-Ukraine War ends in a stalemate, Russia holds onto Crimea and large chunks of Eastern Ukraine,
-there is another massive exodus out of Ukraine after the war ends
-Ukraine agrees to not join NATO but eventually joins the EU
-civil unrest/anti-Putin protests break out in Russia, in response to stalemate and military causalities
-Putin wins re-election and cracks down hard on dissent
-Israel/Gaza war continues throughout 24’, civilian casualties reach 100k by Summer
-Israel negotiates arrangement to relocate Gazan refugees to the West
-Israel war escalates with Hezbollah while US fights proxy wars against Iran in Yemen, Syria and Iraq, though direct conflict with Iran is avoided
-US relies upon drone strikes due to declining military recruitment
-chaos in Red Sea causes oil and commodity prices to soar, though US is much less impacted than Europe
-Israel’s economy crashes, mass exodus from Israel to the West, especially among high skilled workers
-War between Armenia and Azerbaijan reignites, and Turkey and Iran get involved
-Egypt goes to war against Ethiopia over water rights
-Civil war and terrorism accelerates in West Africa’s Sahel
-famine, debt defaults, and civil unrest throughout much of the Third World
-US migrant crisis accelerates, especially among migrants from the Eastern Hemisphere (Africa, Middle East, and Asia)
-Biden admin further encourages open borders to f with Trump
-civil war ignites in Pakistan
-major financial crash in China
-Chinese invasion of Taiwan is put on hold
-civil unrest reignites in Brazil
-racialized riots break out in South Africa
-more nationalists/populists get elected to office in Europe
-a series of 2015-like terror attacks in Europe
-Argentina’s Javier Milei succeeds in bringing down inflation while causing a deflationary crash
-Netherlands and Denmark begin campaigns to leave the EU
-Trump wins the GOP nomination and is re-elected by a narrow margin
-Independent candidates, including RFK Jr, outperform
-Supreme Court rules in Trump’s favor
-Trump faces immense obstructionism, plus his own chaos and incompetency makes him a lame duck president
-Trump selects Vivek Ramaswamy for VP
-resurgence in mass civil unrest involving Antifa versus MAGA
-another major wave of social media and financial de-platforming around the election
-the rise in a new normie centrism that rejects both MAGA and wokeness, that is billionaire Astroturfed
-anti-Israel activism increases in scope, and more mainstream Democrats are pressured by progressives to call for a ceasefire
-pro-Israel Lobby shift’s towards the GOP
-Universities put forth modified versions of CRT that is inclusive of Jews
-increasing divide between the progressive Left and neoliberal center-left, due to Gaza and economic hardship/income inequality
-White identity politics is normalized amongst the Right
-The Right starts to come to grips with post-Americanism
-Trump also makes immense inroads among working class non-White men
-There is increasing interest in alternative institutions, alternative economies, neo-tribalism, and patronage networks
-Trump takes on the Admirative State, but it is messy and backfires against him
-US avoids a technical recession due to spending and migration propping up the GDP
-2024 starts off hyper-bullish for stock markets and the economy
-more regional banks fail in Spring, followed by more bailouts and bank consolidations
-inflation resurges in Summer of 24’ while markets remain bullish
-crash in commercial real estate begins in Fall
-Trump’s re-election is surprisingly bullish for markets
-major breakthroughs in AI help temporarily prop up the markets throughout 24’
-automation replaces new jobs, while mass layoffs are put on hold
-first major political or civil crisis that is caused by AI
-the rise in realistic AI pornography and AI GF simulators negatively impacts Onlyfans performers’ revenue
-the economic crisis gets blamed on Trump
-Europe’s economy crashes hard in 24’
-Canada enters a recession
-The big crash for the US economy is delayed
-US enters bull market in 2025 with severe recession or Depression at some point from 2025-28’
-certain Anglosphere nations have test pilot programs for Central Bank Digital currencies, while put on hold in the US
-social isolation is increasingly talked about as a major national health crisis by mainstream media and politicians
-backlash against atomization and technocratic control leads to a new embrace of exuberance, hedonism, and fun amongst younger Zoomers
Ukraine is being defeated and its government is likely to collapse. Russia will insist on neutrality in any truce or settlement. No EU membership for Ukraine.
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