Gathering the legacy of Sir Halford Mackinder, one of the founding fathers of geopolitics, the focus of Washington's foreign agenda shifted from the control over the "backyard", namely Latin America, to Eurasia. According to Mackinder, Eurasia was different from any other continent, because it was the land of great civilizations, the residence of a large part of the world population, strategically accessible and unattainable with an adequate network of infrastructures, and with an incomparable wealth in terms of natural resources.

Because of these reasons, according to him, the British should have invested more resources not in the maintenance of a thalassocracy but in avoiding the formation of a hegemonic power in Eurasia by means of sabotages, the creation of buffer states, secret diplomacy.

In particular, Mackinder was worried about the possibility of a Russian-German alliance because from the union of the Teutonic industrial potentials with the endless resources offered by the Russian soil it could emerge a lethal power for the British hegemony, which was not only decadent but also anachronistic because founded on the domination of the seas in the era that would have enshrined the rule of land transport.

More than a century after the publication of The Geographical Pivot of History by Mackinder and more than 20 years after the publication of The Big Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the most powerful strategists of the recent US history (strongly influenced by the Mackinderian school), it is easily noticeable how the suggestions about the control over Eurasia have been scrupulously followed by the United States.

In particular, Brzezinski's recommendations for an "Eurasian strategy" have become a reality: expansion of NATO and the European Union in the Balkans and in the Eastern Europe, removal of Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence, pressure on the main Asian geostrategic pivots like Caucasus, Turkestan, Turkey, Fertile Crescent and Persian Gulf, to make the continent ungovernable to any wanna-be hegemon.

Decades of successful post-Cold war neo-containment have resulted in a favourable situation for the United States, but the events could still change in favour of Russia because of the emerging of China.

Mackinder's theory of Heartland (Source: CA&CC Press AB)

"Mackinder was worried about the possibility of a Russian-German alliance."... RUSSOPHOBIA IS TAKING CARE OF THIS....

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China's foreign ministry has taken aim at US President Donald Trump for comments he made online earlier today, declaring that "everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran".

Those comments from Trump came before he left the G7 summit in Canada.

China's foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun has now accused the president of "pouring oil" on the escalating tensions in the Middle East.

"Fanning the flames, pouring oil, making threats and mounting pressure will not help to promote the de-escalation of the situation, but will only intensify and widen the conflict," Jiakun said when asked about Trump's remarks at a regular news conference.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-17/iran-israel-conflict-live-updates-iran-state-broadcaster-strikes/105424264

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         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

The Israeli Strike on Iran, the JFK Assassination, and the 9/11 Attacks
RON UNZ

Much like individuals, countries may often become victims of their own great success.

This risk certainly applies to criminals, including criminal regimes. Even if they effectively conceal their direct involvement in particular incidents, over time their method of operation—their “M.O.”—may become obvious. This allows the ready identification of their handiwork, whether by law enforcement agencies or interested historians.

Last week’s sudden surprise attack by Israel against Iran was a remarkably successful decapitation strike that assassinated much of the latter country’s top military and national security leadership at a single stroke. According to news reports, the victims included the head of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, both the head of the Iranian armed forces and his top deputy, and the entire leadership of the country’s powerful missile and drone division. No previous historical example comes to mind in which the high command of a major nation’s military had been so completely annihilated within just a few hours. On June 12th, IRGC commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami had publicly declaredthat Iran “was ready for any scenario,” but 24 hours later he was dead, along with most of Iran’s other military leaders.

Moreover, the losses extended far beyond the armed forces.  Ali Shamkhan, the national security advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader and the individual responsible for the ongoing nuclear negotiations with America was killed, as were the head of Iran’s nuclear research program and many of his top scientists.

Last year the Israelis had employed a similar decapitation strategy to eliminate the entire leadership of Hezbollah, effectively destroying that organization. But although Hezbollah had been widely regarded as the world’s strongest and most heavily-armed non-state militia, renowned for having given the Israelis a black eye during the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, it lacked any air defenses and was based in neighboring Lebanon. Meanwhile Iran was a powerful nation of 90 million, possessing advanced weaponry and located more than 1,000 miles from Israel. Iran’s decapitation was simply astonishing.

The exact tactical details of how the Israelis so easily pierced Iran’s robust air defenses cannot yet be firmly established given that elements of the widely published reports might merely constitute deceptive propaganda. But if those accounts are correct, Israel had secretly prepositioned large numbers of powerful drones and other military equipment on Iranian soil, then used these to blind and disable Iran’s network of anti-aircraft defenses, thereby opening the door for the huge air strikes that inflicted most of the destruction, and such a scenario seems quite plausible.

Other explosive drones may have been used for the targeted assassinations of many of the high-profile victims, whose exact locations had been determined by either human or technical intelligence. I’ve also seen claims on the Internet that small Israeli electronic warfare teams had successfully infiltrated Iran and disrupted the country’s military communications channels for hours, severely hampering any defensive measures. But none of these particular details much matter, with the overwhelming end result being the only important fact.

I think that the unprecedented success of this sudden Israeli strike against Iran’s leadership also shifts the probabilities on some other important past events. In April 2024, Iran had launched a retaliatory missile strike against Israel, and despite the best efforts of American and British forces to intercept the missiles in their flight path, the hypersonics and most of the ballistics got through and struck their targets, with Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome defense system proving itself completely ineffective in blocking the attacks. When the Israelis failed to counter-retaliate, the Iranians declared that they had been victorious in that major test of force, thus fully establishing the effectiveness of their missile deterrent.

But then just a few weeks later, Iran’s hardline President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister both died in a still unexplained helicopter crash while returning from a visit to Azerbaijan, leading many to suspect that Mossad had killed the Iranian president. And now that Israel has demonstrated its enormous ability to strike down so many top Iranian leaders in their own country at a time of high military tension, I think that President Raisi should probably be added to the long list of Israeli victims.

Furthermore, Raisi’s sudden death had major strategic consequences. He had been a leading Iranian hardliner, having close relations with Russia and China, and viewed by many as the likely successor to 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Meanwhile, his replacement was Masoud Pezeshkian, a far more moderate figure eager to avoid any confrontation with America and instead hoping to mend relations with the West. Thus, by eliminating Raisi, the Israelis had drastically “reshaped” the subsequent Iranian political landscape.

This same strategy was obviously an important element of last week’s huge wave of assassinations. Iran’s military leadership and especially its powerful IRGC had been among the most influential supporters of their country’s refusal to bend to America’s demands, with many of them even pushing for the creation of a nuclear weapons deterrent. So their elimination along with that of other hardline national security officials may shift the political balance in a very different direction.

Just as no major nation had ever previously suffered such a heavy decapitating blow, most would agree that Israel was the only country in the world that could have successfully carried out such a bold and daring operation. Indeed, proud Israelis would probably be the first to make such a boastful claim. But pride sometimes goes before a fall.

Once all these facts have sunk in and intelligent Americans have given due consideration to the matter, I think that only the willfully blind or the most obtuse will fail to quietly recognize that Israel and its Mossad had played exactly the same role in two of the most momentous events that similarly “reshaped” our own country’s political landscape, namely the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the 2001 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.

Seen from the broader sweep of history, the combination of those two watershed events, together with many smaller ones, effectively reduced our country to a subservient vassal state largely under Israeli control, and that bitter reality will surely inspire deep resentment as our citizens become more fully aware of it.

For obvious reasons, few Americans will probably voice these new convictions in anything but whispers, but the belief will exist and it will steadily increase in certainty as individuals begin investigating the easily available historical facts, which have been hiding in plain sight for decades. The result will be the steady growth of a massive but hidden unexploded political shell that might detonate at any point, quite possibly leading to the total destruction of the Jewish State when it does. Therefore I think that this ultimate consequence of Friday’s shocking events probably represents a far greater danger to Israel’s survival than do any of the retaliatory Iranian missiles now raining down upon its territory.

The evidence that Israel played the central role in both those devastating past blows against our own country seems obvious. But any such possibility has always been totally excluded not merely from the mainstream media but even from nearly all of the conspiratorial circles that have spent decades intensely focusing all their attention on the events of 1963 or 2001.

Therefore, the total volume of compiled material laying out the strong case for Israeli culpability is quite limited, and for those entirely new to this extremely controversial topic, I’d recommend some of my own writings of the last seven years. These effectively summarize much of the accumulated research evidence, while also providing numerous links and references to more detailed treatments.

For many newcomers to such matters, the whole notion of such a “conspiratorial” explanation for JFK’s assassination or the attacks of 9/11 might seem utterly fantastical, and the high likelihood that the Israeli Mossad killed our president and destroyed our largest office towers would be surely be considered fantasy-squared. So I expect they will have huge skepticism about the content of my various articles.

Fortunately, just last week I published a piece explaining that I had recently used OpenAI’s very powerful Deep Research system to carefully review my many articles on both those explosively controversial topics. The AI concluded that virtually all of my factual claims were accurate, while my overall conclusions also seemed fairly plausible.

However, I should strongly emphasize that there is a sharp distinction between these two aspects of my work. Based upon that thorough Deep Research analysis, readers should have almost complete confidence in the facts that I present, while still deciding for themselves whether I have connected those many dots in sensible or foolish ways.

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         Gus Leonisky

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