Amid the horrific scenes of violence from Georgia beamed to living rooms around the world, let us attempt for a moment to be serious about this conflict and look at the geopolitical causes and consequences.
Unlike natural disasters, the complex geopolitical causes of the Syrian crisis do not generate the same emotional response from potential donors, he said.
The price of oil has hit its highest level since November 2014, reaching $80 per barrel, as geopolitical fears cause concerns to rise over potential disruption to supplies.
Iran and Venezuela are not the only sources of geopolitical instability causing oil prices to rise.
Roxy, the daughter of a London gangster, is joined at its centre by an abuse survivor turned religious leader, a middle-aged female politician and a Nigerian photojournalist – the one male of the quartet – who has made it his mission to report on the geopolitical upheavals caused by this galvanising new female superpower.
Politically, Saudi Arabia must compensate for the geopolitical friction caused by the assassination of The Washington Post journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
The student walk-outs are part of a wider trend of growing citizen protests against climate change inaction, sparked by concern that the issue has moved off the table amid the wider geopolitical uncertainty caused by the Trump administration in the United States.
The EU president, Donald Tusk, warned the European parliament before the speech by Tsipras that failure to reach a deal "may lead to the bankruptcy of Greece" and cause geopolitical problems for Europe.
Despite bleak estimates from the World Bank, which forecast this month that "geopolitical tensions" would cause Ukraine's economy to contract by 5percentt in 2014, Ukrainian officials are bullish on the restorative effects of their new association with Europe.
This, says Justin Fier, director for cyber intelligence and analysis at Darktrace, "creates new entry points for well-resourced nation-state attackers". The worrying thing is that geopolitical attacks increasingly cause collateral damage with victims along the exploit chain from small organizations right to those companies providing CNI.
