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The Biden withdrawal is definitely a contender! The others, in the article, as you say, are boring. I imagine they are mostly all Americans who can't imagine that anything anywhere else might be important. From that perspective, history might claim Luigi to be a close second.

In the wider world, the rulings of the ICJ on the criminal actions by Israel, including that their entire occupation is illegal, might well be considered to have been a major development of huge importance, either by bolstering the rule of law in international affairs, or by bringing down the post-WWII institutions we have all gotten used to, and which served the US interests so very well, for so very long.

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Dec 23Edited

I think the moment that defined 2024 was Biden's debate performance. Laid bare in all its glory was all the endless gaslighting about Biden's mental capacity. The world saw that he was obviously suffering from dementia, and the reality that he was not the actual person leading the executive branch of government was truly shocking to many people.

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