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From the Desk of George Friedman

George Answers Your Questions: Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Iran

Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Iran: Searching for the Significant June 16, 2025 Question: What are the pros and cons for Israel of circulating that they could have killed Ali Khamenei? What would be the pros and cons for Israel of actually killing him? Response: Wars end either in the total destruction of the enemy’s […]

Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Iran: Searching for the Significant

The Ukrainian drone attack on Russia at the beginning of this month and the Israeli attack on Iran have some striking similarities. 1. Both attacks...

George Answers Your Questions: Reports from Serbia and Hungary, U.S. Immigration

There are a great many questions today and I’ve tried to answer them all combined in some way. Given that we are both discussing...

Report From Hungary

My ongoing trip to Europe has brought me to Hungary, the country in which I was born. My profession requires me to be clinical...

George Answers Your Questions: Report from Bucharest, Russia-Ukraine

Report from Bucharest June 3, 2025 Comment/Question: Romania faces the dilemma of supporting liberal economic/security interests clashing with conservative social/ideological rhetoric (LGBTQ, religion, etc.) of mainstream...

Report From Serbia

I first visited Serbia in the early 1970s. At the time, I was genuinely unaware that I was in Serbia. I thought I was...

Report From Bucharest

My wife and I arrived in Romania last Wednesday after a two-night stopover and time adjustment in Frankfurt. We stayed in Bucharest with Antonia...

George Answers Your Questions: Germany Acts, Russia-Ukraine War

Germany Acts May 27, 2025 Comment/Correction needed: The article states that Lithuania does not share a border with Russia. This is not correct. Lithuania shares a...

Germany Acts

Germany’s decision to deploy a permanent force of 5,000 soldiers to Lithuania is extremely significant because it signals the next phase of a new...

The Meaning of Memorial Day

Editor's note: To mark Memorial Day in the United States, we are republishing this article, originally published on May 28, 2019. I’m writing this on...

George Answers Your Questions: Russia’s Strategy

Russia’s Negotiating Strategy May 22, 2025 Comment: Please elaborate on how you arrived at the conclusion that Russia has already lost the war by virtue of...

Russia’s Negotiating Strategy

It has been about three months since U.S. President Donald Trump began the negotiation process with Russian President Vladimir Putin for peace in Ukraine....

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