>>492034-Geopolitical tensions between the US and China heat up as China finally realizes that it can't project force more than 100 miles outside of its own shores and attempts to rectify this by building bases on the west coast of Africa
-People get really into an internet meme that seems benign but quickly mutates into racism and classism
-There's another wave of BLM riots that die out within a week due to apathy
-Someone attempts to assassinate a politician and "miraculously" fails, measures are immediately put in place to restrict firearms ownership in either the politician's state or the state where the attempt took place
-Donald Trump formally announces that he will be running for President in 2024, capitalizes on Biden's increasingly obvious late-stage dementia
-2022 will be the last year for a long time where it will even get a little cold out during non-winter months as la niña comes to an end
-Kazakhstan erupts into full-blown civil war
-Lizzie finally kicks the bucket
-There's a big news story about how some wacky millennials are starting to get paid in cryptocurrency and nobody will see this as foreshadowing
-Literally nothing will happen with Taiwan except for more saber rattling
-California burns to the ground again
-General Dynamics wins the NGSW project, all of NATO collectively seethes as bullpups become the new meta
-The world population hits 8 billion, causing people in developed countries to bitch about how people in shithole countries keep having babies for some reason
-China's population growth slows to a crawl and the population actually begins falling within 4 years, ending the hopes of a Chinese century
-An openly white nationalist guy runs for Congress, and while he doesn't win he gets a worryingly high percentage of the vote
-Everyone collectively decides to get fat as the fat pride movement bursts forth from American to infect foreign shores
so shall it be written