The World in 2025: AI, War & a Tired Europe
2025 feels like the moment when three separate crises quietly merged into one shared reality: technology moves faster, wars last longer, and societies grow more exhausted.
1. AI: From Tool to Environment
AI has stopped being “a helper” and has become the environment we work, think, argue and create inside. We are no longer asking whether AI can replace humans. We are asking whether humans can still make sense of the world at this speed.
2. Ukraine: A War Built on Exhaustion
The front barely moves, but the information war never sleeps. Everyone is tired; everyone wants a result. Twenty-first-century wars are built on slow grinding pressure — military, economic and psychological. Those who once promised a “quick victory” now pretend that endless time is a strategy.
3. Europe: Refugees, Fatigue & Short Circuits
Europe is simultaneously taking in millions, debating border closures and arguing over who is responsible for systems that clearly cannot cope anymore. Ukrainian refugees, irregular migration and internal crises all blend together. The continent is tired. Governments are nervous. Societies are splitting into more and more camps.
- Technology accelerates faster than policymakers can understand.
- Wars last longer than nations are prepared to endure.
- Crises spread faster than solutions can be built.