Tag Archives: geostrategy

While out of paradigm with MMT, the conventional thinking underlying the scenario that Crooke depicts reflects a widespread view that is shared by most political leaders who are responsible for shaping the world through their decisions. This thinking lies at the basis not only of global finance but also geopolitics and geostrategy. So, it is important to understand it because it is shaping emerging events of great consequence. Financial warfare can easily turn into military warfare, and...

With the world focused on the scary possibility of war on the Korean Peninsula, not many people paid a whole lot of attention to a series of naval exercises this past July in the Malacca Strait, a 550-mile long passage between Sumatra and Malaysia through which pass over 50,000 ships a year. With President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchanging threats and insults, why would the media bother with something innocuously labeled “Malabar 17”? They should have. Malabar 17...

In the context of the New Great Game in Eurasia, the New Silk Roads, known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), integrates all of China’s instruments of national power – political, economic, diplomatic, financial, intellectual and cultural – to shape the 21stcentury geopolitical/geoeconomic order. BRI is the organizing concept of China’s foreign policy for the foreseeable future; the heart of what was conceptualized, even before President Xi Jinping, as China’s “peaceful rise.” The Trump...

Important backgrounder explaining what is really going on with Afghanistan. So, this new Great Game goes on, with wily Vladimir Putin, tweeting Donald Trump, smiling Xi Jinpeng and creepy Narendra Modi all trying to outwit each other, and rope in the other minor players to their side. Sic Semper Tyrannis Tillerson’s Trip & the new Great GameFB Ali At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism,...

Backgrounder RussiaFeedRussia’s FASCINATING new oil geopolitics

In the first part of this essay, I gave my interpretation of the background of the current confrontation in Korea. I argued that, while the past is the mother of the present, it has several fathers. What I remember is not necessarily what you remember; so, in this sense, the present also shapes or reshapes the past.  In my experience as a policy planner, I found that only by taking note of the perception of events as they are differently held by the participants could one understand or...

Geopolitics and geostrategy.Russia InsiderWhy Jihadism Won’t Be Allowed to Die Pepe Escobar

Donald Trump has chided China for failing to take responsibility for its dangerous neighbor. But America's president should be careful what he tweets for: If China launched a military invasion of North Korea, it could work – and China would gain greater strategic parity with the US in East Asia. Project SyndicateA ‘China First’ Strategy for North Korea Bill Emmott, former editor-in-chief of The Economist