Global Events - Wars - Political Tidal Change - UFOs. What will happen in 2025

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What happened in 2024 and what will happen 2025?

General info:
If you are new to this group, its not a debate group, it should be more of a casual discussion over interesting subjects. Its totally ok to have different opinion than everybody else and we don't shy away from conspiracy theories either :)

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YOU are of course welcome to bring a subject of your own, its done best if you notice me in advance so I can update the bullets below, so that everybody can get a chance to read up on it...if they want. No prep is needed for these casual discussions

Subjects (subject of small changes)

* Did world changed from politically left to right over 2024?
- Suddenly everybody disowns the term "woke"
- Shift in migration politics
- Climate politics
- Zuckerberg dumps Facebook fact-checkers. Mark Zuckerberg says moderators ‘too politically biased’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/07/mark-zuckerberg-restore-free-expression-facebook-antiwoke
- Was Russian invasion of Ukraine a catalyst?
- What triggered this shift? Immigration? Inflation? Covid?
- Will this be fueled by the Trump administration
- Why is this happening? Future predictions

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kxe344wp7o
https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-why-elon-musk-is-promoting-the-far-right-afd/a-71186763

Trump Era 2.0
- Musk - an entire meeting could be dedicated to him
Musk have embraced far-right parties, like Germanies AfD and also intervening British politics
A lot of political statements. What is next, when Trump administration is actually is in.
- Threats to congressmen about signing bills.
- Have they hacked democracy now?
- Pressure on NATO-members
- Pressuring Denmark to give up Greenland and Panama to give up Panama Canal
[Trump about Greenland and Panama]

- Pressuring Canada with trade tariffs, for border control, fresh water, less taxes for us tech and critical minerals
Trumps interests in Canada

US Corporate interest
- Business Leaders from Silicon Valley come to Trumps court in Mar a Lago.
- Meta, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, Apple, Ford, GM, Uber..$1mn each.
...

Mark Zuckerberg

• Inauguration Fund, record breaking $250 million dollar
  Zuckerberg even hosting a Inauguration Ball afterwards.

FTC Meta Antitrust Lawsuit

• The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Meta, alleging monopolistic practices through the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
• The trial is scheduled to commence on April 14, 2025.

Jeff Bezos "Amazon Prime"
- $40 million deal for the licence of documentary of Melania Trump, with her as executive producer
- $1 millon dollar in inauguration fund
- Will attend to inauguration
- Previously blocked Kamala Harris endorsements in Washington Post
- Continuation/"end" of Russia's invasion
- Predictions of 2025?

Cabinet hearings
...more to come

If we have time

* Cold war II
* Russia - Ukraine
* Israel - Palestine + Iran
* Fall of Assads regime in Syria
- Will Israel and/or Turkey take advantage over the situation
[Swedish: Geopolitical earthquake after Assads fall, very interesting]
* Predictions of 2025? Will it all end now, is something cooking
* Was the Russian invasion in fact initiated by the US to keep EU in check. Now EU is buying more oil and gas from US and not from Russia,
and will be pressured to trade more with US. EU is heavily dependent on US to back up and is not in a bargaining good position
* "Russia's" shadow fleet. From smuggling, Russian oil shipping and now sabotage.
* TikTok shut down in the US, 20/1-2025? Spy worries or control of information?
* UFO/UAP
Lots of talk about UFOs, UAP and Orbs in New Jersey. What is happening?

Two high-ranking military officials (David Grush and have publicly and under oath testified about the existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), with claims of encounters involving advanced technologies and references to potential non-human origins

[Pentagon whistleblower says gov’t restricting UFO retrieval info]
Former Pentagon Official on UFOs: ‘We Are Not Alone’

* What will happen 2025 and the years ahead?
- Is EU falling behind in Tech while?
- Will Ukraine be EUs problem?
- China, were are they financially?

* Do we have any good news?

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