How Russia Plans to Rule Eurasia by River
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Video via Building Eurasia’s New Fortress by Sean Ring. Introduction:
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| Alfred Thayer Mahan & Halford Mackinder |
For over a century, two dead advisors have shaped the way great powers view the world.On one side, we have Alfred Thayer Mahan—the American naval officer who believed sea power determined global supremacy. According to Mahan, controlling the oceans means controlling trade. If you control trade, you control wealth. If you control wealth… well, you get the picture.On the other side is Halford Mackinder, the British geographer who argued the exact opposite. Forget the seas, he said. Whoever controls the “World Island”—Eurasia—controls the world. Railways, rivers, pipelines, and land empires are what count. Not frigates and aircraft carriers.Mahan and Mackinder are no longer with us, but their ideas continue to influence the world today.And we’re watching it unfold.
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