GeopoliticalGuy
@geopoliticalguy.bsky.social
Geopolitics through maps and visuals 🌎
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2025 wasn’t just noisy…
Conflict, climate shocks, political resets, and economic pressure often overlapped, creating cascading effects.
We are now operating in a new risk environment, and organisations enabled to navigate it will hold a competitive advantage.
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Conflict, climate shocks, political resets, and economic pressure often overlapped, creating cascading effects.
We are now operating in a new risk environment, and organisations enabled to navigate it will hold a competitive advantage.
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
December 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
2025 wasn’t just noisy…
Conflict, climate shocks, political resets, and economic pressure often overlapped, creating cascading effects.
We are now operating in a new risk environment, and organisations enabled to navigate it will hold a competitive advantage.
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
Conflict, climate shocks, political resets, and economic pressure often overlapped, creating cascading effects.
We are now operating in a new risk environment, and organisations enabled to navigate it will hold a competitive advantage.
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
Almost at the 2,000-subscriber mark on Substack! If you want to stay across global geopolitics, make sure you subscribe with plans already in motion to expand both the breadth and depth of reporting in 2026.
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India’s Strategic Calculus: Diversification Without Alignment
There’s a temptation, especially in Washington and Brussels, to read India’s Russia policy through the familiar lens of alliance politics — as if New Delhi were a reluctant Western partner failing to ...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Almost at the 2,000-subscriber mark on Substack! If you want to stay across global geopolitics, make sure you subscribe with plans already in motion to expand both the breadth and depth of reporting in 2026.
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Population-wise, the U.S. is basically 50 different countries combined.
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.visualcapitalist.com/population-o...
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.visualcapitalist.com/population-o...
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Population-wise, the U.S. is basically 50 different countries combined.
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.visualcapitalist.com/population-o...
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.visualcapitalist.com/population-o...
China’s loudest signal yet that it’s preparing to operate far beyond its own shores.
I unpack what this means (free post!) now up on my Substack.
#FujianCarrier #PLANavy #ChinaMilitary #IndoPacificSecurity #CarrierStrikeGroup #BlueWaterNavy
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I unpack what this means (free post!) now up on my Substack.
#FujianCarrier #PLANavy #ChinaMilitary #IndoPacificSecurity #CarrierStrikeGroup #BlueWaterNavy
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Fujian Sets Sail: What China’s New Supercarrier Really Means
China’s latest and most advanced warship has officially joined the fleet.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
China’s loudest signal yet that it’s preparing to operate far beyond its own shores.
I unpack what this means (free post!) now up on my Substack.
#FujianCarrier #PLANavy #ChinaMilitary #IndoPacificSecurity #CarrierStrikeGroup #BlueWaterNavy
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
I unpack what this means (free post!) now up on my Substack.
#FujianCarrier #PLANavy #ChinaMilitary #IndoPacificSecurity #CarrierStrikeGroup #BlueWaterNavy
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
A Socialist in the Capital of Capitalism: Mamdani’s New York Experiment open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
#NYCPolitics #NewYorkMayor #NYC2025 #USPolitics #ZohranMamdani #Mamdani2025
#NYCPolitics #NewYorkMayor #NYC2025 #USPolitics #ZohranMamdani #Mamdani2025
A Socialist in the Capital of Capitalism: Mamdani’s New York Experiment
Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City’s 111th mayor is less a local upset than an inflection point for a party still reeling from its 2024 losses.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A Socialist in the Capital of Capitalism: Mamdani’s New York Experiment open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
#NYCPolitics #NewYorkMayor #NYC2025 #USPolitics #ZohranMamdani #Mamdani2025
#NYCPolitics #NewYorkMayor #NYC2025 #USPolitics #ZohranMamdani #Mamdani2025
Sudan is now home to the world’s largest displacement crisis, and yet one of the least discussed wars! open.substack.com/pub/geopolit... #SudanWar #DarfurCrisis #SudanConflict #RSF #SAF #Hemedti #AlFashir #ElGeneina #Khartoum #Darfur
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Sudan is now home to the world’s largest displacement crisis, and yet one of the least discussed wars! open.substack.com/pub/geopolit... #SudanWar #DarfurCrisis #SudanConflict #RSF #SAF #Hemedti #AlFashir #ElGeneina #Khartoum #Darfur
Sudan is now home to the world’s largest displacement crisis, and yet one of the least discussed wars! open.substack.com/pub/geopolit... #SudanWar #DarfurCrisis #SudanConflict #RSF #SAF #Hemedti #AlFashir #ElGeneina #Khartoum #Darfur
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Sudan is now home to the world’s largest displacement crisis, and yet one of the least discussed wars! open.substack.com/pub/geopolit... #SudanWar #DarfurCrisis #SudanConflict #RSF #SAF #Hemedti #AlFashir #ElGeneina #Khartoum #Darfur
Sudan is now home to the world’s largest displacement crisis, and yet one of the least discussed wars! open.substack.com/pub/geopolit... #SudanWar #DarfurCrisis #SudanConflict #RSF #SAF #Hemedti #AlFashir #ElGeneina #Khartoum #Darfur
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Sudan is now home to the world’s largest displacement crisis, and yet one of the least discussed wars! open.substack.com/pub/geopolit... #SudanWar #DarfurCrisis #SudanConflict #RSF #SAF #Hemedti #AlFashir #ElGeneina #Khartoum #Darfur
Japans breaks a glass ceiling — but not its conservative mould. 🇯🇵
Read the full analysis on my Substack…
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Read the full analysis on my Substack…
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Takaichi’s Japan: Breaking Ceilings, Guarding Walls
Japan has entered a new political era — but not necessarily a more liberal one.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Japans breaks a glass ceiling — but not its conservative mould. 🇯🇵
Read the full analysis on my Substack…
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
Read the full analysis on my Substack…
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
China’s ports stretch from Djibouti to Darwin — a web of influence reshaping trade and power.
What began as infrastructure has become strategy.
The contours of the geopolitical map are permanently changed. 🌏⚓️
#China #BeltAndRoad
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What began as infrastructure has become strategy.
The contours of the geopolitical map are permanently changed. 🌏⚓️
#China #BeltAndRoad
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Is China’s Network of Ports Too Big for Washington to Unravel?
China has spent two decades quietly tightening its grip on global maritime trade.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
China’s ports stretch from Djibouti to Darwin — a web of influence reshaping trade and power.
What began as infrastructure has become strategy.
The contours of the geopolitical map are permanently changed. 🌏⚓️
#China #BeltAndRoad
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
What began as infrastructure has become strategy.
The contours of the geopolitical map are permanently changed. 🌏⚓️
#China #BeltAndRoad
open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
What began as protests over blackouts and water cuts has become Madagascar’s biggest political upheaval in a decade — a Gen Z revolt that felled Rajoelina. But revolutions rarely end where they begin.
#Madagascar
#Rajoelina
#YouthQuake
#GenZProtests
geopoliticalguy.substack.com/p/madagascar...
#Madagascar
#Rajoelina
#YouthQuake
#GenZProtests
geopoliticalguy.substack.com/p/madagascar...
October 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What began as protests over blackouts and water cuts has become Madagascar’s biggest political upheaval in a decade — a Gen Z revolt that felled Rajoelina. But revolutions rarely end where they begin.
#Madagascar
#Rajoelina
#YouthQuake
#GenZProtests
geopoliticalguy.substack.com/p/madagascar...
#Madagascar
#Rajoelina
#YouthQuake
#GenZProtests
geopoliticalguy.substack.com/p/madagascar...
With such a polarised political landscape, brands are walking a tightrope between values and wallets.
Source: @statista
Source: @statista
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
With such a polarised political landscape, brands are walking a tightrope between values and wallets.
Source: @statista
Source: @statista
With recent developments in #Madagascar, here’s an article from a few weeks back. What’s happening isn’t isolated or confined to any region or ideology. More youth-led protests could be on the horizon.
tinyurl.com/2n9yr237
#FreeMadagascar #MialaRajoelina #GenZProtest #GenZ
tinyurl.com/2n9yr237
#FreeMadagascar #MialaRajoelina #GenZProtest #GenZ
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
With recent developments in #Madagascar, here’s an article from a few weeks back. What’s happening isn’t isolated or confined to any region or ideology. More youth-led protests could be on the horizon.
tinyurl.com/2n9yr237
#FreeMadagascar #MialaRajoelina #GenZProtest #GenZ
tinyurl.com/2n9yr237
#FreeMadagascar #MialaRajoelina #GenZProtest #GenZ
“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons.”
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons.”
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Trump’s Tomahawk Gambit
Trump’s hint that the U.S. may arm Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles has rattled Moscow A threat, a promise, or just leverage? open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
Trump’s hint that the U.S. may arm Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles has rattled Moscow A threat, a promise, or just leverage? open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
Tomahawks on the Table: Trump Dangles Long-Range Missiles as Leverage Against Moscow
With Donald Trump, it’s often unclear whether he’s issuing a threat, a promise, or a negotiating tactic.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump’s Tomahawk Gambit
Trump’s hint that the U.S. may arm Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles has rattled Moscow A threat, a promise, or just leverage? open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
Trump’s hint that the U.S. may arm Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles has rattled Moscow A threat, a promise, or just leverage? open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
When humans have split the atom, sequenced DNA, and built machines that think, over 1 billion people still live in slums…
Is the problem scarcity or our failure to organise abundance?
Source: @statista
Is the problem scarcity or our failure to organise abundance?
Source: @statista
October 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
When humans have split the atom, sequenced DNA, and built machines that think, over 1 billion people still live in slums…
Is the problem scarcity or our failure to organise abundance?
Source: @statista
Is the problem scarcity or our failure to organise abundance?
Source: @statista
Having supported a client’s operations in #Cameroon for nearly five years, I’ve tracked the intersection of politics and security up close.
As Cameroon heads to the polls, I’ve shared a deeper take on what’s at stake!
#PaulBiya #CameroonDecides2025 #CameroonElections
tinyurl.com/3xbv6nhk
As Cameroon heads to the polls, I’ve shared a deeper take on what’s at stake!
#PaulBiya #CameroonDecides2025 #CameroonElections
tinyurl.com/3xbv6nhk
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Having supported a client’s operations in #Cameroon for nearly five years, I’ve tracked the intersection of politics and security up close.
As Cameroon heads to the polls, I’ve shared a deeper take on what’s at stake!
#PaulBiya #CameroonDecides2025 #CameroonElections
tinyurl.com/3xbv6nhk
As Cameroon heads to the polls, I’ve shared a deeper take on what’s at stake!
#PaulBiya #CameroonDecides2025 #CameroonElections
tinyurl.com/3xbv6nhk
🚨🇲🇬 #Madagascar: The 🇺🇸 #US Embassy urges citizens to shelter in place amid reports of gunfire between gendarmerie and military and some security forces joining protests. Curfews remain in #Antananarivo, #Antsirabe & #Antsiranana. Unrest continues nationwide. ⚠️
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🚨🇲🇬 #Madagascar: The 🇺🇸 #US Embassy urges citizens to shelter in place amid reports of gunfire between gendarmerie and military and some security forces joining protests. Curfews remain in #Antananarivo, #Antsirabe & #Antsiranana. Unrest continues nationwide. ⚠️
On 10 Oct, France updated its advisory map for #Africa, showing #Mali now entirely red as Bamako joins the “advise against all travel” category. The Sahel remains the most restricted region, with large portions of #Niger, #BurkinaFaso, #Chad, and #Sudan also under the highest alert.
October 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
As mercury seeps through the food chain, what ends up in the fish… ends up in us.
Source: @juliepeasleydataviz
Source: @juliepeasleydataviz
October 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
As mercury seeps through the food chain, what ends up in the fish… ends up in us.
Source: @juliepeasleydataviz
Source: @juliepeasleydataviz
The kids aren’t happy! open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
October 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The kids aren’t happy! open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🌍 Fault lines are deepening across the global risk map. Here’s a thread on the latest incidents:
October 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🌍 Fault lines are deepening across the global risk map. Here’s a thread on the latest incidents:
Guyana–Venezuela Territorial Dispute #essequibo
October 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Guyana–Venezuela Territorial Dispute #essequibo
Much of Europe on the cusp of major demographic change…
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.voronoiapp.com/demographics...
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.voronoiapp.com/demographics...
October 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Much of Europe on the cusp of major demographic change…
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.voronoiapp.com/demographics...
Source: Visual Capitalist
www.voronoiapp.com/demographics...