...Everywhere - Geopolitics for Dummies, by Chris Kanthan
This is kind of an advert really for the thoroughly recommended book, Geopolitics for Dummies, by Chris Kanthan.
If you read it, as I have (and will again), you’ll have a much clearer understanding of how the world really works.
For this article, I’ll be quoting some passages just from chapter 3, along with news items that relate to those passages.
By the way…this book was published in Aug 2018!
‘The role of geopolitics is largely determined by the size, the location and the natural resources of a country.
For some really small and poor countries, geopolitics plays almost no role. This can be a blessing and a curse – they don’t have to take sides in global politics and they won’t get bombed; however, at the same time, they stay underdeveloped and/or weak.’
‘Some small countries, because of their geographical location, become an important player in global politics. For example, consider how shipping routes have made Malaysia a strategically important country. 100,000 ships and 25% of world’s traded goods pass through the Strait of Malacca.'
‘Thus it’s no wonder that both the US and China try hard to influence Malaysia and its establishment. One of the US strategies to “contain” China was to shut off this “choke point” in case of a US-China war. (Yes, countries have to think about such scenarios).’
As it happens Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak has just been jailed for 12 years for corruption, and it looks like his wife will be joining him for 10 years.
I haven’t worked out yet if these are the good guys or the bad guys, any future protests will probably clear that up, depending on levels of violence…
‘China found an alternate escape routes to the Indian Ocean through Myanmar. Shut me out in Malaysia? I can still get my oil from Africa and the Middle East!
Thus, suddenly, an erstwhile ignored Myanmar suddenly became quite an important country!’
It looks like the Myanmar military has got things under control…for now, Soros puppet Aung San Suu Kyi has just had her sentence increased, with more to come.
‘Just to be on the safe side, China also developed a second alternative route to the Indian Ocean through Pakistan. This also served the purpose of encircling India, which China sees as potential adversary in a decade or two (although the two countries try hard to get along for now).
Pakistan, of course, welcomed China with open arms, since the US did a 180 degree flip-flop with its South East Asian policies. All through the Cold War, India was aligned with the USSR, and Pakistan was allied with the US. Starting in the 1990s, the US befriended India for several reasons – one, as a source of cheap, smart, well educated labor; second, as an ally to counter-balance China.’
Even though Imran Kahn is Pakistan’s most popular leader, the swamp has successfully removed him and installed yet another corrupt Sharif…this time Shehbaz. Because of Kahn’s popularity the swamp is trying to put him in jail to stop him running again, sound familiar?
‘Great geographic location doesn’t always guarantee peace and prosperity. Somalia and Yemen are in the critical juncture of trade routes in the Red Sea, and both countries are torn apart with civil war and terrorism.’
Are you seeing it yet?
‘The biggest example of trade route politics in that region is, of course, Egypt, which has the Suez Canal. Because of the importance of the canal, Egypt has always been the target of colonial powers (British, French) and later the US. When Egypt tried to nationalize the Suez Canal in 1956, war ensued! Britain, France and Israel attacked Egypt. Later, the US and the UK supported Muslim Brotherhood to weaken and overthrow nationalist/secular Egyptian leaders.’
‘Now, the US uses military aid and other deep state tools to control Egypt. Wikileaks emails show how Soros and USAID played a major role in the so-called Arab Spring uprising which led to the overthrow of dictator Mubarak in 2011. He was our buddy for 30 years, but geopolitical wizards in Washington and Tel Aviv decided to change things around in the Middle East (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria were all targeted at the same time).’
No need to add anything to that.
‘Then there is Sri Lanka, a tiny country south of India, that happens to be quite critical in China’s plan for “string of pears” – seaports along the shipping trade route. When China wanted to secure a seaport, it laid the classic debt trap, which involves loans for lavish projects which don’t generate much revenue. (Also, the project funding ends up making the local politicians very rich). Later when Sri Lanka couldn’t make payments, China got a lease on the seaport for 99 years. Now, this isn’t too terrible – there was no war or destruction; and China-Sri Lanka relations are still great.’
Sri Lanka gains IMF’s provisional agreement for $2.9-billion loan
This was on Sept 1st…nuff said!
So that’s it, all from a short chapter 3 but there’s so much more, for example in Chapter 28: It’s All About Eurasia we learn:
‘Eurasia has 5.2 billion people, has 75% of world’s energy resources and accounts for 70% of global GDP. It’s also too diverse and too vast for any one country to “rule” even though globalists thought they had conquered Eurasia after the fall of the Soviet Union. But the rise of China and Russia (under Putin) have defied expectations and reset the global chessboard.’
I can’t recommend this book highly enough, buy the Kindle version for (currently) £2.28 here, or download the Epub version here for free.