Halford Mackinder

A Yalta II, a bad Yalta.

And it's a wonderful idea to propose such a thing because you can see how these three kings, king of kings, with lots of client kings, think of themselves as masters of their spheres, masters of their geography, the world island divided in half, Vladimir Putin to the East to the West, or well, depending on where you are, and Xi Jinping to the East, and Donald Trump standing off, just like Mackinder said, the outer limits, the outer sphere, where we've taken the place of Great Britain.

here in the Americas.

We think separately than Eurasia.

It's difficult to declare that a defeat at the conception, not at the action.

Xi Jinping representing the Eastern sphere.

Vladimir Putin representing the Western Eurasian sphere, the world island divided in half, and Donald Trump representing the Americas, Mackinder's outer limits, outer sphere.

Is that a credible summit to you? Is that something that would establish a Metternichian peace for 30 or 40 years?

I mean, it's quite interesting.

If you look at classical geopolitics, there's a chap called Halford Mackinder, and he says, look, if you can dominate Eurasia, then you're going to dominate the rest of the world.

There's also another one called Mahan, Alfred Sayer Mahan.

He says, no, no, if you control the seas because they link, if you like, commodities, manufacturers and markets, then you're going to dominate the world.

The British Empire, of which the sun never sets.

Mackinder, we're going to get to Mackinder here very quickly.

Is just looking

for resources.

I mean, people like H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell was a leading member for for a long period.

Halford Mackinder was a leading Fabian.

Now, the thing about all these guys is that they started saying, OK, let's let's use the language of injustice.

We'll start criticizing empire and we'll create a movement that will then appeal to recruiting more people.