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RE: #geopolitics

Carney's speech at Davos yesterday is an entire graduate class in geopolitics. This should be required study for everyone in leadership in every country right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uStuQ-TbL9k

I wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., Nanette Levinson, and Francesca Musiani. It initially seems to be a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading.
What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygo…

Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, on the rupture of the old world order:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses
He goes righ…

“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.

[OT] Europe is breaking up with U.S. cloud https://www.eetimes.com/europe-breaking-up-cloud-us/ Geopolitics forces European large organizations to abandon U.S. hyperscale cloud reliance.

The Russians Are Coming: Georgia's Creeping Occupation - YouTube
#geopolitics

Time names "the Architects of AI" as its 2025 Person of the Year and takes a look at AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how we interact with the world (Time)
https://time.com/7339685/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects/

The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year
The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world.

From Anticolonial Heroes to Post-Independence Liabilities: Morphing Refugee Categorizations in African Geopolitics
New blogpost by Rose Jaji on @… blog

Trump makes no secret of his intentions.
#trump #geopolitics #canada #greenland

Greenland thoughts from Antarctica..
Greenland is all over the press at the moment for all the wrong reasons. But Greenland is also on my mind, not just because of geopolitics, but also because the Copernicus Climate service has just put out their annual global climate highlights for 2025 with some disturbing messages about Antarctica. Understanding Greenland can help us to understand also what is happening here.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/01/14/greenland-thoughts-from-antarctica/

Even if we can't be part of the the EU as a whole, we could be part of the monetary union, and the customs union as well.
#canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #usa #eu #euro #geopolitics

"But it also changed for America too. Trump ensured that the US will no longer be admired or respected around the world as that shining beacon of liberty and law.
America will now be feared and despised."
@…

OH: "bgp stands for border geopolitics"

Regime change in Iran could also weaken Russia further, so we have a clear European interest here, also with regard to the war in Ukraine. But ofcourse the most important thing is that the Iranian people with their rich history and culture can enjoy more freedom.
#iranprotests #geopolitics

A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump's Personal Geopolitics (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/americas/trump-maduro-juan-orlando-hernandez.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B1A.-6Am.ugOJo2UCnSA8&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p58#a260104p58

Taking out military assets in Venezuela is relatively easy, controlling Caracas ( 2 million people) and Venezuela as a whole is not.
#venezuela #usa #geopolitics

"Weary of being captive to geopolitics, car companies are looking for ways to replace powerful rare-earth magnets in electric motors." The Ultimate Driving Machine has already done so. "Back in the '80s, GM developed magnets [not reliant on rare-earths…but] sold the technology to Chinese companies"

💪 Does the US have enough graphite to meet growing energy demand? Yes, but costs, quality are concerns
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-graphite-energy-demand-quality.html

Does the US have enough graphite to meet growing energy demand? Yes, but costs, quality are concerns
New research from the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Co. shows that the United States could mine enough graphite to build batteries for electric vehicles and other applications, but economics and geopolitics make it a complex problem.

All events around Venezuela.
#venezuela #geopolitics

Venezuela news in English on live map - protests against Maduro - venezuela.liveuamap.com
Explore Venezuela local news alerts & today's headlines geolocated on live map on website or application. Focus on politics, military news and security alerts

Trump wants to close airspace Venezuela.
#trump #venezuela #geopolitics @…

"Cop30, Trump and the fragile future of climate cooperation"
#US #USA #America #Climate

The biggest fear of Putin is a prosperous, successful, strong and independent Ukraine at his border. That's why he will do everything to prevent any kind of fair deal with Ukraine.
#ukraine #russia #geopolitics

To quote Thatcher, “this is no time to go wobbly” , with regard to the sanctions from the US against the EU.
#eu #usa #geopolitics @…

Interesting and well-made , "The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next"
#geopolitics

The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next