In 2023:

Finland and Sweden will join NATO.

Ukraine will retake Crimea, but fighting will continue.

Putin will disappear from public view.

China will not attack Taiwan

North Korea will detonate an atomic weapon. (The west will remain impotent)

Status quo will hold in the middle east. (unfortunately)

Drought in Europe, Africa and US will continue and the world will continue to pretend that it isn't happening.

in the U.S....

The U.S. will experience a very mild recession that almost no one will notice. In spite of lower inflation the Feds will continue to raise interest rates (though less aggressively).

Republicans in the House of Representatives will very loudly accomplish nothing. (The Senate will be mostly paralyzed as a result).

The Department of Justice will file an antitrust lawsuit against a well known tech company.

Legacy tech companies will continue to recede, while some small start-ups capitalize on the newly available talent. This will spark a new tech boom focused on AI technology. This quiet revolution will be almost invisible in 2023.

Attitudes and expectations are quietly changing as Gen Z starts assuming leadership roles. Once controversial public policy topics will be widely accepted. Some social conventions that were widely accepted in the past will be questioned and abandoned. It will be alarming to folks who are transitioning to retirement, but they will not protest too loudly. The early 2020s will be remembered as a transition between eras.