The year 2022 ended as it began, with another Hollywood movie story: a frigid storm that shattered the North America and paralyzes half the continent. Incredible Stories: Dead People frozen by car, entire cities without electricity, air traffic goes crazy two days before Christmas, polar winds are so cold that they freeze entire houses in a few minutes, like in the US film The Day After Tomorrow.
meanwhile in Sicily People spent Christmas on the beach and took a bath. Events that until a few days ago would have seemed surreal, like the invasion of Ukraine in February seemed surreal in January. Even if the Biden government has been announcing the invasion of Russian troops for a few weeks Ukraine left much of the world in awe.
also read
The frost in the USA and the mild temperatures in the Mediterranean are a result of the jet stream, according to the climate researcher
We live in extraordinary times because the constant now is unpredictability. In this respect, the year that is behind us is no different from the previous one and, most likely, from the one that has just begun. For several years now we have been in an existential phase of the planet and its inhabitants out of controlclimate can no longer be relied upon, just as it is no longer possible to predict next policy moves or anticipate market trends.
Even before 2019, the year of Covid, much of what happened happened beyond our control and left us dismayed: the victory of donald trump and the Brexit, for example. But also the fact that the world is literal stopped to fight against Covid, who would have ever believed that almost 8 billion people would have obeyed and locked themselves at home like so many toy soldiers?
Meanwhile, thanks to online, the economy has marched on, silencing all forecasts disastersanother unforeseeable event. On the contrary, the problems arose when people were leading a normal life again and the infrastructure was inadequate in view of the increasing demand, so was the workforce and thus also the workforceinflation it has reappeared in developed and developing countries. Amidst this imbalance the Russia decided to invade Ukraine, the Europeans have imposed and are preparing for a very tough embargo on the country’s main energy exporter cold winter without Russian gas. The bills began to expect the worst, but winter never came, southern Europe is like a warm spring.
And again: after 20 years, the Americans have given upAfghanistan to the Taliban, who immediately set about turning back the clock to the times of Mullah Omar’s caliphate and thus to 20 years of war against them Islamic fundamentalism they vanished into thin air. Who could have predicted in 2001, when Afghanistan was attacked, or in 2003, when Iraq was attacked, that all the lives lost in the war and all the billions spent would have been in vain?
Also read from Monica Lanfranco’s blog
In Iran, where women have no citizenship, the rights of all people are at risk
And who would have thought that, young women Iranian would lead an anti-regime revolution against which the Chinese would rise Communist Party and would they force the leadership to change their policy towards Covid? That a British Prime Minister would be “pushed” from the markets and instead, thanks to the referendum, a woman would become Prime Minister in Italy?
2023 will look very much like 2022, it will be shaped byunpredictability. And if we want to make some predictions, let’s venture into the surreal: Elon Musk will lose control of Tesla; the Bitcoins they will regain altitude; Rushi Sunak he will resign and Boris Johnson will take his place; Giorgia Meloni named Time Magazine’s Woman of the Year; Zelenskyi will have to sit at the peace table with Putin; There will be no summer in Europe it will rain all the time.