However much they would like just to focus on doing profitable business in this country, international turbulence is posing big risks to the plans and investments of many UK businesses. From a flood of insightful articles in journals and newspapers, we have concluded that new realities affecting the overall UK economy, and individual businesses in the immediate future are that:

1. We can no longer outsource much of our security to the United States
2. Tariff uncertainty will make access to US markets unpredictable
3. The current Russian regime represents an economic and security threat to Europe
4. The pillars of the post-WW2 economy such as the World Bank, the IMF, and the US dollar as the world's main reserve currency, may no longer fully serve UK and European interests.

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