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Authored by Josh Hammer via The Epoch Times,

The calendar turns to 2024, and the world under President Joe Biden’s watch is burning.

The United States’ southern border has reached a historically catastrophic state; overrun border towns such as Lukeville, Arizona and Eagle Pass, Texas are the laughingstocks of the world. Further south in our hemisphere, socialist thug Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela threatens to infringe upon neighboring Guyana’s territorial sovereignty.

In Eastern Europe, the Russia-Ukraine war, now nearly two years in the making, shows little sign of abating. In the Middle East, Israel’s multifront war against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and other extremists in Judea and Samaria is spilling over to a regional conflagration. U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria have been attacked over 100 times since Hamas’ Oct. 7 pogrom; the Iran-funded Houthis in Yemen fire indiscriminately at commercial tankers and control the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial global trade chokepoint.

In the Far East, Communist China’s hegemonic ambitions grow clearer by the day; strongman Xi Jinping openly threatens the Philippines, and Taiwan sits squarely in Beijing’s crosshairs. If that weren’t scary enough, the U.S. arsenal is so depleted that Japan, which has been largely demilitarized since World War II, recently sold Patriot guided missiles to the United States.

At home, Americans have not been this politically or culturally divided since the 1850s. And “Bidenomics,” which this president stubbornly makes the basis for his reelection campaign, remains less popular than venereal disease.

Let’s hope things don’t get much worse in 2024. Here is a partial wish list for what I would like to see in the new year:

May this be a year where the forces of civilizational sanity prosper, and the forces of civilizational arson and barbarism are vanquished. Happy New Year to all.