I haven't seen that on a global stage in a long time and it's frightening and terrifying but also fascinating to see it unfold today. It was the return of World War I style fighting. And increasingly what's probably stunning me even more so than the frozen battle lines is the very blatant introduction of foreign fighters into the mix. Nobody's really bothering to hide that there are quite a large number of contractors on multiple sides. That... That's... Oh sorry go ahead.
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Stagflation. Fuel Prices. Shortages. Political Turmoil. War in Europe. Roe V. Wade. Crypto Collapse. Counter-counter culture. Most years have one or two seminal, defining events that set the societal zeitgeist, but in 2022 so many events vied for attention that most people had to take time not only to revaluate what it means for the future, but also simply how to filter out the signal from the noise. Tonight we dive into the year, starting with the Ukrainian conflict, and ending with what might be emerging as an escalating one in Mexico, but in between cover the economic and cultural shakeups that continue to leave shockwaves into 2023.