2024 was an eventful year from an international point of view. Below, we report some of those that have had (or could have) the greatest geopolitical consequences.
March 7: Sweden joins NATO. After about two years of waiting due to Turkish vetoes, Stockholm finally officially joined the Atlantic Alliance.
May 19th: the death of Ebrahim Raisi. The Iranian president was killed when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed. On July 5, he was replaced by Masoud Pezeshkian.
June 6-9: the elections for the European Parliament. The vote saw a significant retreat of socialists, liberals and greens.
July 13th: Trump suffers an attack on Butler. During a rally in the town of Butler in Pennsylvania, the Republican candidate miraculously saved himself from an attacker who shot at him. The attacker was subsequently killed, while major flaws in the organization of the security services emerged.
September 27: the death of Hassan Nasrallah. During an Israeli bombing of Beirut, the leader of Hezbollah was killed. This was a severe blow both for the Lebanese terrorist organization and for Iran, which historically backs it.
October 1st: the Iranian attack on Israel. Tehran launched 200 ballistic missiles against the Jewish State: the second direct attack after the one on April 13, 2024.
November 5: Donald Trump’s electoral victory. The tycoon clearly won the American presidential elections, defeating his Democratic rival Kamala Harris. Trump will thus be the second president of the United States to serve two non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland. The tycoon was able to count on a series of factors: he was able to build a broad and heterogeneous coalition, while the Democratic Party struggled to unite around a weak candidate, who, moreover, had not passed the primaries. Trump’s inauguration at the White House will take place on January 20th.
December 8th: the fall of Bashar al Assad. The Syrian president’s Baathist regime was overthrown by a rebel offensive which, mainly led by the Islamist organization HTS, was de facto supported by Türkiye. Ankara and its allies took advantage of Iranian weakness and above all of the fact that Moscow was distracted by the war in Ukraine. Assad’s collapse was particularly rapid.
December 29th: the death of Jimmy Carter. The former American president passed away at the age of one hundred. After winning the 1976 elections, he was in the White House until 1981, when he had to leave after being defeated by Ronald Reagan.
