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using natural forces to manage climate
increasing forests
Governments need to make better choices politically if our countries are going to survive
The world is becoming increasingly unsafe – and it isn't random
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When geopolitical sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.
While not directly linked, it is becoming clear that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has blown on the embers of several longer-simmering conflicts. Recent flare ups include those between Armenia and Azerbaijan and between Serbia and Kosovo. There have also been six successful (and two attempted) coups in West Africa since 2020.
Over the weekend, an unprecedented terror attack by Hamas led to Israel declaring a state of war, mobilising 300,000 reservists and ordering a “complete siege” of Gaza.
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The twilight of “Pax Americana” started under Barack Obama, accelerated under and has not been reversed by , despite his staunch support for Ukraine. Many countries in the West are similarly distracted by their own internal problems. Conflict and aid fatigue appears to be setting in.
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The rules-based global order may have unfairly benefited the G7 group of rich countries but at least everyone knew where they stood. As it fractures, there’s little to stop every country pursuing its own national interests at the expense of everything else. The result, as we’re already starting to see, will be chaotic.
The majority of investors have only ever operated in markets where central banks had the whip hand and geopolitical risk was muted. That era now appears to be ending
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The US Congressional Budget Office estimates that health and welfare costs will outpace economic growth, taking public debt from 98pc of gross domestic product today to 181pc in 2053.
This is why the sheer scale of the borrowing by Biden, his predecessors and his peers in other Western countries has such dire security implications.
RINO2 - Republican In Name Only 2 - conservatives
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