Blindspot 142 Trump’s Postmodern Imperialism & Arctic counter-Russia/China NSR Gamble

Blindspot 142 Trump’s Postmodern Imperialism, Putin putting Geography back into Geopolitics… Re-Territorialising World politics in era of De-globalisation

Buiteboer // From Bunker 42
www.buiteboer.co.za
13/1/25

Non-AI Opening Monologue

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For those of us who had the privilege of being born in the previous century, it may be possible to recall the post-Cold War 1990s, early 2000s, as the time of hyper globalisation, where, apparently, states, borders, nations, continents, disappeared in the wake of the speed of planetary digital networks, the integration of the globe in a supposed InterNet, and the vast flows of capital that pushed boundaries of apparently boundary-less globalisation of investment flows and capital markets on perpetual brink of booms and inevitable busts. The grand illusion that drove these phenomena, and the delirium of the post-1990 ‘new age’ of an integrated/globalised world: physical instantiation, be it in a body (as human), or within geographic borders and related internal realities, that form nations, states, physical geographic boundaries that shape and define cultural-religious-spiritual precepts and beliefs, have been rendered useless and thus consigned to the dustbin of history.

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If we think in rather broad historical sweeps, then it is possible to contend that the onset of the Russian SMO in Ukraine (2022), coupled with the actions of economic war taken against Russia in response, by Club Western World and its armed wing - the NATO bouncers, is what brought most illusions of an integrated, globalised, borderless, digitised, bodiless, non-state marketised world crashing down to terra firma. In fact, Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO, in March 2022, already announced that globalisation as the world has known it for the past 30 years, is dead on arrival in a Ukrainian emergency room! Trump trades Ukraine for Greenland & Canada (to get more US access to the Arctic?!

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Links

https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/polar/arctic.htm

https://www.rt.com/russia/608841-steamship-chelyuskin-disaster-turned-triumph/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-jr-visits-greenland-father-continues-float/story?id=117415031

https://www.mapsofworld.com/answers/geography/countries-lie-within-arctic-circle/#

https://arctic-russia.ru/en/news/chinese-embassy-counsellor-notes-increase-in-chinese-vessel-voyages-along-nsr/

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/may/worlds-most-capable-icebreakers-russias-new-arktika-class

https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/geopolitical-implications-arctic-shipping-lanes/

https://www.specialeurasia.com/2024/11/17/arctic-russia-strategy/

https://gcaptain.com/russia-sets-new-arctic-shipping-record-transports-38mt-in-2024-via-northern-sea-route/

https://odysee.com/@shakingmyheadproductions:2/The-Counterfeit-One-World-Order-Exposed:9