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From the Desk of George Friedman

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Whatever Happened to Brexit?

George Friedman - March 19, 2020

The planet has reached an extraordinary moment of unity. The overriding focus is on the coronavirus and the radical restructuring of our lives and societies. There is a weird sense of sharing. This is not a “Kumbaya” moment in any sense. The moment is not giving us a sense of how we are all human […]

Quarantine and the Supply Chain

George Friedman - March 17, 2020

The global medical community appears to have devised a strategy for mitigating the coronavirus that depends largely on quarantine, or limiting contact among the...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Compromising on Corona

George Friedman - March 11, 2020

Battling the coronavirus is essential. But the battle has costs, which are invariably measured against the gain. “No matter what the cost” – the...

Oil Prices

George Friedman - March 10, 2020

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

George Friedman - March 5, 2020

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

George Friedman - March 3, 2020

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

George Friedman - February 27, 2020

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

George Friedman - February 25, 2020

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