To say that it was an interesting year is to say that the Earth rotates around the sun, something that isn’t as slam dunk as it would appear. Ask Galileo. But the truth is that every year is interesting in its own way, and this one included the death of a hero, Alexei Navalny; the toppling of a dictator, Bashar Al Assad; the implosion of a president, Joe Biden; two assassination attempts on a fo…