Geopolitical Risks As An Invoice

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This week was entertaining: suddenly everyone became a geopolitics expert.
 Mostly AI / data / everything-cool profiles explaining global affairs — often from countries that haven’t had a serious geopolitical shock in 50 years.

Fun. Briefly.

My own introduction to geopolitics was less theoretical.
In 2014, I was CIO for five power plants in Russia. One ran on a Siemens turbine due for maintenance. Crimea happened. Sanctions followed. Maintenance cancelled. Down payment frozen.

That’s geopolitical risk — not as a post, but as an invoice.

Today, one of my projects depends on Chinese suppliers while targeting Latin America. With the US rediscovering hemispheric discipline, that risk just moved from “remote” to “operational”.

FOAK projects already live with enough uncertainty.
Geopolitics has a habit of showing up uninvited — and charging interest.

How are you factoring this into your projects right now?

The picture is of me, part of the sailing team, going into my first storm, just off the coast of Istanbul. Couldn’t find a better one.