Posted on 08/02/2022 4:26:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Americans need to "put maps and encyclopedias back on their tables" to understand the "central geographic reality" of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The 19th-century German geographer Friedrich Ratzel once wrote that "great statesmen have never lacked a feeling for geography." "When one speaks of a healthy political instinct," Ratzel continued, "one usually means a correct evaluation of the geographic bases of political power." Europeans and Asians have always had a better grasp of the importance of geography than Americans because unlike Americans, their potential adversaries and opponents were usually located close by, not an ocean away.
Laszlo Bernat Veszpremy is a Hungarian historian and the editor of a science journal called Corvinak. Writing in The American Conservative, Veszpremy has provided a geography lesson for Americans in an effort to help them understand the Russian-Ukraine war. The article is titled "The Inexorable Crowbar of Geography," and in it Veszpremy urges Americans to "put maps and encyclopedias back on their tables" so they can understand the "central geographic reality" of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
That geographic reality is the "East European Plain," which extends over two million square miles. It is the largest lowland in the world. The great British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder sketched what he called the "Great Lowland" in his geopolitical masterpiece Democratic Ideals and Reality (1919). Mackinder described this plain as a "gateway" into Europe from Asia, and into Asia from Europe. He characterized this lowland as "the strategical fact of decisive meaning" for Eurasian geopolitics. Mackinder described the raids of hordes from Asia — Tatars, Huns, Avars, Magyars, Mongols — that helped shape modern Europe. Centuries later, European empires — Napoleonic France, Wilhelmine Germany, and Nazi Germany — traversed the great lowland and struck into the heart of European Russia.
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CRT in school comes first though... right?
Ukraine joining NATO was a red line for Russia as they said many times. And our wonderful VP made a speech saying Ukraine was joining NATO. Why would you do this unless you were trying to start a war?
Is there a war...?
Or is this a mutually agreed upon noisy occupation with the goal of bankrupting US taxpayers....?
Not only geography but demography. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union for something like 60 years, and for good or bad there are a lot of Russian nationals living there who have ties to Russia.
Putin never said he was invading Ukraine because of NATO. It was “nazis” or something. And Ukraine DID NOT join NATO. So why is he still there.
NATO is just BS. Its a land grab.
AND NATO didn’t even want Ukraine to join.
Ukraine is a country....that exists next to another country...............
Why are we taking various Deep States’s words for the fact that there’s a hot war going on in Ukraine...?
Gee I suppose I could take the Russian words that there is a hot war if that makes you feel better..
Most of the Ukraine was part of Russia when.Russia annexed Crimea in 1783 after an earlier war with Turkey... from 1783 until 1991 for a total of 208 years
From London to Kyiv/Kiev is 1,350 miles which means every other major European Capital is much closer. An equivalent distance in the US is DC to San Antonio (TX). What we forget is that this pre-dates Joe to his prior boss, Barrack, and his FAILURES! (Tsar) Putin is seeking (IMHO) to restore the Russian Empire and this is just another step! In 2008 it was Georgia in the Caucasus and then, throughout Obama’s terms, it was eating on the east edges of the Ukraine.
I still remember that 2012 Presidential debate with Obama sneering at Romney for his calling Russia ‘THE’ enemy and that line of the 1980s Foreign Policy! That line has sure aged badly but our Ene-Media have buried it deep!
Even now, Putin’s allies within his government & legislature(!) are calling for greater expansion to the west. The Baltics and Finland are vulnerable and are mentioned as the next on the menu. This is why NATO is attractive to them! Can we blame them ... no, but do we want a war out of this?
What needs to be said is that there was a hiatus in direct Russian moves from 2017-21. I wonder why?
Sounds like Russia needs some CRT schooling so they can understand how their owning Ukraine was oppressive.
Whats your point?
Ukraine has been an independent country for over 30 years.
Russian Geography and Why Russia wants to restore the Soviet borders (video explanation of this article):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwzliJF0-SI
Quick history lesson on the origins of the Russian Empire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjDjnhOzqIU
Energy.
He’s just repeating the total bullcrap fed to him by Tucker and MacGregor last night.
BTW last night this duo of useful idiots took the next logical step -
Now it’s Taiwan that we want to use to attack China, only China has legitimate interests in Taiwan, and of course China will just “sink” our navy and we’ll lose in any war.
So yes they plan to cede our interests in both Europe and Asia.
You have here an article on geography which discusses the central importance of Ukraine, and we get the usual “I don’t care” and worse.
Geography? We share a border with Mexico. We have giant problem with Mexico. It’s unreasonable that we are provoking wars in Ukraine, thousands of miles away and pretending it’s a critical interest.
Geography….
Putin invaded Ukraine because he thought he could take advantage of a weak US president. This would never have happened if Trump were in the White House.
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