The Next Decade: George Friedman's Conclusions

In the final entry in a series of conversations with Colin Chapman about his new book, "The Next Decade," STRATFOR founder George Friedman comes to some unexpected conclusions about the next ten years.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• stratfor
• george
• friedman
• next
• decade
• u.s.
• politics
• united_states
• president
• empire
• republic
• pax
• americana
• military
• economics
• conclusion
• usa
• pacific
• space
• atlantic

[gewangew]

Turns out what's said will not be done, at least not as well.

[joeaustinmansell1]

america has an empire :l

[Srd1126]

@CrazyShakaZulu who said they all were?

[CrazyShakaZulu]

@Srd1126 Not all Sub-Saharan African cultures were hunter-gatherer. The African continent prior to European colonization had a myriad of differing types of civilization from stable kingdoms in West Africa and Ethiopia to hunter gatherer groups typically in the Congo river basin and the southern tip of the continent.... I couldn't resist to knowledge bomb you.

[BezCiceNemaPrice]

@Srd1126 There you go again, who the hell are you to say what civillised means, they were civillised, they had their own way of life and their own culture. You are such a fool. The theory behind the European way of life, was that you had many different ethnic groups, in large numbers, compacted onto a relatively tight land space, and they needed to find new and improved ways to kill each other for food and resources, and that's how they took off the way they did.

[Srd1126]

@BezCiceNemaPrice The British didn't "pioneer" slavery at all. Your racism is showing yet again. It is not in dispute 1600/1700s slavery would not have been possible if black tribes didn't sell other blacks into slavery in exchange for rum. You need to quit blaming white people fot the fact that Africa did not get civilized as fast as Europe. ANd yes, hunter-gathering is not as high of a level of "civilization." Study anthropology as given by a fair and balanced professor.

[BezCiceNemaPrice]

@Srd1126 I'm not racist, you are racist because you think that black people in Africa had no culture and are better off living like white people today. You are the racist.

Secondly, yeah I am well aware the British weren't the first to use slavery, I'm just saying that they pioneered it and it was central to their success and it was evil...

[MaximusProteus]

"The Chinesse and the Russians would deal with it in an apropriate way" - Nevermind that without Chinesse support the N. Korea would case to exist ;)

Indeed US is unchallanged global power since 1991, but this time it`s going to face Chinesse potential and so it will Russia. The question is Europe, will it unite the fallen powers to represent a one, true global force?

[MaximusProteus]

@BezCiceNemaPrice Slavery existed for a long time before Britain was on the maps.

The culture in which slavery was most common, is the islamic one. For ages the biggest slave trade market in Europe was Istambul, many islamic societies were just based on hunting and exploiting slaves to a much bigger extent that Britain ever was.

You`re a Serb, so you should know very well who Janissary were and how the sexual slavery (harems) in the islamic states looked like.

[Srd1126]

@BezCiceNemaPrice the demographic of racist people like yourself who spew hate and call names online. For those of you in Rio Linda, my previous post was a way of sayign it is useless to discuss the matter further with such a racist, hate-spewing, name caller such as yourself. I guess you do not understand satire.