@horizongeopoliticalnews: Subscribe to our newsletter for more 📨 Geopolitics Daily 🌍 Here's the last 24 hours in geopolitics. Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first visit to the disputed Kuril Islands, drawing a protest from Japan, which calls the Pacific chain seized by the Soviet Union its Northern Territories. Fighter jets flying NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission shot down a foreign drone over Latvia, which its military said had entered the country as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare. Taiwan said it had detected an abnormal AI-assisted cyberattack on its government agencies last month, which the Israeli firm that found it has described as a first-of-a-kind breach. 📅 August 14, 2026