Zeihan on Geopolitics

Global trade was once fragmented into many regional economies.

Project Vault, the Trump administration’s initiative to stockpile critical minerals, is just a small step in the right direction.

If China and Russia are so buddy-buddy now, why don’t they build pipelines across Siberia to bypass the Persian Gulf?

Ukraine has created a system to determine which ships belong to the shadow fleet and which belong to major companies.

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While oil is still moving through the Strait of Hormuz, flows remain a fraction of pre-war levels.

You know what happens when you do exactly what the Chinese government tells you to do?

A leaked Moscow memo stated that Russian air defenses are being concentrated around the Kremlin.

Crippling one of the world’s most deeply integrated manufacturing systems probably isn’t a great idea, but here we are again.

Following the dumpster fire that was the Iran war, the U.S. is contemplating how and where to redeploy forces to the Middle East.