The end of an era and the beginning of a new one.
“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?”
Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Snatch & Grab
It would be presumptuous to think that 2025 will be just another year. All indicators are pointing to massive changes unlike anything we have seen before.
Super powers will be vying to take claim of territories that up till now have maintained decades, even centuries of independent sovereignty. Land grabs, country confiscations and takeovers will proliferate in that which was and will be forever changed.
Democratic socialism as a practiced system will be phased out in favour of autocratic rule worldwide. Freedom AND free speech will become selective, favouring those loyal to their leaders and excluding those not conforming, even embracing the preferred ideology. Environmental initiatives will slowly grind to a halt in favour of a short term gain, long term pain global acquisition agenda always looking over it’s shoulder. We will see the birth of a new breed of trillionaire who will control economies & governments, shifting cultures to adapt.
Players like Elon Musk will continue to buy their way into government in exchange for perks/kick-backs and party favours in a military industrial complex on steroids becoming several times larger. Defence contracts, billions to trillions with lots of adolescent head banging, infighting, internal conflict in a slow dismantling of government whilst the masses stew in a complacency/compliance cocktail of crony capitalism gone awry. Perpetually pissed.
All this because that’s what America VOTED FOR!
Russian Roulette
Now. That said, I am consistently accused of being an alarmist by friends who think I’m just a few fries short of a happy meal and maybe they’re right. When Pierre Poilievre becomes our Prime Minister maybe everything will in fact get better … inflation will drop back to normal levels, climate will just take care of itself, our dollar will climb back up, smart investors will get rich on bitcoin and our overall standard of living will return to what it once was.
Maybe our public healthcare system will thrive again and Canadians will celebrate their wise choice to eject a narcissist Trudeau in favour of a new breed of politician who REALLY cares (like the Americans just did) ... OR it could all go to total shit AND Poilievre will blame our previous government for the mess we're in, throwing all of his camouflaged mistakes in there while consistently caving to a tireless tyrant south of the border insisting he continue to bend over. Na. I’m the alarmist. Remember? Hey Jimbo, get with the program.
Mountain out of a molehill dude.
For me the writing is on the wall. Conspiracy theorist? Nope, just a REALIST. I’m thinking Ukraine will fall to Russia this year before they take eastern Europe and eventually Finland, Sweden & Norway. The U.S. will be making serious moves on Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Cuba (in exchange for Ukraine) and the Virgin Islands (Caribbean) because Trump wants a second Mar-a-Lago and world class golf course there … China taking Taiwan, Bhutan, both Koreas, Vietnam, the Philippines and eventually Japan. Britain/UK and western Europe will be dangling by a thread in 5 years, shaking; looking up at the sky a lot and most places south of the equator will be the safest place to be. The further south, the better.
This is just the beginning.
The Big Bone of Contention
The Arctic will become the most controversial hotbed for territorial disputes as global warming melts half the ice and shipping lanes open up. Strategic airspace will become a priority for Russia in the north; the U.S. AND China which will create huge tensions for who controls what. NATO will slowly disintegrate and global organizations like WEF & NGO will splinter before dissolving in 3-5 years. Globalism will wane in favour of Nationalism as cultural & religious discrimination and terrorism skyrockets in our reinvented draconian new world order.
It would be presumptuous to think that 2025 will be just another year. All indicators are pointing to massive changes unlike anything we have seen before.
Epilogue
It might be a good time to think about moving to South America, Australia or even better - New Zealand if you’re still young. Me? Na - a bit late for that. The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to a human-made global catastrophe.
January 2025. They're saying it is now 90 seconds to midnight. Tick tock. It's 11 o'clock.
Do you know where your children are?
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