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: More Money for Ukraine, More Sanctions for Russia
US support for Kyiv. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced $322 million in military funding for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv on Sunday. They also pledged nearly $400 million for NATO allies and other countries that provided Ukraine with military supplies. Another round of sanctions. European Commission […]
Europe’s Recovery Will Have to Wait
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Entering 2022, the economies of the European Union were generally on the right track but were anything but booming. In the final quarter of 2021, about half...
Antonia Colibasanu on KPFA’s Talkies Podcast: Putin’s Economic War
The Kremlin has prepared to confront the West and its socio-economic model since at least the early 2000s. GPF COO Antonia Colibasanu joins host Kris Welch to discuss her recent article on the ongoing war in Ukraine and particularly Putin's goal of taking advantage of a weak NATO and European Union, following two years of COVID-19 impacts.
Daily Memo: Moscow Outlines Next Phase of Ukraine War
Second phase. Russia’s Defense Ministry outlined the goals of the second phase of its “special military operation” in Ukraine. It plans to gain full control over the Donbas region...
George Friedman on The John Batchelor Show: Gains in Poland and Turkey, Losses in China
The war in Ukraine is having reverberations around the world. GPF Chairman George Friedman joins John Batchelor to discuss several of these reverberations: Poland and Turkey taking on greater significance as a result of the war, and China losing significance.
Daily Memo: Johnson in India, Russian Forces in Mariupol
Johnson in India. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in India on Thursday for talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Though they’re expected to discuss the situation in...
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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.
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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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