Posted on 12/26/2015 9:29:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Earlier this year, private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor, recently published its Decade Forecast in which it projects the next 10 years of global political and economic developments.
While international analysts often try their hand at predicting the major events of the coming year, Stratfor believes that it's identified the major trends of the next 10.
In many ways, Stratfor thinks the world a decade from now will be more dangerous place, with US power waning and other prominent countries experiencing a period of chaos and decline.
1. Russia will collapse ...
"There will not be an uprising against Moscow, but Moscow's withering ability to support and control the Russian Federation will leave a vacuum," Stratfor warns. "What will exist in this vacuum will be the individual fragments of the Russian Federation."
Sanctions, declining oil prices, a plunging ruble, rising military expenses, and increasing internal discord will weaken the hold of Russia's central government over the world's largest country. Russia will not officially split into multiple countries, but Moscow's power may loosen to the point that Russia will effectively become a string of semi-autonomous regions that might not even get along with one another.
"We expect Moscow's authority to weaken substantially, leading to the formal and informal fragmentation of Russia" the report states, adding, "It is unlikely that the Russian Federation will survive in its current form."
2. . . . and the US will have to use its military to secure the country's nukes.
Russia's nuclear-weapons infrastructure is spread across a vast geographic area. If the political disintegration Stratfor predicts ever happens, it means that weapons, fissile materials, and delivery systems could end up exposed in what will suddenly become the world's most dangerous power vacuum.
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3. Germany is going to have problems ...
4. There will be four Europes.
5. Turkey and the US will have to be close allies but for an unexpected reason.
6. China will face one huge problem.
7. Japan will be Asia’s rising naval power.
8. The South China Sea islands won’t start a war — but there’s a catch.
9. There will be 16 mini-Chinas.
10. US power will decline.
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How good are they?
I like many of them. They really aren’t that chilling either.
Will America be great again?
And what’s the 11th “chilling” prediction?? That the “earth’s temperature” will fall (Take that you climate warmists/pause denialists) and a new ice age will start?
Sadly I agree. We will be lucky to look like the ghettos of Peru.
Worldwide terrorism will become a common, everyday experience in the United States. Thank you, Obama.
I call BS on all their predictions.
It's going to be much worse than that.
I see very little info on the spread of muslims and ISIS which I would think would have a big influence on the next 10 years
Thanks. Bump for later...
I think that is a given. The sun’s going to sleep.
I’m still waiting for the flying cars we were all supposed to have in 2000.
Has STRATFORS ever been right about anything?
“Germany has an export-dependent economy that has richly benefited from the continent-wide trade liberalization enabled through the European Union and the euro, but that just means the country has the most to lose from a worsening euro crisis and a resulting wave of euroscepticism.
The country’s domestic consumption can’t make up for this dip in Germany’s export economy or for a projected decline in population. The result is Japan-style stagnation.
“We expect Germany to suffer severe economic reversals in the next decade,” the Decade Forecast says.”
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I find it odd that STRAFOR never mentions the Muslim immigrant invasion currently taking place in Germany.
And I think they're doing it to stay in the news and get clicks.
The myriad assumptions required to make even one of these predictions true is beyond human comprehension.
No mentio0n of the rise of Islam and the impact it will have in Europe. OR what happens when Iran has deliverable nukes.
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