On first glance I thought this was the new Mcdonald's Europe, Big Mac replacement...
My $.02
1) Globally we are seeing widening population gap between the Western world and the rest of the planet with predictable migration from the latter to the former.
2) This central bank fueled economic cycle is long in the tooth, which itself can lead to regional friction.
3) The lack of global leadership by the current US administration has emboldened and enabled the spread of radical Islam over the past two terms.
4) Advances in technology are replacing many lower skilled jobs with machines, which combined with increased immigration heightens tensions.
I guess we will see, but I try to remind myself; that which is focal in not necessarily causal.
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