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The US vs. Itself — and Other Top Global Risks in 2024 | Ian Bremmer | TED
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@dennisangelillo4211
January 10, 2024 at 11:41 am
Bremmer very clearly is no longer an objective voice…. Sad. He SO CLEARLY has TDS…..
@Roskim64
January 10, 2024 at 11:42 am
Wow this is so left bias
@Azel247
January 10, 2024 at 11:51 am
I’m scared, and I’m not even American
@siedimani8770
January 10, 2024 at 11:54 am
Great analysis!
@RJ-go3sn
January 10, 2024 at 1:33 pm
When speaking about what’s happening here in America, it is still difficult to understand HOW so many people became so willingly and deeply indoctrinated into the Trump exhortations. The man has always been performing without ethics and morals, and his only principals are the ones that result in HIS financial gain, not the care of the masses. May we have a re-awakening here of what we are losing to the following of this man.
@grasshopper3930
January 10, 2024 at 1:44 pm
There was no war when trump was in office in ukraine. Had he still been in office there would still not be no war.. Nor what israel had been attacked.
@grasshopper3930
January 10, 2024 at 1:54 pm
A.I. will kill Jobs just like any automation. Millions of them.
@jeffstahl3327
January 10, 2024 at 2:00 pm
I hope this guy likes crow.
@thinktwice-me7ie
January 10, 2024 at 2:20 pm
Mr Bremmer is a gift to the world. Thank you for your work.
@user-gf3lw5pi4t
January 10, 2024 at 2:25 pm
RFK/Tulsi all the way to the White House ❤❤❤❤
@user-gf3lw5pi4t
January 10, 2024 at 2:30 pm
So this guy thinks you should get your information from one source, who? The state approve source ? You ?
@user-gf3lw5pi4t
January 10, 2024 at 2:33 pm
We’re deep in the fourth turning❤
@chamankhan7396
January 10, 2024 at 2:36 pm
Fake guy love u china
@user-gf3lw5pi4t
January 10, 2024 at 2:36 pm
RFK❤❤
@user-gf3lw5pi4t
January 10, 2024 at 2:43 pm
We have met the enemy and they are us
@user-gf3lw5pi4t
January 10, 2024 at 3:20 pm
The Biden has already politicize the JD
@NautiPapaT
January 10, 2024 at 4:25 pm
Seems quite alarmist. And awfully presumptuous that Donny will be the nominee.
@masterplanner4843
January 10, 2024 at 4:39 pm
one of the top geopolitical risks is watching, TED .
@3pix
January 10, 2024 at 4:57 pm
As if, … merely nice PR ~ conventionally delusional, upholding ‘double-standard’. See your bubble burst soon™.
@michaelcurran9830
January 10, 2024 at 5:18 pm
The ukraine problem was created by the usa and their duplicity in their dealings with russia :
@michaelcurran9830
January 10, 2024 at 5:37 pm
Like he started ,the main problem is the demacratic system in the usa and thats going to get worst :
@stanleykubrick8786
January 10, 2024 at 5:57 pm
I wonder who her optician is?
@gtrdxz
January 10, 2024 at 5:58 pm
What in the DNC is this interview 🤣
@haad2246
January 10, 2024 at 6:51 pm
This is typical The Economist pro western/Israel analysis.
@yulychan6648
January 11, 2024 at 3:32 am
Is there no other better presidential candidates?
@kapverde2
January 11, 2024 at 5:04 am
US is the only country where a criminal can en president
@cheersmodreams691
January 11, 2024 at 6:20 am
I wonder if Ian would agree with the notion that the heart of the weakness in our political system is the distortions created by the electoral college and the practice of gerrymandering, both of which reduce the power of a persons vote and strengthen the ability of minority rule.
@cheersmodreams691
January 11, 2024 at 6:34 am
Ian Bremmer is one of the most important voices on geopolitical issues today.
@MoritaJunichiro
January 11, 2024 at 7:17 am
What is AI?
Is it to create Ai military robots and create a Terminator society? (Micron, etc.)
Are we illegally researching humans for AI?
Technology is heading in the wrong direction
Who will take responsibility?
Illegal drug Elon Musk’s neuron transfer? Is it the movie Avatar? Or the movie Terminator?
@marcoaslan
January 11, 2024 at 7:44 am
He is so utterly biased.. However, it’s a good reminder that rationality can vary among individuals, especially in today’s often monocultural environment. I suggest we embrace the Socratic method in our debates to foster more balanced and reasoned discussions.
@juliar9561
January 11, 2024 at 8:57 am
Just another american propaganda, I listened for 20 mins, that’s it. Since 2014 the ukraine has been bombing and shelling peaceful residents of Eastern Ukr areas because of the ppl who live there, they are mostly Russian speaking. Yes, Ukr attacked them, not Russia. I can predict that he didn’t say a word about Somalia The US has been bombing Somalia for 14 years. US bombs are dropping on residential areas in Yemen.These weapons are aimed at some of the poorest countries of the world. How about that? Unsubscribed after 2 days of trying.
@Jessiejam-fx2jl
January 11, 2024 at 9:15 am
The Independent Voters will decide this election… TDS has infected the GOP.
@monafernandes3889
January 11, 2024 at 9:42 am
Now a Banana Republic
@IvanRodriguez-mu6bu
January 11, 2024 at 10:50 am
Excellent analysis
@user-yg3io8ij1i
January 11, 2024 at 10:51 am
Biden’s wars , open borders , inflation , no cash bail and it will get worse under Trump administration ?🤡🤣
@SakbuinJoseph-el7nb
January 11, 2024 at 11:42 am
This is ideology fighting reality this man can only express him self in a well prepared platform for him
@baddudecornpop5226
January 11, 2024 at 11:45 am
What a joke. Please give us more propaganda. The US is falling apart while Biden rigs the election out in the open. Biden can’t fix anything because he’s not mentally capable. P.S. THERE’S NO AGREEMENT ON ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’, because it’s another wealth transfer grift. Also, former dem, not a trump fan. Billionaires are illegitimate.
@antoniete387-
January 11, 2024 at 12:39 pm
The US economy too is grappling with uncertainties, global fluctuations, and pandemic aftermath, causing instability. Rising inflation, sluggish growth, and trade disruptions need urgent attention from all sectors to restore stability and stimulate growth.
@nicoled.conyers
January 11, 2024 at 12:44 pm
Absolutely right,Money invested is much more better than money saved, when you invest, it gives you the opportunities to increase your financial worth.
@natashanile907
January 11, 2024 at 12:47 pm
Exactly,The key to financial freedom and wealth is someone ability to convert earned income into massive profit to build generational wealth.
@RosellaLCraig
January 11, 2024 at 12:50 pm
*I’m with you the best way to build massive wealth for the next generation is to consistently invest in business and guard them grow*
@PeterLDemby
January 11, 2024 at 12:53 pm
*Exactly and many of us don’t know where to invest our money so we invest it on wrong place and to the wrong people*
@edna.Chavis
January 11, 2024 at 12:55 pm
*Obviously talking about been successful, I know I am blessed if not I wouldn’t have met someone who is as spectacular as mrs Ava Kimberly*
@dalepetersen1166
January 11, 2024 at 1:52 pm
I care more about South America than the drama queens in the middle East
@dalepetersen1166
January 11, 2024 at 2:04 pm
You are naive if you think Putin will stop with a partician agreement. He will manufacturer a reason to keep going and you will destroy Ukraine morale in the process
@MrJustin259
January 11, 2024 at 2:18 pm
We are not Capitalism in the West (US) when your country bailouts banks and business that’s not capitalism
It’s capitalism for the POOR socialism for the RICH
@Burkhard_Ehnes
January 11, 2024 at 2:46 pm
ok.
Compelling.
In principle depressing.
But what now?
Shall we all go to Antarctica?
Humans can only aspire something, invest into something, accept sacrifices, motivate themselves, if they have a bright, shiny goal.
If the outlook is that bad – what can only get subscribed to – than we the more need that outlook.
Who does have such one right now?
In particular Ukrainians.
So lets start there for the benefit of all:
Could the Ukrainian common goal not get a common goal at least of the remaining decent part of the world?
Freedom, self governance, reliability, building a common, prosperous, sustainable, inclusive, green future, integrated in that beautiful diverse and fascinating Europe?
Sure!
What have we got by that vision?
A “brand” “Victorious Ukraine”, literally as a car or consumer brand that stands for something we want more than everything else, for which we invest, save up, even sacrifice.
Should be easy to “sell” for anyone anywhere on a ballot right now.
Such necessary support for that “victorious Ukraine” – anyway only marginal -right now would easy be to organize and finance.
That support is just up to the invader’s pain boarders that we know by now, allows to liberate Crimea, starts unrest in RuZZia, leads to a 1991 situation, limits RuZZian attacks to (harmful) symbolic ones and – yes – leaves the occupied Donbas and Zaporizhzhia regions as destroyed places of nightmare. The rest of Ukraine quickly transitions into rebuilding to an ultra-modern, innovative and inclusive country, sees immigration and transforms foreseeably to a powerhouse of Europe and the entire free world.
Let’s start!
US vs. itself.
Shall there really be no US-citizen, that manages to rally more than 50% of the country for an inclusive agenda?
Assume – just as an not entirely hyperbolic example – David Patreaus would run as an independent candidate, Biden would drop out and with the majority of the Democratic Party support him, but still hold dear democratic political goals.
The campaign would be about values, principles, country and policies – not any more about parties, grievances and last elections.
US would stand ahead of a presidential term of reconstitution, hopefully healing and refocusing on the real Global risks.
Let’s start!
Warnings are needed.
But remaining in that common human habit of complaining and wining doesn’t solve anything.
We need VISIONS!
And people that develop, describe, illustrate and – literally – “market” them.
They are there!
Let’s start!
Agreed:
The third one, Middle East, is missing here. No idea. Noooooo idea….
Only that with above the local malign actors could loose their masterminds and financiers in the Kremlin…
@I_AM_G_FORCE
January 11, 2024 at 2:54 pm
talking glove puppet.
@luanavalim01
January 11, 2024 at 4:25 pm
Trump is going to win and he will be elected by your bullxxxt woke agenda.
@CG-gb1kj
January 11, 2024 at 4:50 pm
Ian, you cite that our intel agencies are concerned about the 24 election, these same US intel agencies have caused chaos and overturned elections throughout the world for decades, they have zero credibility
@bernadinesiy3338
January 11, 2024 at 5:27 pm
Bremmee just mouths the west’s propaganda while trying, unsuccessfully to
those who know, to project think tank objectivity.
@user-hv4kf5fv1j
January 11, 2024 at 6:03 pm
Watching from Nigeria ❤ love you American
@rodeocowboy
January 11, 2024 at 8:04 pm
The reason the Ukraine war became so politicized so quickly vs past wars is the same reason a pandemic became so politicized so quickly. Democrat censorship. As an independent (former Democrat), I said this would happen to the pandemic as soon as all honest (and some being science-backed) debate was beginning to be censored as “misinformation” and “disinformation”. Those being censored decided that since those doing the censoring didn’t want to allow honest debate, then the censored would just be against all pandemic mitigation measures full-stop.
Then the same Democrat-led “expert” elite class did the same thing in regards to Ukraine: they immediately labeled anybody with logical questions about the Ukraine-Russian war as “Putin apologists” and “Russian agents”. So, the censored immediately defaulted to becoming anti-Ukraine since they weren’t even allowed to ask questions.
Now the same “expert” Democrats are doing this increasingly with climate change. Therefore, the censored half of the free world is going to reject anything to do with climate change mitigation because the Democrats are immediately labeling anybody with questions as “flat-earthers” and “climate deniers”.
The Democrats are going to have to learn to allow free speech and free debate if they hope to talk others into joining their causes rather than try to censor those they oppose as “dangers to democracy”.
@FirstLast-lh9iu
January 11, 2024 at 8:11 pm
He is a b1den supporter. That’s all you need to know 😂😂
@observerone6727
January 11, 2024 at 8:32 pm
United we stand, divided we fall. Unfortunately, stating long known truths like that doesn’t suddenly cause us to unite, or change a damn thing about the choiceless automatic mindless group-think behavior of most humans.
@trichaupham
January 11, 2024 at 8:38 pm
one side narrative!! Boring.
@crypticTV
January 11, 2024 at 9:07 pm
Mind you this guy has a record of being about 50% right. If you predict something and flip a coin you have as much chances of being right as this guy 😂😂😂😂
@jeanneelliott7243
January 11, 2024 at 9:40 pm
MarianneW2024
@patland1762
January 11, 2024 at 10:02 pm
The money trimp raises will not be deployed to support the election, it will be used to pay his legal bills and fines.
@lindylee1139
January 11, 2024 at 10:11 pm
Russia will win if trump is re-elected and withdraws the US from NATO.
@tejasshah9783
January 11, 2024 at 10:55 pm
USA is almost Rogue state
@DarrenChen
January 12, 2024 at 12:16 am
Thank you for this talk
@Dragon_Rider777
January 12, 2024 at 3:08 am
Ted Talk has become more and more skewed over the last decade.
I am very pleased to listen to Ian as he analysed each situation with facts, from a neutral point of view.
@deborahmeghan5583
January 12, 2024 at 3:34 am
Speed not just of government, population as well…
@ImperiumVita
January 12, 2024 at 4:31 am
I always value Ian’s presentation of the smooth brain take
@shahramtorki560
January 12, 2024 at 9:32 am
😂😂
@amaneatingwatermelon8885
January 12, 2024 at 4:59 am
Such a good idea that Russia lost all the trade opportunities with US and Europe, which will damage Russia in all matters. But just one question, why Russian’s economy is growing? What makes that happening? Is because of the sanctions? I am really curious.
@aussietroll7873
January 12, 2024 at 6:02 am
Does the US require African Union monitors to ensure free-and-fair elections? 🤔
What a s-show…
@peterclarke3020
January 12, 2024 at 7:17 am
The Republicans seem to be trying to collapse democracy in the USA and turn it into a Faschist Dictatorship – and that’s definitely not a good direction to be going in. In fact it’s totally insane.
@peterclarke3020
January 12, 2024 at 7:41 am
Ukraine having to split its territory is not a good solution. The US should support Ukraine to win.
@peterclarke3020
January 12, 2024 at 7:41 am
Putin should not be rewarded with more territory.
@argelmtz
January 12, 2024 at 8:00 am
It is the responsability of the media to show the crimes that israel is commiting in order to stop a genocide. Hamas is a partizan group, and Israel is a state that occupies others, nazis occupied and deprived minorities in ghettos with no water, food or medicines. Those groups fighting the nazis where partizans not terrorists. The warsow ghetto also had tunnels and nazis turn it into ashes.
@aussietroll7873
January 12, 2024 at 8:15 am
Ian.. I love listening to your analysis. You lost me however when you talk about the partition of Ukraine.
That the entire Western alliance is not able to overcome a belligerent country with the economy of Texas, well, you’re presenting a bizarrely pathetic argument. We actually need to lean-in and show them who’s boss.
Any other outcome is amoral, defeatist and kicking the can down the road.
@ferminaguilera2243
January 12, 2024 at 8:25 am
I know will be difficult for Kennedy to win the election, but I am sure he would bring balance and respect to the US Government inside and internationally. I’m voting for Bobby regardless.
@richardnunziata3221
January 12, 2024 at 10:52 am
👍..I blame Jesus
@jval9
January 12, 2024 at 2:07 pm
The DR Congo was not mentioned once.
@user-kh4of8vj2w
January 12, 2024 at 3:18 pm
Europe is not the only continent is the world that buys Oil, the world is far bigger than Europe, you people ar still living in the past glory of Europe, europe is no more like that ok. even if you all decided to go to war with Russia, you can never defeat Russia.
@treborif
January 12, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Interesting his opinion of the US fighting 3 wars, Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Islam and merica vs merica . . with the UK and US bombing Yemen in the last 2 days – well the US has been bombing Yemen since 2015 – all I can hope for is RFK jr not being assassinated by the CIA, becoming POTUS, closing down the US bases around the planet (and there’s hundreds) bringing the military home and putting them to work rebuilding the US while BRICS gets on with re building the world..
@pravemet4427
January 14, 2024 at 7:18 am
the top global risk for 2024 is Biden/Obama as President and the Democrats’ moral bankruptcy led by said Presidents
@jayashreeacharia6782
January 14, 2024 at 8:24 am
This is a conversation to be listened to and understood by everyone inhabiting this planet.
@margaretabendroth8658
January 14, 2024 at 9:42 am
RAISE YOUR HANDS IF YOU BELIEVE THIS MANS LIES
@devilishdeed
January 14, 2024 at 9:43 am
Ukraine is losing. Stop the war.
@tonyhladun9081
January 14, 2024 at 11:03 am
When something is not working maybe it’s because it doesn’t work. A bunch of guys, 250 years ago, tried to construct a system of government that would neutralize the power of kings, but having a President, a Senate, a House of R, and a Supreme Court has produced a dysfunctional system. Maybe it needs to change.
In 2008 Putin told NATO that Ukrainian NATO membership was a direct threat to Russia. The West in it’s ignorance, arrogance and stupidity chose to ignore that ultimatum. I do agree with Ian that the Russian territories that Khrushchev gave the Ukraine in 1954 need to go back to Russia.
In 2000 there was a tech crash because nobody could figure out how to make money out of the Internet. Well the answer was advertising and that’s what funds the Internet today. With that example, I predict AI will mainly be used for mind manipulation of the masses. You’ll ask a question but then the answer will guide you where a business or government wants you to go. You couldn’t trust everything on the Internet, but with AI you should trust nothing on the Internet. Sadly though it’s trust that makes groups work. Ian’s eloquent closing statement asks for trust that I don’t think is there.
@aquasal3456
January 14, 2024 at 11:11 am
Ian , You lose your credibility long ago
@user-ok6re8gv1q
January 14, 2024 at 12:16 pm
I used to listen to Bremmer but less and less so. He keeps stating that America’s economy is doing very well but this is completely FALSE. America gov has borrowed US$2T that it cant sustain in 2023/4. IF gov spending was reigned in, America’s economy would not even be able to meet the rate of inflation. Russia and China would be the leading economies in REAL size and growth.
@evergreennj8950
January 14, 2024 at 1:17 pm
Yep, he also maintains the US mainstream narrative on Ukraine and doesn’t mention any of the points Mearsheimer raised in 2015 regarding the West’s fault for what happened in 2014 Ukraine or Mearsheimer’s predictions if the West continued to encourage Ukraine to antagonize Russia. Russia has a lot more significant support from major powers other than Belarus, North Korea, or Iran (e.g. India and China). Germany’s industries depended on cheap energy from Russia, now Germany is more dependent on expensive energy from the US. Its renewables are far from making it self sufficient.
@evergreennj8950
January 14, 2024 at 1:31 pm
It would appear Bidenomics is a copy of what the Chinese did in response to the 2008 financial crisis. The Chinese invested heavily on domestic infrastructure and its economy continued to grow. Don’t know how much debt it took on as a result. In the US, that extra government US debt combined with higher interest rates doesn’t look sustainable. I don’t think national GDP growth is as important as the general welfares of the majority of its citizens. The US GDP growth is concentrated at the top and not the bottom 70% or 80%.
@dfrye9838
January 14, 2024 at 12:22 pm
Profound example of the Dunning- Kruger effect
@leonardocolossi2270
January 14, 2024 at 12:40 pm
Global north is falling apart. It makes me glad.
@scottsehm1661
January 14, 2024 at 1:48 pm
Let’s Go Brandon!
@robertbarbosa5856
January 14, 2024 at 1:56 pm
Mr. Ian Bremmer is a super genius and has a wide and profound vision of the World scenario . Many Thanks 🥇🏆🌎🌐🌏⭐🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸
@silcars
January 14, 2024 at 2:08 pm
You use a left wind ideological perspective to talk about what is going on on America and the world? Is laughable
@leenickshramko1100
January 14, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Correction: it’s the vulnerability of the power structure that is most worrying to those in power. Otherwise you would t be n here spreading fear.
@leenickshramko1100
January 14, 2024 at 2:17 pm
This is so rich! Painting Trump as a wanna be dictator, while the Biden administration is actually acting like a dictatorship. Give it up.
@leenickshramko1100
January 14, 2024 at 2:21 pm
Lloyd Austin= AWOL. Wars because of our weakness on the world stage. This admin is a dumpster fire.
@leenickshramko1100
January 14, 2024 at 2:25 pm
Who do the Palestinians need security from?
@UQRXD
January 14, 2024 at 2:57 pm
Wars go on all the time and always will. This is just uninformed propaganda. DON”T WASTE 42 minutes on it.
@khold15
January 14, 2024 at 3:16 pm
Nato is doomed. There is no post carbon future, that is another childish fantasy.
@peterston4039
January 14, 2024 at 3:22 pm
I think that Bremmer got this all right. Anyone thinking that the Palestinians are treated equally and fair, has not understood or knows how this all came about. They were cheated from the get go by anyone they dealt with (WWI WWII) and had helped out, everything that happened after. And Netanyahu has made the situation much worse. Over many many years consistently and intentionally. His intention are no different from Hamaz. Hamaz wants the Israelis gone, he wants the Palestinians gone. I am wondering how much he was or is willing to sacrifice to accomplish that, especially looking at the glaring security systems failure of the world’s most advanced security apparatus. Just to forgo any comments on that, what Hamaz did was incomprehensible, foolish, brutal and despicable. It accomplished to this point the opposite of what they had in mind, played right into Netanyahu’s hands.
Trump, misunderstood by so many it seems as a “strong man”, simply is an egomaniac driven by his believe of deserving everything he can milk out of being President. He has done that last time around, it would be much much worse should he get back into office. Trump is as Ian said a symptom of the people are being manipulated by special interest groups and a failed civics and historical education system.
People are willing to ignore and discuss away the facts in front of them. “I did not do it” is usually not a valid argument acceptable, but when it comes to the Orange cult, is understood that he cannot do anything wrong. Regardless of how many people he defrauded and ripped off for decades and all sorts of other crimes he has been accused off and those he has been actually convicted off.
The sad part is the refusal to see what’s in front of them and the denialism associated with his cult like followers.
@davidcaincineinc
January 14, 2024 at 4:55 pm
Bremmer is a hot mess on Ukraine. First he says the money from the US Congress isn’t coming but then, when he gets to the part about Russia losing, suddenly there is potential for billions to come from the US in 2024. Second, the “winning” path forward for UKR to swallow hard and cede the occupied territories sounds like a Kremlin talking point. It’s appeasement that realists like to dress up as being adults about a far more complex debate and understanding of the two countries and the present-day conflict. Let’s see if the West refocuses on UKR and provides what it needs to win. It’s still too early to throw in the towel.
But setting that aside, there are two combats in this war and Putin has zero intention of backing away from his maximalist aims: to de-Nazify and take ALL of UKR. So even if UKR sued for peace per Bremmer’s plan, there is no guarantee Russia would honour the deal. (Almost assuredly not.) UKR would therefore be left with either giving up the entire country or once again fighting the Russians. Obviously if the former, UKR is doomed. But if the latter, they are back in a hot war which would preclude any membership in the EU or NATO.
Russia must to be defeated now so they can come to the full realization of their mad imperialist ambitions. Any discussion of appeasement is folly.
@bitcointhug
January 14, 2024 at 6:52 pm
Lost me at Biden does anything… lol
@nickdanesh9179
January 14, 2024 at 7:08 pm
Very smart man
@myresponsesarelimited7895
January 14, 2024 at 7:35 pm
2014 invasion? …is that the Maiden coupe?…
@funkyjazzacid
January 14, 2024 at 7:52 pm
Extremely lefty talk. So complicated to get unbiased views these days. And you will not get it here on Ted with Ian :/
@glenmascarenhas7885
January 14, 2024 at 8:29 pm
It has already happened in India. All constitutional Institutions have been politicised.