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: Power for Syria , Changes in Iran
Energy for Syria. A new pipeline that will bring natural gas from Azerbaijan to Syria has been inaugurated. The ceremony took place in Turkey’s southeastern province of Kilis, on the Syrian border. The pipeline should deliver 1.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Syria annually in the first stage – which will then be […]
Uncertainty in Tariffs
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On Aug. 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order introducing import duties of 10 percent to 41 percent on 69 countries and territories and the European...
Daily Memo: China’s Latest Arms Exports
Arms production. China and Kuwait are close to completing construction on an ammunition factory in the Gulf state, the Kuwaiti deputy defense minister said. He added that the two...
Daily Memo: US Reaches Last-Minute Trade Deals
Pakistan. Washington announced a flurry of trade deals with countries facing severe spikes in tariffs if they did not reach a compromise by the Aug. 1 deadline. The United...
Is South Korea the Next Big Arms Maker?
By Emmett Stern
South Korean arms manufacturers are having a moment, and their rise is years in the making. In 2022, for example, Poland signed contracts for 180 tanks and...
Drug Wars: George Friedman on Why the Cartels Are So Hard to Destroy
Last week, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Venezuelan group the Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist organization. President Trump has long considered the cartels to be terrorists and has made their destruction a key policy of his administration. The cartels export of drugs to the U.S. is having a devastating impact on parts of the country. In this episode of Talking Geopolitics, join GPF Chairman George Friedman and host Christian Smith as they ask whether the cartels can they really be “destroyed,” and why this all has become a geopolitical issue?
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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...
