Posted on 01/23/2018 9:25:14 AM PST by shove_it
The mood on the international conference call at the beginning of this month was somber as Ian Bremmer, president of the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group, prepared to list off top global dangers in the coming year. Bremmer began with a show-stopping line:
"If we had to pick one year for a big unexpected crisis the geopolitical equivalent of the 2008 financial meltdown it feels like 2018." The reasons are many, Bremmer cited, but the most prominent causes for global insecurity stem from U.S. President Donald Trump's move away from global leadership, and China's eagerness to fill the perceived vacuum.
Donald Trump pledged to "Make America Great Again." The world thinks he is doing the opposite.
The United States slips in this year's U.S. News Best Countries ranking, dropping to the No. 8 spot after falling one position from its 2017 ranking. Switzerland, an island of stable prosperity in a world of turmoil, remains the Best Country, according to a global survey of more than 21,000 persons.
The reasons for America's drop the second straight year its ranking dipped are fueled by the world's perceptions of the country becoming less progressive and trustworthy, more politically unstable and a president who after just a year in office is far more unpopular than any other head of state or company CEO...
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The golden ticket, the US consumer market, has been open for dumping for so long anyone talking action against that is a radical person in their eyes. What they fail to realize that the one sided trade war we are engaged in is what is radical and not normal.
Even if this were true the fault definitely lies with the media’s constant belittlement of our president. Trump’s good work goes unmentioned.
Too funny - the world is upset with trump because he is a world leader and acts like it.
Thy’re just sad because Trump will no longer allow America to be the globe’s prison bitch any more.
I guess it’s normal for major international corporations to open new large investments in countries for which their opinion has “slipped”. Right.
Switzerland, population as of January, 2018 is 8,513,875.
New York, N.Y. population is 8,550,405.
So the great country of Switzerland rated number 1 in the world is SMALLER than our New York which is just a city, not a country.
Just another attempt to insist that Socialism is better than a Free Society under our Constitution. We ARE unique in the world and need to remain so. We are a REPUBLIC. The greatest the world has ever seen.
Darn near lost it on the keyboard laughing.
We are Millwall:
No One Likes Us
No One Likes Us
We Don’t Care!
Exactly! And oh, since we are so low on the numbers list, maybe they can stop sneaking across our border too.
EF the new world order
Translation: We are no longer acting as a global checkbook, paying for frivolous expenditures like the previous chump in our White House.
The reasons for America's drop . . . perceptions of the country becoming less progressive . . .
Translation: America is scoring lower on a SJW scale because we are less of a socialist manure-pile - to avoid the (truthful) phrase dishonestly attributed to the best president since Ronald Reagan.
Good, then tell the world to stay in their own s***holes.
GROUPTHINK!
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