Emerging Risks
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Mario Nawfal on X: "🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦 IMPLICATIONS OF BIDEN APPROVING LONG-RANGE MISSILE USE FOR UKRAINE Biden’s decision to authorize Ukraine’s use of long-range U.S.-made missiles, including ATACMS, marks a escalation in the war with Russia. These missiles, capable of striking up to 190 miles, allow https://t.co/uPHgZYqXUu" / X
Putin:
“It would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia…
We will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face.”
This move raises global security concerns, intensifying fears of direct NATO-Russia confrontation.
Michael Beckley on The End of China’s Rise & the Future of Global Order | WORLD KNOWLEDGE FORUM 2024 - YouTube
In this keynote at the 2024 World Knowledge Forum, AEI Nonresident Senior Fellow Michael Beckley examines the pivotal question: Has China’s meteoric rise reached its peak? With deep insights into China’s economic slowdown, demographic challenges, and shifting geopolitical ambitions, Beckley outlines the potential decline of Chinese influence and what it means for the future of the global order.
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Iran-Israel escalation looms ahead of US election
Iran is reportedly highly likely to launch an attack on Israel in response to the latter’s retaliation against an Iranian ballistic missile attack on its territory last month. US intelligence services believe that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader and commander-in-chief, has directed Iranian commanders to prepare plans for strikes against Israel. These strikes would [...]Read More...
Dmitry Medvedev warns US it should take Russia nuclear warnings seriously to avoid World War Three
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's security council, has warned the US shouldn't believe his country would "never cross a certain line" when it comes to the deployment of nuclear arms.
WATCH: Niall Ferguson Stuns World Leaders at ARC Australia - "Are we the Soviets now?"
"Nobody believed in the system anymore."
In recent years academics have coined the term 'late Soviet America' in response to alarming similarities between conditions in the late Soviet Union prior to its downfall, and those we see in US society today and across Western nations more broadly.
Why it's dangerously misguided to ignore threat of new axis
History, Ferguson argues, shows us that major conflicts typically arise from two conditions: economic volatility and imperial decline. Both are present in geopolitics today.
The collapse of the Soviet Union created a vacuum in Eastern Europe. Putin’s Russia, like Germany after World War I, emerged from this collapse with a sense of humiliation and revanchist ambitions.
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