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NYU Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer on the biggest threats to national security

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Excerpt from Real Time with Bill Maher -- "I'd say, long-term, China's the biggest threat because it's the only country with a global strategy. They're spending over a trillion dollars. They're trying to align countries towards themselves [which] ultimately undermines the dollar, and that's going to affect all of us. But in the near-term, it's the single most powerful individual in the world, Vladimir Putin, who is in decline and very unhappy and wants to punish us. ... We're punishing him and ... he wants the Americans to understand that that's not costless for us."

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