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2025 ushers in one of the most dangerous periods in world history — on par with the 1930s and early Cold War, says Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. Highlighting the top geopolitical risks for the year ahead, Bremmer explores the impact of Donald Trump’s return to power in the…

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2025 ushers in one of the most dangerous periods in world history — on par with the 1930s and early Cold War, says Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. Highlighting the top geopolitical risks for the year ahead, Bremmer explores the impact of Donald Trump’s return to power in the US, the breakdown of the US-China relationship, the consequences of a rogue Russia, the future of unchecked AI development and more, plus some bright spots amid these unprecedented challenges. (This interview, hosted by TED’s Helen Walters, was recorded on January 6, 2025.)

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Correction: At 39:06, Bremmer misspoke when he stated that China would reach carbon neutrality before 2030. He meant to say that China is set to reach peak carbon emissions before 2030. The peak emissions target, not the net-zero target year (2060), is what is expected to be met ahead of schedule.

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  1. @conniedean3787

    January 7, 2025 at 5:46 pm

    I never thought I would see the day where the U.S. voted for a Corrupt Politician, Donald Trump.

  2. @vidayasagar2763

    January 7, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    one night i was scrolling through my phone, feeling like i’d never figure out why some people just seem so magnetic. then i came across this book, Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, and something about it caught my attention. reading it was like turning on a light in a dark room. it’s not about pretending to be someone you’re not; it’s about unlocking the energy you already have. trust me, this book is worth every page

  3. @Rajputw517

    January 7, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    i used to think being magnetic was just about looks or confidence, but i couldn’t have been more wrong. i read this book called Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, and it totally changed my perspective. it breaks down the energy and mindset behind true attraction in a way that just makes sense. once i started applying what it taught, i noticed people reacting to me differently almost instantly. it’s seriously worth a read.

  4. @MohammadShaid1234

    January 7, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    i remember this one time i felt like no matter what i did, people just didn’t notice me. i tried everything—confidence boosters, social tips, you name it—but nothing seemed to work. then i found this book, Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, and it completely shifted how i saw myself. it’s not just about being noticed; it’s about understanding the energy you project. honestly, this book made all the difference for me. if you’ve ever felt invisible, you need to read it.

  5. @PawanAhirwar-cm2fb

    January 7, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    i remember feeling like i was always the one fading into the background while others stood out effortlessly. it was frustrating and made me doubt myself a lot. then i came across this book, Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, and it showed me things i’d never even considered. it’s not just a self-help book; it’s like a guide to understanding your own energy and using it to connect with people. if you’ve ever felt like you’re not seen, this book might change everything.

    • @catserver8577

      January 7, 2025 at 6:13 pm

      PSA- You’re in a cult.

  6. @SudipChalak-bt3vc

    January 7, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    there was a time when i kept wondering why some people seemed to naturally draw others in while i was just…there. no matter what i tried, i couldn’t figure out how they did it. then someone mentioned the book Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, and i decided to check it out. the way it explains how your aura affects everything around you? it blew me away. it’s like having a secret code to unlock your magnetic energy. this book is a game-changer.

  7. @conniedean3787

    January 7, 2025 at 5:48 pm

    Trump said he wants to take over Canada, Greenland, Panama.

  8. @conniedean3787

    January 7, 2025 at 5:49 pm

    For what does it profit a man who gains the whole world but loses his own soul. Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

  9. @conniedean3787

    January 7, 2025 at 5:50 pm

    Trump never had a peaceful transfer of power and started a Domestic Terrorist attack on our Nation’s Capital. President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had a peaceful transfer of power, they were mature Adults.

  10. @conniedean3787

    January 7, 2025 at 5:52 pm

    Benjamin Netanyahu is committing war crimes, the videos are all over the world of the suffering in Gaza, except in Israel or on Fox News, and Fox news is on in Israel, ISRAEL DOES NOT BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.

  11. @conniedean3787

    January 7, 2025 at 5:52 pm

    Doctors and Nurses without borders in Gaza are Saints. and many were killed by the IDF soldiers.

  12. @conniedean3787

    January 7, 2025 at 5:53 pm

    27,000 IDF soldiers are United States Citizens, and many are far right extremists, they executed a whole family fleeing to a safe place including a LITTLE GIRL NAMED HIND, and the Paramedics that tried to save them.

  13. @conniedean3787

    January 7, 2025 at 5:55 pm

    The Media and corrupt Politicians, report Propaganda, racism, hate speech, promotes violence. No wonder the U.S. has the most shootings, violence and school shootings in the world besides countries at war.

  14. @loca8048

    January 7, 2025 at 6:01 pm

    Trump is G-Zero. Please.

  15. @pondholloworchards

    January 7, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    Blah blah blah

  16. @garywhite2050

    January 7, 2025 at 6:09 pm

    He’s always so clear????????????????????????

  17. @catserver8577

    January 7, 2025 at 6:12 pm

    Sure am glad someone can understand where Trump stands on the issues, because all I’ve seen is him spouting gibberish and him acting like he is on a larger version of The Apprentice. Would be great to see some links to something showing him understanding anything about anything, anywhere.

    • @CMDR_Hal_Melamby

      January 7, 2025 at 6:48 pm

      Exactly. He stands like a windsock, directed towards the last sycophant and flunkie that spoke in his ear.

  18. @Gregknows-uj8gg

    January 7, 2025 at 6:20 pm

    The United Kingdom was at its peak when they was Colonizers. Maybe they should go back too that attitude. America would be safer if they also had that kind of attitude in South America. China has already started in the South America Continent. We must catch up too China or soon we will be speaking Chinese.

  19. @sixvee5147

    January 7, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    May the coming collapse of the AMOC render homosapiens functionally extinct. Enjoy what you can, while you still can; pity the generations to come. All hail the Pyrocene.

  20. @BrianMcInnis87

    January 7, 2025 at 6:48 pm

    3:50 *Vacuua*

  21. @BrianMcInnis87

    January 7, 2025 at 6:53 pm

    4:13 Uhmmmm…

  22. @annabaker4916

    January 7, 2025 at 7:29 pm

    Thank you for ending with positives. That was all pretty worrying

  23. @houseonsand

    January 7, 2025 at 8:15 pm

    Zev Moaz and Bueno de Mesquita both discuss how when democracies interface and compete with autocracies they tend to behave more like autocracies. I’m stretching here, but basically we all knew the “trade with China will make China a democracy!” was a money ploy.

  24. @LordAugastus

    January 7, 2025 at 8:29 pm

    #1 isn’t american for profit military industrial run economy causing ww3….. But hey, Ted has been very msm friendly lately, and hasn’t been as scienfitically profound. Sad

  25. @tombattisti8682

    January 9, 2025 at 9:58 am

    Zuckerberg signaled Meta’s desire to end EU punitive regulation of the US’s big seven. This is not a positive for anyone not named Bezos et al.

  26. @rajatanshu

    January 9, 2025 at 10:06 am

    That is a very enlightening perspective on geo-politics inter-alia. Thanks Ted for a wonderful interview.

  27. @nunodiniz2207

    January 9, 2025 at 10:21 am

    Tyranny.

  28. @phukrnd840

    January 9, 2025 at 11:15 am

    People need to calm down .. take a breathe, take joy in the moment and the people around them .. stop having so many children… Stop consuming and start caring for one another….

  29. @mehultrivedi2035

    January 9, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    Ian Bremmer says that Democracy is not at risk but then says that the Government is captured by big business and corporations….

  30. @rashakamhawy3032

    January 9, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    How is Russia rogue? In the same way Israel is rogue?

  31. @barrypurves4524

    January 9, 2025 at 12:25 pm

    Best, most succinct analysis of geopolitic I’ve heard in months and I’m an absolute news junkie. Non partisan, neutral opinion, good stuff!

  32. @KWifler

    January 9, 2025 at 12:32 pm

    A million people deported? Where will they go? Will they just end up dying in Mexico? I think we will see hills of bodies in future documentaries.

  33. @david_oliveira71

    January 9, 2025 at 1:08 pm

    How likely is it that a female president will be elect after Trump?

  34. @EdMeadows-v6r

    January 9, 2025 at 1:14 pm

    I fully believe that the US will sign a mutual defense agreement with Russia in order to bully the world using their combined nuclear arsenals. This would give them power over all governments and the ability to acquire natural resources such as copper and other minerals required for AI, EVs, quantum computing, etc. This alliance will cause China, middle eastern and other allies of China to declare war against the US alliance. In other words, WW3. This will occur in 3-3.5 years once Trump obtains control over the US media, corporations, legal apparatus and political opponents.

  35. @nabilsaad8545

    January 9, 2025 at 1:15 pm

    Tell me if history shows that America even won a war fighting by itself only?

    • @box2battle

      January 9, 2025 at 3:26 pm

      Considering that most nation states in the time the US was founded, have global reach and participate in conflicts that interest them, I believe the answer would be zero. Because of alliances for the Union and Confederates during the civil war, you could argue America “alone” didn’t fight its own civil war. In short, I don’t think that is a detractor against US military might or “key nation state dominance in the 20th century”, so much as it is a product of the state of modern conflicts: the world is a smaller place.

  36. @a4cados

    January 9, 2025 at 1:42 pm

    Tell me you’re a Trump supporter without telling me you’re a Trump supporter ????????

  37. @arthurriaf8052

    January 9, 2025 at 1:59 pm

    At some point during tRumps term, he will run afoul of the justice system again.
    This time, I hope the legislative branch has the courage and willpower to impeach him and kick him out!
    I’m counting on justice to prevail despite its failures of the past. ????????????

  38. @lupemerrit

    January 9, 2025 at 2:04 pm

    Trump is going to put pressure on Mexico…. Not having to do with immigration… the powers that be are after the large vein of lithium discovered in Mexico.

  39. @ellaaysun6181

    January 9, 2025 at 2:28 pm

    I hope we all know that it doesn’t matter who is in the ‘top job’ because this is a systemic problem — greed. We have allowed many of our economic sectors, to take advantage of the American people. It’s disgusting and frightening for the future of our country. My husband and I will be retiring in the next two years n another country. We are absolutely worried that SS! will no longer be funded. we’ll have to rely on his pension, a 403 (b) and a very prolific Investment account with Stephanie Janis Stiefel my FA. Our national debt is bloating and expanding every month. Our government needs to get spending under control and cut the federal budget.

    • @DaraangelyHarvie

      January 9, 2025 at 2:41 pm

      I know this lady you just mentioned. Stephanie Janis Stiefel is a portfolio manager and investment advisor. She gained recognition as an employee of neuberger berman; a renowned investor she is. Stephanie Janis Stiefel has demonstrated expertise in investment strategies and has been involved in managing portfolios and providing guidance to clients.

    • @GouverPanel

      January 9, 2025 at 2:51 pm

      I’m planning on moving to Thailand in the next 5 years if trump’s government doesn’t do anything with the high prices of groceries and taxes
      What about you??

    • @YaxelBurone

      January 9, 2025 at 2:54 pm

      Been debt free for two years thanks to Stephanie Janis Stiefel. So sad to see my friends in their 40s with car loans, mortgages and credit card debt.

    • @GobinderLuymes

      January 9, 2025 at 2:58 pm

      My sister lives in Aussie. They have good healthcare better than America. I am also moving there after I retire.

    • @LuuzbelitoPirogovsky

      January 9, 2025 at 3:02 pm

      Please stop gentrifying countries

  40. @MartianTom

    January 9, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    I fear all of the main social media platforms will simply become vehicles for transporting more and more misinformation (especially with AI) and will eventually lead to a collapse of society into murder, street-fighting and civil war. That’s what they’re fomenting. They want it to happen. Divide, dominate, conquer. The billionaires want the world for themselves. The rest of us don’t really matter.

  41. @avinashsringeri

    January 9, 2025 at 2:43 pm

    Title says “Global Risks” and its all about America..immigration,..trump. Total Nonsense.

  42. @nathanielwhite7007

    January 9, 2025 at 2:59 pm

    Forget AI mankind was trained to use the mjnd.

  43. @ichifish

    January 9, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    I don’t think Bremmer’s optimism about the US is at all warranted. There are very, very few examples of our institutions becoming less corrupt, and many, many examples of increasing corruption, such as Trump’s judges breaking precedent in his favor, or an unstable oligarch (Musk) working in the government that provides contracts to his companies to name just two.

    In Trump’s first four years he consolidated power by removing the non-MAGA from the GOP. To think this won’t increase -simply by legal means, by changing election laws at the state level, by funding rightwing media and politicians at unprecedented levels, for example, is asinine. Does anyone think the leftist elites are going to keep sticking their heads out for democratic institutions? That’s never happened in the history of any empire, so why would anyone think it would now? Four years of stripping the government bureaucracy of non-partisans, something Trump has promised to start on day one, will work.

    There will never be, in the remaining 30 years I might live, a situation when MAGA won’t have a lock on power. At least two institutions, the supreme court and the senate, will remain in their hands. Sure, maybe Trump won’t run, that doesn’t mean he won’t have power. Why would anyone on the right not emulate Trump? His con act works!

    The left and the right are in a cold war, and once the immigrants are gone, who will the right vent their hate on?

  44. @getonlygotonly

    January 9, 2025 at 5:57 pm

    yeah buddy. the view might be different from your ivy covered buildings but from here in podunk it sure looks like 1000 people have 92% of the money/wealth in the USA and the politicians, government, courts, institutions and just about everything else has been bought and paid for and its not for the benefit of 99% of us.
    Ian I know you are an expert, but maybe you are thinking of previous 45 presidents the USA has had and how they think about or handle global and domestic policy. I believe trump is so much different he is off the chart completely. May it be possible that trump will associate himself with and do whatever will line his pockets as full as possible? we just might be in for 4 years of chaos, instability, corruption, greed, graft, lawlessness and destruction of norms and established institutions on a scale nobody has ever seen before.

  45. @history4278

    January 9, 2025 at 6:24 pm

    The rich buy the government. Why is this so hard to see? Democracy is not dead, what a line to say with a straight face. Two choices where campaigns are bought off and judiciary thats rigged. Print on america. No I wont be buying your book.

  46. @tomazeneto1980

    January 9, 2025 at 7:05 pm

    Happy 2025 from Brazil

  47. @H0L05AN

    January 9, 2025 at 7:13 pm

    I think people are greatly underestimating the situation in Ukraine and Trump’s ability to influence the situation.

  48. @roninoscuro9087

    January 9, 2025 at 7:35 pm

    Ian Bremmer has never heard of Poland, i.e., the real next force in Europe.

  49. @bassolsmonforte

    January 9, 2025 at 7:45 pm

    Ian Bremmer’s opinions are exhaustingly bland, soft and Americentric. Just another delusional pseudo intellectual who’s in denial about the accelerating and steadily collapse of the US empire and its social breakdown. A country that continues to spend trillions on useless defense instead of maintaining infrastructure and providing universal and affordable access to healthcare of its citizens. An empire grossly in debt with a financial pyramid system and a grotesquely ignorant population that believes in heroes. It’s textbook similar to the collapse of the Roman empire, and many prior empires. Unfortunately that it seems that we are making exactly the same mistakes. Ian Arthur Bremmer’s opinions are far from “wisdom”.

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