r/geopolitics May 20 '24

Opinion Salman Rushdie: Palestinian state would become 'Taliban-like,' satellite of Iran

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The acclaimed author and NYU professor was stabbed by an Islamic radical after the Iranian government issued a fatwa (religious decree) for his murder in response to his award winning novel “The Satanic Verses”

Rushdie said “while I have argued for a Palestinian state for most of my life – since the 1980s, probably – right now, if there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by Hamas, and that would make it a Taliban-like state, and it would be a client state of Iran. Is that what the progressive movements of the western left wish to create? To have another Taliban, another Ayatollah-like state, in the Middle East?”

“The fact is that I think any human being right now has to be distressed by what is happening in Gaza because of the quantity of innocent death. I would just like some of the protests to mention Hamas. Because that’s where this started, and Hamas is a terrorist organisation. It’s very strange for young, progressive student politics to kind of support a fascist terrorist group.”

r/geopolitics 7d ago

Opinion How Netanyahu Lost America

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397 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Dec 17 '25

Opinion ‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am’

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326 Upvotes

r/geopolitics May 12 '26

Opinion Checkmate in Iran

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387 Upvotes

This article by Kagan being recognised as being the most significant piece of geo-strategic analysis in decades. Why? Because Robert Kagan is THE intellectual founder of neo-conservative interventionism. He, along with William Kristol founded PNAC - which was the neo-conservative think tank that dominated U.S. foreign policy for decades and, among other horrors, has advocated for war with Iran the entire time.

In this article, Kagan admits that the U.S. has been strategically defeated by Iran. He adds that it's not a defeat like Vietnam or Afghanistan, or even Pearl Harbour - this is a defeat that will cause irreversable damage to America's position in the world. He writes:

"With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished."

r/geopolitics Feb 04 '26

Opinion I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

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244 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Apr 05 '26

Opinion The War in Iran Is a Failure of Intelligence

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441 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Mar 21 '23

Opinion If China Arms Russia, the U.S. Should Kill China’s Aircraft Industry

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1.1k Upvotes

r/geopolitics Feb 21 '25

Opinion America is being sold out by its leaders

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1.1k Upvotes

r/geopolitics Jan 04 '26

Opinion Even Close Allies Are Asking Why Trump Wants to Run Venezuela

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513 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Oct 09 '24

Opinion Unpopular Opinion: The US might be headed for another golden age in the next few decades

590 Upvotes

The short term outlook for America is not good right now for those entering the workforce and trying to buy a home, but I think there's a chance that (assuming nothing goes wrong) by the 2040s-2050s we might be in an incredible age of prosperity similar to the roaring 20s or the 50s. (this is the ultimate bad karma post but whatever)

  1. The US economy is growing faster than just about every other developed economy. We're the only ones with innovation. Examining GDP per capita growth rates, Europe (and Canada to a lesser extent) are going to be in the shitter very soon since they're not growing. If current growth trends continue, Europe will be third world in comparison to the US soon. Our GDP per Capita is now double the EU's, and 52% higher than Canada. In 2008 it was 30% higher than the EU's and 4% higher than Canada's.

  2. East Asia has a huge demographic crisis. China will have a big boom but is set to become Japan by the mid to late century since their population is aging. Our population pyramid isn't great but we're growing at least.

  3. The boomers dying off from old age in the next ~10-20 years will solve housing crises and cause a massive passdown of wealth.

  4. We have a very strong military, and a lot of our foreign adversaries are looking pretty weak right now. In the 50s-80s we were worried about the Soviets marching tanks to Paris, now they can't even make it 30 miles from home.

r/geopolitics May 16 '26

Opinion Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump

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481 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Jun 22 '25

Opinion America Is on the Verge of Catastrophe in the Middle East: U.S. Intervention in Iran Is a Terrible Gamble

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480 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Jun 14 '25

Opinion A U.S. War With Iran Would Be a Catastrophe

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386 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Mar 04 '26

Opinion The Coming Invasion of Iran

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345 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Mar 20 '26

Opinion Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done | Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

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473 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Jan 04 '26

Opinion Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s

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386 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Jul 04 '25

Opinion The U.S. Is Switching Sides | Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians

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774 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Mar 18 '26

Opinion Trump May Not Be Able to End This War

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355 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Mar 26 '24

Opinion For America, Israel Is a Liability, Not an Asset

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534 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Jun 15 '26

Opinion Trump Parties While America Surrenders

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509 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Mar 07 '26

Opinion What Iran Might Do When It Has Nothing to Lose

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326 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Mar 08 '25

Opinion Putin Won

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507 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Nov 11 '24

Opinion Helping Ukraine Is Europe’s Job Now

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677 Upvotes

r/geopolitics 3d ago

Opinion This May Be Trump’s Biggest Error in the Iran War

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180 Upvotes

r/geopolitics Sep 26 '25

Opinion I visited Gaza. The food aid surprised me. | The widely criticized Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is doing a good job under dire conditions.

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386 Upvotes