Top Global Threat? The United States
Every year, the Eurasia Group, a political risk management and consulting group, issues its report on the top ten global risks of international crisis. This year’s report is profoundly disturbing, especially the largest risk it identifies. Who is it? Is it Iran? Saudi Arabia? Russia? Nope. It’s the US and its broken political system. Before we talk about this, let’s look at all ten:
- Delegitimizing of our elections in US.
- The decoupling of US and China technology cooperation.
- US/China relations.
- Multi-National Corporations in conflict with emerging nation/states.
- Upheaval in India as social policies are causing economic downturns
- Geopolitical influence of Europe as pushes back against the US and China.
- Politics vs economics in climate change.
- US policies toward Shia led nations.
- Discontent in Latin America.
- Turkey – pretty much everything.
These risks are all disturbing and obvious to geopolitical observers, but the first risk is scary in that it recognizes the shambles our own political system is in. It talks about how Trump is greatly worsening the situation through his immoral and illegal behavior, but expresses great concern that he has already delegitimized the 2020 election by claiming that if he loses it’s because the election was “rigged”. If he wins, the majority of Americans will believe it was rigged the other way (with the help of the Republicans and the Russians) and many won’t accept the result. It is a lose-lose situation, and with Republicans enabling and protecting Trump, the crisis is unavoidable, especially since they’ll acquit him in the Senate trial emboldening him more if that’s even possible. I mean, after all, he’s now announced that the only way he’s going to communicate with Congress is through Twitter. Jesus.
None of this will end well, even in the remote chance that by some miracle he’s removed from office.
Republicans have permanently destroyed the legitimacy of our elections. Nobody will ever be able to fit all the worms back into that can. Whichever side loses will claim the other stole the election and regardless of the outcome both sides will think the other cheated. This is what the gop has been working toward for a long time.
1Yep, that’s bad. Only thing worse would be another 4 years in which the list is the same, or nearly so.
Change the senate blue!
2Everyone exercise your voting hand so you are ready November 3rd and keep an eye out for more stupid GOP/Russia tricks!
3While she’s at it – she needs to rescind the invitation for him to come to the House for the Sate Of The Union address. Make him twitter out the incoherent gibberish.
4Cheryl, the State of the Union address is not grafted onto the House chamber as the one and only site. It also need not be a speaking engagement. It could simply be printed and distributed via newspapers and the internet. For instance, should a blizzard hit D.C. on that occasion, of course the Golden Gibbon will have already flown out to Mar A Lago, and he could telecast there. Think of it! Sun! Sand! Palm trees! Ego plus libido!Expensive liquid refreshment! All shown to the country while the Middle and Northeast states turn into arctic zones. What a unifying scene that would make for the whole country! NOT1
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