A former CIA spy has revealed that he will leave America in the next three years due to a frightening prediction.
Andrew Bustamante used to be a covert CIA intelligence officer but now is urging people to get out of the country before 2030.
Speaking to Steven Bartlett on his podcast, The Diary of a CEO, Bustamante warned that the country is going through a “very difficult time right now”.
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Talking to Bartlett about the future of America, he said: “We are a young country, no matter how much we think that we are the best in the world.
“We are actually going through the early part of our adolescence as a nation and you can see it playing out every day in the headlines, you can see it in our geopolitical events, you can see that we are we're suffering in terms of trying to identify ourselves.”
Bustamante reveals that he fears what the future of living in America could look like for his kids and said he wants to give them “a life where they have the choice to do anything they want to do” and that he doesn’t believe they’ll have that anytime soon if they stay put.
He added: “I think our country has some growing up of its own to do before we really offer people equal access to opportunities.”
When asked about the competition in industry between the US and China, Bustamante shared his thoughts.
He said: “The most realistic outcome, maybe the United States remains 10% bigger, maybe China gets 2% bigger economically but they approach parity, they approach equality.
“I don't want to live in the United States when it loses so much status that another country reaches economic parity. Think about that for a second, the world is accustomed to one superpower, once there are two superpowers everything changes.
“There's two massive languages and you're going to have to choose which language you speak, there's two currencies which currency are you going to save your money in?”
Bustmante warns that if the countries reach that parity, living in America will be the “most dangerous position because the number one target for China will be the United States, the number one target for the United States will be China”.
He went on to reveal that the “second most probable outcome is that China does supersede us” and America will need to “regain its momentum to try to gain back the edge, so now you have this cycle back and forth where for five years China is the leading GDP, for 5 years the United States is the leading GDP”.
Bustamante said this back and forth will put people in an “even less secure” position.
The former spy also revealed that World War III is a real possibility, in fact he believes it’s already happening.
Bustamante said: “I think World War III is not what people think it was going to be.”
Instead, he believes that it’s a “war of proxy nations, it's a war where smaller third world countries are competing against each other and they're being funded by larger countries that are actually in conflict with one another.”