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A plug for Stratfor.

I know they have connections to the Western intelligence agencies but if you’re ever looking for a facts based analysis of a geopolitical situation, their reports are very good - dry, but highly detailed and often provide a lot of historical context for how the present situation arose.

Not unbiased, but I guarantee you’ll learn something.

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Most organisations (and indeed people) can be a lot more accurate about their enemies than they can be about their friends.

Really? The reports about the issues I intimately know are superficial and laughable. A mixture of newspaper clippings, geopolitical fanfic and macro statistics only aim to reassure the biases of the authors.

It’s all relative boss.

Compared to someone involved in day to day? Superficial.

Compared to NYTimes? Detailed and well researched.

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