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Daily Memo: US Negotiations With Russia and Belarus

Meeting in Riyadh. Representatives from the United States and Russia are set to meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Russiaā€™s Kommersant reported. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Walz and presidential envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff will represent Washington at the meeting, while Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, presidential adviser Yuri […]

Speculating on the Summit in Saudi Arabia

At its heart, Geopolitical Futures is a forecasting company. But before we forecast, we analyze. And before we analyze, we speculate. We rarely publish...

Daily Memo: US-India Talks, Protests in Belgium

U.S. and India. During talks in Washington this week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to intensify defense cooperation....

Turkey and the Geopolitical Roads Ahead

Turkey is resurging as a regional power. The fall of Bashar Assadā€™s regime in Syria in 2024 and Azerbaijanā€™s takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023...

Daily Memo: Developments in Ukraine and Syria

Planning negotiations. U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Wednesday. The Kremlin said they discussed a prisoner exchange,...

Russia-US Negotiations Open the Next Phase Of Restructuring the World

From 1945 until the early 1990s, the global order was based on the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was...

Daily Memo: Russia’s Red Sea Ambitions, North Korea’s Weapons Deliveries

Russia's base deal. Russia has reportedly reached an agreement with Sudanese military leaders for the establishment of a Russian naval base on the Red...

Russiaā€™s Place in the US-China Trade War

Last week, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Russia did not intend to get involved in the U.S. trade conflicts with Canada, Mexico...

Daily Memo: China’s Foreign Investment Agenda, Syria’s Approach to Russia

Chinese incentives. China approved a new plan to stabilize foreign investment in 2025 during a meeting of the State Council on Monday. Under the...

Turkeyā€™s Neo-Ottoman Agenda in Africa

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants his country to reclaim its status as a regional power. Embodying an ideology often referred to as neo-Ottomanism,...

Daily Memo: Iran’s Nuclear Policy, AI Development in France

Iran and nukes. Top commanders of Iranā€™s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps asked Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to lift the fatwa (or religious decree)...

Kuwait’s Denaturalization Policy

Over the past year, Kuwait has undertaken a massive campaign to revoke citizenship based on a decree by the ruling emir, Sheikh Meshal Al...

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