Ian Bremmer

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How unsettled do you feel about the globe?

How unsettled do you feel about American politics?

Obviously, the fog of the year, I deem 2026 a year of living dangerously.

I think whether it's what we saw in Minnesota, it feels like we're a spark away from something not good in this country.

And we have a world that feels unsettled everywhere, whether it's Venezuela, whether it's Iran, whether it's Taiwan, whether it's Ukraine.

Well, you get the picture.

So who better to bring in to talk about all the risk and the year of living dangerously than my friend Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group.

And Ian, look, I started off a bit glum for the year and you played a big role in that.

Your annual risk list of top risks out there, frankly, only reinforced what

I think what was already, I was sort of seeing domestically and certainly I sort of refer to myself these days as a political anthropologist when it comes to domestic politics.

But you've got your pulse on international political science as well.

So you painted a picture of, look, I want to quote Doc Brown in Back to the Future, where we're going, there are no roads.

I don't know where we're going, but I know there are no roads and we're headed somewhere that by the end of this year, you and I may meet up again going, holy shit, how did we get here?