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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: Azerbaijani Demands for Armenia, US Warns for Israel

New condition. Establishing peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia would require changes to the Armenian constitution, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic States. Aliyev explained that it would be “impossible” to conclude a peace agreement between the two while the Armenian constitution, which he said includes territorial claims […]

Daily Memo: Uproar in Turkey, Drills in Syria

Turkish backlash. Clashes broke out in the Turkish parliament between lawmakers from the governing AKP party and the pro-Kurdish DEM party following the arrest on Monday of the mayor...

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...

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

(click to enlarge) 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....

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