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The new wave of crisis could arrive from the East. In China, the same symptoms that occurred in the U.S. and Europe on the eve of the financial crisis of 2008-2009 are recorded.

The consequences of climate change stand to affect both Russia and the US in new and dangerous ways, possibly very soon. President Obama convened a special briefing this May to anticipate an ice-free Arctic passages as early as 2015, generations ahead of mainstream forecasts obtaining very recently. Severe fluctuations in food prices are becoming more likely, with potentially devastating consequences.