World News Update: Evrviglnt’s Predictions
Vladimir Putin is preparing for Next year’s election by dissolving the government – a tactic he used with success three weeks before the Russian elections in 2004. Persuaded to resign was prime minister Mikhail Fradkov, who was quickly replaced with 65 year old Viktor Zubkov, formerly the head of the agency that monitors money laundering. Those that follow Russian politics believe that since President Putin is not allowed to run for a third term, his 80% approval rating means that he’s setting up for a return to public power even as he anoints the successor that he’ll be manipulating in private. The expectation is that Zubkov will be dead in time for Putin to assume his natural position as leader of Russia.
President Putin also marked September 11, 2007 with the detonation of the world’s most powerful non-nuclear bomb, nicknamed ironically ‘The Father of all Bombs.’ The bomb is said to be four times more powerful than the American “Daisy Cutter†used in Afghanistan. Nato reaction was subdued:
Evrviglnt’s prediction: The world is going to get a whole lot crazier by the time we vote for a new president in November 2008. Russia has been arming itself like Rambo trapped in a gun store – and never dismiss the symbolism they exhibit when they’re putting craters in the ground throughout that glowing green country of theirs. Russia wants back into the game and its willing to kick in the door to do it. Watch for an alliance between Russia and China as the European Union fiddles while its demographics burn.
China will be the economic and military giant of the future, if only because of the incredible size of its population and the allure of market gains. The only thing that can stop that is immolation from within or market influence from without. Anyone who has ever seen the National Geographic videos coming out of North Korea will understand the depth of government control over a population after generations of reeducation. We will see if commercial interests break down the communist ethos that prioritizes state interests over individual freedoms. Taiwan can also play a spoilers role, forcing America’s hand should it decide to demand its independence from China. Our State department is shunning Taiwan right now (we wouldn’t even allow its president to exit his plane while refueling in Alaska last week) in an effort to please our Chinese business partners.
The Middle East will be as peaceful as a wrestler on steroids at a family reunion. Those holding Iraq together today know that Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Crinton have a good chance at taking over American foreign policy in 2009, which means probable abandonment and American disgrace. The spectre of abandonment will send tribal leaders and political pawns scrambling to protect themselves as the situation in Iraq devolves into an all out sectarian war, and American disgrace means victory for Al Qaeda, granting them newfound power, appeal and legitimacy in the Middle East. Pakistan is crumbling as we speak, with a political battle brewing that will destabilize that nuclear power, allowing a popular movement of Islamic extremism to come into power – reflecting the aspirations of the Pakistani public. Syria will wrestle Lebanon to the ground, Turkey is aching to take the battle to the Kurds on its borders, and Saudi Arabia is willing to bribe or placate any terrorist movement to protect itself from attack. The fuse to the bomb ready to explode is Palestine – a motley gang of natural born murderers that has bullied its way through the United Nations to squat alongside its genetic enemy, who will soon tire of torturing and killing each other in the city streets and turn their American weapons and American training against Israel. When that happens, full scale war could break out, prompting America to help out its allies. Then again, it could be over in a hour, with North Korean nuclear material sold to a Middle Eastern country eager to rid the world of the Jews. It’s a steaming cauldron over there – our next leader will need to walk deftly through it if our economy is to remain in any way stable.
And let’s remember that Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia will have many experienced killers to add to the Jihad inspiring millions to rise up in defense of Mohammad. What happens in the Middle East is largely out of our hands – even if we were to leave Iraq, the memories of Arabs and Persians are long. Staying in Iraq is only productive if we make a decent country out of people who have learned there is no place for clean hands in a dirty fight.
The saddest part of this evolving destruction play is that Europe is opting out of the battle for democracy, religious tolerance and individual liberty. England has become a veritable police state even as it supports through welfare and immigration Islamic radicals bent on its destruction. France and its newest heroine Sarkozy seem to be saying all the right things, but the French cannot be trusted to do anything that might infringe on the holiday schedule. Italy wanders, Germany is stirring and Denmark, Norway and Sweden’s small populations are aghast at the changes they’re being asked to make in exchange for peace with their Muslim immigrants. If it weren’t for the Eastern European countries that region would be in far more danger than it is.
What are the issues that threaten to wreak havoc in the next decade? Islamic extremism and the grasping hands of aging communist countries balancing market economies with dreams of hegemonic power. With America neutering itself in the battle against Islamofascism and outsourcing itself to the countries with designs on our power and safety, the next president will have her hands full keeping our focus on universal health care and the fight against global warming.
More: Neocon News asks: What exactly could the North Koreans be selling to Syria that would worry the Israelis enough to warrant an airstrike?
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