Anglo-Saxon geopolitical theories
Few believe that the war in Ukraine will end in 2024, for which a peace pact would be needed, and the scenario may have more to do with a ceasefire or permanent armistization if the United States so wishes. The geographer who laid the foundations of Anglo-Saxon geopolitics John Mackinder (1861-1947) said that whoever rules Eastern Europe prevails in the continental heart of Eurasia (Heartland) and who controls it will dominate the most important island on the planet (Eurasia) and thus lead the world. Therefore, it has always been important for Anglo-Saxon geopoliologists to avoid alliances between continental powers. In his view, as long as there is a fragmented and conflictive Eurasia, the Anglo-Saxon powers would dominate.
The British Mackinder was afraid of any kind of cooperation between Russia and Germany, so he said it should be obstructed. That fear, among others, Nicholas J. Spykman, George F. Kenna, Henry A. Kissinger or Zbigniew Brzezinski also spread across American geopolitologists. Kissinger, for example, when he considered that cooperation between China and the USSR was very dangerous, he promoted an alliance with China to break the Pekin-Moscow axis.
In this logic we must understand the war in Ukraine in recent years, which has allowed the US to achieve one of its main objectives: Break any kind of alliance between Germany (European Union) and Russia for the long term. In return, cooperation between China and Russia has been strengthened and under its leadership Eurasian integration has advanced. To cope with these situations, the theory developed by North American geopolitologists is that Heartland control is not so important if the continental powers are prevented from projecting on the coasts.
Biden explained at the congress that the subsidies granted to Israel were very effective, because it is very important in the construction of the American hegemony.
Spykman considers that the fundamental zone was not Heartlanda, but the coasts that constitute the Eurasian (Rimland) outer belt. Rimland would be of great importance for its population, natural resources and industrial development. So Spykman changed Mackinder's logic by saying that whoever controls Rimlanda rules Eurasia and who controls Eurasia directs the destiny of the world. Spykman believed that the United States should control or destabilize the states of Rimland to impose itself as a superpower and thus dominate the world. This explains why the US warrior interest is historically in Rimland: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Ukraine… and Palestine.
Palestine is another section, but not just any. In 1986, Senator Joe Biden explained at the US Congress that US subsidies to Israel were very effective because Tel Aviv plays a very important role in building Washington’s hegemony and added that if Israel did not exist, the US should be right to defend its interests in the region.
Israel is aware of its geostrategic importance, and has multiplied since the beginning of the decline of the United States. In the 1990s, Washington, as a strategy to strengthen its hegemony among the Arab countries, forced the Israelis to negotiate with the Palestinians to make the logic of both states viable. At present, Tel Aviv knows that Washington, despite the bloodiest decisions to end Palestine, will have to swallow because Israel is essential to maintain international hegemony.
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