Now What ?
(Now What ?)
Looking at New Year's Eve, 2024. Whatever one can say for the last year, it was not boring. There had been wars and rumors of wars, an Election Year with a political comeback for the ages while at the same time, there had been an enfeebled President who perhaps should not have been in Office to begin with.
The truth is that 2024, like 2023, was another year of President Biden's failures. There are many but the big three would be economics, foreign policy and immigration. In each of these areas the Biden Administration has been an abject failure. This is not including the Biden family business where now pardoned son Hunter got his father his cut. That being said, however. the most remarkable thing about President Biden was that he was cast aside in favor in what was thought to be superior personnel, Vice President Kamala Harris. Joe Biden was an accidental President in the same manner by which Trump's considered his own first term. And his fall over this last year there has been a corresponding rise in the fortunes of former President Trump.
In between of course are the wars in Ukraina and the Near East. As Biden is finally fading from the picture but the geo-strategic make-up is his making. The abandonment of Afghanistan set the stage of all that has followed. A new Axis of evil comprised of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have been developing its own order to the exclusion of the United States.
Then came Trump. On January 1st of this year, Donald Trump while he had announced a renewed Candidacy, his odds at actually prevailing in the end were remote. Trump faced numerous legal challenges in various jurisdictions and was convicted on thirty-four counts. That would de-rail most candidacies but Trump endured and has outlasted the opposition.
Full circle, in a sense. Tomorrow begins a new chapter. Some 366 days from now, a new assessment will be given and one will look back on 2025 and see where things end.
So, what's next ?
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