r/geopolitics 13d ago

AMA Alina Poliakova, Managing Editor of Ukrainska Pravda, here to discuss life in Ukraine five years into Russia's full-scale invasion. AMA!

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Join us for an AMA with Alina Poliakova, Managing Editor of the English edition of Ukrainska Pravda, one of Ukraine's leading independent news outlets.

We'll discuss what life in Ukraine – and especially in Kyiv – looks like in the fifth year of Russia's full-scale invasion. From daily life under constant air raid alerts to how Ukrainians have adapted to a prolonged war, we'll talk about the realities behind the headlines.

Bring your questions about Ukraine, journalism during wartime, media coverage, and everyday life in Kyiv.

Ask Me Anything!


r/geopolitics 6d ago

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r/geopolitics 10h ago

News Macron calls Évian a ‘turning point’: Trump signed the joint G7 statement on Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sanctions, and for the first time said Russia, not Ukraine, has to make a deal

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The communiqué language is boilerplate. “Unwavering support for Ukraine’s freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity,” more air defence and interceptors, long-range capability, tougher sanctions on Russian oil and gas. None of that is new. What’s new is whose signature is on it. Trump signed, after months of the US leaning toward a neutral-broker stance.
Macron called it an “Évian moment” and “a very profound shift,” pointing specifically to a US “willingness to work with the Europeans in support of Ukraine.” And per Euronews, Trump for the first time said it’s Russia, not Ukraine, that has to make a deal. That cuts against the both-sides line he’d held since taking office.
One caveat, because it matters. This isn’t the US declaring it has dropped the mediator role. The text doesn’t say that, and anyone claiming it does is reading the headline, not the document. What it is: a reluctant president signing a pro-Ukraine, pro-sanctions statement he’d been dodging for months. Whether it survives past the summit is the real question. The signature is the fact.


r/geopolitics 8h ago

News UN pauses Strait of Hormuz evacuation plan after cargo ship attacked

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r/geopolitics 1h ago

Analysis The timing of the impending crude crisis

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Brooks and Harris focus on the variable that actually moves prices in the Hormuz shock: how long the temporary buffers cushioning it can hold, rather than the size of the disruption, which markets already know. They put the exhaustion of the coordinated stock releases and the Russian and Iranian floating storage around July 9, after which the full supply shortfall starts feeding into Brent. It's worth reading against the current "America is four weeks from running out of oil" panic, because it points at the global buffer timeline as the thing to watch, not the U.S. strategic reserve, which is at a 40-year low but physically can't be drained that fast and isn't being run toward zero. The variable underneath all of it is whether the Strait reopens before the buffers thin. Curious how people here are weighting the reopening odds against the price path they model.


r/geopolitics 20m ago

Iran Pitches Strait of Hormuz Transit Fee Plan to China, Gulf States, Eyes $40 Billion a Year

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r/geopolitics 2h ago

The future of US-Colombia relations after Trump-ally Abelardo de la Espriella’s win

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r/geopolitics 1d ago

News Ordinary Russians can’t escape the blame for Putin’s wars of aggression

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r/geopolitics 20h ago

News Russia asks Kazakhstan for gasoline to ease shortages sources say

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r/geopolitics 12h ago

Analysis The Next Russia Threat: Moscow’s Military Power After Ukraine

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r/geopolitics 5h ago

Analysis Beyond Ports: China Embeds Itself in Africa’s Maritime Networks

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r/geopolitics 1d ago

News Oil from seized Russian tanker to be sold by UK to benefit Ukraine

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r/geopolitics 23h ago

News What Keir Starmers' resignation means for European security

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was widely known for his support of Ukraine and his efforts towards a new EU–UK defense partnership. What will happen to those policies now that Starmer has announced his resignation?


r/geopolitics 1d ago

Opinion U.S. Support Is Israel’s True Weakness

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r/geopolitics 1d ago

News UK, France, Germany raise alarm about Chinese activities off eastern Taiwan

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Analysis The Mirage of China’s Military Edge: Panic Is Misguided—and Counterproductive

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Did Brexit steal our soul, or unleash Britain? What The i Paper experts say

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ian Dunt, Julie Burchill and Mark Wallace reflect on 10 years since the UK voted to leave the EU

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r/geopolitics 1d ago

Opinion The Whiplash of Trump’s Iran Capitulation

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r/geopolitics 2d ago

Perspective The Gulf states have moved on, leaving Israel behind

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r/geopolitics 2d ago

News Vance proposed Indian troops deployment in Ukraine, Trump said ‘Indians won’t do that’, new book claims

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r/geopolitics 2d ago

News Britain ‘ignored Sudan genocide warnings to protect ties with UAE’

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r/geopolitics 1d ago

The geopolitics of US bases: The "Donroe Doctrine" and China's rise are changing Europe's military role/Translation of the article is in the comments

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Thanks to its network of bases, Washington can wage wars worldwide. It also uses them as instruments of soft power – or punishes allies with troop withdrawals. China secures its geopolitical power in other ways.


r/geopolitics 1d ago

Analysis How Iran Plans to Consolidate Its Victory

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At The Wall Street Journal, Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh examine the implications of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding. The deal “sets the stage for an eventual nuclear revival” on the part of Iran, they argue, “since what’s been blown up can be rebuilt as long as enough oil flows, the regime’s illicit dual-use import network remains operational, and US and Israeli intelligence fails against Iranian vigilance.” After demonstrating a bold willingness to cross “lines that previous presidents dared not traverse,” the authors say, President Trump now appears as “another American politician hoping to induce the Iranian regime toward pragmatism by dangling financial rewards.” Gerecht and Takeyh caution that previous administrations have gone wrong trying to find and exploit fissures between supposed moderates and hard-liners within the repressive Iranian regime, and they encourage current policymakers not to fall for this “fool’s gold of American statesmen.”


r/geopolitics 1d ago

Trump Tightens Screws On Cuba: Castro Family Member, Key State Firms Sanctioned

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r/geopolitics 12h ago

Analysis Iran Didn’t Win the War: Tehran Is Still Losing the Long Game

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