Controles replays world of warships11/17/2023 Think of Gibraltar, Pearl Harbor, the diamond mines of Africa, or the oil fields of the Middle East. Geopolitics - the relentless struggle for control over foreign lands, ports, cities, mines, railroads, oil fields, and other sources of material and military might - has governed the behavior of major powers for centuries. If comparisons are in order, think of this moment as more akin to the situation Europe confronted prior to World War I than in the aftermath of World War II. It’s an all-too-geopolitical twenty-first-century struggle for advantage on a highly contested global chessboard. ![]() But while Russia and the West disagree on many issues of principle, this is not a replay of the Cold War. “In the contest between democracy and autocracy, between sovereignty and subjugation, make no mistake - freedom will prevail,” President Biden asserted in a televised address to the nation the day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been widely described as the beginning of a new cold war, much like the old one in both its cast of characters and ideological nature.
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