The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" shortened to "the '20s" and referred to as the twenties) is the current decade, which began on January 1, 2020, and will end on December 31, 2029. The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic — the first reports of the virus were published on December 31, 2019, though the first cases are said to have appeared nearly a month earlier — which caused a global economic recession as well as continuing financial inflation concerns and a global supply chain crisis. Several anti-government demonstrations and revolts occurred in the early 2020s and world leaders have called it an "angry decade", including a continuation of those in Hong Kong that started in the late 2010s against extradition legislation, protests against certain local, state and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, others around the world, particularly in the United States against racism and police brutality, one in India against agriculture and farming acts, one in Israel against judicial reforms, an ongoing political crisis in Peru, Armenia and Thailand, and many in Belarus, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, China and Russia against various forms of governmental jurisdiction, corruption and authoritarianism. Many coups have been attempted, and some have even succeeded, contributing to protests with a majority happening in African countries. Military juntas and dictatorships have been established as a result, such as in Mali in 2020 and 2021, in Sudan in September and November 2021, in Burkina Faso in January and September 2022, and one in the Central African Republic, Niger, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé, and Tunisia. While in other parts of the world, coups have happened in Germany, Myanmar, Peru, Armenia, and Ukraine, along with citizen riots against election campaigns such as in the United States and Brazil in an attempt to overturn election results. Military conflicts have escalated; notable examples are the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Myanmar civil war, the Tigray War, the conflict between Gaza and Israel, the Fall of Kabul (which marked the end of the 20-year War in Afghanistan which led to the republican loyalist uprising), and the Russo-Ukrainian War. The latter included the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, making it the largest conventional military offensive in Europe since World War II, and resulting in a refugee crisis, disruptions to global trade, and an exacerbation of economic inflation. With many extreme weather events worsening in the early 2020s, several world leaders have called it the "decisive