Posted on 06/18/2015 6:52:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The 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.
In many ways, Stratfor thinks the world of 10 years 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, uranium stocks, and delivery systems could end up exposed in what will suddenly become the world's most dangerous power vacuum.
The breakout of Russia's nuclear weapons stockpile will be "the greatest crisis of the next decade," according to Stratfor.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Bkmrk.
I agree. I also see a glaring contradiction in StratFor’s predictions. They predict that the US will intervene in securing nukes on Russian soil after the collapse of Russian government. But they also predict a diminishing role of the US in global matters and the decrease of military interventions. How can one happen without the other?
No, it can’t. We are so screwed.
want us to fail and vanish from the world stage.
For sure, but being sure to leave the keys to the Treasury to fund their socialist dream.
The US intervene to secure Russian nukes? With what?
The US economy growing? In a pigs eye.
I don’t believe a word of it.
I'm curious what Stratfor's predictions 10 years ago were.
The 70s made today look like child’s play. By comparison the 70s were great. We didn’t start the 70s with ten tons on our backs and add to it like now.
I was there. I know. It was bad but not as bad as today. Then it was “just” decay. Today it is oppression.
I find two things wrong with these predictions: they totally miss the growing conflict between the USA and Mexico, and that Turkey will start absorbing Arab nations and unify Muslims internationally against Israel.
bfl
Of course you would. I see a lot of tough talk here lately on FR. A different kind of climate change, I guess.
Duly noted...LOL!
Try not to be so upbeat, brah :)
A smoking wasteland...?
Odd that Iran and Israel are not mentioned.
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