Source: Antiwar.com
by Tina Antonis
“In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Steve Bannon declared China to be Donald Trump’s ‘real threat,’ invoking what he called the ‘Edwardian view of geopolitics as a ‘world island,’ in which the power that dominates Eurasia controls the globe.’ It’s a telling phrase – one that reaches back to the early 20th-century British imperial imagination, and more specifically, to Halford Mackinder’s 1904 essay The Geographical Pivot of History. Writing at the height of the Edwardian era, Mackinder argued that control over the Eurasian ‘Heartland’ would determine global supremacy. His dictum was blunt: ‘Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world.’ This worldview didn’t fade with the British Empire.” (07/07/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/t-m-antonis/2025/07/06/board-games-and-bottlenecks/