The
world can be a dangerous place. Depending on where you live, you're
reminded of that every time you turn on the TV or read the news.
Uncle Sam wants you to stay away from these countries
Consider yourself warned
By Simran Khosla, GlobalPost | 9:00am ET
The world
can be a dangerous place. Depending on where you live, you're reminded
of that every time you turn on the TV or read the news.
If you are citizen of the United States there's also another consistent reminder:
State Department travel warnings.
According to the
U.S. Passport and International Travel Office:
"We issue a Travel Warning
when we want you to consider very carefully whether you should go to a
country at all. Examples of reasons for issuing a Travel Warning might
include unstable government, civil war, ongoing intense crime or
violence, or frequent terrorist attacks. We want you to know the risks
of traveling to these places and to strongly consider not going to them
at all. Travel Warnings remain in place until the situation changes;
some have been in effect for years."
We catalogued all the travel warnings now in effect and created the
graphic below to show all the places where the US government doesn't
want its citizens going (c
lick the image to enlarge):
Let's also not forget that the United States can be a
very dangerous place itself, and that U.S. foreign policy has
helped turn some of these countries into the dangerous places they are now.
Click on any of the countries below to see the detailed warning issued by the U.S. State Department:
Security warning for some regions: Colombia and
Mexico.
Security warning for entire country: Algeria,
Saudi Arabia,
Russia,
Honduras,
Djibouti,
Venezuela,
Iran,
El Salvador,
Burundi,
Niger,
Mozambique and
Haiti.
Defer non-essential travel to some regions: Philippines,
Kenya,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Israel, West Bank, and Gaza.
Defer non-essential travel: Guinea,
Liberia,
Sierra Leone, and
Pakistan.
Avoid all travel to some regions: Ukraine,
Nigeria,
Cameroon,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Sudan and
Chad.
Avoid all travel to this country: Afghanistan,
Lebanon,
Iraq,
South Sudan,
Somalia,
Lesotho, and
North Korea.
Citizens remaining here depart immediately: Central African Republic,
Libya,
Syria,
Eritrea, and
Yemen.
This article, by Simran Khosla, originally appeared at GlobalPost.
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Though I'm sad to say this the writing on the wall likely is that up to 50 percent of all nations on earth at this point are likely to loose their governments and to drop into a warlord kind of situation to a greater or lesser degree within the next 25 years.
Here are the major causes of this:
Global climate Change, Ebola and other pandemics, bad water, ISIS, Russian intervention around the world, Putin, and an increasingly agressive China.
What would prevent this?
At this point the only thing that would prevent this strangely enough is a world war or a worldwide pandemic or some other change not easily predicted at this point.
We are in a time of dwindling natural resources (except for Solar power and wind power, and this change of less tillable land and less potable water and higher temperatures worldwide will tend to spread tropical diseases further north or south into regions once untouched by tropical diseases. People and the animals they raise for food will pollute the water supplies and make more and more water unfit to drink without illness resulting worldwide. So, all the above factors will tend to make about 50% of the world unhappy with their governments even though often blaming governments for problems isn't useful or helpful. But, many people are ignorant of the full problems around them and will tend to blame their governments sort of like teenagers sometimes blame their parents for all their troubles without seeing their parents as those that kept them alive this far.
So, as a direct result of this up to 50% of governments will collapse and be replaced by gangs and warlords like we see in Syria, Northern Iraq, and now Libya and Yemen now. The unrest is spreading like a cancer throughout the middle east and through groups like Boko Haram and Ebola in Western Africa. So, it is very possible more than 1/2 of the governments in the Middle East and Africa will collapse over the next 25 years or so and be replaced with things like ISIS and Boko Haram or other warlords. Civilized people with educations will tend to leave theses places and choose to live elsewhere because of ongoing carnage. This will greatly reduce populations throughout the middle East and Africa.
However, it might be important for the world to look very carefully what is happening in AFrica and the Middle East because what is happening there could also happen many other places on earth during the next 25 years too because of all the above problems I mention and a general lack of enough people with college educations who might not be capable of critical thinking to really see what the problems actually are at core.
And because of their lack of understanding strike out at governments that actually protect them from harm which would result in what has happened in places like Libya, Egypt during Morsi, and now Syria and northern IRaq through ISIS, and through Ebola in West Africa.
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