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Putin calls Trump about Venezuela invasion
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The Top Risks of 2026 | Ian bremmer & Eurasia Group | A GZERO Media Live Event | Monday, January 5 | 12 pm | gzeromedia.com/toprisks
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Watch today's livestream: the Top Risks of 2026 with Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer's State of the World 2025 speech
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Ian Bremmer's State of the World 2025 speech

Putin wants Trump to DO IT
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Most quotable moments of 2025 | GZERO World with ian bremmer
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Top 10 Quotes from GZERO World with Ian Bremmer in 2025

Army Chief Asim Munir holds a microphone at the Tilla Field Firing Ranges in Mangla, Pakistan, on May 1, 2025.
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Pakistan slides deeper into autocracy

Field Marshal Asim Munir, the country’s de facto leader, consolidated his power after the National Assembly rammed through a controversial constitutional amendment this month that grants him lifelong immunity from any legal prosecution.

​Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answers a question during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Nov. 7, 2025.
Analysis

Japan-China spat over Taiwan escalates

Tensions between Tokyo and Beijing hit a boiling point last Friday after Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that her country would defend Taiwan if China attacked the island. Tensions have grown since.

Trump, Zelensky, and Putin discuss Ukraine peace deal
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Trump, Zelensky, and Putin discuss Ukraine peace deal

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Ian stands in line for a bagel, the internet melts down
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Ian stands in line for a bagel, the internet melts down

Ian Bremmer responds to a viral backlash over his weekend photo joking about a “breadline” in New York City. Actually, a line of happy people waiting outside an artisanal bagel shop.

​German Chancellor and chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Angela Merkel addresses a news conference in Berlin, Germany September 19, 2016.
Analysis

20 years after Merkel, men still hold most top offices

Angela Merkel was elected chancellor of Germany on November 22, 2005, becoming the first woman to hold that job. During that time Merkel was arguably the most powerful woman in the world, presiding over one of its largest economies for four terms in the Bundesregierung. Twenty years on, the anniversary is a reminder of how singular her breakthrough remains. It’s still the exception when a woman runs a country.

Trump’s risky Venezuela strategy, explained
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Trump’s risky Venezuela strategy, explained

The Trump administration is moving closer to military strikes inside Venezuela.

​A robot waiter, serving drinks at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair, in Paris, on May 24, 2024.
Analysis

Viewpoint: When Chinese robots replace service jobs

Imagine sitting down at a restaurant, speaking your order into your menu, and immediately watching a robot arrive with your food. Imagine the food being made quickly, precisely — and without a human involved, because the entire restaurant is fully roboticized.

What spies can teach us about persuasion
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What spies can teach us about persuasion

Forget the fancy cars, futuristic gadgets, and martinis “shaken, not stirred.” In his book "Sell Like a Spy: The Art of Persuasion from the World of Espionage", Jeremy Hurewitz tells GZERO's Tony Maciulis that intelligence officers are a lot more like therapists than James Bond-style action heroes.

​ZOHRAN MAMDANI, Rama Duwaji, MIRA NAIR, MAMOOD MAMDANI during an election night event at The Brooklyn Paramount Theater in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.
Analysis

Calm down about Zohran Mamdani

Last Tuesday, a self-identified democratic socialist who ran on making New York affordable for the 99% won the city’s mayoral race in a landslide, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. And the reactions have been predictably hysterical.

​A fruit and vegetable stall is lit by small lamps during a blackout in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 6, 2025, after massive Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in October.
Analysis

Lights out in Ukraine, prices up in Europe

As a fourth winter of war approaches, Russia is destroying Ukraine’s energy grid faster than it can be rebuilt.