Lost amid the understandable public and media focus on domestic political issues of late has been a sharp uptick in tensions in several troubled areas of the world, many with direct security implications for the United States. Put these boiling crises together with a cooling global economy and there is a growing risk of real international instability.
In Iran, the looming return of punishing U.S. oil sanctions, which are scheduled to go into effect in early November, has threatened Iranian economic stability, fueling a flight from the Iranian rial and triggering a series of public protests. Tensions inside Iran have also been exacerbated by an attack late last month on an Iranian military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, which killed two dozen people and wounded 70 others, and which Tehran blamed on a group supported by the Gulf States.
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WNU Editor: China is my number one concern right now.
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WNU,
Me too. China has a big potential and then more dangerous. Trump and Xi will not back down....
As far as near future danger spots: I think that the DPRK is still on top.
But overall, yes China is at the top of my list.
Hotspot Venezuela is getting hotter, because Maduro the bus driver is playing with matches.
Maduro cannot run an economy. The man never graduated high school.
He can count bus tokens, votes, and soldiers.
He cannot perform the logistics necessary to keep an army together, but he can count guns.
When it comes to economics, Maduro is an arsonist.
"At 24 years of age, Maduro resided in Havana with other militants of leftist organizations in South America who had moved to Cuba in 1986, attending a one-year course at the Escuela Nacional de Cuadros Julio Antonio Mella, a centre of political education directed by the Union of Young Communists."
YC must be jealous.
Wait, what? Why is Britain on that map? Because of brexit? This cant be a serious article.
And why Vietnam? The map is all wrong
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