George Friedman: State

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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

World

“This has always been the strength of the United States”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), pp. 224–225
Context: In the United States, minority populations were never an indigestible mass—with the major exceptions of the one ethnic group that did not come here voluntarily (African Americans) and those who were here when Europeans arrived (American Indians). The rest all came, clustered and dispersed, and added new cultural layers to the general society. This has always been the strength of the United States. In much of Europe, for example, Muslims have retained religious and national identities distinct from the general population, and the general population has given them little encouragement to blend. The strength of their own culture has therefore been overwhelming.

“[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

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“[A]ny seagoing vessel—commercial or military, from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea to the Caribbean—could be monitored by the United States Navy, who could choose to watch it, stop it, or sink it.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 44

Sea

“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

World

“Al Qaeda has failed in its goals. The United States has succeeded, not so much in winning the war as in preventing the Islamists from winning, and, from a geopolitical perspective, that is good enough.”

George Friedman

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

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