"When Russia invaded Ukraine and failed, the world changed." - GPF Chairman George Friedman on Trump, Putin and Changing Global Realities youtube.com/watch?v=-knLXn…

Trump is Leveraging the Changing Reality of Russia What is the US trying to achieve in its negotiations with Russia? GPF Chairman George Friedman sat down with Talking Geopolitics host Christian Smith to discuss this and much more.

GPF's George Friedman on Vladimir Putin: "What he needed to do, and what he could do were two different things." youtube.com/watch?v=ksfn_7…

Mark Twain said, “history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Donald Trump is a product of American history and, as such, should have been expected, even if the new norms he ushers in are unknown. But emerge they will as they always do in U.S. cycles.

The Vietnam War was the product of geopolitical imperatives. Ukraine is now in the same position during the negotiations with Russia as the South Vietnamese were. Depending on these negotiations, the end still could be a long way off. geopoliticalfutures.com/engineering-an…

America's Tariffs and Today's Global System The U.S. is measuring its strength - GPF's George Friedman in a new video: youtube.com/watch?v=l_Fg2Z…

The U.S. created a trade system that proved to be vulnerable to internal events in exporting countries. However, accompanied by accelerating financial imbalances, the system became obsolete. It's unsurprising that as the Russian threat subsides, the U.S. is changing strategies.

The radical shifts taken by the Trump administration in the last couple weeks have us at GPF wondering, could this be one of the most consequential months for global economics in the 21st century? Watch the full interview with George Friedman on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o0YJSE…

Adam Smith defined how we think about free markets. His guiding principle was the invisible hand – the idea that the pursuit of individual interests in economic life would inevitably produce an optimized and predictable economy. geopoliticalfutures.com/adam-smith-eco…

Europe has become a lightning rod in the US, particularly regarding the US’ desire to stop guaranteeing European security. It’s become vogue to ask how Europe will respond to various events in the world. But here's an important question: What is Europe? geopoliticalfutures.com/europe-whats-t…

Memorial Day is a day dedicated to remembering those who died fighting for the United States and to enjoying the first outdoor gatherings of the summer. For me, it is a celebration of life. geopoliticalfutures.com/the-meaning-of…

Germany’s decision to deploy a permanent force of 5,000 soldiers to Lithuania is significant, signaling the next phase of a new geopolitical era. It is not designed to resist a full Russian attack, rather to trigger a response in Europe and instill a sense of caution in Russia.

Remembering D-Day Overlooking Omaha Beach is a cemetery in which the Americans who died on D-Day were buried. To walk through this graveyard is to walk through America, for the names of the dead are the common names of our friends and relatives. geopoliticalfutures.com/remembering-d-…

Earlier this week, I sat down with Talking Geopolitics host Christian Smith to talk about Trump's Iran strike

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. If the negotiations do not take place or fail to produce some kind of accommodation, he takes punitive action.

In my 2009 book, “The Next 100 Years,” I forecast that the next major socioeconomic problem would stem from a demographic crisis, with falling birth rates, decreasing death rates and increased life expectancy. The crisis has been building in the US and other parts of the world.

Geopolitical Futures analyst and China expert Victoria Herczegh joined Talking Geopolitics host Christian Smith to discuss what lies behind Xi Jinping's purges, what keeps him up at night, and what might happen when Xi leaves office. youtube.com/watch?v=GQpWp7…

To paraphrase Allen Ginsberg, some of the best minds of my generation have been destroyed by drugs, so I have no moral objection to destroying the organizations that traffic them. But destroying terror organizations is not easy, especially when they are so enormously wealthy.

I recently sat down with Christian Smith for a new episode of Talking Geopolitics to discuss how extremist groups like Hamas and ISIS become embedded in the population, spreading their ideology, and how cutting off the money supply isn't that simple. youtube.com/watch?v=nPxDl9…

The Real Stakes of the Trump-Putin Alaska Summit Is it the big moment that political circles across the US and Europe are making it out to be? Will anything to come from this when the two sides appear so far apart? New episode with George Friedman: youtube.com/watch?v=4PkJpb…