Is this “the most pivotal year in geopolitics since 1989”?
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
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According to a Free Press article published this week by geopolitical analysts Matt Pottinger and Roy Eakin, “If its first days are anything to go by, 2026 may end up the most pivotal year in geopolitics since 1989, a hinge point that began in a moment of geopolitical calm but ended with the collapse of the Iron Curtain.” How are we to manage our emotional and relational health in a world that seems to whipsaw daily between cataclysmic crises? Today, we look at the example set by Simon Peter and the congruence of character needed to live a holistic life that’s healthy and holy.
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| 0:51.1 | Welcome to the Friday, January the 15th, 2026 edition of Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:58.5 | Today's daily article is authored by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins. |
| 1:07.1 | A free press article published this week by geopoliticals Matt Pottinger and Roy Eakin begins. |
| 1:15.6 | If the first days are anything to go by, 2026 may end up the most pivotal year in geopolitics |
| 1:22.7 | since 1989, a hinge point that began in a moment of geopolitical calm, but ended with the collapse of the |
| 1:30.2 | Iron Curtain. Within a few years, the Soviet Union had fallen, the European Union had been |
| 1:35.9 | born, and an era of hyper-globalized trade took off on the wings of NAFTA and the World Trade |
| 1:42.5 | Organization. This year could be equally pivotal, only this time, with a vaster range of possible outcomes for the world order. |
| 1:52.0 | In quote. |
| 1:52.8 | According to the article, a positive reading of such outcomes could include the fall of the Iranian regime, |
| 1:59.3 | which, according to Pottinger in Ekin, quote, would deal a major setback to Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin's geostrategic ambitions, end quote. |
| 2:08.9 | Since Iran is, quote, the de facto proxy for Beijing and Moscow in the Middle East, they have provided significant support to it as well as several of Iran's |
| 2:19.6 | proxies following the start of the war on Israel. Iran, in turn, has supplied drones that Russia |
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