Prisoner's of Geography

The Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, in a double- edged remark, said more than a century ago that ‘God takes special care of drunks, children and the United States of America.’ It appears still to be true.

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

every US Folsum, Fairfax, and Farmerville would quickly resemble an Iraqi Fallujah.

Egypt is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

you didn’t have trees you couldn’t build a great navy with which to project your power

created an egg without a chicken

Africa’s world war

Democratic Republic of the Congo – the DRC.

Joseph Conrad set his novel Heart of Darkness

sovereignty and immigration.