Category: Politics
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Friedman: Geography Makes Cuba a Greater Strategic Threat Than Venezuela
As the United States recalibrates its focus on the Western Hemisphere, leading analysts at Geopolitical Futures suggest that while Venezuela poses a tactical challenge, Cuba remains the primary geographic vulnerability for Washington. In a recent “ClubGPF” live discussion held on November 20, 2025, George Friedman, founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, and analyst Andrew Davidson…
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Vadym Denysenko on Putin, the FSB, and Russia’s Power Structure
For decades, Western analysts have operated under a prevailing assumption regarding the Kremlin’s power structure: that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is simply an extension of the Federal Security Service (FSB), a regime where the intelligence services hold absolute sway. However, according to Vadym Denysenko, a historian, political scientist, and author of the book Post-Putin, this assessment…
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Republicans Fear ‘Looming Disaster’ as Inflation Bites Ahead of Midterms
With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, significant alarm is spreading within the Republican Party regarding the economic landscape and President Donald Trump’s fluctuating messaging on inflation. According to a new report from “The Daily Blast” podcast produced by the New Republic and the DSR Network, GOP officials are bracing for significant…
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Beijing’s ‘Creeping Sovereignty’ Tactics Alarm South Korea in Yellow Sea
China has unilaterally deployed surveillance buoys and massive industrial platforms in the Yellow Sea waters shared with South Korea, raising concerns that Beijing is expanding its “grey zone” tactics to assert control over disputed maritime areas, according to a new analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Since 2018, Beijing has installed…
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George Friedman: Demographic Storm, Not Politics, Is the Looming Crisis
While the American public remains fixated on the immediate turbulence of the daily news cycle, a deeper, structural storm is gathering on the horizon. According to geopolitical strategist George Friedman, the United States is barreling toward a socioeconomic crisis driven not by politics, but by the math of demographics: a shrinking workforce squeezed between low…
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Merz Declares End of ‘Pax Americana’ as Critical Ukraine Talks Loom
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has delivered a stark assessment of the future of transatlantic relations, warning that the era of United States-led global stability is effectively over and that Europe must prepare to assert its own interests more aggressively. Speaking ahead of high-stakes negotiations in Berlin aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Merz struck…
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Trump 2025 NSS: Economic Nationalism Replaces Power Competition
The Trump administration has released a sweeping new National Security Strategy (NSS) that explicitly repudiates the bipartisan foreign policy consensus of the post-Cold War era, signaling a profound shift toward economic nationalism, hemispheric dominance, and a confrontational stance toward traditional European allies. In a comprehensive breakdown of the 29-page document on the Council on Foreign…
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Bill Browder: Trump Peace Plan Is ‘Fantasy Football’ as EU Moves to Seize Russian Assets
Prominent Kremlin critic and financier Sir Bill Browder has launched a scathing critique of current peace proposals for Ukraine, describing efforts led by Donald Trump’s orbit as “fantasy football” while predicting an imminent, game-changing move by European powers to seize frozen Russian assets. In a wide-ranging interview on The Trump Report for Times Radio, the…
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Wolf, Krugman: New US Strategy Treats Europe as Ideological Enemy
In a stark assessment of the geopolitical landscape following the release of the White House’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), leading economists Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman have warned that the United States has effectively abandoned its role as a global stabilizer, declaring its traditional European allies to be ideological enemies. During an exchange for…
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As West’s Economic Clout Fades, Washington Must Court Rising ‘Hinge States’
For decades, the United States operated in a geopolitical landscape where it could essentially dictate the terms of global engagement. However, a seismic shift in economic power is underway, demanding a strategic overhaul from Washington to court a group of rising “hinge states” that refuse to pick sides between great powers. A new analysis released…