Despite all the madness with Powell and Flynn, Trump will leave office and allow a peaceful transition for Biden, who will continue to put together his bipartisan administration of experienced policy wonks.
Macron, having humiliated himself, will force the EU to be more flexible with the UK, who will also be chastened by the experience of the 21st Dec, and a deal will be reached in early January, allowing trade to continue and a new era of comity to dawn.
Vaccines will be rolled out faster than expected and C19 cases will recede more quickly than predicted. All the discoveries made will leave the West better prepared for future pandemics.
Because everybody will have saved lots of money the Western economies will come roaring back.
China, furious, belligerent, but on the defensive, and the West, wounded and vengeful, will both start a process that will lead, in 2022, to the start of a global nuclear confrontation.