The world has changed considerably since Brzezinski and Spykman. The BRICS nations have a strong positional advantage on the Giant Chessboard. A shared hegemony seems the only sensible strategy for the U.S. China’s Belt and Road and the solidification of new partnerships in the Indo-Pacific have turned the Rimland into an arena of active rivalry and cooperation. If ever there were a time to make the morally correct sacrifice of a few pawns and bishops and to allow multipolarity, that time is now.
The problem with American empire is that it pumps out deceptive propaganda to keep the citizenry in the dark about this. American empire doesn’t help the citizens but only the same monopolistic corporations and banks that take all the benefit on the people’s dime. This harks back to Smedley Butler and his book War is a Racket where he exposed how as a Marine he didn’t fight for the interests of the American people but rather corporate interests.
The world has changed considerably since Brzezinski and Spykman. The BRICS nations have a strong positional advantage on the Giant Chessboard. A shared hegemony seems the only sensible strategy for the U.S. China’s Belt and Road and the solidification of new partnerships in the Indo-Pacific have turned the Rimland into an arena of active rivalry and cooperation. If ever there were a time to make the morally correct sacrifice of a few pawns and bishops and to allow multipolarity, that time is now.
The problem with American empire is that it pumps out deceptive propaganda to keep the citizenry in the dark about this. American empire doesn’t help the citizens but only the same monopolistic corporations and banks that take all the benefit on the people’s dime. This harks back to Smedley Butler and his book War is a Racket where he exposed how as a Marine he didn’t fight for the interests of the American people but rather corporate interests.