Does geopolitical analysis have value?

I’m not necessarily looking for career advice, just trying to figure out the value of geopolitical analysis. I saw that intel471 had some job postings for their new geopolitics office. They want analysts with Russia/china/iran experience.

I used to do that stuff for the military as a linguist, but assumed nonlinguist geopolitical Intel roles like those were pretty low value in the private sector (and no I don’t want to be a linguist again. I forgot all my Russian anyways). …

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