Posted on 03/27/2014 12:33:13 PM PDT by Randall_S
Every day in newspapers, writers on foreign affairs use the term “geopolitics.” It evokes a nebulous mix of geography, economics, politics, peoples, resources, and other ideas having to do with the world of international politics. Yet very few people known the origins of this term, and that it has a menacing alternate meaning with a diabolical past.
Fewer people still realize that it is the guiding doctrine behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Below is a short history of geopolitics...
The Russian designs for Europe and the world have their roots in Haushofer’s geopolitics, which were a major strategic component of the Third Reich’s war strategy. Aleksandr Dugin’s influence on this movement cannot be overstated. The techniques employed by the Russian military and propaganda outlets nearly mirror those used by Hitler and OKW in the early war years. Hitler did not stop at Czechoslovakia; instead he advanced onto Poland. Americans and western Christians should remain very wary of the intentions of a new imperial Russia.
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