This book has proven to be 100% right so far, so why hasn't anyone talked about it? According to its prophetic visions, this is what we have to look forward to:
>USA remains the sole world superpower. Tough luck, Ameri-haters. >Russia antagonizes US. Russia collapses and fragments even further. Tough luck, Rus-tards. >Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia. >China collapses into civil war and becomes irrelevant. >Europe goes nowhere and becomes irrelevant. >Japan increases its militarism and nationalism, becoming the leading Asian power. >Turkey becomes the leading Middle-Eastern power, creating a sphere of influence mimicking the Ottoman Empire. >The USA's next main enemy? Mexico. They will use the huge Mexican population as leverage and try to regain the formerly Mexican territories (Texax, California).
>>Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia.
So, in other words...
Oliver Rivera
>The USA's next main enemy? Mexico. They will use the huge Mexican population as leverage and try to regain the formerly Mexican territories (Texax, California).
Im so ready for this. I cant wait for the US to annex more Mexican territory out of spite. Ten years from now, no American will need a passport to travel to an English speaking Cancun.
Count me in.
Lucas Jackson
>Europe goes nowhere and becomes irrelevant. We will see.
Benjamin Martin
Think about it logically. Even if the EU doesn't collapse (which it already is), it's destined for economic stagnation. Why would anyone set up a business in the over-regulated socialist nightmare that is the EU? Ask any EU businessman will tell you that the best coarse of action for upstarts is to try the USA instead.
Noah White
Seems to me like Iran is outplaying Turkey in the middle east. Iran has what five, six client states now?
Brayden Clark
>Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia >Japan increases its militarism and nationalism, becoming the leading Asian power. >Turkey becomes the leading Middle-Eastern power, creating a sphere of influence mimicking the Ottoman Empire. >The USA's next main enemy? Mexico. They will use the huge Mexican population as leverage and try to regain the formerly Mexican territories (Texax, California).
Landon Hill
This has to be irony, right? The US has so many regulations and barriers to entry that there's no point opening up there unless your company is already wildly profitable. USA is one of the only countries that taxes the profits its citizens make solely in another country
Kayden Sanchez
>Turkey not destroyed by Kurds and jihadist blowback from Syria
shit predictions m80
Dylan Gomez
Why would Mexico want a place full of chicanos and niggers?
Holy crap, I forgot all about this. I bought this when it first came out, my first real entry into Geo-politics.
Nearly everything is spot on so far. The only thing he really missed was demographics and the financial crisis repeating itself.
The Poland and Turkey analysis is creepy as hell in accuracy, and so is his time line.
Owen Anderson
im all for that, mexican war round 2, this time we EXTERMINATE YOU SUB-HUMAN MEXICANTS.
Benjamin Rogers
Because its 8 years old you fucking idiot
Asher Harris
Not OP, but I really, really recommend it, if only for the awesome boners concerning space war brought upon by orbital solar arrays beaming down power to all electric power armored formations mid century.
That, and seeing how his projections are playing out. If you've never really looked into Geo-politics and hate college text books its a good start.
Nicholas Rogers
War nipon was as choppy as ISIS. Fuck that noise
Bentley Wilson
>>China collapses into civil war and becomes irrelevant. I think so.
Angel Gonzalez
>Turkey >Superpower
this he has admitted will probably not occur now on his website stratfor and he's looking for the new turkey etc...
but therein lies the problem, one man erdogan can throw your entire book out of whack.
Thomas Diaz
>Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia I'm ok with this.
Luis Perez
The other problem with his theories is that he views everything more in a way you would view a game of risk than real world politic, meaning he acts like there would be no consequences for some of the expansion in his books
not everything this Hungarian Jew says is stupid but remember
HE IS A HUNGARIAN JEW WHO SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST
Wyatt Morales
So that means he's illuminati
Adam Wilson
Mind telling me what book this is?
Ian Allen
It's a good introductory book to modern geopolitics. It's actually pretty fair and unbiased, and goes against popular perceptions of what the future will bring.
Oliver Jones
did the book actually say this mexican thing?
call him oracle
Nathan Price
>The USA's next main enemy? Mexico. They will use the huge Mexican population as leverage and try to regain the formerly Mexican territories (Texax, California). Time to wreck their shit in again.
Where should i invest, arms industry?
Samuel Sullivan
What will happen in south america?
Guess I should move to the US after all.
Jace Edwards
>Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia. Why is it always a leaf saying this kind of retarded shit?
Leo Jones
Yeah! sure, and mexican intellectuals will create a Chipotle which prevent you shits fire in the toilet.
Robert Cox
>Japan and Turkey, having similar interests, will probably form, the book asserts, an alliance near the end of this period, in an effort to counter the overwhelming global power of the United States. The book also speculates that Germany and Mexico may possibly join this anti-United States coalition, although it is generally unlikely. In this coming confrontation, the United States will be allied with the "Polish Bloc," probably with a restabilized China, India, a reunified Korea, and the United Kingdom. By the 2040s, there will be global tension and competition between these two alliances.
Nigger what? I was following it up until that point, this sounds way too zany
Thomas Smith
I could get behind this except turkey needs to be destroyed and armenia needs to create a transcaucasian superstate from sinai to ossetia.
Colton Gutierrez
If true I would be pleased
Grayson Wright
South America, Africa, and Central Asian republics will continue to be irrelevant.
Jace Clark
its not that far fetched
Jonathan Perry
>Poland becomes a great power.
Levi Ward
Russia is going to collapse unless Putin and his friends are kicked out of Kremlin.
Noah Adams
Absolutely nothing. He even has a chapter of the book explaining how South America is an unfeasible wasteland which will never amount to anything.
Ethan Adams
If you like this book, look up Timothy Beardson's book "Stumbling Giant: Threats to China's future". Some of his predictions are already coming true. Long term, China is fucked. As is Saudi Arabia, but that's another story.
Connor Gray
nice try globalist
Kevin Turner
That is some of the most ignorant shit I've read in my entire life.
Andrew Long
>globalist More like a realist
Isaiah Ross
>remember, he's a hungarian jew who survived the hallofcosts
So he's a hungarian jew?
Carter Miller
>The USA's next main enemy? Mexico. They will use the huge Mexican population as leverage and try to regain the formerly Mexican territories (Texax, California).
Kevin Perry
Pick up "The Next Decade" you cucks.
Carson Robinson
there aren't that many Shia-dominant states for Iran to influence iirc. Wouldn't any predominantly Sunni state reject being a client state of Iran? Wouldn't they hate each other?
Michael Anderson
Turko-Nihon vs the world? Weirder has happened, but jeeze that is out there
Angel Wright
>Friedman
Michael Gonzalez
>China collapses into civil war and becomes irrelevant. Oh look, it's another horseshit (((intellectual))) that thinks he knows fuck all about China.
Angel Hill
China is, at best, doomed to irrelevance. At worst it's going to turn East Asia into a hotbed of violence.
Michael Edwards
HELP US >
Daniel Sullivan
Who's the girl, and what's that acrylic shit say.
Nolan Hall
Every single analyst who knows anything agrees China will not reach anywhere near the US. The only people who think that are clueless idiots on the streets.
Jack Jenkins
>Friedman >Joo
Nope.
Connor Garcia
Switzerland wont change??
>> Remains relevant
KEK
Luis Allen
Yay, we /ottoman/ again bois
Papa blessed ayyrabs get fucked once more
Required turkroaching: >Armenian genocide wasn't real >Greece pay denbts >Kurds are mountain Turks :^)
Chase Barnes
Why is it always Ameri-fats who shit-posting le Leaf meme?
Discussing a book on politics on Sup Forums >Hurt durr retard leaf
Kys
Noah Anderson
>Japan becomes leading Asian power Seems unlikely
Christopher Gomez
Fuck off Armenian diaspora
Wish my ancestors finished you all off
Mason Diaz
we have to make Poland great again and secure the future existence of Polish women with large, fertile Polish breasts
Liam Clark
Why is this meme constantly repeated. These neets will be dead in a generation and then the problem is solved, meanwhile in America there are not just neets but gangsters, degenerates, Muslims, blacks, etc.
Jose Perry
>USA remains the sole world superpower. Tough luck, Ameri-haters. The USA will always remain the sole world superpower. >Russia antagonizes US. Russia collapses and fragments even further.Tough luck, Rus-tards. No they won't, they've failed once and look at it now. >Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia. lol >China collapses into civil war and becomes irrelevant. China will never collapse into a civil war again >Europe goes nowhere and becomes irrelevant. It's already irrelevant >Japan increases its militarism and nationalism, becoming the leading Asian power. No it won't, ever again. >Turkey becomes the leading Middle-Eastern power, creating a sphere of influence mimicking the Ottoman Empire. LOL >The USA's next main enemy? Mexico. They will use the huge Mexican population as leverage and try to regain the formerly Mexican territories (Texax, California) Yes, a country full of lazy retards and psychotic murderers will become the enemy of the U.S. All Mexico wants are their drugs. They're nothing, sorry Mexico, but your country is shit.
Jayden Martin
I would be looking down in shame too if I had a daki of an idol with a slutty voice.
Alexander Hall
What is it with plebs and books which foretell the future?
Sebastian Howard
>That nose
Bentley Edwards
>Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia.
What.
Aiden Stewart
The meme repeats because we got you by the balls, tojo. You're going nowhere.
Charles Myers
(((Friedman)))
Anthony Stewart
BIG POLISH NOSES (and breasts)
Gabriel Howard
>a fucking leaf
Austin Martinez
>>Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia 1/10
Joseph Perez
I have tried making several threads about stratfor related topics (Friedman is the founder of that company) and they never got replies.
idk why
Dylan Martin
I read that book It was also expecting the US to be in Iraq for a MUCH shorter time
However I do like the ideas of supersonic jet systems being the big thing for the future of weapons along with power armor that is powered through space satelites
Also, US having manned military platforms in space never ever
The US Mexico conflict being from the idea that more Mexicans will populate the Southwest and cause it to leave the union leading to war
Brandon Powell
I suggest it, it is already wrong with some things but one whole part is basically a piece of fiction about moon bases and shit like the other user said.
It is also good at getting you to learn more about the idea of geopolitics which is good to learn as well
Grayson Green
This. The Polish economy is shit, the Polish people are arrogant, ignorant and stupid, not even mentioning how horribly organized their whole country is.
How the fuck can anyone reasonably think that something like that could happen? I'm not saying that Russia is any better, but at least they have massive assets, the largest being the fucking land they have and all that goes with it, a very large population and army. Never will a day come when Poland is even more relevant than Finland, what the hell?
Xavier Williams
Japan is already increasing militarism over the past 2 years you know right?
Abe is doing a lot to make them more agressive
Logan Gray
Who's China gonna fight a civil war against? Educate me user.
Dominic Morris
What a retarded piece of shit ((("""book"""))).
John Martin
>george friedman you just know...
Brandon Edwards
Russia collapses IF Putin leaves. What, don't you think the kikes'll buy everybody else like in the 90s?
Jonathan King
Because even New Mexico is better than any part of Mexico.
Evan Flores
You can't defeat Mexican Cartel controlled-gangs in urban cities. You lost to the Koreans, Vietnamese, Afghans, Iraqis, etc
Jaxson Johnson
Bump.
I'm also curious to know what he says about Israel.
And what does the author mean by irrelevant? Irrelevant like Uruguay and Switzerland (which is actually fine and good) or irrelevant like Eastern Europe (actual poverty)?
Grayson Hughes
china
Ian King
>Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia. Even Greater Finland is more possible:DD >Japan increases its militarism and nationalism, becoming the leading Asian power. They are already trying for this >Turkey becomes the leading Middle-Eastern power, creating a sphere of influence mimicking the Ottoman Empire. This is possible too
Carter Lewis
Any good books if I want to delve in geopolitics?
Ryder Perez
But what are the internal factions?
Ryder Phillips
>Lithuania v2 replacing russia okay
Nicholas Hernandez
well themselves actually.. s'usually how a civil war works.
James Walker
I don't know shit: The Post
Matthew Thompson
>Poland instead becomes a great power to replace Russia.
Jack Rogers
>In the early 2020s, the New Cold War will end when the economic strain and political pressure on Russia, coupled with Russia's declining population, and poor infrastructure, cause the Federal government of Russia to completely collapse, much like the Dissolution of the Soviet Union. >Other powers will then move in to annex or establish spheres of influence in the area, and in many cases, regional leaders will secede. In Russia, Chechnya and other Muslim regions, as well as the Pacific Far East will become independent, Finland will annex Karelia, Romania will annex Moldova, Tibet will gain independence with help from India, Taiwan (ROC) will extend its influence into mainland China, while the United States, European powers, and Japan will re-create regional spheres of influence in mainland China. >Finland will annex Karelia >Karelia
About goddamn time.
Asher Fisher
Was that written by a Polish person by any chance?
Robert Edwards
I don't think that Poland prediction is very likely either unless the Intermarium thing comes true.
Connor Scott
This
Jackson Hill
>one man erdogan can throw your entire book out of whack. Feels like Rudolph from LogH famalam.
Daniel Hill
Canada annexed by the States and turned into a strip mine to fuel the American intergalactic space empire when?
Joseph Ortiz
Don't belittle Erdogan m8 he is good at something
Kayden Collins
it would require discussion and research instead of catchphrases
Gavin Wood
>Japan increases its militarism and nationalism, becoming the leading Asian power.