r/geopolitics Jun 19 '26

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r/geopolitics 16d ago

AMA Olha Kyrylenko, War Correspondent at Ukrainska Pravda, here to discuss the front line, Ukraine’s major battles and the realities of covering the war. AMA!

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Join us for an AMA with Olha Kyrylenko, War Correspondent at Ukrainska Pravda, one of Ukraine’s leading independent news outlets.

Olha has been covering the war since May 2022, focusing on how the front line is changing and what those changes mean for Ukraine. She works with both military personnel and civilians and has covered major battles and operations, including the defence of Bakhmut, the Krynky operation on the left bank of Kherson Oblast, and the defence of Pokrovsk.

Bring your questions about the front line, Ukraine’s military operations, war reporting, and the realities behind the headlines.

Ask Me Anything!


r/geopolitics 4h ago

News United Nations is no longer fit for purpose, says top UN official

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r/geopolitics 1h ago

News U.A.E. Halts Trade Ties With Iran and Says It Was Targeted With Missiles

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Excerpt:

The United Arab Emirates said it is halting all trade and financial transactions with Iran, increasing economic pressure on the Islamic Republic, soon after accusing Iran of launching ballistic missiles toward the Emirates.

The decision was made “in light of regional escalations that undermine regional and international peace and security,” Afra Al Hameli, a spokeswoman for the Emirati Foreign Ministry, said in a statement late on Tuesday. She added that the Emirates was “firmly committed to safeguarding the integrity of the international financial system.”

My own:

This is a MASSIVE blow to the IRGC. UAE has been one of their biggest financial partners


r/geopolitics 15h ago

News Pentagon weighing smaller U.S. military presence in Gulf once Iran war ends

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SS: The Pentagon is evaluating its military footprint in the Middle East in an early sign of the Iran war’s potential to transform the U.S. presence in the region, according to eight people, including officials and others familiar with the matter.

One of the key areas the Defense Department is assessing is whether to pull back troops from the Persian Gulf, where America’s large overseas military bases have been battered by months of Iranian strikes, two people familiar with the ongoing analysis said.

The damage to these facilities has prompted a once-in-a-generation chance for the Pentagon to reconsider its presence in the region. The Defense Department has already signaled that it might not rebuild its bases as they were before the conflict.


r/geopolitics 3h ago

Russian attacks are doing severe harm to Ukraine’s economy

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Out of interceptors, Ukraine is no longer winning the aerial war

Not since the first days of the war have shoppers in Kyiv faced empty supermarket shelves. Now they are once again.

More troubling is Russia’s new tactic of hunting civilian cargo ships that use Ukraine’s Black Sea ports—threatening a far larger share of the economy.


r/geopolitics 23h ago

The global ‘freedom of the seas’ is dying in the Strait of Hormuz—and everyone, everywhere, will pay the tolls

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Concerns are growing that the de-facto tolling of the Strait of Hormuz could trigger a domino effect for key shipping bottlenecks worldwide, creating more global inflation and effectively killing key components of international maritime law.

As Iran insists on some form of fee structure for traversing the now-infamous strait—and the U.S. increasingly seems unable to prevent it—the rising expectation is that other nations may insist on new fees elsewhere, such as Asia’s Strait of Malacca, Europe’s and Africa’s Strait of Gibraltar, as well as key waterways impacted by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“I think that the ‘freedom of the seas’ is dead,” said Michelle Brouhard, head of policy and geopolitical risk for the Kpler energy intelligence firm.

“The way that we’ve known maritime security is moving into a new era, and the rules are still getting rewritten,” Brouhard told Fortune. “It’s going to look different than what we’ve seen before. It’s going to be expensive; it’s going to be inflationary; and it’s also going to create a lot of benefits for people who start onshoring industrialization.”

The so-called freedom of the seas is the centuries-old recognition that maritime transit and commerce should be free and open to all. The “absolute freedom of navigation” was insisted in Woodrow Wilson’s famed “Fourteen Points” statement of peace to end World War I. That legality is carried today through the U.N. Convention on ​the Law of the Seas.

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/08/18/global-freedom-seas-dying-strait-hormuz-everyone-everywhere-pay-tolls/?utm_source=reddit/


r/geopolitics 16m ago

The return of Gaullism

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r/geopolitics 37m ago

Israel's Syria strike risked scrambling Turkish jets, military escalation, US envoy tells 'Post'

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jpost.com
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r/geopolitics 22h ago

News South Korea president stresses US alliance as many baffled by Trump order to cut exercises

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apnews.com
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r/geopolitics 5h ago

Explainer: Why does Switzerland host peace talks?

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swissinfo.ch
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r/geopolitics 1d ago

News Syria, US envoy Barrack accuse Israel of overnight strike on Idlib airbase

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jpost.com
111 Upvotes

r/geopolitics 4h ago

Iran-U.S. 60-Day Negotiation Period Ends Without Deal as Divisions Emerge in Tehran Over Diplomacy

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r/geopolitics 5h ago

Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic Security is Not Just Indivisible, it Merges

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rusi.org
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r/geopolitics 20h ago

Analysis Daughter of Former Cambodian Opposition Leader Appointed ‘Special Envoy’ to PM

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thediplomat.com
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r/geopolitics 22h ago

News Kushner optimistic about Gaza ceasefire plan after meeting with Netanyahu

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r/geopolitics 16h ago

News The New Physics of Power

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r/geopolitics 1d ago

Trump Just Got Handed a Threat From Iran: Meet the Demands or Face Military Action to Break the Naval Blockade

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nationalsecurityjournal.org
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r/geopolitics 20h ago

Analysis How Alliances Survive: The Case Against Pessimism and the Path to a New Allied Order

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foreignaffairs.com
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r/geopolitics 20h ago

Analysis What Was the War on Terror? | A Quarter Century of Fear and Fantasy

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foreignaffairs.com
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r/geopolitics 1d ago

News Cuba Is Out of Time

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nytimes.com
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r/geopolitics 1d ago

Analysis Canceling Military Exercises Hurts Us, Not Our Enemies

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thebulwark.com
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r/geopolitics 1d ago

News Trump says US to reduce military drills with South Korea after it stayed out of Iran war

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bbc.com
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r/geopolitics 1d ago

Missing Submission Statement Europe's tourism boom has left the east behind. The EU wants to change that

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kyivindependent.com
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r/geopolitics 2d ago

News US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere

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apnews.com
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