Strategy&Future

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Peter Zeihan on the chaotic times that are coming and will last for another generation, on decoupling, deglobalization, and on the need for consolidation in Europe.

Jacek Bartosiak talks to Parag Khanna on the future of the world, patterns of globalization, and consolidation of Eurasia as a system; and on Europe being part of it.

Between 1989 and 1991, the strategic map of Eurasia altered dramatically as broad swathes of territory reopened to international markets after a long period of enclosure behind communist walls. Demand for conventional military forces declined as NATO’s front-line confrontation with the countries of the Warsaw Pact disappeared. The two largest nuclear powers – the United States and the Russian Federation – could agree that they possessed superfluous nuclear weapons.

“There is only one god – Poseidon – god of the sea; there is only one legitimate church confessing this god – and that is the United States Navy, ruling the waves of the World Ocean. And Alfred T. Mahan is the true prophet of this god and this church”. popular saying among US Navy officers