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| h/t Gates of Vienna In April 1904, Scottish geographer Halford Mackinder gave a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society. His paper, “The Geographical Pivot of History,” caused a sensation and marked the birth of geopolitics as an autonomous discipline. According to Mackinder, control over the Eurasian “World-Island” is the key to global hegemony. At its core is the “pivot area,” the Heartland, which extends from the Volga to the Yangtze and from the Himalayas to the Arctic. “My concern is with the general physical control, rather than the causes of universal history,” Mackinder declared. At the end of the Great War, profoundly concerned with what he saw as the need for an effective barrier of nations between Germany and Russia, Mackinder summarized his theory as follows: Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; Who rules the World-Island controls the world. This dictum helps explain the essence of the Ukrainian crisis, as well as the motivation behind the continuing ambition of some U.S. policymakers to expand NATO eastward. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 The above indics nothing about which ideology or religion, etc. ideals will dominate said same "Heartland" + "World Island". Things have greatly improved in post-Soviet Russia, but the country remains at high risk of external destabilization affecting internal or domestic affairs, e.g. COMMUNIST-VS-STATE- CAPITALIST CHINA + SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR ISLAM INCLUDING GLOBAL-JIHAD HAPPY HARD BOYZ. As I've said or inferred times before, as per US-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM in ASIA-PACIFIC, the only question is whether the Hard Boyz will attack the USA or Rising China before attacking the other. Pro-US or Anti-US OWG-NWO, Globalism or no Globalism, the "Great Game" = Substitution of Nations + Wealth by Another goes on agz all Comers or Camps, + irregardless of the merits. THE GLOBIES WANT THE GREAT POWERS, ESPEC THE SUPERPOWER USA, TO UNILATERALLY GIVE UP POWER-N-INFLUENCE, ETC. SO THAT NEW POWERS OR OLD POWERS CAN RISE TO [rough?] GEOPOL PARITY INCLUDING NUCLEAR, + TO BE PRINCIPALS OR LEADERS IN SO-CALLED OWG GLOBAL FEDERAL UNIONS. What the Globies haven't answered yet is HOW MUCH POWER-N-INFLUENCE can be SAFELY given up by the above so as N-O-T to inspire MilPol Wannabe Nation-States or Movements to take over by any means necessary. OOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPSSSSS ... ... * FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [WaPo] RUSSIA NEEDS MORE TIME TO HAVE CAPABLE AIR FORCE + NAVAL FORCE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-04-15 20:44 |
| #1 We have always been at war with Eurasia. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-04-15 13:47 |