After the crises there will not be any real shift in power. China/India are on the rise and recognising that fact the developed economies through the G20 will now give voting rights based on a countries GDP which is only fare and long overdue
As for Russia well sorry to say they have well and truly shoot themselves in the foot. For years they have promoted the G20 as replacement for the G8 the plan was for them to become a spokesman for the BRIC countries and other emerging economies. The others have failed to follow the Russian plan and unilaterally opted for looking after their own interests. Russia has now realised that the emergence of the G20 will leave them based on their economy somewhere in the middle of the group and not at the top table. Late in the day they now want to keep the G8 alongside the G20 to maintain their dwindling international economic influence. There’s an old saying “Be careful what you wish for as you might not like it when you get it”.
The ultrawealthy are notoriously unpatriotic to any country. Failed banks are being bought up by the megabanks to create gigabanks that will decide what governments and countries to back or abandon. On which list they've jotted "USA" is anyone's guess. If it is to survive, the US economy and social system need therapy so radical they may not survive it. Collapsing empires are dangerous. Let us hope deep reform happens as painlessly as possible.
No one Country/nation, and I’m glad the question was not fielded in that way , but also I don't believe any one single corporation either.
But then I don’t think this immediate Crisis is the last either.
All that aside it will be a coalition of Educated elites, but this is unlikely to be a negative thing because the base at which one becomes “educated” will widen and widen, but I can say this:
Which ever country/nation has the most “free” and “open” system with regards to legislative social policy While being able to keep the Social structure of support but keeping and welcoming small business competition, they will be the leading nations of which all the “innovators” will want to live, this is for obvious reasons:
Standard of living.; Which is not just measured in the strict guidelines that it is presently.
The rest is up to chance but obviously two potential leaders come to mind:
Russia; has the political power to create that system. USA; has the historical benefit of having had a system that looked a little like that before information was closed down and we entered into a “dark” ages.
Both nations are emerging from this “dark” ages; the USA obviously has some more turmoil ahead than other counties, but having said that Japan and China are the wild cards.
Perhaps a better question would be:
How Will Present leading nations of the world systems change in the Future when more and more individuals one day wake up and think to themselves “nearly everything I was ever told was wrong”, and or “I want to understand why things work and why things are the way they are”, and particularly when they ask the second question and CAN find out the answer.
I just hope the same bankers who have been backing both sides will finally be exposed for the corrupt vampires they are and we turf them. Hopefully we realize that something so vast as the world and so diverse as society can not have every solution framed in economic terms so we begin to put the human cost of a thing before the dollar cost of the thing. Hopefully people wake up, realize the world is more important than a balance sheet, realize that wisdom and peace are more valuable then property and the rational and good people of the world will win, which means everyone wins.
It's funny that the Russian government is pushing for a world currency but has also suggested using the Russian Ruble. Funny huh, so why would Russia push for a world currency but also say it may be necessary to back it up with the Ruble. All Russia is trying to do is take power and influence away from the US to gain more for itself. Sure every countries government is out to help its own people, but it's sad how the Russian government is holding onto these cold war rhetoric.
PREDICTION: BRIC will initiate a push towards a world currency that will cause an alarmist, knee-jerk reaction from a very militant, threatened NATO. The new NATO will have an agenda driven by US/EU/Gulf State/Sunni Muslim energy plutocrats who do not answer to people of their respective nations. The US is now burdened with a plutocracy that does not act in the best interests of its people. Americans elected Obama to sweep out this crowd but it is becoming more evident that he is one of them. When Americans realise that they have been duped, they will react negatively. This is when a foreign crisis will be manufactured to divert attention (probably involving Israel). The Latin countries of Europe will reluctantly join NATO's crusade for purely mercenary reasons, whereas Germany, Turkey and Great Britain will be driven by deeper/darker notions of social superiority. The struggle will become a contest for the hearts and minds and resources of the rest of the world. Who'll win? Initially NATO will have the upper hand but their arrogance will win them few friends......and then? Anybody's guess.
Not one single power ruled the world before the global crisis.......the US dominated the global economy but never ruled it. This will be the same after the global crisis but I see more countries/regions taking a bigger role in the global economy (EU, Russia, China).
Please tell us more than an one-word answer "Women!". I d' love to hear more of it! Really, I swear it.
We are really tired of rulling the earth for millions of years and maybe we will be glad to be released. Give us you-know-what, some food and some beer and we 'll be the happiest of beings, free of all the headaches of running the planet. By the way, women always use the excuse of headache, maybe, after they take over, the excuse will become true.
To be serious, there is no superior or inferior sex, all of us are "boiling in the same pot" and women can be worse. According to crime and terrorism experts, women can kill easier in cold blood, can torture more cruelly and can fight more wildly. I am not against women.
Before answering that question; it will be important to understand what really happened: the crisis'origins and what to do to avoid an other similar or worse situation in the near future. If priorities are not changed we will obtain the same result...The USA produced a huge smoke'screen to cover-up the fiasco with that hollywoodian Barnum-Obama-Circus show. Nothing has changed: America is still arrogant, hegemonial and making troubles all over the World. Under her influence, this year, mankind will waste 1500 billions $ on armaments. Since 1945, taking into account inflation, humanity has spent 60 trillions € for military and police gadgets. This has made a few peoples very rich and they don't want anything to change (they will even tolerate to share that cake with a few russians). This huge amount is the whole humanity's taxpayers' hard earned money which had to be compensated by virtual currencies and excessive credits. There is no doubt that the financial crisis'origine was that worldwide insecurity's climat created by western propaganda. When the monetary bull was ready to burst, the masters of that shame also realized that tremendeous technological innovations in all industries make millions of jobs and salaries needless. At the same time the new emerging countries put at the disposal of the same masters: millions of other workers, at a low cost, able to replace the expensive ones (Example: an Aibus A-320, 100% made in China was delivered to its owner, yesterday: for what manufacturing price !). Consequently a huge clean-up was unavoidable. To succeed, that shame initiators needed a smoke' screen to cover-up the whole process. Consequently, came-up the idea of Barack Obama's election. The whole world falled in admiration before such a show; the London G-20 was an other expensive and well planned furbery meeting which resolved nothing, because nobody wanted to disturb the honeymooners. Wishfull thinking has supplanted realistic politic; the urgent concret problems to which we are daily confronted have been relegated to subordinate colleagues. Will the russian leaders have the courage to confront Obama with the sad realities and initiate with or without the USA a new World governance. That is the question ! It is imperative to face the facts and admit that the Western phony democracies have missed their chance...We do not need rulers; we need decent examples who will stop wasting money for useless industries. Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin
Up in the air. The end of crisis around the world is going to be slow and those better off will come out on top, Economically/domestic/stability/world sentiment. Depends on what wing or analist yes purposely spelled wrong right now. Some are : this is the worst the modern world has seen or/and this is not another depression or the ones that forcast next year, or nope waite this year or 2012, It's a while away and yet tomorrow and who can make the best power plays and moves between not and then. Doesn't matter, one Power or Ruler is just as bad as another after a time. That is why there is the world stage and wars, and politics and intrig.
Aliens that look like George Soros and Rupert Murdoch. And CNN will still be telling us that as long as the FED and ECB get more powers, democracy is fabulous.
We can change that, every nation votes for me, and when I run the world, I promise just two things. + Hang all the bankers. + Fire all the politicians.
I like politics that Russia is practicing. They are not being bullied by the European Union and the USA. If there was more governments like these that are looking after their own people the world would have been a better place. But I guess not all is perfect in Russia.
Who will rule the world after the global crisis is over? Well the U.S, and the E.U and Russia are poised to do this. Obama is trying to ensurE this with his Harvaad arrogance and wiley tactics. Rid the world of nukes! That's a joke to me, if I felt I was under threat from forces, be it Alien, Space debris etc etc I would make sure I had the most effective weapon for this. Acidently firing of nukes is a problem for architect Obama. The law that holds the US and the EU's conscience from dominating the glode be what ever means is not impregnable, ha, I a sure you that. The Cowboy burns inside and so do other scary things. RUSSIA keep your nukes, WIN in LIFE, WIN.
I am afraid I have to agree with the last statement. I think China is fast aproaching and so is Russia. The days of the USA is numbered and we will see how it will slowley start to diminish over the next ten years. Europe will left alone to defend itself against the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon. Russia will have to start playing a much bigger police role in the world.
I think everything will remain pretty much the same as now. In global prospective, the China may take the role of global superpower, but I doubt that - that country has to solve too many internal problems. One thing's for certaing - US isn't going anywhere for the next decade. ----------
American is in debt and has to borrow money from China and Japan. Plus it still has to pump money into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and aid to Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, etc. And due to Obama's hyper-inflationary bailout policy countries are ditching the dollar as the reserve currency.
Plus it's Trotskyite Neocon communists that it running the US.
I think the United States will still be powerful even after the crisis, as it still has such a major appeal with investors, given it's very large population, consumerist culture and very educated workforce.
However, whether world power will be lead purely by America is another matter entirely. China and India will certainly be much more powerful in the future. I also think Turkey might be a dark horse, too. Turkey's managed to handle the crisis better than a lot of countries, and is expected to become one of the 10 largest economies in the world within a decade (it is the 15th largest at the moment). On top of all this, Turkey is in such a strategic location and has increasing influence in world affairs, and is especially important as it is considered a bridge between the West and the Muslim world. Face it guys, we need Turkey.
See the following web site. It is an exhibition of photographs of President Barack Obama taken in 1980 when he was a college freshman. Very entertaining. Submitted by Gene H.
One comment said that it would be the US of because we got the money, but the US is broke. We are now borrowing nearly 50 cents for every dollar we spend and our National debt is 12 trillion dollars, thats trillion with a "T". Every thousand years or so the balance of power switches from one region to another. My best guess is China will be the world leader, but thats just a guess.
28 September, 2009, 14:02
Well it won’t be Russia that’s for sure.
After the crises there will not be any real shift in power. China/India are on the rise and recognising that fact the developed economies through the G20 will now give voting rights based on a countries GDP which is only fare and long overdue
As for Russia well sorry to say they have well and truly shoot themselves in the foot. For years they have promoted the G20 as replacement for the G8 the plan was for them to become a spokesman for the BRIC countries and other emerging economies. The others have failed to follow the Russian plan and unilaterally opted for looking after their own interests. Russia has now realised that the emergence of the G20 will leave them based on their economy somewhere in the middle of the group and not at the top table. Late in the day they now want to keep the G8 alongside the G20 to maintain their dwindling international economic influence. There’s an old saying “Be careful what you wish for as you might not like it when you get it”.
12 September, 2009, 06:05
The ultrawealthy are notoriously unpatriotic to any country. Failed banks are being bought up by the megabanks to create gigabanks that will decide what governments and countries to back or abandon. On which list they've jotted "USA" is anyone's guess. If it is to survive, the US economy and social system need therapy so radical they may not survive it. Collapsing empires are dangerous. Let us hope deep reform happens as painlessly as possible.
06 September, 2009, 11:51
No one Country/nation, and I’m glad the question was not fielded in that way , but also I don't believe any one single corporation either.
But then I don’t think this immediate Crisis is the last either.
All that aside it will be a coalition of Educated elites, but this is unlikely to be a negative thing because the base at which one becomes “educated” will widen and widen, but I can say this:
Which ever country/nation has the most “free” and “open” system with regards to legislative social policy While being able to keep the Social structure of support but keeping and welcoming small business competition, they will be the leading nations of which all the “innovators” will want to live, this is for obvious reasons:
Standard of living.; Which is not just measured in the strict guidelines that it is presently.
The rest is up to chance but obviously two potential leaders come to mind:
Russia; has the political power to create that system.
USA; has the historical benefit of having had a system that looked a little like that before information was closed down and we entered into a “dark” ages.
Both nations are emerging from this “dark” ages; the USA obviously has some more turmoil ahead than other counties, but having said that Japan and China are the wild cards.
Perhaps a better question would be:
How Will Present leading nations of the world systems change in the Future when more and more individuals one day wake up and think to themselves “nearly everything I was ever told was wrong”, and or “I want to understand why things work and why things are the way they are”, and particularly when they ask the second question and CAN find out the answer.
That is a much more interesting question.
20 July, 2009, 22:47
I just hope the same bankers who have been backing both sides will finally be exposed for the corrupt vampires they are and we turf them. Hopefully we realize that something so vast as the world and so diverse as society can not have every solution framed in economic terms so we begin to put the human cost of a thing before the dollar cost of the thing. Hopefully people wake up, realize the world is more important than a balance sheet, realize that wisdom and peace are more valuable then property and the rational and good people of the world will win, which means everyone wins.
16 July, 2009, 09:02
It's funny that the Russian government is pushing for a world currency but has also suggested using the Russian Ruble. Funny huh, so why would Russia push for a world currency but also say it may be necessary to back it up with the Ruble. All Russia is trying to do is take power and influence away from the US to gain more for itself. Sure every countries government is out to help its own people, but it's sad how the Russian government is holding onto these cold war rhetoric.
29 June, 2009, 15:18
PREDICTION: BRIC will initiate a push towards a world currency that will cause an alarmist, knee-jerk reaction from a very militant, threatened NATO. The new NATO will have an agenda driven by US/EU/Gulf State/Sunni Muslim energy plutocrats who do not answer to people of their respective nations. The US is now burdened with a plutocracy that does not act in the best interests of its people. Americans elected Obama to sweep out this crowd but it is becoming more evident that he is one of them. When Americans realise that they have been duped, they will react negatively. This is when a foreign crisis will be manufactured to divert attention (probably involving Israel). The Latin countries of Europe will reluctantly join NATO's crusade for purely mercenary reasons, whereas Germany, Turkey and Great Britain will be driven by deeper/darker notions of social superiority. The struggle will become a contest for the hearts and minds and resources of the rest of the world. Who'll win? Initially NATO will have the upper hand but their arrogance will win them few friends......and then? Anybody's guess.
28 June, 2009, 17:15
Not one single power ruled the world before the global crisis.......the US dominated the global economy but never ruled it. This will be the same after the global crisis but I see more countries/regions taking a bigger role in the global economy (EU, Russia, China).
25 June, 2009, 05:30
Dear Isis,
Please tell us more than an one-word answer "Women!". I d' love to hear more of it! Really, I swear it.
We are really tired of rulling the earth for millions of years and maybe we will be glad to be released. Give us you-know-what, some food and some beer and we 'll be the happiest of beings, free of all the headaches of running the planet. By the way, women always use the excuse of headache, maybe, after they take over, the excuse will become true.
To be serious, there is no superior or inferior sex, all of us are "boiling in the same pot" and women can be worse. According to crime and terrorism experts, women can kill easier in cold blood, can torture more cruelly and can fight more wildly. I am not against women.
Ergatis
24 June, 2009, 13:19
Before answering that question; it will be important to understand what really happened: the crisis'origins and what to do to avoid an other similar or worse situation in the near future. If priorities are not changed we will obtain the same result...The USA produced a huge smoke'screen to cover-up the fiasco with that hollywoodian Barnum-Obama-Circus show. Nothing has changed: America is still arrogant, hegemonial and making troubles all over the World. Under her influence, this year, mankind will waste 1500 billions $ on armaments. Since 1945, taking into account inflation, humanity has spent 60 trillions € for military and police gadgets. This has made a few peoples very rich and they don't want anything to change (they will even tolerate to share that cake with a few russians). This huge amount is the whole humanity's taxpayers' hard earned money which had to be compensated by virtual currencies and excessive credits. There is no doubt that the financial crisis'origine was that worldwide insecurity's climat created by western propaganda. When the monetary bull was ready to burst, the masters of that shame also realized that tremendeous technological innovations in all industries make millions of jobs and salaries needless.
At the same time the new emerging countries put at the disposal of the same masters: millions of other workers, at a low cost, able to replace the expensive ones (Example: an Aibus A-320, 100% made in China was delivered to its owner, yesterday: for what manufacturing price !). Consequently a huge clean-up was unavoidable.
To succeed, that shame initiators needed a smoke' screen to cover-up the whole process. Consequently, came-up the idea of Barack Obama's election. The whole world falled in admiration before such a show; the London G-20 was an other expensive and well planned furbery meeting which resolved nothing, because nobody wanted to disturb the honeymooners. Wishfull thinking has supplanted realistic politic; the urgent concret problems to which we are daily confronted have been relegated to subordinate colleagues. Will the russian leaders have the courage to confront Obama with the sad realities and initiate with or without the USA a new World governance. That is the question ! It is imperative to face the facts and admit that the Western phony democracies have missed their chance...We do not need rulers; we need decent examples who will stop wasting money for useless industries.
Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin
23 June, 2009, 02:52
Up in the air. The end of crisis around the world is going to be slow and those better off will come out on top, Economically/domestic/stability/world sentiment. Depends on what wing or analist yes purposely spelled wrong right now. Some are : this is the worst the modern world has seen or/and this is not another depression or the ones that forcast next year, or nope waite this year or 2012, It's a while away and yet tomorrow and who can make the best power plays and moves between not and then. Doesn't matter, one Power or Ruler is just as bad as another after a time. That is why there is the world stage and wars, and politics and intrig.
16 June, 2009, 17:37
Aliens that look like George Soros and Rupert Murdoch.
And CNN will still be telling us that as long as the FED and ECB get more powers, democracy is fabulous.
We can change that, every nation votes for me, and when I run the world, I promise just two things.
+ Hang all the bankers.
+ Fire all the politicians.
What a peaceful place Earth would be.
13 June, 2009, 14:47
I like politics that Russia is practicing. They are not being bullied by the European Union and the USA. If there was more governments like these that are looking after their own people the world would have been a better place. But I guess not all is perfect in Russia.
13 June, 2009, 00:12
Who will rule the world after the global crisis is over? Well the U.S, and the E.U and Russia are poised to do this. Obama is trying to ensurE this with his Harvaad arrogance and wiley tactics. Rid the world of nukes! That's a joke to me, if I felt I was under threat from forces, be it Alien, Space debris etc etc I would make sure I had the most effective weapon for this. Acidently firing of nukes is a problem for architect Obama. The law that holds the US and the EU's conscience from dominating the glode be what ever means is not impregnable, ha, I a sure you that. The Cowboy burns inside and so do other scary things. RUSSIA keep your nukes, WIN in LIFE, WIN.
05 June, 2009, 18:21
I am afraid I have to agree with the last statement. I think China is fast aproaching and so is Russia. The days of the USA is numbered and we will see how it will slowley start to diminish over the next ten years. Europe will left alone to defend itself against the Russian Bear and the Chinese Dragon. Russia will have to start playing a much bigger police role in the world.
01 June, 2009, 05:06
I think everything will remain pretty much the same as now. In global prospective, the China may take the role of global superpower, but I doubt that - that country has to solve too many internal problems. One thing's for certaing - US isn't going anywhere for the next decade.
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30 May, 2009, 11:29
@To 25 May, 2009, 20:23
American is in debt and has to borrow money from China and Japan. Plus it still has to pump money into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and aid to Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, etc.
And due to Obama's hyper-inflationary bailout policy countries are ditching the dollar as the reserve currency.
Plus it's Trotskyite Neocon communists that it running the US.
29 May, 2009, 00:47
I think the United States will still be powerful even after the crisis, as it still has such a major appeal with investors, given it's very large population, consumerist culture and very educated workforce.
However, whether world power will be lead purely by America is another matter entirely. China and India will certainly be much more powerful in the future. I also think Turkey might be a dark horse, too. Turkey's managed to handle the crisis better than a lot of countries, and is expected to become one of the 10 largest economies in the world within a decade (it is the 15th largest at the moment). On top of all this, Turkey is in such a strategic location and has increasing influence in world affairs, and is especially important as it is considered a bridge between the West and the Muslim world. Face it guys, we need Turkey.
28 May, 2009, 20:22
See the following web site. It is an exhibition of photographs of President Barack Obama taken in 1980 when he was a college freshman. Very entertaining. Submitted by Gene H.
http://www.mbfala.com/exhibitions/_53/_img/
28 May, 2009, 04:38
It may sound funny, but Turkey it is, like the old days. Get-off NATO, the world will change within exactly ONE week.
26 May, 2009, 05:06
One comment said that it would be the US of because we got the money, but the US is broke. We are now borrowing nearly 50 cents for every
dollar we spend and our National debt is 12 trillion dollars, thats trillion with a "T". Every thousand years or so the balance of power switches from one region
to another. My best guess is China will be the world leader, but thats just a guess.
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