Eurasia is a continuum of geography that spans the territory from Lisbon to Afghanistan. Contrary to what many people believe, the Internet did not debunk geography. Quite the contrary. Geography imposes significant costs in commerce and logistics when land continuity is not there. And costs are important.
Now Europe stands as a separate entity from the rest of Eurasia, but important economic forces push Europe all the time towards Eurasia. The economic attraction is now practically obscured by the confrontation between Russia and NATO. But, of course, nothing is eternal. The disconnection between Europe and the rest of Eurasia is caused by temporary problems. That is, the NATO-Russia confrontation in Ukraine is temporary and will be superseded by long term necessities.
Hitler understood perfectly well the importance of Eurasia, except he saw it as a land to be conquered rather than commercially attracted.
Europe cannot develop its total potential without Eurasia, and vice versa. Long term influences tend to dominate over short term episodes, as the economic attraction of Eurasia will tend to erase bad memories like the NATO-Russia conflict.
Inside Eurasia, historic Europe will not lose its cultural and technological inheritance, result of almost continuous development. European technology and Eurasian resources are almost exactly complementary, and long term interchange will tend to industrialization of most parts of Eurasia, making our planet more open to opportunities of commerce.
The picture above counts on the disappearance of American and European Imperialism over the Global South, especially the dominance of the US over Europe as it is now. Present tendencies makes us hopeful of a future not very different from the envisioned.
China is now the main actor in the building of the future Eurasian Bloc. Their Belt and Road Initiative is designed to open logistics even before it is needed. Apart from that, China is the center of the BRICS bloc, much underrated today, but with a bright future.
In order to bypass impediments generated by old forms of imperialism, China has been taking measures to enable countries to carry commerce using their own currencies, leaving the heavy anchor represented by US dollar every day less important. The weaponizing of the dollar by the US is the main reason behind this tendency. This signals a sharp decline in the importance or the dollar and organizations connected to it, like the SWIFT payment system, the ICO, the IMF, the World Bank and many others.
These tendencies have worked as catalysts for the gradual desagregation both of the European Union and NATO. The close alliance between Russia and China is paramount in this aspect. The fragmentation above is part of the tendency for the commercial continuity of Eurasia. Of course China will not be out of this magnificent picture, as the powerhouse of the world industry
However abused is the cliché of dislocation of the geopolitical center of gravity towards the East, it is dead right.
The above picture is somewhat sweetened by momentarily ignoring the response of the collective West to such earth-moving changes. Unfortunately, that response has not been diplomatic, but instead is based in punitive sanctions against all who challenge the dollar. Sanctions and counter-sanctions created a climate of confrontation that should not exist.
The sanction 'war' is counter productive, as it was initiated by a power, the US, who is today in the defensive side of geopolitics. As the sanctions did not work, the West upped the 'war' to threats of a nuclear war, suicidal as it certainly is.
As the confrontation has been taken to the military field, this deserves closer attention. Let's begin by establishing that the reality of the inability of the US to win military contests since Korea in the fifties, and passing through the vietnamese adventure, so costly in lives as in prestige for the US military. Counter-insurgence in the middle east does not test military power, as they are one-sided.
As a conventional war may be an alternative to nuclear war, the comparative forces in eventual conflict becomes important, and the responsible analysts (outside the Pentagon, of course) are unanimous in claiming that the collective West cannot face even Russia alone. We can imagine the picture if China is involved.
Summing up, we can say that there are great hopes that good sense will prevail and a renegotiation of the geopolitical influence will take place, as it is clear that the military option is strongly against the collective West.
The sleepy American Public is an actor who has been discounted by specialists as Colonel Douglas McGregor, who affirms that the American public will just do what they are told. This is very serious, and deserves further study.
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