Controlling Eurasia With American Imperial Power
From The Grand Chessboard:
"In brief, for the United States, Eurasian geostrategy involves the purposeful management of geostrategically dynamic states and the careful handling of geopolitically catalytic states, in keeping with the twin interests of America in the short-term preservation of its unique global power and in the long-run transformation of it into increasingly institutionalized global cooperation. To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together." - 40Read the full article here. [Proofreader’s note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on October 2, 2007]
"...the issue of how a globally engaged America copes with the complex Eurasian power relationships - and particularly whether it prevents the emergence of a dominant and antagonistic Eurasian power -- remains central to America's capacity to exercise global primacy." - xiii
"A geostrategic issue of crucial importance is posed by China's emergence as a major power. The most appealing outcome would be to co-opt a democratizing and free-marketing China into a larger Asian regional framework of cooperation." - 54
"In effect, Japan should be America's global partner in tackling the new agenda of world affairs. A regionally preeminent China should become America's Far Eastern anchor in the more traditional domain of power politics, helping thereby to foster a Eurasian balance of power, with Greater China in Eurasia's East matching in that respect the role of an enlarging Europe in Eurasia's West." - 193
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Stumble It!
The world never could and can not afford any more of them now, or in the future.
Ed Deak.
Sadly, we do.
I'd prefer peace and the boredom of a world where nations acted justly and differences were settled at the table rather than in the field of battle.
But the times just keep on getting curiouser and curiouser.
I have no desire to know what's next.
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If George W. Bush and Tony Blair are really Christians, then pork and shrimp are Kosher.
Quite right! so let's not be giving them a reason to start
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
It's really weird how these things just end up coming all together.
ENDGAME.
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
The purpose of all wars is energy control. War and crime are the ultimate economic competition for energy control.
When we look at the histories of wars, and I've spend decades on the subject, we can see that the resources and lives wasted in wars could have supplied the participants with far more than the so called "winning side" ever gained.
In any case, empires self destruct, because they burn out
fighting others to remain on top and ultimately, always lose.
Right now 10 days of what is spent in the world on the military could give clean and healthy drinking water to everybody on Earth and one year's spending could literally solve all the problems of poverty, and environmental destruction.
Ed Deak.