Ian Bremmer’s 2024 threat assessment: From China to Iran, the biggest risks facing American peace and global order

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ian Bremmer, founder and president of the Eurasia Group, discusses his organization’s 2024 “Top Risks” report, with a focus on three dominant conflicts: the U.S. versus Russia, Israel versus Hamas, and the U.S. versus … itself.

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0:00.0	Hello from Washington and a happy new year I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck
0:09.5	Todd cast so this week our friends at the Eurasia Group released its top risks report for
0:15.9	2024 and described a quote geopolitical minefield with three dominant
0:22.0	conflicts the United States versus Russia, Israel versus Hamas, and the
0:28.0	United States versus itself.
0:30.6	That last one they think is the number one risk.
0:34.0	And I'm joined now by Eurasia Group's founder and President Ian Bremer
0:36.6	who says that during this year's election,
0:38.8	the US democracy will be tested to a degree it hasn't experienced in 150 years and that our credibility will be quote
0:45.0	quote undermined on the world stage just to give you an idea of what other risks Ian put out there, we're going to focus really only on two or three, but Ian, let me put them all out there.
0:58.6	Sure.
0:59.6	So you have the political system, the Mideast, partitioned Ukraine, ungoverned AI, artificial intelligence.
1:07.2	It's going to be, we already saw sort of the first impact in Argentina. We'll see more of it in politics the axis of rogues
1:15.3	Russia North Korea Iran Ukraine Israel and potentially Taiwan no China recovery on the economy a fight for
1:22.4	critical minerals no room for error on inflation,
1:26.2	don't forget El Nino and the impact on the climate, and then the culture wars.
1:31.8	So, Ian, let's start with, let's start with the American election
1:38.6	because the American election is so intertwined. I mean, let's just take what are the what right now are the two
1:46.2	greatest are the two things that Joe Biden wakes up and worries about every
1:49.8	day. Believe it or not, it's not Donald Trump, but his re-election. It's Ukraine and Israel.
1:56.3	A Trump election dramatically changes the future of the Palestinians and the
2:03.0	of the Ukrainians, no?
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