The Brief tracks ten geopolitical topics and what changed since last week — what entered, what left, and what's been quietly persistent. Sourced and attributed, no forecasts. The full assessment is the report.
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This week: two topics entered the watchlist, one left. Attention concentrated on maritime war-risk premiums and Sahel realignment.
+ 5 more topics this week. The full sourced assessment — indicators, triangulation, and the claims we dropped — is the report.
Request the report →The Brief is top-of-funnel: it directs attention, it does not forecast. Indicators and analyst attribution are shown; triangulation, red-team verdicts, and canonical-event detail live in the report. Editions before 2026-W20 are reconstructed point-in-time from the period's primary sources, and labelled accordingly.