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Turkey’s Time to Rise

George Friedman - August 4, 2025

“The Next 100 Years,” which was published some 15 years ago, forecast the emergence of three significant powers over the next few decades: Japan,...

The Geopolitics of Drugs

George Friedman - July 28, 2025

Last month, President Donald Trump declared – not for the first time – the drug cartels in Latin America to be international terrorists. And...

Putin’s Dilemma

George Friedman - July 22, 2025

In analyzing the process by which the Russia-Ukraine war will end, the most critical factor, as I have argued before, is that by not...

Floods in the Texas Hill Country: Reflections on a Catastrophe

George Friedman - July 14, 2025

A little over a week ago, the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country went berserk, as rivers sometimes do in this area, killing...

Trump’s Diplomatic Model

George Friedman - June 30, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump has developed a clear model for exercising diplomacy. He begins by making demands of other nations, then calls for negotiations....

War and the Constitution

George Friedman - June 23, 2025

The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities has raised an important constitutional issue. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war. It...

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

George Friedman - June 16, 2025

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...

Report From Hungary

George Friedman - June 11, 2025

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

Report From Serbia

George Friedman - June 6, 2025

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

George Friedman - June 3, 2025

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...

Germany Acts

George Friedman - May 27, 2025

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...

Russia’s Negotiating Strategy

George Friedman - May 22, 2025

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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