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Tim Marshall

  • isisvillahas quoted2 years ago
    This is the geopolitics of fear. If China did not control Tibet, it would always be possible that India might attempt to do so. This would give India the commanding heights of the Tibetan Plateau and a base from which to push into the Chinese heartland, as well as control of the Tibetan sources of three of China’s great rivers, the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong, which is why Tibet is known as ‘China’s Water Tower’. China, a country with approximately the same volume of water usage as the USA, but with a population five times as large, will clearly not allow that
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    This early Russia, known as the Grand Principality of Muscovy, was indefensible.
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    Ivan the Terrible, the first tsar. He put into practice the concept of attack as defense
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    A Russian island in the Bering Strait is two and a half miles from an American island in the Strait, Little Diomede Island, and can be seen with the naked eye
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    China may well eventually control parts of Siberia in the long run, but this would be through Russia’s declining birthrate and Chinese immigration moving north.
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    to “wash their boots in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean,”
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    Kush proved the rule that Afghanistan is the “Graveyard of Empires.”
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    Peter the Great advised his descendants to “approach as near as possible to Constantinople and India. Whoever governs there will be the true sovereign of the world. Consequently, excite continual wars, not only in Turkey, but in Persia. . . . Penetrate as far as the Persian Gulf, advance as far as India.”
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    Tajikistan, whose borders were deliberately drawn by Stalin so as to weaken each state by ensuring it had large minorities of people from other states
  • Zain Rasoolhas quoted4 months ago
    Sevastopol is Russia’s only true major warm-water port. However, access out of the Black Sea into the Mediterranean is restricted by the Montreux Convention of 1936,
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