Ian Bremmer's top risks for '25

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⚠️ Ian Bremmer's top risks for '25

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Ian Bremmer, in his closely watched annual risk forecast, warns that the world has entered "a uniquely dangerous period of world history, on par with only the 1930s and the early Cold War." "People everywhere are facing heightened geopolitical instability driven by a lack of global leadership," Bremmer writes in Eurasia Group's "Top Risks 2025" report, out today. Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO media, and Cliff Kupchan, chairman of Eurasia Group, write: "We are heading back to the law of the jungle, where the strongest do what they can, while the weakest are condemned to suffer what they must." Beyond the arrival of GZERO (the global order "slipping away. No single power or group of powers is willing or able to set a global agenda. It's a world of many pretenders, but no leaders"), the report's other top risks are: 2. The Rule of Don ... 3. U.S.-China breakdown ... 4. Trumponomics ... 5. Russia still rogue ... 6. Beggar thy world ... 7. Iran on the ropes ... 8. Mexican standoff ... 9. Ungoverned spaces ... 10. AI unbound. Go deeper.