By JAMES REINL, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
A global risk consultant has warned that humanity should tighten its seatbelts for a very bumpy ride in 2025.
In his closely-watched annual forecast, Ian Bremmer on Monday predicted a ‘uniquely dangerous’ time for the planet, akin to the tense 1930s and the start of the Cold War.
This he attributes to Russia‘s imperial ambitions, the unchecked rise of artificial intelligence (AI), Donald Trump‘s return to the White House and his revived trade war with China.
Bremmer’s top worry is what he calls the ‘G-Zero world’ — where no single power, or group of nations, such as a US-led West, has an agreed roadmap for peace and security.
‘People everywhere are facing heightened geopolitical instability driven by a lack of global leadership,’ says the founder and president of Eurasia Group.
‘We are heading back to the law of the jungle, where the strongest do what they can, while the weakest are condemned to suffer what they must.’
His annual list came out as Russia touted military gains in eastern Ukraine, and as the US Congress met to certify Trump’s 2024 election win, ahead of his inauguration on January 20.
Bremmer, a straight talking consultant from Boston who advises global executives and policymakers, releases his list of 10 main threats to global peace and security each January.


At the start of 2024, he ranked the US election as the biggest danger, saying political rifts in the top economic and military power made the country less able to lead on global crises.
This year, he said the absence of world leadership has become a chronic problem that leaves humanity more likely to stumble into a devastating conflict.
‘We’ve lived with this lack of international leadership for nearly a decade now, but in 2025, the problem will get much worse,’ says his report.
‘Expect new and expanding power vacuums, emboldened rogue actors, and a heightened risk of dangerous accidents, miscalculations and conflict.’
Bremmer does not fault Trump directly, and praises the Republican for gains in his first term as president from 2017 to 2021.
They included better terms for North American trade, improved ties between Israel and Arab nations and nudging Europeans to spend more on their defense.
But he warns that Trump’s second term poses new challenges and threats.
Backed by majorities in Congress and the Supreme Court, Trump could achieve his plans of purging Washington, including the Justice Department and FBI, of perceived enemies, and in doing so permanently hurt those institutions, says Bremmer…
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