Month: December 2016

Here are some of the things that could go wrong in 2017:

• Waves of protests rise as Trump reverses Obama’s executive orders
• Pro- and anti-Trump Republicans in Congress are soon at each others’ throats
• Angela Merkel has to choose between leading a military buildup in Europe or giving Putin his way
• U.S. and China go to economic war after Trump calls China a currency manipulator and imposes a big tariff
• Trump suspends the U.S. membership in NATO, causing instability worldwide
• ISIS radicalizes Central Asia
• Saudi Arabia and Japan start developing nuclear weapons
• North Korea proves it can deliver a nuclear weapon to the U.S. West Coast
• Trump switches course and begs China to rein in North Korea
• Populist politicians win all over Europe and the Euro and European Union disintegrate
• Greece blows up again and this time there is no bailout
• Apple and Google reveal that smartphones snoop on their owners
• State-sponsored hackers create panic by shutting down power plants and self-driving cars
• After being rebuffed by Trump, Cuba lets Russia build a military base on the island
• Trump pulls out of NAFTA and taxes remittances to Mexico to pay for his wall
• Mexico goes into depression
• Mexican leftist André López Obrador runs for president on a platform of nationalizing private companies
• Yemen becomes Saudi Arabia’s Vietnam, forcing unpopular taxes to pay for the war
• The balance of power in the Middle East shifts towards Iran
• Iran and Saudi Arabia get into an all-out shooting war
• Oil shipments are disrupted by the Saudi-Iran war
• Oil prices spike as a result of the disruption, leading to worldwide economic instability

Have a great day!