "The next 20 years of transition to a new system are fraught with risks," says Global Trends 2025, the latest of the reports that the NIC prepares every four years in time for the next presidential term. Nuclear weapons use The NIC's 2004 study painted a rosier picture of America's global position, with US dominance expected to continue. But the latest report says that rising economies such as China, India and Brazil will offer the US more competition at the top of a multipolar international system. A world with more power centres will be less stable than one with one or two superpowers, it says, offering more potential for conflict. Global warming will have had a greater impact by 2025, triggering food and water scarcities that could fuel conflict around the globe. And the use of nuclear weapons will grow increasingly likely, says the report, as rogue states and terrorist groups gain greater access to such weapons. But the NIC does give some scope for leaders to take action to prevent such scenarios.
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No kidding...
This is the type of crap Londoners love...US hegemony being ripped apart, leaving a gaping hole for a British ascendancy to squeeze through...heheh.
They’re in worse shape than we are.
WOW! This is the FIRST TIME I’ve read of the end of American dominance in my 43 years! /sarc.
BBC's Global Readership "Set To Whine"
It’s all in the Bible China and India, Russia, Iran, Germany, and revive Roman Empire while US is not mentioned.
I guess the Brits woudl rather work for the Chinese.
WHY NOT! Jaguar and Range Rover were bought by TATA motors when FORD sold them off.
So now it has come full cirlce...the Brits work for the Indians!
Nana-nana-boo-boo
stick your (crumbling economic) head in doo-d**.
So you see what happens when the US dollar is no longer the world's major currency. Maybe they should think twice.
India & China have their own set of problems. I personally find those societies corrupt & perverse.
There's a lot of countries not mentioned and my theory on why the US isn't included is.
She'll turn isolationist for one reason or another and won't play any signicant role in the End Times scenario.
“India & China have their own set of problems. I personally find those societies corrupt & perverse.”
China’s economic growth is export driven. And I believe 60% of its exports are produced by foreign owned companies, the figure rising for high tech exports.
That China catches cold when the US sneezes is shown by the spillover effect from the recession here.
Having said that, granting the Chicoms permanent MFN status was absolutely insane. China is not a country that we should be helping get rich.
I wonder who is ‘setting it’?
The internationalists have always hated American independence and self sufficiency.
Huh, they don't even mention Europe. Has not Brussels anything in store for us?
You mean we can stay out of the End Times? Cool. That’s even better than getting out of the U.N.
Why would this be “somber reading” for Obama? He’s been longing and working for the end of the United States since—high school?—certainly since college.
This is the wishful thinking of the Marxists who elected Obama.
>I wonder who is ‘setting it’?
The internationalists have always hated American independence and self sufficiency.
BINGO! The Brits and the rest of the world want us to be as mediocre as they are. Their cultures have peaked while we, the youngest of the bunch have achieved so much in so little..
The BS-meter simply says:they want to follow people with power like the Chicoms. It’s not really that hard to figure out why they went down on all fours when Sharia Law went into effect in Londonistan.
I’m so glad the forefathers of this country kicked them out of the continent.
“Global warming will have had a greater impact by 2025, triggering food and water scarcities that could fuel conflict around the globe.”
BS... That statement alone makes the whole thing garbage.
“Huh, they don’t even mention Europe. Has not Brussels anything in store for us?”
They do mention Europe. In fact, they mention a great many things, such as that China’s economic growth will have slowed dramatically by 2025 rather than raging forward at double digits for 30 straight years. The only thing anyone is writing about is “the end of American power,” however.
I’m not sure I understand why so many articles claim the dollar is no longer the world’s major currency in this paper, which implies something else is, when in fact the paper projects the dollar to be ‘first among equals.’
I’m still blown away that any country in our position routinely releases these types of high-profile reports ripping ourselves down. Nothing, anywhere, that anyone else does, has as much of a negative impact on our soft power and perceptions of our place in the world as when ourselves say we’re hapless and helpless as the world overtakes us.
And, of course, the implication of each of these articles is that things have gotten much bleaker for America’s future in this report versus the last 4 years ago, and so by the next report the U.S. will have completely fallen off the top run and be third or fourth in the peking order internationally in two decades.
I'm an atheist, so you're barking up the wrong tree, FRiend! :)
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