The world is facing multiple worrying risks in the year ahead. However, the biggest issue for global stability is US President Donald Trump, at least according to a new report that detailed why the leader of the free world is now its biggest problem.
On January 5th, the political risk consultancy advisory organization ‘The Eurasia Group’ released its annual forecast of the top risks facing the world in 2026. Sitting in first place was the risk posed to the world by a political revolution in the US.
“2026 is a tipping point year,” The Eurasia Group explained. “It’s a time of great geopolitical uncertainty. Not because there’s imminent conflict between the two biggest powers, the United States and China—that isn’t even a top risk, it’s a red herring this year.”
“The United States is itself unwinding its own global order. The world’s most powerful country is in the throes of a political revolution,” the Eurasia Group explained, and it is Trump who is behind this American-made revolution that threatens the world.
Bremmer and Kupchan noted that Trump is attempting to “dismantle the checks on his power, capture the machinery of government, and weaponize it against his enemies.”
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“With many of the guardrails that held in Trump’s first term now buckling, we can no longer say with confidence what kind of political system the United States will be when this revolution is over,” Bremmer and Kupchan explained.
Unfortunately, 77 million Americans voted for Trump, many of whom sympathized with the President and his view on the American political situation. Among these voters are those who believed the system was broken and wanted to elect someone who would disrupt that broken system.
Mid-December, 57% of Americans disapproved of how Donald Trump’s administration was handling the economy, PBS reports. That same month, the Justice Department wrestled with the release of Trump’s bête noire, the Epstein files, controversially withholding the bulk of them despite a court order to the contrary, according to The Guardian.
Troubled times for the White House and as good a moment as any to “distract” with some adventures abroad, according to Maclean’s magazine. Despite vows to end US interventionism that played well to his MAGA base, Trump decided to definitively ditch that campaign promise on January 3, 2026, and target Venezuela, capturing its president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.
But, according to Maclean’s, Trump’s threats of annexing foreign territory, whether through economic pressure or military might, are nothing but “a fantasy.”
“This is appalling,” Republican Congressman Don Bacon said in a TV interview. “Greenland is a NATO ally. Denmark is one of our best friends… so the way we’re treating them is really demeaning and it has no upside.”
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