{"id":2012,"date":"2026-01-05T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/?page_id=2012"},"modified":"2026-01-05T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:20:08","slug":"the-world-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/the-world-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The World in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s gone bonkers, hasn&#8217;t it?  (as of 5th Jan 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Labour are now <em>centre-righ<\/em>t, but&#8230;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump has totally <strong>lost his mind<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Putin is so <strong>crazy<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Netanyahu is <strong>pure evil<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Farage is just <strong>pure BAD<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reform are just <strong>plain mad<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Republicans are <strong>insane<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Tories are just <strong>dying<\/strong> on their feet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The LibDems &#8211; <strong>who?<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Greens &#8211; they&#8217;re making more and more <strong>sense<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social media is just Bots and AI <strong>slop<\/strong> now<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Economies are just <strong>hanging on <\/strong>by the skin of their teeth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Rules based Society is being <strong>ripped<\/strong> to shred<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I fear that, following Trump&#8217;s illegal kidnap of Venezuela&#8217; President Maduro, Netanyahu&#8217;s genocide of the Palestinians, Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, our PM&#8217;s continual U-turns and shoulder shrugs, the world&#8217;s powers turning their backs on the climate crisis and various other human disasters all around the globe, that it&#8217;s going to get much.much worse before these cancers are actively removed and a sense of normality returns and our global society can start making progress again.  Here&#8217;s hoping we can get there eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&#8217;s now threatening to &#8216;acquire&#8217; Greenland from Denmark  &#8211; if only the UN had teeth and the various vetos that these countries have were disabled.  All these rogue countries and politicians really scare me&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The bottom line?  It&#8217;s all just <strong>GREED<\/strong>.  Land, money, resources &#8211; they just want more and more.  We need push the idea that greed a <strong>sin<\/strong> and punish all those who worship it.  That sounds like a great idea, but who truly has the guts to enact it???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s gone bonkers, hasn&#8217;t it? (as of 5th Jan 2026) I fear that, following Trump&#8217;s illegal kidnap of Venezuela&#8217; President Maduro, Netanyahu&#8217;s genocide of the Palestinians, Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, our PM&#8217;s continual U-turns and shoulder shrugs, the world&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/the-world-in-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2012","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2012\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roscow.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}