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Economist Roubini: Win back the white workers
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Peter Lueders
SPIEGEL:
Mr. Roubini, in the summer of 2020 you told SPIEGEL that Trump would lose the election and call his supporters to arms.
Both happened.
What's next for the US?
Roubini:
There will be more armed uprisings, especially white nationalists, if only to provoke the left.
Russia and China will launch cyberattacks against the US and spread misinformation.
That will shape the next four years.
But in the short term something else worries me.
SPIEGEL:
What?
Roubini:
That Trump could have the Iranian nuclear facility in Natans bombed from Saudi Arabia.
He just has to say that Iran is enriching uranium.
Such a blow would then be legitimate and unavoidable by the US military.
SPIEGEL:
But he's only in office until Wednesday.
Roubini:
Sure, but that is decided quickly and only takes three hours.
SPIEGEL:
Why should he do that?
Roubini:
For four reasons: He could present himself to his supporters as a strong man, make life more difficult for his successor Joe Biden, who wants to approach Iran, and do his friends in Israel and Saudi Arabia a favor.
He will need their money to finance his planned media empire; banks are no longer giving him loans.
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