Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Predictions

Prepared for the Worst
Six months ago I wrote the following:
All the bad actors in the world know they have two-and-a-half years to run rampant since the U.S. won’t do anything. Expect war.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) March 14, 2014
 At the time some thought it alarmist, but it isn’t surprising how the past half year has worked out.
  • Putin’s slow-motion invasion of Ukraine.
  • Boko Haram rampaging through Nigeria, kidnapping children and sacking churches.
  • China aggressively staking out territorial claims in the Pacific.
  • North Korean threats and missile tests.
  • Libya’s collapse into an anarchic terror state.
  • All-out war between Israel and Hamas.
  • Violent anti-semitism across Europe.
  • Russia testing NATO’s air defenses.
  • Central American crime syndicates pouring across our southern border
  • ISIS crucifying its way across Syria and Iraq.
Over the past three days alone, we’ve seen sweeping anti-government riots in Pakistan, Beijing invalidating Hong Kong democracy, ISIS beheading a second American journalist, and now 11 commercial airliners are missing from Libya.

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