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: Turkey Blocks Transport of Sanctioned Goods to Russia
Turkish cooperation. Turkey is reportedly no longer transporting goods to Russia that are subject to Western sanctions. According to a report from Turkey’s Daily Sabah newspaper, the Turkish government gave companies a list of foreign goods that can’t be shipped to Russia from March 1, after giving the European Commission “verbal assurance” that Turkey won’t […]
Daily Memo: Putin and Xi Meet in Moscow, Serbia and Kosovo Take Steps Toward Normalization
Moscow summit. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Monday in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ahead of the visit, the Chinese Communist Party’s newspaper, the People’s...
European Economies Limp into 2023
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The European Union's economy shrank slightly in the final quarter of 2022. It could have been worse. Most countries tolerated the sharp rise in energy prices without...
Daily Memo: ECB Raises Interest Rates
Fighting inflation. The European Central Bank on Thursday hiked interest rates by half a percentage point. The main rate increased to 3.5 percent, the marginal lending facility to 3.75...
RealClearWorld: Ukraine and the Long War
Long wars result from consistent and fundamental errors: underestimating the will and ability of an enemy to resist, overestimating one’s own capabilities, going to war for incorrect or insufficient...
Daily Memo: Shoigu and Austin Discuss Drone Incident
Different version of events. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday held talks by phone to discuss the downing of a U.S....
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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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