New Year Predictions 2025

Says something when the first song of the band at the bar you went to for New Year's Eve was "I See A Bad Moon Arising."

I would have put this in another Category if it weren't for the song.

Comments

  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    "We're all doomed" [/Fraser] seems as pertinent as ever.
  • The future's bleak. The future's Orange...
  • The future's bleak. The future's Orange...

    Orange is the new bleak?
  • As shown by Trump, yes.
  • Don't panic!!
  • Panic now and avoid the rush!!
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Leicester will be relegated.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Train services will run mostly on time. I believe in miracles
  • Martin54 wrote: »
    Leicester will be relegated.

    And Southampton.
  • Martin54 wrote: »
    Leicester will be relegated.

    And Southampton.

    But not Crystal Palace, says Pastor David.
  • On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.

    Why? He's winning without them.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited January 7
    Ah, but not as quickly as he'd like. He might become even more insane, and impatient with it...

    I hasten to add that I hope I'm wrong.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.

    I think it is possible but I also think he will attack some of the countries helping Zelenskyy. I not sure he is such a megalomaniac to not use nukes as a last resort only.
  • The UK will have to go cap-in-hand to the IMF for a bailout.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited January 9
    Hugal wrote: »
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.

    I think it is possible but I also think he will attack some of the countries helping Zelenskyy. I not sure he is such a megalomaniac to not use nukes as a last resort only.



    What worries me is that he seems to be struggling just to subdue Ukraine, without stretching himself to spread his hate and anger to neighbouring countries (Moldova springs to mind).

    Hence my thought that his patience might run out...
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    edited January 9
    Ah, but not as quickly as he'd like. He might become even more insane, and impatient with it...

    I hasten to add that I hope I'm wrong.
    How is he insane?
    Hugal wrote: »
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.
    I think it is possible but I also think he will attack some of the countries helping Zelenskyy. I not sure he is such a megalomaniac to not use nukes as a last resort only.
    Which countries?
    Hugal wrote: »
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.
    I think it is possible but I also think he will attack some of the countries helping Zelenskyy. I not sure he is such a megalomaniac to not use nukes as a last resort only.
    What worries me is that he seems to be struggling just to subdue Ukraine, without stretching himself to spread his hate and anger to neighbouring countries (Moldova springs to mind).

    Hence my thought that his patience might run out...

    Why? And do what?
  • Barnabas62Barnabas62 Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    The UK will have to go cap-in-hand to the IMF for a bailout.

    It would be unexpected, according to IMF’s own predictions, which are in line with OECD predictions
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Ah, but not as quickly as he'd like. He might become even more insane, and impatient with it...

    I hasten to add that I hope I'm wrong.
    How is he insane?
    Hugal wrote: »
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.
    I think it is possible but I also think he will attack some of the countries helping Zelenskyy. I not sure he is such a megalomaniac to not use nukes as a last resort only.
    Which countries?
    Hugal wrote: »
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.
    I think it is possible but I also think he will attack some of the countries helping Zelenskyy. I not sure he is such a megalomaniac to not use nukes as a last resort only.
    What worries me is that he seems to be struggling just to subdue Ukraine, without stretching himself to spread his hate and anger to neighbouring countries (Moldova springs to mind).

    Hence my thought that his patience might run out...

    Why? And do what?

    Which countries? Take your pick. If he attacks any UN countries he is asking for severe trouble. I wouldn’t put it past him to try.
  • I'm not convinced he'd risk WW3 by a full-scale attack on a NATO country. He'll engage in cyber-warfare and disruption and wait to see what Trump does to fulfil his promise of ending the conflict.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Hugal wrote: »
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Ah, but not as quickly as he'd like. He might become even more insane, and impatient with it...

    I hasten to add that I hope I'm wrong.
    How is he insane?
    Hugal wrote: »
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.
    I think it is possible but I also think he will attack some of the countries helping Zelenskyy. I not sure he is such a megalomaniac to not use nukes as a last resort only.
    Which countries?
    Hugal wrote: »
    On a more serious note - Putin will start using nukes.
    I think it is possible but I also think he will attack some of the countries helping Zelenskyy. I not sure he is such a megalomaniac to not use nukes as a last resort only.
    What worries me is that he seems to be struggling just to subdue Ukraine, without stretching himself to spread his hate and anger to neighbouring countries (Moldova springs to mind).

    Hence my thought that his patience might run out...

    Why? And do what?

    Which countries? Take your pick. If he attacks any UN countries he is asking for severe trouble. I wouldn’t put it past him to try.

    No, you specify the countries (UN is redundant) he's more than 0.0001% likely to attack this year. And what severe trouble he'd be asking for.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    The UN is not redundant. If he attacks a UN country the others will defend. It is part of the agreement.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    I think you maybe confusing the UN with NATO
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    I think you are right. Sorry
  • Don't worry, @Hugal, I read it and responded as though you were referring to NATO.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    I'm not convinced he'd risk WW3 by a full-scale attack on a NATO country. He'll engage in cyber-warfare and disruption and wait to see what Trump does to fulfil his promise of ending the conflict.

    He won't even do that beyond the trivial minimum he's doing already, as he's winning. (That's me being a Moscow puppet by the way). And if he were losing, he couldn't escalate that either. Because we'd counter-attack. He'd lose faster. He can't afford that either way. Trump can't lose either. He's already achieved peace in Gaza that Biden couldn't with the same hand in 8 months.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    To be fair to Biden it takes all sides to agree. There will have been on going talks during his premiership. The ground work will have been laid.
  • Trump the Peacemaker is a bizarre concept...especially in view of the fact that he hasn't been president during the current Gaza crisis.
  • EirenistEirenist Shipmate
    Peace in Gaza has not been achieved. Bibi may well feel Trump has blind-sided him (he thought Trump was on his, sde, but T is on nobody's side but his own). He (Bibi) will be looking to double-cross Trump and Hamas, getsome hostages returned,leave the IDF controlling Gaza, and continue the war, thereby saving his government and his own position.
  • Time will (very shortly) tell whether or not some sort of uneasy peace will return...but I agree that Netanyahu can't be trusted.
  • TurquoiseTasticTurquoiseTastic Kerygmania Host
    Surely a ceasefire is better than no ceasefire. And the consensus seems to be that it was the pressure that Trump applied that made the difference when a very similar deal 8 months ago was not accepted. Of course Biden and his team had been working hard on it and their input was necessary - but Trump's input was necessary too,
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    edited January 19
    I can see that Netanyahu may have been holding out on the assumption that he'd get more support when Trump got in, and then made the deal once Trump told him that wasn't going to happen.
  • HugalHugal Shipmate
    In some ways both Trump and Biden are taking the glory for other peoples’ work. Others will have done most of the work.
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