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Imagine it's 2014....what do you speculate has happened in the last 6 years?

The US elected a leader that did not understand the new complexities of foreign policy and did not surround himself with effective managers as Secretaries of State and Defense, as well as CIA director (this is hypothetical) -China has annexed Taiwan. -The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has gained significant economic ties with Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, creating mutually beneficial New Silk Road. -China has provided infrastructure to Pakistan, allowing it access to new trade routes in the Indian Ocean and providing further support to check India's growth -China has accessed oil and gas trade in the Persian gulf through central Asia to Iran. -Beijing's ties with Brazil have deepened, as their economies are remarkably complementary. -China has built oil rigs in Venezuela, allowing its hundreds of millions of new car owners access to cheap oil outside of OPEC. -Han Chinese have effectively colonized Siberia, mining immense lumber resources. -Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, and others have joined the EU, and the Union continues moving influence eastward, causing economic clashes in central Asia over oil and gas. -The African Union, modeled after the EU seeks infrastructure contracts with it's northern partners rather than the US. -Brussels controls the world's largest empire in history, a revolutionary supra-national approach to nation building. The US has had very little influence in Latin America since the creation of the South American Union, which allowed for common currency, common economic development, and a rejection of traditional US-dominated trade scemes. -The US still has significant influence in Colombia (military-industrial), Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean (especially after lifting embargos with Cuba), and trade with emerging power Chile. -We have won the phony "War on Terror" in Afghanistan, but lost in Iraq, leaving a power vacuum that was filled by an Iranian (read Chinese) puppet. Russia has broken into 4 different autonomous states with the emigration of most of its population to Europe and China. Holy crap what do we do now? thanks for intelligent discussion Jen.. Poland joined in 2004, and Ukraine and Turkey have yet to join. I made one mistake.

Public Comments

1. Laugh at you six years from now...
2. We live in poverty thanks to the illegals who have ruined this country.
3. Its 2014 and I am 6 years older
4. I might have the back garden done by then. Maybe.
5. STFU
6. "The US elected a leader that did not understand the new complexities of foreign policy and did not surround himself with effective managers as Secretaries of State and Defense, as well as CIA director (this is hypothetical)" not again surely, this is what happened in '00 and '04. By the way your EU theorising is a bit out of date, the EU expanded from the longstanding 12 countries to encompass states like Poland some time ago.
7. Sounds like the premise for a novel. Are you trolling for a publisher?
8. Join the Church of Scientology and wait to be beamed up.