A professor of geopolitics, Ricardo Martins who has worked in countries North and South, posits in his Jan. 26 article in New Eastern Outlook (NEO), “Trump Goes Geopolitical: Entangling China and Russia Is the Base of His Imperialistic Move.” Martins’ thesis is that a “strategy of entanglement” is at work, and so while Trump’s Greenland grab “appeared unconventional,” it falls more into “geopolitical maneuvers” with the U.S. “long-standing aim of eliminating peer competitors” so as to secure its position as “the world’s dominant power.” Martins is a regular contributor to NEO, which is the magazine published by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Now, as the Arctic region has become a focus with its “rare earth minerals, oil and gas” as well as its position for new trade routes, “Trump’s interest in ‘purchasing’ Greenland underscored a serious agenda of securing the region to counteract China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Russia’s dominance in Arctic shipping lanes,” he suggests.
Martins cites two studies, the 2019 RAND report “Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground”, and a Carnegie Endowment’s 2013 report “Stranglehold: The Context, Conduct and Consequences of an American Naval Blockade of China”, as roadmaps that Trump’s team appears to be following. The gist of both, he writes, is a “strategy of the concept of entanglement—forcing … nations into resource draining confrontations on multiple fronts while expanding U.S. influence globally.” The Arctic Sea routes will be key to “entangling” China and Russia’s new trades routes, he indicates.
Readers of EIR or International Peace Coalition participants have learned that such geopolitical moves will no longer function, as countries of the Global South and the BRICS-Plus nations throw off the colonial chains of such resource grabs. At the March 20-21, 2021 Schiller Institute webinar, Helga Zepp-LaRouche keynoted in a speech titled, “Will Human History End in a Tragedy, or Continue with a New Paradigm?”. In it she had disputed the geopolitical moves of the Biden team. “Lyndon LaRouche, in a beautiful article … called, ‘The Force of Tragedy’” insisted it is “Classical artistic” thinking which, “If mankind wants to find a solution to the present many existential crises, political leaders on all levels of society have to access” that level of thinking, she said. So, Trump should listen to the “wise words” of the LaRouches to secure a legacy of peace and development.
