Sea Power and Mahan / Choke Points will only dominate until Eurasia is fully integrated with internal lines of communication from Atlantic to Pacific and the Arctic to India. It’s well on the way.
Then what? The US Navy will patrol an empty and irrelevant Strait of Mallacca?
Once the petrodollar is dead (and it’s on life support) the $USD just becomes the American Peso.
This story probably escaped your notice, along with 99.999% of Americans:
Key project of China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline is completed
Dec 04, 2022
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1281057.shtml
A key construction project of the China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline was completed on Saturday. It will allow Russian gas to cross the Yangtze River to reach Shanghai, laying the foundation for the full completion of the landmark China-Russia energy cooperation project.
The under-river tunnel across the Yangtze River, a key control project of the pipeline, was completed after 28 months of construction, according to PipeChina.
The tunnel has a length of 10.226 kilometers and is designed with three natural gas pipelines with a diameter of 1,422 millimeters each, according to media reports. [more at link]
Gee, ya think we’ll send a sabotage team to blow up this pipeline too, the way we did to our German ally, in an ultimate back-stab with Nord Stream?
BTW, did you notice who is paying a 3-day state visit to “our ally” Saudi Arabia, with all the bells and whistles?
I don’t think they are meeting to discuss cultural exchanges. They are hammering nails into the petrodollar’s coffin.
Say hello to the coming American Peso.
“Sea Power and Mahan / Choke Points will only dominate until Eurasia is fully integrated with internal lines of communication from Atlantic to Pacific and the Arctic to India. It’s well on the way.”
Whose going to integrate it? Not Russia, that’s clear since they can’t even conquer Ukraine. And China needs most of its army to protect its nearly continent-sized home territory which could be easily conquered if they go on foreign adventures, as the Japanese already demonstrated. And then there’s the problem of “Artic to India” if India is not interested in joining Russia and China’s little club, which they don’t really appear to be.
But say they do integrate it. That still won’t produce the results that were envisioned. Germany was in a similar position, having integrated the “mini-heartland” of Western Europe with internal lines of communication and transport, and that didn’t stop them from getting destroyed when attacked on two fronts. So it isn’t going to help whoever holds the real “heartland” much either I expect. It provides advantages, but not enough advantages to produce the dominance Mackinder predicted, which is why it’s never emerged, and why the smarter nations have no interest in conquering this supposed key to dominance.