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Last August, US President Barack Obama warned Syria’s government that any move toward chemical-weapon deployment would cross a “red line,” giving the conflict a broader strategic dimension and, in turn, increasing the likelihood that the United States would intervene.
To name a particularly notorious example, 50 years ago this spring, Enoch Powell, a Conservative member of parliament, delivered his abhorrent “rivers of blood” speech, in which he warned that, within 15 or 20 years, “the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.”
Sefr al Hawali, a prominent Saudi Wahhabi cleric, warned of the dangers of the “Shia arc” following the Shia intifada in Iraq in 1991.
In a not-so-subtle reference to that last conflict, in which India suffered a disastrous defeat, the Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Colonel Wu Qian has warned India to “learn from historical lessons.”
Two years ago, I warned of a coming famine in Venezuela, akin to Ukraine’s 1932-1933 Holomodor.
In an open letter to the US president in September 2007, American professionals in cyber defense warned that “the critical infrastructure of the United States, including electrical power, finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, water, defense, and the Internet, is highly vulnerable to cyber attack.
Just recently, Donald Kerr, the US deputy director of national intelligence, warned that “major losses of information and value for our government programs typically aren’t from spies....In fact, one of the great concerns I have is that so much of the new capabilities that we’re all going to depend on aren’t any longer developed in government labs under government contract.”
Perhaps the risk of a remote catastrophe is what created the “global saving glut” that former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke warned about in 2005.
Major General Wang Zaixi, Deputy Director of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, warned of the use of force if Taiwanese authorities "collude with separatist forces to openly engage in pro-independence activities and challenge the mainland and the one-China principle."
Soon after the meeting, senior university officials warned the pollster that further funding for his work might not be forthcoming.
In the event, says Lukin, Western leaders chose the second option, expanding NATO and the European Union, while paying no heed to Russian liberals who warned that these policies would strengthen Russian authoritarianism.
By contrast, adherents of the Dr. Doom school warned that global imbalances were an accident waiting to happen.
They warned that Trump evidently suffers from a mental impairment that would worsen under pressure, possibly leading him to launch a war, even a nuclear war.
Already, the US Federal Reserve, relying on its contacts in the domestic business community, has warned that corporate investment plans could be “scaled back or postponed” because of uncertainty over global trade relations.
As a result, “Full recovery still looks a very long way off,” he warned.
Otherwise, he warned, “The only result is that we will become much worse.
Even UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned that the unrestrained tide of globalization might not raise all boats, but only the yachts – while overturning a lot of canoes.
In 2008, the IMF warned that “the costs (of concessions) are very large, while the benefits appear to be marginal at best.”
When Bush and Thatcher met in Aspen, Colorado, in the summer of 1990, Thatcher allegedly warned him “not to go wobbly.”
Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron blamed excessive nationalism for stoking the fires of World War I, and warned that “old demons” threatened a return to “chaos and death.”
At their birth, John Maynard Keynes memorably warned that if these institutions did not get good leaders they would “fall into an eternal slumber, never to waken or be heard of again in the courts and markets of Mankind.”
And deficits can lead to inflation if central banks monetize the government debt, a serious concern in financial markets, as China has warned America.
In Jerusalem, Minister of Defense Ehud Barak has repeatedly warned of a “diplomatic tsunami” and a new wave of violence if the Palestinians do not change course.
Before September 11, 2001, some experts warned that foreign terrorists might try to blow up American office buildings.
Those administrations implemented their cuts anyway – and, as economists had warned, budget deficits increased sharply.
Moreover, the Bush and Clinton Administrations warned that Japan should not export its way out of trouble, as if a trade surplus resulting from export growth was somehow “unfair.”
Israel, as founding father David Ben-Gurion warned, can be a Jewish state, it can be a democratic state, and it can be a state occupying the whole of historical Israel; but it cannot be all three.
There are, Mattis warned, “consequences to China ignoring the international community.”
Critics warned that the war would cause instability in Iraq and the Middle East, and that this would lead to high oil prices.
In the 1980’s, Mikhail Gorbachev warned that Soviet oil resources were exhausted.
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