-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
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