“It’s clear that the United States is falling apart; its president is destroying everything that made America great.” — Reinhard Genzel
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Geopolitics
In an astronomy of chaotic politics, tariffs and threats, collapsing international agreements and treaties, with a resulting new nuclear arms race and rearrangement of strategies and surrounding horizon of risks, the US, China and Europe are pivoting unpredictably. The word for the year is geopolitics.
Few venture predictions of where the nations of the world are going as the third decade of the 21st Century rolls out.
What can be said is the future is 2025 forward… tomorrow is closer to 2026 and, in the US, a crucial turning point midterm election is beginning to come into view.
The Trump term, a second and final term per the US Constitution, will continue producing consequences as the clock ticks. More consequences are on the way in 2025 and 2026.
Today, at Strategic Demands via El Pais, we look at this with large and small perspectives and shifts in science that are taking place. The November 2026 vote is not far off but ‘the vote’ will, in large degree, determine the direction of history…
To say “much is at stake” as a democratic republic chooses its future, a decision that will reverberate far and wide globally across the nations and people of Planet Earth, is far from understatement.
Buckle up or should we say batten down the hatches…
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