Tag Archives: geostrategy

Robert Kaplan does geostrategy and does a credible job of it. In my view he sees the big picture  in outline pretty well, although I would quibble with some of the details. It is written from the US POV, of course, but he is able to stand back from it enough to make the article worth a read. Robert Kaplan and his spouse Victoria Nuland are mainstays of US foreign policy, so it is important for that reason alone.The National InterestAmerica Must Prepare for the Coming Chinese Empire Robert D....

Blowing a lead.Reminiscence of the FutureFareed Zakaria Woke Up? Andrei MartyanovSee alsoCheckpoint AsiaTrump Has Lost All Leverage With Iran Marko Marjanović Also at CATrump Remembers He’s the President, Tells Bolton, Pompeo to Dial It Back on Iran Erin Banco China’s State Media Tells Us It Picked the ‘Wrong Rival at the Wrong Time’ Teddy Ng

De-globalization and the collapse of the Post WWII world order. Sailing into uncharted territory. Strategic Culture FoundationThe Dire, Unintended Consequences of Trump’s MAGA War on China Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacy See also Consortium NewsPATRICK LAWRENCE: Pompeo, Pence & the Alienation of Europe

This will likely meet reciprocal response and result in a two-tier IT technology, with the West vassals using the Western system and the Global South using the Chinese system. A multi-polar world will result, especially with a growing cold war between the US/Global North and China-Russia/Global South.BloombergU.S. Preparing Trump Order to Restrict Chinese Telecoms, Sources Say Margaret Talev and Sheridan Prasso See alsoZero Hedge"Huawei Death Sentence": Trump Said To Prepare Executive...

Three major players – the United States, China, and a loose coalition formed by the other members of the G7 – are shaping the future of the international economic and geopolitical order. And they are all engaged in three contests simultaneously, without knowing which one is the most important. This is about international relations, geopolitics and geo-strategy, and these fields are generally analyzed in terms of game theory. The only one that can know which game the US is currently...

Must-read. It is not only worth reading but also studying.Samir Amin, recently deceased, was an Egyptian-French Marxist economist. The analysis presented in this post is spot on.It reveals the plan of West (US) since China's "opening up" under Deng, and now the Trump Administration in particular, to submit the Chinese economy and therefore China to Western (US) domination both economically and politically."Liberalization" is a trap. Europe fell into it, although the UK wisely refrained from...

Clearly, from the very outset, Trump has been “perceived by the globalist neo-liberal order as a mortal danger to the system which has enriched them” Jatras observes. The big question that Jatras poses in the wake of these events, is how could such collective hysteria have blossomed in to such visceral hostility, that parts of the ‘Anglo’ establishment are ready to intensify hostilities toward Russia – even to the point of risking “a catastrophic, uncontainable [nuclear] conflict”. How is...

Hysteria reigned supreme after the first round of US sanctions were reinstated against Iran over the past week. War scenarios abound, and yet the key aspect of the economic war unleashed by the Trump administration has been overlooked: Iran is a major piece in a much larger chessboard. The US sanctions offensive, launched after Washington’s unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal, should be interpreted as an advance gambit in the New Great Game at whose center lies China’s New Silk...

In Losing Military Supremacy, his latest, groundbreaking book, crack Russian military-naval analyst Andrei Martyanov deconstructs in detail how, “the United States faces two nuclear and industrial superpowers, one of which fields a world-class armed forces. If the military-political, as opposed to merely economic, alliance between Russia and China is ever formalized – this will spell the final doom for the United States as a global power.”The US deep state (its influential bureaucrats) may...

Worth a read. More or less balanced although written by a Western establishment type. Are these the major scenarios to expect?World Economic ForumThree scenarios for the future of geopolitics David Law | Senior Fellow, Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces