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George Friedman has always been an outsider within the US foreign policy establishment. Some would say he is not part of the establishment at all, since the Council on Foreign Relations has barely tolerated mention of his name over the past couple of decades. One presumes this is because Friedman has resisted the constraints that…
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On 15 October the Sunday Times reported that “five former British Defence Secretaries and the ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson have urged Sir Keir Starmer to supply Ukraine with long range Storm Shadow missiles to strike deep inside Russia, even without US backing.” This joint statement was preceded by a week or so of high-profile media…
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The World has entered a period of great flux. Thirty years ago it was in such a period after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That event came about with great suddenness, despite signs being there that something was going to happen of a fundamental nature. Likewise, today. In the late 1980s Soviet leaders and…
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Two years ago, on February 24, Russia launched its Special Military Operation in Ukraine. This was not the start of the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine, which was a civil war provoked by a US organised coup, had begun in 2014. The subsequent Russian intervention two years ago was prompted by the imminence…
