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: Central Asian Curiosities

Washington in Central Asia. U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu is visiting Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan until Nov. 11 to discuss partnerships on a range of bilateral and regional issues. While in Turkmenistan, Lu announced Washington’s intention to help Turkmen authorities and businesses benefit from anti-Russia sanctions. The Kremlin tends […]

Daily Memo: Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula

Heating up. South Korea’s military said North Korea fired about 80 artillery rounds into a maritime buffer zone overnight. On Friday, South Korea scrambled 80 aircraft, including F-35A stealth...

Daily Memo: Erdogan Talks Russia With Scholz, German Energy Giant’s Profits Fall

Insight from Erdogan. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has changed his stance on Russia and is now looking to “find common...

Daily Memo: Ukraine Grain Deal Back On, North Korea Launches More Missiles

Ukrainian guarantees. Russia said it would return to a deal that facilitated the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea after receiving written guarantees from Kyiv that it...

Daily Memo: Russian Urgency

Russian urgency in Turkey … At a press conference Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the natural gas hub under consideration in Turkey could be implemented fairly quickly but...

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