Dear Reader, The Guardian has called it his ‘bully, bully and cringe’ tour… ‘First rough up Nato in order to damage transatlantic commitments, then stir things up in Britain in order to damage the EU, and, finally, play the cooperative statesman in his talks with the Russian president. ‘Or, to put it another way: bully, bully and cringe. ‘The European visit and its outcomes have offered a chilling illustration of Mr Trump’s worldview. His strategy decries the values that endured in western policy since the defeat of Hitler. It is a conscious break with the post-war network of alliances and aspiration for universal standards. ‘It is a return to the era in which big powers have self-interests not allies, little countries do not matter, and international standards are subordinate to military might. ‘Because Russia is a significant military power, Mr Trump has brought it in from the cold. It is not just the cold war that is over. The post-1945 order of international values and ethics may be ending too.’ It is perhaps predictable that a liberal newspaper like the Guardian would criticise Trump’s recent travel escapades no matter what he did. But it certainly is intriguing… It backs up my thesis that we are, indeed, approaching a massive and truly global infection point. Four cycles are converging. Four massively impactful cycles — the 250-year Revolution Cycle, the 100-year Centurial Cycle, the 84-year Populist Movement Cycle, and the 28-year Financial Crisis Cycle — are rampaging through our world already. As I show in Zero Hour (claim your copy here), their convergence explains everything you see happening in the world right now. Not just the deeply suspicious thawing of relations between Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia. Not just the EU crisis. Not just the worrying signs in the world’s hottest property markets. Everything. The United States had a historically controversial presidential election in 2016. As I show clearly in my book, this brought about the most substantial shifts in politics, social policies, and economic trends since the Civil War. Abroad, the world is fracturing right before our eyes, in the EU itself…now in the ongoing Brexit debate in the UK which could bring down another Prime Minister and even the government…and with Trump taking a wrecking ball to the previous model of global stability. You sense a crescendo coming, don’t you…? This alarming trend toward civil division, unrest, and anger is fundamentally about a political and social revolution to realign around more common and cohesive cultural values. And yet… As I show in Zero Hour, paradoxically, all this negative stuff, in time, could turn into something unbelievably positive. Globalisation has peaked. It’s gone too far ONLY after succeeding so well, which is typical of any trend or cycle. In today’s world, we’re so connected that everyone now hates everyone else. And we’re all at one another’s throats. Shiites versus Sunnis. The affluent versus the evaporating middle class. Conservatives versus liberals. Ethnic minorities versus majorities. Young versus old. You name it and you’ll find a gulf dividing the two sides. It’s turning into a modern-day civil war. But this time it’s global. It’s not regionalised. And for the most part, it’s not likely to be fought by big armies on traditional battlefields…just by way of a lot of political, economic, cultural, and social conflicts. These are outlined in full in Zero Hour. To learn more about the book, click here. To go straight to this secure order form, where you can reserve one of the last remaining copies, which we’ll personally mail to you, click here. Regards, Harry Dent, For Markets & Money |