...der declared that whoever controls the heartland controls the world. China's Revolutionary Land-Based Strategy Iran is not just another trading partner for China. The country sits at the crossroads of Mackinder s theorized heartland — Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East—a natural bridge linking Russia, India, the Asia-Pacific, Africa and Europe. Chinese companies have spent two decades building up and embedding themselves into Iranian infrastructure. They built the railway from...
...sia, and where he described the following territory as the “heartland” of the World Island: all areas East of the Volga, South of the Arctic, West of the Yangtze, and North of the Himalayas. This region of the world is very rich in natural resources and it’s in a very strategic location because it connects China, the Middle East, and #Russia (and the USSR before them) with Africa and Europe. It’s also where some of the major routes on the ancient Silk Road were. For these reasons, Mackin...
...nd Israeli bombs rain down on the Iranian people, Beijing watches its Eurasian strategy come under siege. And we are watching Mackinder’s heartland theory play out in real life. The Heartland Theory Sir Halford John Mackinder, the well-known British geographer who’s considered a founding father of modern geopolitics and geostrategy, wrote an essay in 1904 called The Geographical Pivot of History. In this work he coined the phrase “The World Island” which consists of Africa, #Europe and A...
...global crisis. This has placed Beijing into a strategic conflict where they are forced to go on the defense. China built a land-based fortress through the Belt and Road Initiative (New Silk Road) to bypass US chokepoints at sea with hundreds of billions having been poured into railways, pipelines and ports designed to create an overland escape route from Western maritime pressure. This is existential to China’s survival as a nation and Iran lies at the heart of that fortress. As American a...
...ka store building in Shohada and injured a number of people. Shrapnel also injured and killed several ordinary civilians in the surrounding streets. @FotrosResistancee
| About an hour ago, Israeli-American fighter jets bombed a building belonging to the HQ complex of the Electricity Department instantly killing several employees and engineers — Fars The blast wave from the attack shattered the windows of the Et...
The United States is spending Tomahawks on operations against #Iran faster than it can produce them.The first 72 hours of the conflict cost the Americans four and a half years of production of these missiles, the media reported.Subscribe to RIA N...
...th US support, used them to invade Iran in 1980. Perfidious Albion Two Majors
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...ting on the possible refusal of US NATO allies to Washington's request for help in "ensuring the security" of the Strait of Hormuz. AI Video
Tehran is ready to fight to the end and is not seeking a ceasefire, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
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