Your reminder that the Russian economy still hasn't suffered the complete crash from opening their stock market back up.

Right now all the stock market assets are frozen in place, but they will all almost certainly collapse the moment the stock market is in flow once more.

Anyways today I thought I would ask you guys about the middle east. Do you think Saudi Arabia will fully westernize in the years to come? I think so but I am not 100% sure on it if it manages to stabilize trade relations with Iran.

Like we know Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are 100% US, but in the middle east I think it's going to be another 30-40 years of good relations before Saudi Arabia fully syncs up with the west.

UAE surprisingly does it's own thing. It's like the Singapore of the middle east. All they care about is that you have the money to invest there.

Yemen is fricked for a century.

I believe the Armenia Azerbaijan conflict will he completely resolved in another decade as the Russian side just lost it's big brother.

Iran's the wild card. They are continuing to push forward with the nuclear deal but all your western intelligence meetings probably understand Iran is too big a player for there to be stable peace, but at the same time if Turkey remains expansionist, then a stable Iran acts as a meaningful counterbalance to them in the middle east.

The primary problem however is that the west needs/desires to expand its influence past its borders, and the big guy they have at their border is Turkey.

So it's quite an important geopolitical goal to westernize and assimilate Turkey, which then allows them access to smaller western influenced territories like Georgia and more of Russia. 1

But before they can even think that far they need to further integrate the eastern states and stabilize the Balkans first.

Serbia would be a safer bet for assimilation than Turkey from the looks of it. So it makes the most sense that the EU tries to democratize Serbia, keep Turkey as it is, while continuing to let Russia decline.

So the primary large target in the next decade for westernization would be Serbia. That's my prediction.

Asia we already agreed is Vietnam, India, and Phillipines.

South American has already peaked in it's current system.

Mexico, Serbia, Vietnam, India, Phillipines will be developed further by the west for geopolitical reasons in my predictions list.

Discuss.