Sun sets on usa power: Report predicts end of dominance...

[Year29]

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - U.S. economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will be more dangerous, with food and water scarce and advanced weapons plentiful, U.S. spy agencies projected on Thursday.

The National Intelligence Council analysis "Global Trends 2025" also said the current financial crisis on Wall Street is just the first phase of a global economic reordering.


FULL ARTICLE (http://www.reuters.com/article/usDollarRpt/idUSN2041155720081120)

[4EverHis]

November 21, 2008

The next two decades will see a world living with the daily threat of nuclear war, environmental catastrophe and the decline of America as the dominant global power, according to a frighteningly bleak assessment by the US intelligence community.

“The world of the near future will be subject to an increased likelihood of conflict over resources, including food and water, and will be haunted by the persistence of rogue states and terrorist groups with greater access to nuclear weapons,” said the report by the National Intelligence Council, a body of analysts from across the US intelligence community.

The analysts said that the report had been prepared in time for Barack Obama’s entry into the Oval office on January 20, where he will be faced with some of the greatest challenges of any newly elected US president.

“The likelihood that nuclear weapons will be used will increase with expanded access to technology and a widening range of options for limited strikes,” the 121-page assessment said.

The analysts draw attention to an already escalating nuclear arms race in the Middle East and anticipate that a growing number of rogue states will be prepared to share their destructive technology with terror groups. “Over the next 15-20 years reactions to the decisions Iran makes about its nuclear programme could cause a number of regional states to intensify these efforts and consider actively pursuing nuclear weapons,” the report Global Trends 2025 said. “This will add a new and more dangerous dimension to what is likely to be increasing competition for influence within the region,” it said.

The spread of nuclear capabilities will raise questions about the ability of weak states to safeguard them, it added. “If the number of nuclear-capable states increases, so will the number of countries potentially willing to provide nuclear assistance to other countries or to terrorists.”

The report said that global warming will aggravate the scarcity of water, food and energy resources. Citing a British study, it said that climate change could force up to 200 million people to migrate to more temperate zones. “Widening gaps in birth rates and wealth-to-poverty ratios, and the impact of climate change, could further exacerbate tensions,” it said.

“The international system will be almost unrecognisable by 2025, owing to the rise of emerging powers, a globalising economy, a transfer of wealth from West to East, and the growing influence of nonstate actors. Although the United States is likely to remain the single most powerful actor, the United States’ relative strength – even in the military realm – will decline and US leverage will become more strained.”

Global power will be multipolar with the rise of India and China, and the Korean peninsula will be unified in some form. Turning to the current financial situation, the analysts say that the financial crisis on Wall Street is the beginning of a global economic rebalancing.

The US dollar’s role as the major world currency will weaken to the point where it becomes a “first among equals”.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5202497.ece

If this doesnt sound like the "Last Days", I dont know what does!

[logosone]

Anybody could have come up with this.

[His Bride]

Doesn't take a huge amount of intelligence to figure it out. The Bible says pretty much the same thing!

[Beautiful Feet]

The next two decades will see a world living with the daily threat of nuclear war, environmental catastrophe and the decline of America as the dominant global power


Ya think? Who pays these guys? How much do they make? I would love to get paid for making such evident predictions.

[His Bride]

Ya think? Who pays these guys? How much do they make? I would love to get paid for making such evident predictions.

That was my thought as well. :ohno

[logosone]

Aren't these the same guys that said Iran is all Sunshine and Lollipops?

[JY11]

National Intelligence Council report: Sun Setting on the American Century


Ya think?

[watchwoman]

I agree this isn't rocket science. However, I disagree with two of their premises. 1) They said "global warming" would cause food shortages, etc. Nope - it's all these crazy economic policies and failures that will do that. 2) They said the U.S. "is likely to remain the single most powerful actor". We know that isn't true, because we've read the end of the book! :nod

[Warrior of the Word]

The US is not in end times prophecy... the end is sooooooooooo near. I cannot wait for Jesus to come for his children.