A gathering storm?

"The storm clouds on the horizon for 2023 are much more menacing than previous years. Are we prepared for what is about to (or might) come? I would like to say yes, but that would not be truthful."

Want to have a sleepless night or two? Just start thinking about our geopolitical mess. Having the "A" team in charge, would still make 2023 look dicey, but this clown car that Biden has put together, gives one pause. Ready for this one? Then buckle up.

Ukraine - It is now a cold fact that the Russian Army has been shredded and decimated over the past year. Like, over 100,000 of the Russian top line troops are now gone. And the ill trained conscripts Russia has replaced them with are nothing but cannon fodder. Even with that, Sergey Lavrov told Ukraine they must de-militarize, or Russia will do it for them. Really? In what world is that, Mr. Lavrov? Now that "somebody" is hitting deep inside Russia with drones, Russia is getting very nervous. Maybe nuclear nervous. 2023 is going to be an interesting year in this war. Maybe even a tragic year for mankind. 

Taiwan - Taiwan, as much as we love them, is just a pawn in what China really wants to do. They want the South China Sea to be a "Chinese Lake", and as such, they is no room for United States warships to be loitering there. Ever since Ms. Nancy visited Taiwan, the temperature has risen dramatically in that part of the world. We have the goods on China in how they are killing our young people with fentanyl, and soon will should be able to tie in Wuhan to Covid bio-weapons. Soon, the "ship will hit the sand" in our relations with China. China, much more so than Russia, should be our biggest concern going into 2023. War could be on the immediate horizon.

North Korea - And then there is "Rocket Man". Here is the problem child in the region that only Donald Trump seemed to have any influence on. But Trump is gone now, and "Rocket Man" has no time for Joe Biden. What does Kim Jong-un really want? He wants to be noticed. He wants to be feared. He will push South Korea and Japan to the brink of war, just to be noticed. Meanwhile, the governments of both Japan and South Korea are authorizing more and more money for defense. The Korean Peninsula could explode at any time next year, just by "Rocket Man" doing something very stupid. And then we would have big problems from a little man.

Our Southern Border - One of the first things which will happen next year, is the new Congress will go after DHS Secretary Mayorkas, like bees on honey. They will impeach him, and maybe put him on trial for (gasp!) "treasonous offenses". But that should not be our greatest concern. The concern should be the hundreds of thousands of "got aways" who came over the wide open southern border. The enemy could not only be at the gate, he (or she) could be INSIDE the gate. All kinds of bad stuff could happen to us, just because of this government sanctioned invasion on our southern border. If we make it though 2023 without some kind of terror attack, it will be next to a miracle. 

The storm clouds on the horizon for 2023 are much more menacing than previous years. Are we prepared for what is about to (or might) come? I would like to say yes, but that would not be truthful. And to think I did not even mention Iran in this article. That is a whole bowl of trouble to add on to this inferno. Thus - Iran will have to wait for another day.