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HM the Queen still unwell today so her passing or abdication may be on the cards. She is, I think, already our longest serving monarch and the formal proceedings that follow the death of a serving monarch are hugely disruptive ( closure of financial institutions, etc) so abdication would make sense.
Also, I predict that the world will keep spinning. Hopefully not out of control...
Russia's nuclear arsenal is in the hands of a murderous tyrant whose solution to domestic problems is military expansionism and empire building abroad: he's been ever more blatantly testing the West's resolve and so far the lesson he's learning is that it's absolutely feeble. I believe that he will keep pushing his luck to the point that the West is forced to warn him that one more step will have immediate military consequences. The worry is that by then it's too late.
All that against the backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism, ISIS and the arrival of China as an economic and military superpower.
I hope and pray things don't deteriorate further next year but for the first time in my life - and I'm old enough to remember the Cold War - I'm genuinely scared.
We're taught to fear Russia from birth, but the figures in terms of foreign-based military bases sees them outnumbered by the US by something ridiculous like 50-1.
Also, Russia is skint.
we had Thatcher in the Uk who you all hate, an actor as US president, China as one of the superpowers and the USSR with more power than Russia.
ok, it's a scaremongering thread, I get that, but we've been here before and will be again.
i think Baader Meinhof might still have been doing their stuff in the late 70s and so were the IRA so major urban city terrorism also isn't a new thing
The market for original vintage guitars will collapse. I'll be able to afford one.
Some geriatric celebrities will die. From a quick google: Brucie, KIrk Douglas, Ken Dodd, Doris Day, Dick Van Dyke, Roger Moore, Angela Lansbury, Honor Blackman, Olivia De Havilland, Vera Lynn, David Attenborough, Tony Bennett, Chuck Berry, the Queen, and Prince Phillip are all 89 or older. You would get very long odds on all of those making it through the year.
Some slightly younger celebrities who have led a bad lifestyle full of cigarettes and/or alcohol and/or drugs will die.
People will make an enormous fuss about the celebrities who die and the press will give it a lot of coverage.
Some aging celebrity (maybe a Rolling Stone again) will have child with a woman younger than some of his kids. This will also get lots of press coverage as celebrity gossip sells papers.
Joe B will release branded gear.
Chappers will release annoying videos.
Both of the above will cause arguments on the Fretboard.
Guitar companies will use the CITES stuff on rosewood as an excuse to put prices up by at least 3 times what the extra paperwork costs them.
I will have to repeatedly unglue my daughters from Youtube.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jsroberts/who-said-it-trump-or-zaphod-beeblebrox-2bxq9
The USA has more than twice the population, and 15 times the GDP
Russian GDP is 12th largest - South Korea, Brazil, Canada, Italy are all bigger. Probably Australia too.
The UK has more than double the Russian GDP
so that means the 2016 Russian military budget was about 8% of the USA's budget of 2014
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