Right now I am more concerned with Brazil stuff...
But it would not surprise me in shorter term (less than 10 years):
Syria civil war dragging other countries on it or spreading to other countries.
Israel engaging some Shia country in actual war.
Eurozone disbanding or changing radically.
Bitcoin getting much stronger OR attracting governments worldwide to squash it with heavyhanded tactics.
Also medium term (about 5 to 20 years from now) is clear we will remain having issues related to debt, this will be particularly bad in the US, that will desperately try to maintain USD as world currency (because otherwise it cannot pay the huge army).
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Muslim Brotherhood want to pull-off something, but I don't figured yet what it is, also it depends on they winning Syria Civil war.
There is a chance (I am not much sure) that wars (civil and foreign) might happen in countries with a recent rise in far right nationalism (Greece, Japan, Brazil at least).
Long term:
UN breakup or centralisation of power... It right now is already quite unstable.
Reversal in pro-liberal viewpoints, might lead to extreme violence (ie: lots people actively killing gays, other races, immigrants, instead of isolated cases). - Regarding this, Brazil had some news today, government found out that since passing pro-LGBT laws, violence against LGBT is up 300%, with half of it coming from family members.
Instabilities as result of low birth rate and increasing life expectancy.
If you want the "why" of each stuff, feel free to ask. Also I might add that currently (instead of 10 years ago) predicting stuff is harder, because there are more forces at play, specially Anonymous and Cipherpunks, they have been consistently making me recalculate stuff, and I never expected their rise in first place (interestingly, Ghost in the Shell series did... kudos to them), and because of general instability on the world (more riots and protests are happening, and communication tech spreads news about them much faster, sometimes spurring more of them).
EDIT: if anyone know how to make line breaks in HN please tell me... it just took all my stuff and snagged into a single line :(
There's no need for prophecy. Predicting events which are already scripted agendas playing out isn't very difficult, because you can usually assume the script will play out, unless some significant (unlikely) event stops them from doing so.
I'd complain about your use of the term "Syria civil war." We should really be straight on the issue, that is has never been a civil war since day one - outside powers have, and continue to influence the state of the country, where a bunch of "terrorists" would've otherwise been taken care of long ago by the Syrian army.
The "Syria war" (correct term), is not going to be won by some low level rebels, but by the US and it's allies by imposing a no-fly-zone, conducting air strikes, and continuing to arm Syrian (and non-Syrian) Rebels to topple Assad. This is how wars are conducted now - the main instigators can absolve themselves of accountability and responsibility by using a group of rebels as their proxy.
And you don't exactly need to be a professor of history to know what happens to countries after the US conducts it's invasions. As Einstein pointed out: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity. If we ask what the US and allies are doing differently this time, we see that it's business as usual, so they must be insane, right?
Or, we can assume that they know damn well what will happen after Assad is toppled, but they'll go ahead with the plan anyway. The result will depend on Russia's involvement though: will they just let the US invade Syria, or will the US still go ahead with invasion despite Russia's opposition - in this case, we're likely heading into WW3. And we should rightly ask: Is that the plan all along? (As you say, a UN breakup or centralization of power will be the inevitable result: I'm betting on the latter, since that's the agenda of those paying for the wars.)
Being called a tin-hat wearer becomes a compliment after a while - you're no longer gullible to the fairy tail painted by the media. Those calling it are usually ignorant of history, uninformed, or have selfish agendas.
You missed the point. If WW3 in planned by those who profit from war, Syria is just the proxy state through which it may begin. It's nothing to do with the domestic affairs of Syria.
There are more interests involved in world politics than just military industrial complexes. WW3 didn't happen at the height of Cold War, when every social, political and economic problem you can reasonably conceive existed and typically at a higher magnitude. And with the baseline adversity back in the day there wasn't any need for a contrived pretext even.
