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Russia, Ukraine and Thinking Extreme Thoughts

George Friedman - October 24, 2023

In a recent article, I wrote that the war in Ukraine is over, but nobody knows how to end it. What I meant by...

The Last War

George Friedman - October 17, 2023

The world is focused on the Hamas-Israel war that is now raging. But this war has its psychological antecedents in a war that occurred...

The World Begins to Reorder Itself

George Friedman - October 10, 2023

I wrote a few months ago that the world is in the process of reordering itself, something it does every few generations. It is...

The War Is Over, but No One Knows How to Stop Fighting

George Friedman - October 3, 2023

It has been more than one and a half years since Russia launched its attack on Ukraine. The war has not gone as the...

Russia Seals Its Southern Border

George Friedman - September 26, 2023

Russia's focus currently is on its western front, in Ukraine and neighboring countries. There is, however, another front that concerns Russia: its southern border,...

The Chinese Mystery

George Friedman - September 19, 2023

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu has disappeared. Some reports say he was meeting with Vietnamese officials when he was escorted away, but according to...

9/11: The Perfect Op

George Friedman - September 12, 2023

It has been 22 years since the 9/11 attack that destroyed the World Trade Center buildings and a wing of the Pentagon and launched...

A Shift in Ukrainian Strategy

George Friedman - September 5, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced over the weekend that he replaced his defense minister with someone new – unsurprising, given the exhaustion the minister...