John Bellamy Foster lays out US/NATO strategy based on the Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard, the Wolfowitz Doctrine, NATO expansion, development of first strike nuclear capability, and the attack not only on Russia but also on China. This was not an unprovoked incident by Vladimir Putin but the inevitable Russian pushback against a US attack in progress that the Russia leadership deemed existential., that is, the US was engaged in a zero-sum game to take down Russia and then China, securing permanent US world domination.
What Foster does not recount is the history of this process which began with the British Empire, pre-WWI European rivalry, and the ensuing world wars of the 20th century. The modern version of this strategy was articulated in 1904 in Halford Mackinder's "The Geographical Pivot of History" that posited that world domination depended on control of the world island, the interconnected land mass of Europe, Asia, and Africa, which in turn depended on control of Eurasia, chiefly Russia, as the geographical pivot. This became known as the "heartland theory."
The other great work of strategy that has dominated geopolitical and geostrategic thinking was Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783. Great powers can be divided into land powers like Russia and Germany and sea powers like the Britain and the US. This view was adapted by Nicholas Spykman as the "rimland theory, which posited that the way for a sea power to control the heartland was through controlling the littoral region and shipping lanes.
Brzezinski picked up from there and adapted this view of grand strategy for world domination to contemporary times. John Bellamy Foster picks up from there.
It is not possible to understand what is going on in the world now without having this background. Otherwise, one is looking at grains of sand rather than the beach, missing the forest for the trees. Unfortunately, this is most of what passes for analysis.
Calling it a strategy is giving it far too much credit.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/ > RUSSIA TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE WEST’S NWO
ReplyDeleteThere has long been a debate within the small group that has watched the observable actions of the globalist conspiracy in the last century about whether Russia and China are real antagonists or mere controlled entities subject to globalists like the Rothchilds and Henry Kissinger. Those who believe they are “controlled entities” point to facts like 1) Wall Street and British financiers funded the Bolshevik revolution with $20M in gold; 2) The Roosevelt administration gave Russia the rest of the nuclear weapons plans she couldn’t steal, as well as their first shipment of enriched Uranium after WWII so they could build their first weapon; 3) Globalist George Marshall brought Communist Mao Tse Tung to power in China by cutting off military aid to Chang Kai Shek; And 4) that the globalist Henry Kissinger betrayed Taiwan in the negotiations ending the Vietnam war by allowing Red China to replace Taiwan in the UN, with a seat on the security counsel. There are other modern indicators such as Kissinger’s periodic meetings with Putin, and Rothchild banking interests funding more investments in Russia after the phony “Fall of the Soviet Union,” etc. My view is that all these moves are part of the globalist plan to build future enemies to create future conflict (WWIII) as the only way to get the US into a militarized global government. This week signs emerged that will finally settle this issue: Russia getting cut out of globalist organizations. The biggest move came when the UN suspended Russia from its Council on Human Rights, for violations of Human Rights, and she will soon be excluded from future G20 meetings. It appears to be the beginning of Russia’s exclusion from the NWO club before war actually begins. The monster has been built and will now be cut loose while the globalists switch to an anti-Russian stance.
“ she will soon be excluded from future G20 meetings.”
ReplyDeleteRussians can just holiday in Wang Dang in China instead of the Med…. eat dog brain soup washed down with some piss on holiday instead of grilled octopus and Pinot Grigio…
They can drive 3 cylinder Geely instead of BMW, Audi, Mercedes Benz….
Just substitute…
The Chris Hedges Report - The Pimps of War
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Warmongering and intellectual rigor do not mix.