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: Western Countries Unveil Sanctions on Russia
Ukraine crisis update. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskiy said the Ukrainian military was calling up reservists aged 18 to 60 for a maximum term of service of one year. In Moscow, the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house, approved President Vladimir Putin’s request to deploy the armed forces abroad, a day after Putin signed treaties with the […]
Daily Memo: Moscow Recognizes Breakaway Ukrainian Regions
Putin makes his move. After a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk...
Daily Memo: More Shelling in Donbass, Raisi’s Trip to Qatar
Latest on Ukraine. Shelling in eastern Ukraine continued into Monday, while Russia accepted the first refugees from the separatist areas of Donbass. During a phone call between Russian President...
Newsweek: Russian Tanks Rolling Into Ukraine’s Capital ‘Highly Likely’: Lloyd Austin
"Russia had to establish control over Ukraine and the threat of an attack—not an attack—was a way to start negotiations with the West and show Ukraine that the West...
An Update on Eastern Ukraine
Editor’s note: Many readers have correctly noted that the following piece is different from our normal analyses in that it is more observational than analytical, and is therefore much...
Europe’s Recovery Approaches Its Limits
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Two years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy of the European Union is rebounding, with growth in most EU states returning to pre-pandemic levels....
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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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