Geopolitical Futures
Geopolitical Futures (GPF) was founded in 2015 by George Friedman, international strategist and author of The Storm Before the Calm and The Next 100 Years. GPF is non-ideological, analyzes the world and forecasts the future using geopolitics: political, economic, military and geographic dimensions at the foundation of a nation.
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Daily Memo: China Pushes Its Plan for Ukraine
International buy-in? Russia and Ukraine have affirmed most of the contents of China’s “six-point consensus” on how to resolve the Ukraine war, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a joint press conference with the foreign minister of Turkey. He also said 26 countries have confirmed that they are willing to back the proposal. Beijing seems […]
Daily Memo: Putin Meets Sudanese Officials, Moscow Accelerates Weapons Manufacturing
Russia's Africa connections. A delegation of Sudanese representatives, including the country’s deputy head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council and ministers of foreign affairs, finance and minerals, arrived in Russia...
Daily Memo: State of Russian Manufacturing, Turkish Forces in Syria
Russian business. Russia’s manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to 54.4 points in May, up slightly from 54.3 in April. (A value above 50 points indicates growth.) Production output also...
Critical Minerals Projections
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The Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2024, the second annual review from the International Energy Agency, offers medium- and long-term projections for lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and graphite....
Daily Memo: Clearance for Ukrainian Strikes in Russia, Turkey Gets Suspicious
War and peace. China will not join the Swiss peace conference on Ukraine due to significant differences between the summit's conditions and China's demands, as well as global expectations....
Live Discussion: Global Security Challenges – A U.S. Military Perspective
From the war in Ukraine, instability in the Middle East, and the potential for conflict in the Pacific, the U.S. military is involved to a certain degree in a...
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Population Density of Canada
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Canada is one of those countries where a vast land mass obscures the fact that the country has a relatively small population. While Canada is the second largest country in the world, its 35 million inhabitants make Canada only the 39th most populated country.
Live Updates on Ukraine War
All times are approximate local time in Kyiv (GMT+2).
Friday, March 11
11:30 a.m.: The EU's foreign policy chief said the bloc would double its spending...
How the Ukraine War Will Likely End
FREEAs we consider how the war in Ukraine will end, we must first understand how it began. Russia invaded for geostrategic reasons – having...

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