Trump govt faces rising risk of international conflict

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The incoming Donald Trump administration faces a world of and more anti-democratic pressures than ever since the Cold War, a new US intelligence report released Monday said.

US leadership is ebbing amid shifts in economic, political and technological power, deep changes in the global landscape “that portend a dark and National Intelligence Council’s “Global Trends: Paradox of Progress” report.

tensions within and between countries,” said the report.

“For better or worse, the emerging global landscape is drawing to a close an era of American dominance following the Cold War.”

The National Intelligence Council, a Director of National Intelligence, issues its global assessment every four years, Trump is inaugurated as president.

It painted a gloomy picture of the challenges pulling at the post-World income disparities, technological dislocation, demographic shifts, the impacts of global warming, and intensifying

Moreover, Western democracies will principles and avoid being pulled apart from each other.

“It will be much harder to cooperate internationally and govern in ways publics expect,” it said.

More countries will be able to “veto” cooperative efforts and the myriad channels of global communication will leave large numbers and groups of people misinformed and divided.

“Information ‘echo chambers’ will reinforce countless competing realities,” it said.

The report, whose authors comprise analysts from the intelligence and academic communities, also says that the liberalism both the right and left, as governing countries and societies gets harder.

“Publics will demand governments revenues, distrust, polarization and a growing list of emerging issues will hamper government performance.”