👺 We Try to Interpret the Cover of the New “The Economist”, the Magazine of the Big Bosses! (Part 1)

On the evening of November 12, 2025, an epic event occurred in the world of media and conspiracy theories, which happens once every 365 days: The Economist magazine published yet another amazing cover, titled “The World Ahead 2026,” hinting at what the world will be like next year.

As we can see, there is a lot of fiction painted on the picture there, and conspiracy theorists on YouTube will be trying to interpret it for several months. Of course, nothing will come of what is symbolized there, but by the time “ The World Ahead 2027” comes out , everyone will have forgotten about it, and the conspiracy theorists will start trying to interpret it again.

However, some things in the picture are quite obvious and will definitely come true.

What are these things?

1) The cake with the number “250” which represents the inevitable 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence in 2026. It is located in the center of the image and this indicates that it will be at the center of the attention of the entire world.

2) Rockets, robots, and syringes are literally scattered throughout the image. Most likely, people will soon calculate how many of each and where – the numbers are certainly symbolic and indicate dates.

3) Pills – there are plenty of them. Actually, they are not pills, but capsules, half red and half blue/white. This could be a reference to The Matrix, or maybe the pills are just part of the overall color scheme of red and blue, suggesting the political divisions of the entire society.

4) A huge container ship in the Pacific Ocean, which is attacked by satellite and opens fire with hidden cannons against the US. This could indicate problems with the supply chain in the Pacific Ocean, a false flag attack involving a similar ship, and more.

5) The broken dollar sign undoubtedly indicates problems with the economy, but these problems are obvious even without the hints of The Economist magazine.

Then follow episodes, the meaning of which is controversial & unclear:

1) The crossed swords, which can symbolize many things, from Elon Musk and his Twitter X, to the number 24 (X is the 24th letter of the English alphabet).

2) The printer running at full power may symbolize the uncontrolled issuance of paper money, but it may not be a printer, but a device for counting ballots. The cracked dollar indicates problems with the currency in question.

3) The hand in handcuffs can symbolize total control, a police state, the dispersal of protests, and the like. However, the raised fist is also a communist/socialist fighting symbol, so it could mean that Donald Trump will handcuff the communists and they will, at least for a while, stop making people's lives miserable.

4) A red cup – it can symbolize both spilled blood, but also a whole range of other things – a whole monograph could be written about the symbolism of the cup. But the cup can also be considered in combination with the crossed swords as a symbol of some playing card. In this case, we need to look for two more symbols from the deck.

5) Brains implanted with chips and connected to a game console certainly symbolize the impending mind control & brain chipping, metahumanism, the convergence of machine & human. But in what context?

Finally, the third group of symbols is completely unclear & incomprehensible as to what they symbolize. The artist of The Economist magazine paints slightly worse than Monet and Picasso, but a little better than Ostap Ibrahimovich Bender, who was commissioned to paint the sower, which is why the people are indistinguishable. Trump, Xi, Modi and Zelensky are quite distinct & recognizable, but it is not clear who these guys are standing next to Comrade Xi.

One of them is believed to be Lula da Silva , the leader of Brazil, while others see him as Netanyahu. But the identity of the third person is unknown, just as the woman with the white hair is unclear.

👺 We Try to Interpret the Cover of the New “The Economist”, the Magazine of the Big Bosses! (Part 2)

Finally, the third group of symbols is completely unclear & incomprehensible as to what they symbolize. The artist of The Economist magazine paints slightly worse than Monet and Picasso, but a little better than Ostap Ibrahimovich Bender, who was commissioned to paint the sower, which is why the people are indistinguishable. Trump, Xi, Modi and Zelensky are quite distinct & recognizable, but it is not clear who these guys are standing next to Comrade Xi.

One of them is believed to be Lula da Silva , the leader of Brazil, while others see him as Netanyahu. But the identity of the third person is unknown, just as the woman with the white hair is unclear.

It's only been a few hours since the cover was released, so over time people will make many more wonderful guesses, discoveries, observations & interpretations of the puzzles, but what can we say now?

We can say that in the plan of planet Earth, Russia is not included, which occupies one-seventh of the world's land surface. Or rather, it is there, but seemingly beyond the horizon, and there are some nasty dangerous things happening there: drones flying, tanks shooting, Javelins, columns of flame and all the like.

If this had been planned just east of Zelensky, we might think it was in eastern Ukraine. But all of this is visible from Japan, and from Japan, Ukraine is not visible even on a flat Earth – there are the Moscow swamps in several time zones, so according to The Economist, the Russians are in for a tough test.

This, in fact, is also implied by the Greek trireme, from which some kind of amphora is delivered to Zelensky. We assume that the amphora contains the so-called “Greek liquid fire” – a system of flamethrowing weapons from the ancient era BC.

Apart from Russia, we didn't even see Greta Thunberg in the picture. How sad. What will the world be like without Greta? And what will have happened to her? Will she emigrate to Moscow?

Instead, we immediately found a famous football player in the picture. This is undoubtedly a reference to the World Cup. The final will be held in Thailand in July. And the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence will also be celebrated in July. This means that July will be a month with many challenges, so let's follow the development of events.

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