It's Wednesday, the first of January.

Look at that.

Here we are.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker.

Your eyes and ears on the world's

stage coming to you today from, oh look, another airport somewhere in the United States.

Okay, let's get briefed. Well, congratulations to us all, right? We've managed to survive

2024. Now, not to completely bum you out, as they used

to say back in the day, but let's do a quick recap of the year. A third year of the Ukraine

conflict imposed on the world by Vladimir Putin's vain-glorious vision of reconstituting the Soviet Union

in some fashion.

There was that.

And then the Middle East, of course, in conflict, thanks to the Iranian regime and its

Revolutionary Guard Corps, with their ring of proxy puppets, all sharing a vision of the

destruction of Israel.

Then, of course, the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria, after 50-plus years of a

brutal family dynasty, propped up, of course, by Moscow and Iran. Then there was increased tensions

in the Taiwan Strait as Xi Jinping's China repeatedly demonstrated their ability to surround Taiwan during a series of increasingly

large military exercises. And let's not forget Kim Jong-un in North Korea, with North Korea

sending thousands of their soldiers to die on the battlefields of Ukraine in exchange for cash,

oil, and weapons technology from Moscow.

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