The Democrats won't stop Trump. A military coup could stop him, not saving democracy but replacing Trump's brand of fascism with a different one. That's the kind of scenario all you Americans out there should brace yourselves for. Similar things could happen to Putin when the war against Ukraine keeps dragging on like this.
Meanwhile, a profound crisis of the global economy is quite inevitable by now, with all those raw materials that haven't been delivered and all those industries that haven't been producing goods due to the lack of raw materials for months due to that Hormuz thing, you know.
At the same time, absolutely insane sums of money have been invested in anything that's connected with machine learning and automated problem solving, commonly known as "artificial intelligence". A lot of it is actually quite useful, many applications are also quite resource efficient, yet the biggest sums have been sunk into LLMs--Large Language Models, which are an impressive result of AI research, yet their training consumes so many resources, and the most popular models are comically huge so they only run on machines that cost more than a car. Those LLMs aren't very good at solving real tasks, but if they were significantly cheaper than human workers, the poor quality of their output might still be good enough for commercial industrial use. However, running LLMs at the current scale is so inefficient and expensive that it costs much, much more than employing actual human workers. The AI companies are basically giving their services away for peanuts while burning money. When the bubble pops, it will cause a major crisis of the world economy even without that Hormuz thing.
And then there's that football thing (or soccer for the Americunts), a world cup spread out over three countries, one of which is being rebuilt into a fascist dictatorship by a bunch of homocidally insane horror clowns, while the world is running low on jet fuel. What could go wrong?
Germany is being taken over by the Nazis again, only this time, they call themselves AfD because they're alt-right now. It's not as bad in the federal states that make up the old West (yet), but in the East, it doesn't seem like anybody can stop them.
Oh, and there's all the environmental destruction that's still going on. The Pacific is switching back to El Niño, so this year is going to be HOT.

Brace yourselves. Summer is coming.

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