Divide and Rule: America’s Rimland Strategy
Why America fears Eurasia more than anything else
Brecht Jonkers explains that nearly all of US foreign policy since 1945 follows Nicholas Spykman’s Rimland thesis, itself rooted in Mackinder’s Heartland theory, which has guided successive imperial strategies to divide Eurasia and secure American global dominance.
In order to understand pretty much all US foreign and military policy since World War II, …
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