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From the Desk of George Friedman

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Compromising on Corona

Battling the coronavirus is essential. But the battle has costs, which are invariably measured against the gain. “No matter what the cost” – the approach many countries appear to be taking – is a principle that can be disastrous, particularly when the cost is so high that it cannot be borne socially. With the coronavirus, […]

Oil Prices

Since before World War I and throughout the 1970s, the people who controlled oil had a lever for controlling others. Since the 1980s, the...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: The Next President Will Be Over 70

Perhaps the most important thing that has emerged in the presidential election campaign over the past few weeks is that the next president of...

Thoughts on the Coronavirus

I have presented geopolitics to be like economics, a science that predicts and summarizes the impersonal forces that drive a system so vast as...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: The Origin and Future of a Book

My new book has finally been published. Of all the books I have written, this one took the longest. I conceived the principles around...

The Canadian Geopolitical Dynamic

Canada is being wracked by what appears to be a moderately important internal crisis over First Nations’ objections to the construction of a natural...

On Leadership, Virtue and Vice

June 21, 2017 In Britain, Theresa May failed to understand that leadership is more important than management.

New US Strategy and Technology

The world is facing a fundamental strategic and technical shift in both the geopolitics of war and its dynamic. The shift is being driven...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Variations on Apocalypse

I have been thinking and writing about the coronavirus in China. In general, I’ve focused on its geopolitical aspect, on its effect on Chinese...

China, Ultra-Competence and Coronavirus

The Communist revolution brought to power Mao Zedong. It created a state based on ideology, the belief that what would emerge from the long...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Deep Geopolitics

Geopolitics is, on the surface, about the relationship between nations and geography. At a deeper level, it is about nations and necessity and predictability....

The Geopolitics of the Novel Coronavirus

Geopolitics is a fairly slow-moving process that unfolds in predictable ways. This is usually the case. There are then moments when a wild card...

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