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From: https://twitter.com/Brasilmagic/status/816064486100660224
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,593 posts)Paka
(2,760 posts)You pegged it!
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)and has created chaos in foreign relations.
kimbutgar
(21,131 posts)And I feel so uncertain about our future. This feeling of dread can sometimes be overwhelming. I try to be optimistic but it is so damn hard as we get closer to the 20th.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)He is a Norwegian Mathematician/Sociologist who has studied empires over time and developed predictive models used to predict when an empire will collapse. In 1980 he predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse within 10 years. His prediction was correct as they collapsed in 1989.
In 2009 he wrote a book where he predicted that the USA might suffer a collapse similar to what the USSR experienced by 2025. After Trump's victory, a magazine contacted him to see if he stands by his prediction. He does. I would recommend reading the article at the link below.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/us-power-will-decline-under-trump-says-futurist-who-predicted-soviet-collapse
bdamomma
(63,837 posts)it is in the Soviets handbook. I hope he is stopped. He is not well mentally.
progressoid
(49,987 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,757 posts)My granddaughter's English nanny was here for a visit over the holiday. She now travels world wide as a costume designer for the BBC. When I asked her what The English and others around the world thought of don the con and what America had done. She had two words horrified and afraid
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)and he will be president. imagine that. aargh.
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)... of tRump and his gaggle of sycophants is going to be what lights the fuse of world chaos. I wouldn't trust this group of spooge-monkeys to clean toilets, much less run our country.