War will occur in Iran or Kazakhstan due to instability in the regions, and this will be a proxy war for Ukraines gun running. They will start to spread and form a new collection of minor warzones.

China will begin to accelerate production of its industry again and will start additional conflicts with India. We will likely see at the same time various new deals being made in those respective countries.

Cyber warfare will be less prevalent on the corporate stage this year in favour of AI research, state espionage, and a larger focus on prevention. I also imagine we will see Palantir rush to promise some such AI support for military focus or investment and tote it as good as Aladdin in a bid to get funding.

Musk will continue to free fall and will largely be left like Trump, and will be somewhat shifted into the background, and meanwhile we will see the media continue to live in the past and avoid any major new stories unless it is controversial, and in all cases will likely be a bid to call out something we knew about in the past 2 years again. (maybe stocks related again like GME?)

Europe will be a disaster as usual and will be continuing to import migrants, suffer issues in the spring, and will likely have another year of strife. They will focus on a bunch of green investments which will once again be used to funnel money to the chosen few.

America will be pretty bad too. It will start to see all the issues they have been predicting for the power grids and will likely change focus on to a need to secure and upgrade existing grids. But due to the nature of the way it's spread out, it will likely be first dismissed, made to look like crap, left out in the cold, and then next year. ..will be purchased for less than it should and given a bunch of additional protections and tax breaks and someone like Musk, Gates, etc will be one of the front men who start to buy those properties and grids up much like railroads

Then....I expect we will see the privatization being laid elsewhere in america. And j feel like technology will continue to become more AR /VR focused and will continue with the 'smart trend's but there will be a counter movement which will begin to sell more retro traditional stuff that is 'heirloom' quality as well to bring back a kind of culture that both has inflated prices but also attempts to resist

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What I would like to see is that people stop mindless consumption, and remember that we should be making things and being productive.

I would love to see a return to companies which are 100% local (and not just locally run, serviced, etc. - I mean 100% local people)

Towns were once setup to be industrial + commercial + banking + legal + argriculture + etc. -- would be nice to see that revisited as opposed to the massive globalised melting pot.

That being said, I would like to retain trading hubs, and key world cities to ensure that we can still get things which are not available locally (such as minerals, some food, etc) but those are minimal these days - mostly agriculture based.