“[T]he geographical quantities in the calculations are more measurable and more nearly constant than the human.”
Sir Halford J. Mackinder, The Georaphical Pivot of History
Greetings!
There seems a lot more at play here with Russian troops now occupying the Crimea. Robert Kaplan told us a couple of years ago what to expect in his brilliant book, The Revenge of Geography…
…”It was an old story this, Europe versus Russia: a liberal sea power-as were Athens and Venice-against a reactionary land power-as was Sparta and Prussia…
….read Currency Currents 3 March 2014
