🌏 The Heartland plus population plus production plus sea power: that’s the end of the “Columbian Age”.
In 1904, the British geographer, Halford Mackinder, read a paper named “The Geographical Pivot of History” at the Royal Geographical Society. In the paper he advanced a hypothesis on the influence of geographic reality on world power relationships. This is sometimes regarded as the founding moment of the study of geopolitics. Looking at the whole planet, he spoke of the “heartland” – the great landmass of Eurasia – and the Islands – the large islands of the Americas and Australia and the small islands of the United Kingdom and Japan. (Parenthetically, he does not seem to have much concerned himself with Africa or South America.) For most of history, Europe was an isolated and not very important appendage of this great world mass, subject to continual raids from the nomads of the Heartland, and the outer islands played no part in world events.
All this changed about five centuries ago when what he called the “Columbian Age” began. Read more by Patrick Armstrong ⬇️
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In 1904, the British geographer, Halford Mackinder, read a paper named “The Geographical Pivot of History” at the Royal Geographical Society. In the paper he advanced a hypothesis on the influence of geographic reality on world power relationships. This is sometimes regarded as the founding moment of the study of geopolitics. Looking at the whole planet, he spoke of the “heartland” – the great landmass of Eurasia – and the Islands – the large islands of the Americas and Australia and the small islands of the United Kingdom and Japan. (Parenthetically, he does not seem to have much concerned himself with Africa or South America.) For most of history, Europe was an isolated and not very important appendage of this great world mass, subject to continual raids from the nomads of the Heartland, and the outer islands played no part in world events.
All this changed about five centuries ago when what he called the “Columbian Age” began. Read more by Patrick Armstrong ⬇️
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/11/20/mackindergarten-lesson/
#Brzezinski #China #Eurasia #Heartland #Mackinder #Rimland #geopolitics
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Mackindergarten Lesson
The Heartland plus population plus production plus sea power: that’s the end of the “Columbian Age”. In 1904, the British geographer, Halford Mackinder, read a…
🌘 Whilst Europe and the U.S. never have been more closely aligned, the ‘West’ paradoxically has also never been more alone.
by Alastair Crooke: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/28/geo-politics-is-metamorphosing-at-every-moment/
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by Alastair Crooke: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/28/geo-politics-is-metamorphosing-at-every-moment/
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Geo-Politics Is Metamorphosing at Every Moment
Whilst Europe and the U.S. never have been more closely aligned, the ‘West’ paradoxically has also never been more alone. Very occasionally, a single anecdote…
♟️ In 1997, Zbig Brzezinski, the original ‘driver’ behind the making of Afghanistan as a quagmire of ‘mud’ into which Russia was to be dragged, wrote his celebrated book, The Grand Chessboard. It was a work that ‘forever’ embedded the Mackinder doctrine of ‘he who controls the Asian heartland controls the world’ into the U.S. zeitgeist.
Tellingly, its subtitle was American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. Brzezinski had already written in his book that absent Ukraine, Russia would never become the heartland power; but with Ukraine, Russia can and would. Thus, Mackinder’s doctrine, ‘He who controls the heartland’ dictum, was codified into U.S. ‘cannon law’ – never to permit a united heartland. And Ukraine became seenas the hinge around which heartland power revolved 🌀
Brzezinski further ordained that this ‘Grand Game of Chess’ was to be one of pure U.S. primacy: “No, no one else plays”, he insisted; it is a game purely for one. Once a chess piece is moved; ‘we’ (the U.S.) simply turn the board the other way around – and move the other side’s chess pieces (for ‘them’). There is ‘no other’ in this game”, Brzezinski warned.
This is today’s dilemma – It is so long since Brzezinski originally formulated the Mackinder notion, that classical diplomacy has become etiolated.
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Tellingly, its subtitle was American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. Brzezinski had already written in his book that absent Ukraine, Russia would never become the heartland power; but with Ukraine, Russia can and would. Thus, Mackinder’s doctrine, ‘He who controls the heartland’ dictum, was codified into U.S. ‘cannon law’ – never to permit a united heartland. And Ukraine became seen
Brzezinski further ordained that this ‘Grand Game of Chess’ was to be one of pure U.S. primacy: “No, no one else plays”, he insisted; it is a game purely for one. Once a chess piece is moved; ‘we’ (the U.S.) simply turn the board the other way around – and move the other side’s chess pieces (for ‘them’). There is ‘no other’ in this game”, Brzezinski warned.
This is today’s dilemma – It is so long since Brzezinski originally formulated the Mackinder notion, that classical diplomacy has become etiolated.
💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke
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The Mackinder Strategic ‘Bible’ Reconsidered
It is so long since Brzezinski originally formulated the Mackinder notion, that classical diplomacy has become etiolated. ❗️Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. In 1997, Zbig Brzezinski, the original ‘driver’ behind the making of Afghanistan as a quagmire…
🌏🦅 Em 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski, o “condutor” original por trás da transformação do Afeganistão num atoleiro de “lama” para o qual a Rússia seria arrastada, escreveu o seu célebre livro The Grand Chessboard (O Grande Tabuleiro de Xadrez – NT). Foi um trabalho que incorporou “para sempre” a doutrina Mackinder onde “aquele que controla o coração da Ásia controla o mundo” no zeitgeist dos EUA.
Notavelmente, seu subtítulo era American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (A Primazia Americana e seus Imperativos Geoestratégicos– NT). Brzezinski já tinha escrito no seu livro que, sem a Ucrânia, a Rússia nunca se tornaria a potência central; mas com a Ucrânia, a Rússia pode e faria. Assim, a doutrina de Mackinder, a máxima “Aquele que controla o coração”, foi codificada na “lei dos canhões” dos EUA – para nunca permitir um coração unido. E a Ucrânia passou a ser vista como a articulação em torno da qual girava o poder central.
Já faz tanto tempo que Brzezinski formulou originalmente a concepção de Mackinder quea diplomacia clássica murchou ☠️
💬 Por Alastair Crooke
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Notavelmente, seu subtítulo era American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (A Primazia Americana e seus Imperativos Geoestratégicos– NT). Brzezinski já tinha escrito no seu livro que, sem a Ucrânia, a Rússia nunca se tornaria a potência central; mas com a Ucrânia, a Rússia pode e faria. Assim, a doutrina de Mackinder, a máxima “Aquele que controla o coração”, foi codificada na “lei dos canhões” dos EUA – para nunca permitir um coração unido. E a Ucrânia passou a ser vista como a articulação em torno da qual girava o poder central.
Já faz tanto tempo que Brzezinski formulou originalmente a concepção de Mackinder que
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Mackinder, a “Biblia” Estrategica, reconsiderada
Já faz tanto tempo que Brzezinski formulou originalmente a concepção de Mackinder que a diplomacia clássica murchou. Junte-se a nós no Telegram, Twitter e VK. Em 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski, o “condutor” original por trás da transformação do Afeganistão num…
🌏⚡️🌎 The Ukraine issue has mobilised the majority of non-western states into something resembling an insurrection against the Rules Order, and to the demand it be radically reformed.
The Ukraine war has has fired-up something latent; something bubbling away under the surface inside the western sphere. Put simply,it has stirred a shift in the global consciousness 🌀
Russia cannot be suspected of deliberately having fuelled this ‘cultural war’, for its roots lie firmly within Euro-American political teleology. The divide was primed to happen anyway – but Ukraine has been an accelerant.
The Global South can empathise with those resisting cultural impositions that run against the grain of longstanding civilisational values.
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The Ukraine war has has fired-up something latent; something bubbling away under the surface inside the western sphere. Put simply,
Russia cannot be suspected of deliberately having fuelled this ‘cultural war’, for its roots lie firmly within Euro-American political teleology. The divide was primed to happen anyway – but Ukraine has been an accelerant.
The Global South can empathise with those resisting cultural impositions that run against the grain of longstanding civilisational values.
💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke
#geopolitics #GlobalSouth #Brzezinski #Ukraine
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The ‘Last Man’ Teleology and the Fall of the West
The Global South can empathise with those resisting cultural impositions that run against the grain of longstanding civilisational values. ❗️Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. As is well known, the Mackinder ‘Pivot of History’ doctrine (1904) of ‘he who…
⚠️ Embora com atraso, ainda é tempo de os europeus pensarem seriamente numa nova arquitetura de segurança na Europa, que integre e concilie os legítimos interesses securitários de todos os atores.
💬 Por Carlos Branco
#SC_Portuguese #Brzezinski #Ucrânia #Rússia
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💬 Por Carlos Branco
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Embora com atraso, ainda é tempo de os europeus pensarem seriamente numa nova arquitetura de segurança na Europa, que integre e concilie os legítimos interesses…