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Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

George Friedman

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

George Friedman

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

George Friedman

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

George Friedman

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

George Friedman

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

George Friedman

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

George Friedman

George Friedman

George Friedman

Born: February 1, 1949 (age 75)

Bio: George Friedman is a geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs. He is the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, a new online publication that analyzes and forecasts the course of global events.

Known for:

Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe (2015)
The Next Decade (2010)
America's Secret War (2017)
The coming war with Japan (1991)

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