George Friedman: Quotes about the world

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“Mexico will emerge as a major global economic power. Ranked fourteenth or fifteenth early in the century, it will be firmly within the top ten by 2080. With a population of 100 million, it will be a power to be reckoned with anywhere in the world—except on the southern border of the United States.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 239

“[D]isequilibrium will dominate the twenty-first century, as will efforts to contain the United States. It will be a dangerous century, particularly for the rest of the world.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 47

“[T]he twenty-first century truly began on September 11, 2001, ten years later, when planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18

“The United States Navy controls all of the oceans of the world.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 17

“Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 22