I am currently working away on the second part of this two-part series on the fall of the Syrian regime and the end of Arab Ba’athism. You can read the first part here:
A Requiem For Ba'athism (Part 1 of 2)
It took less than two weeks for the Syrian government to fall and for Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to almost effortlessly march into the country’s capital, Damascus, ending six decades of Ba’athist rule in the country, five of which were directly under the Assad family.
In the meantime, I want to hear from those of you brave enough to stick out your necks and answer the following questions regarding what you think will happen in 2025 (I promise to not use your answers against you):
Global
Will a peace deal be reached regarding the War in Ukraine and will it stick?
Can Syria manage to hold it together next year and not blow up again?
Will Israel take another run at Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon?
What are the odds that China begins in 2025 to make moves on Taiwan?
US Politics
Will large-scale deportations of illegal migrants take place next year?
Will there be a deep state counterattack on the White House?
Has Wokeness peaked? Or is it just shoring up gains?
Science
Will AI make a significant breakthrough in 2025?
Is next year the year that Climate Change takes centre stage as a global issue?
Entertainment
What entertainment are you looking forward to enoying? (Nothing to do with predictions, obviously).
Personal
Will you succeed with respect to your New Years Resolutions?
Answer as many of these as you want, and feel free to use this open thread as all others have been used too: ask questions, make comments/requests/jokes/, raise concerns, etc.
For those of you who won’t be online to read Part 2 of A Requiem For Ba’athism, have a fun New Years Eve and we will see you in the New Year.
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I predict that the Trump inauguration will look something like this - https://youtu.be/Pm2uQDvjAK0?si=H4Hu6MV-r_RVIADi
Probably will be some form of large scale deportation next year in the US. We'll see if Trump has the stomach for a fight with big business over it.
Woke is not going away, and anyone who says otherwise is in a bubble. They might tamp it down a notch and make it less visible in media, think Yellowstone and not The Acolyte, but the left's raison d'être is championing "oppressed"(weirdos, minorities) groups against the "oppressor"(normal Americans). The left can not help but be "woke". It would take an Obama-type figure, a persuasive member of an "oppressed" group, to truly purge it.