The American magazine Foreign Policy published a report in which it said that there were 4 days that shook the world, saying that if the past decade witnessed the beginning of the shaking of the global system led by the United States, then perhaps 2023 would be the year in which the world began to explode due to its accumulated tensions.
October 7
The year began with relative calm in the Middle East, with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan describing the region as calmer than it has been in two decades, and Israel on the verge of normalizing relations with more Arab countries, but the year ended with Israel stuck in a bloody siege of the Gaza Strip.
According to what the Foreign Policy report says, on this day they came in gliders and in trucks, they came on the fences and sometimes through them, and without warning, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) tore apart families in the kibbutzim, opened fire on passers-by and on the highways, and killed party-goers in the area. Desert, in a surprise and complex raid that shook the Middle East and the world to its foundations and sent a newly calm region into a war that could extend beyond the borders of Israel and the Palestinian enclaves.
More than two months after an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, the Middle East witnessed seismic shifts, and the United States came to lead a naval task force to patrol the Red Sea after repeated attacks on commercial ships by the Yemeni Houthi group.
Now, Washington is pressing for a halt to the fighting or at least some calm until more aid trucks can enter Gaza, and Israel insists it will not stop until more than 100 hostages still held by Hamas are released.
June 8
In Ukraine, 2023 began with optimism that more cities and territories would be liberated from Russian control as US weapons flowed in, but it ended with the counteroffensive stalling and Ukraine running out of ammunition, and now the West is openly questioning whether the United States will still support Kiev at all.
On June 8, Ukraine launched its anticipated counterattack, and Russia had built rings of fortifications along the 966-kilometre front line, including deep trenches, firing stations, dragon teeth to stop West-supplied tanks, and layer upon layer of minefields that… Russian troops planted it almost every night.
Without enough Western weapons that Kiev wanted, Ukraine could not seize the areas of territory controlled by Russia that it aspired to.
With the losses, the Ukrainians’ ambitions also declined, and by November, with Ukrainian forces still only 200 kilometers south from where they started five months earlier, the commander of the Ukrainian forces, Valery Zaloghny, concluded that there would most likely not be a “deep and beautiful breakthrough,” and stated this publicly. .
If the Ukrainians feared that they would not get the support they needed at the beginning of the counterattack, they now ended up in trouble by the end of the attack, and all of this came to a head in October when American support ran out after only months, and the Biden administration put forward a new military aid package worth $60 billion. A dollar to Ukraine was stalled in Congress due to a major impasse over security funding for the southern border of the United States.
February 4
Russian Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane wasn’t the only newsworthy thing shot out of the sky this year. For a week at the end of January, everyone stopped what they were doing to watch a large, mysterious white object move across the North American sky.
At first, no one knew what it was, then the Biden administration confirmed that it was one of a fleet of Chinese spy balloons, and that it was hovering suspiciously near several of America’s most sensitive nuclear missile sites.
The balloon remained over the United States until February 4, when it was safely dropped far from populated areas off the coast of North Carolina, making an unforgettable memory for beachgoers on Saturday.
In the wake of the Great Balloon Incident, the United States and China did not talk much until November, when Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in San Francisco, California, and now there is renewed hope that the diplomatic and military hotlines between Washington and Beijing that have been dormant for months could be revived. You go back to work.
July 26
Things are falling apart and the center cannot hold. An almost straight geographic line of coups began spreading across Africa about 3 years ago with the 2020 rebellion in Mali, where the president was forced to relinquish power.
Chad, Guinea and Sudan followed Mali in 2021, Burkina Faso in 2022, and by April 2023 Sudan’s two rival generals who had promised a transition to peace were at war again, forcing Delta Force to evacuate American diplomats in the dead of night.
To combat “terrorism” in Africa, the United States relied heavily on Niger, a major American base for drones and a nerve center for intelligence networks in the heart of the continent, but in late July, Niger’s presidential guard had other plans.
The Biden administration had hoped for a democratic transition that would return Nigerian President Mohamed Bazoum to power, but those hopes have faded.
In September, French President Emmanuel Macron – who was supporting the Pentagon’s strategy there with military force on the ground – said that French forces would leave.
