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Miroslav, everybody,
Listen up folks!
This is it, I hadn't realised so clear an article had
been written. Mackinder's Geopolitics theory forms the
basis of US. foreign policy and the theories of the
Council on Foreign Relations activists since before
WWII and from around 1937.
The first line of MacKinder's mantra is;-
"He who controls East Europe controls the
Heartland..."
But MacKinder "did not act alone", he was the pet Guru
of the "Liberal-Imperialists", lead by Lord Rosebury.
The position of the British Empire and Britain's role
as the Dominant Power, (sound familiar) was under
threat and the economy was actually in decline.
This was because Britain's position as the supreme Sea
Power and its fleet was now threatened.
Everything is based on Sea Power, as the battleship
was the supreme weapon of the period.
MacKinder and his L-I patrons claimed the land power
of the World Island could threaten the Sea Powers, the
US. being recruited into this.
This reflects the intense fear of Russia, and the
possibility of them building a large fleet, which was
planned.
But it was also seen as a threat economically and
politically.
A single world-empire was about to come into
existence, it was believed, so a world view and some
action was essential.
A real effort was made to recruit the US. as a
partner, going to them first as "Splendid isolation"
was abandoned,
more later,
Richard
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> THE CHIEF MOTIVE OF THE BALKANS WAR
>
> by R. Schleyer, Eugene, Oregon, USA".
>
> Posted: 21 March, 2000
>
> Ronald Schleyer has a master's degree in journalism
> from the University
> of Montana. He is a former news writer and editor
> and has worked across
> the northern half of the United States, as well as
> in Europe and the
> Middle East.
>
> Many people suspect a deep strategic reason behind
> NATO's seemingly
> facile
>
<http://www.context.co.nz/contributors/graphicRonSchMSLIB.jpg>
> attack on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In
> fact, there is a
> certain rationale for the Balkans war, a closely
> held view entertained
> by its instigators. They know this conflict as a
> necessary thrust in an
> ongoing, aggressive, long-term, strategic World War
> conceived almost a
> century ago by a British imperialist and cunning
> sophist of formidable
> rank. His name was Halford John Mackinder
> (1861-1947).
>
> Mackinder, a rather clever geographer with a
> murderous Mission, had an
> idea so beguiling that, even today it animates the
> likes of Madeleine
> Albright, Wesley Clark, Samuel R. Berger, William
> Cohen, Richard
> Holbrooke, and others who take what they imagine is
> an "intellectual"
> view of statecraft.
> Mackinder proudly defended British imperial power
> and is accurately
> characterized as an Imperialist. He was knighted for
> his contributions,
> chiefly intellectual, to its maintenance and
> advancement. However,
> Mackinder consciously directed his writings toward
> the U.S. audience
> right from the start because he deeply believed that
> his own theory
> called for this.
>
> Mackinder's homicidal geopolitics now lies at the
> core of U.S. military
> indoctrination (more on this below). The theory
> specifically cultivates
> the goal of subjugating the world. It postulates and
> persuasively argues
> the supposed necessity for continuous war of
> "enlightened" Seamen
> against
> "autocratic" Landsmen for domination of the
> Landsmen's "Heartland,"
> thereby attaining the power to "command" the world!
> In a typically
> arrogant British manner, it claims all wisdom and
> innate "democratic
> ideals" for itself.
>
> The Serbians, of course, perceived NATO's
> countrywide rain of bombs on
> roads, bridges, industrial plants, schools, and
> hospitals as a grave and
> unbelievably insane crime, and often asserted that
> the war was
> "demented." They never suspected the war's rational
> explanation in
> longstanding western
> geopolitical strategy. It is true that the
> intellectual sham and humbug
> of the Heartland theory has been convincingly
> exposed in the English
> language only in academic circles. Still, it seems
> incredible that the
> professors at Belgrade University never discerned
> Yugoslavia's
> unfortunate place as the doormat of the Heartland
> until the bombs began
> to fall.
>
> It should be borne in mind that, in prosecuting
> Mackinder's "all for the
> Heartland" theory, Yugoslavia's enemies are
> philosophically ignorant.
> They think atomistically and abstractly and are
> utterly unaware that
> their conception of "democratic" (the title of
> Mackinder's principal
> work begins with this word) is thoroughly
> non-organic. Thus, they
> totally misconceive the true idea of the
> Nation-State, which is
> exhibited only in Continental philosophy.
>
> As is well known, the dominant American philosophy
> has been a bald-faced
> Pragmatism for more than a century. The country's
> leading lights were
> thus prepared to be deceived by Mackinder's
> mechanistic historical
> geography and clever sophistical powers in 1919 on
> first introduction to
> the Heartland theory. Hence they have entertained
> the mad professor's
> dangerous ideas over and over again, as proven by
> the periodic
> republication of Mackinder's writings over an
> eighty-year period, and
> now for the first time (see below) by the U.S.
> National Defense
> University.
>
> WORLD WAR AGAINST WORLD PEACE
>
> British intellectuals call Mackinder the "father of
> modern British
> geography." In "Democratic Ideals and Reality"
> (1919), with rhetorical
> skill and deft use of brilliantly constructed maps,
> Mackinder advanced
> his theory of geopolitical aggression, declaring a
> supposed necessity
> for continuous World War of maritime "democratic"
> against "national"
> land powers.
>
> Mackinder especially focused on East Europe for
> strategic control of
> what he called "The Heartland" and on the Heartland
> (including much of
> the territory of the Slavic nations) for domination
> of the "World
> Island" (Europe, the Near East, Asia, and Africa).
> Here is a
> characteristically catchy aphorism,
> taken from the book:
>
> "Who Rules East Europe Commands the Heartland
> Who Rules the Heartland Commands the World-Island
> Who Rules the World-Island Commands the World"
>
> Left-wing academic analysts who advised the Serbian
> people (e.g., Michel
> Collon, "Secret Strategies on Kosovo" (SMISAO #6
> (1/99)) negligently
> failed to point out the ultimate danger of the
> geopolitical theory
> behind the decade-long aggression against Federal
> Yugoslavia. Though
> entering the intellectual life of the world as long
> ago as 1904,
> Mackinder's conceptions enjoyed a resurgence in
> United States military
> circles especially after the fall of the Soviet
> Union. Steps in the
> Balkans aggression, with its
> strategic goal clear only to the perpetrators in
> Washington, London, and
> Bonn, began shortly thereafter. Major milestones
> were reached in 1992,
> 1995, and 1998.
>
> The U.S. "National Defense University" in 1996
> republished the main body
> of Mackinder's work (under the same title as given
> above) with a
> foreword by U.S Air Force Lt. Gen. Ervin Rokke,
> President of that
> institution. The book is currently for sale by the
> U.S. Government
> Printing Office (GPO) in Washington, D.C., and is
> being used to
> indoctrinate military officers in Mackinder's
> fratricidal exhortation to
> geopolitical conquest.
>
> "In 1942," Rokke says, "Allied strategic planners .
> . . recognized the
> value of Mackinder's work, which they used in
> engineering the defeat of
> Germany" (!). Rokke states that the entire
> anti-Soviet Cold War
> (1947-1991) was merely an interlude, freely
> admitting the greater
> struggle for supremacy over the World Island by the
> maritime powers.
> "Regional strategic concerns," he says, force the
> NATO powers "to once
>
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