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@Intramuros_ You are about 3 weeks late but ok

The economy in Europe will continue to crumble in 2023, with energy concerns and demographic destruction reaching critical mass. They stocked up on Russian gas to make it through this winter, but that stock is gone and the replacement will be significantly more expensive going forward.

The goofy oil price cap and Putin offering 1 gram of gold for 2 barrels of oil (about $40 per barrel currently) will be taken but begin to warp the market, driving gold prices and creating a return to gold standard as it will quickly push the price of gold to $3,000 an ounce while creating a new gold standard in Europe and USA, but bring energy prices down in Asia. This will accelerate the de-industrialization of Europe creating an economic panic by the autumn.

In the U.S., inflation will remain stubbornly high, especially as de-dollarization of the energy markets picks up steam. The Fed will have no choice but to shift from the Arthur Burns strategy to the Paul Volker strategy. Higher energy costs and China’s aggressive currency policies will force the Fed to remove dollars from the system in a far more aggressive fashion than in 2022. Mortgage rates will break the nine percent barrier in the fall as the economy dips into recession.

Cozy TV gets de-platformed from the clear internet.

On the political front, the prosecutor assigned to investigate Trump hits him with some spurious charges, in order to keep Trump viable. The ZOG regime thinks he is their best bet at avoiding a serious Hitlerian figure head. The charges will lack seriousness, thus turning Trump into a martyr for grug boomers. Meanwhile, the Republican leadership rallies around Tim Scott as their anti-Trump option. They think their voters will abandon Trump if the option is a magical negro.

As the economy gets worse, the rumblings about a primary challenge to Biden will grow louder, especially as things in Ukraine continue to fall apart. All of the pundits will swear that Biden will choose to step aside, but instead he will announce that he intends to run for another term in 2024, while thinking it is 1994 and talking up the endorsement of Robert Byrd and thinking he is named Brandon and in another city at the time. At this point, even the dumbest Democratic voter will start to realize that our elections are just theater and they have no bearing on public policy.

Kanye West files for bankruptcy.

The crypto market will continue to erode as it becomes clear that the novelty has passed and there will not be another rally. The only use of crypto is to get around government policy. It is simply a way to make real money disappear and then reappear somewhere else without the government knowing about it. Bitcoin will drop below $10,000 by July and there will be talk about the entire space returning to its roots as a tool of the underground economy.

I will get married.

By May, it becomes clear that the Ukrainian army cannot continue and the West has run out of weapons for them. This will force the Ukrainian army to withdraw from the Donbass. Simultaneously, NATO sends “advisers” into Western Ukraine, under the pretext of stemming the flow of refugees into the rest of Europe. These “advisors” will be mostly Polish military. By September, the Poles will be talking about annexing Ukrainian lands that were lost at the end of WW2.

This triggers a crisis in Europe as it will open a long suppressed discussion about the borders drawn after WW2. The Germans will start talking about lands they lost to Poland after the war. The Hungarians will make their own claims in Ukraine. Romania will make is claims on Moldova/Transnistria. Meanwhile, the Balkans will get hot as all of the old claims come to a boil.

Meanwhile, the Russians will annex everything east of the Dnieper plus Kherson, Nikoliev and Odessa with Transnistria joining to. Putin will turn Russias newly acquired territories into a heavily fortified buffer between West and East.

All of this calls into question the trillions spent on the Military Industrial Complex over the last thirty years. People start to notice that the weapons industry has been charging billions for machines that are largely useless against an opponent that can fight back and impossible to produce in the volumes required of a real conflict. The failure in Ukraine will expose the fact that the American military machine is just another grift in a society based on the greater fool theory.

Musk turns Twitter back over to the censors and moves onto some new hobby.

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