JAMIE DETTMER
Last year, POLITICO chose to be boosterish about the future as it outlined some not entirely tongue-in-cheek reasons for optimism about 2025. Some predictions were spot-on, though others less so: Donald Trump did manage to end (maybe) the war in Gaza, but peace in Ukraine is proving more elusive.
This P28 we’re taking a different tack by offering odds on some 2026 scenarios — from the political survival of both Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to the chances of a financial crash and the likely winners of the mid-term elections in the United States.
Is the author prepared to bet his own salary on any of the episodes sketched below? Hell no! The most common mistake when it comes to gambling is to start in the first place. Just ask Harry Kakavas, one of Australia’s smartest real-estate salesmen, who made a fortune selling property on the Gold Coast only to lose tens of millions of dollars at the Baccarat tables.
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