Mackinder's Geopolitics vs. LaRouche's Landbridge: Thinking outside of the Closed System
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Transcript of Mackinder's Geopolitics vs. LaRouche's Landbridge: Thinking outside of the Closed System
By Matthew Ehret-Kump
American economist Lyndon LaRouche’s propos-
als for a Eurasian Landbridge and Russia’s current
proposal for the Bering Strait Rail Tunnel connec-
tion from Vladivostok through 100 km of water to
Alaska and into Canada are not new. These vision-
ary proposals are a long time in the making and
have represented a tormenting nightmare to sev-
eral generations of imperial geopoliticians.
By the turn of the 20th century, Russian Transport
Minister Count Sergei Witte working in tandem
with American System leaders and engineers in
Siberia were completing the final stretch of the
Trans-Siberian Railway. This development fol-
lowed 1) hot on the heels of Lincoln’s victorious
suppression, with the help of Russia’s Czar Alex-
ander II, of the British financed Confederate upris-
ing in 1865, 2) the 1867 United States purchase of
Alaska from Russia, and 3) the near annexation of
British Columbia into America in 1870 (1). The
feasibility studies to connect the two continents
were first presented by the Trans-Siberian Railway
Company in 1905 (2). The British Empire at the
time was known as “the old man of Europe” and
in all intents and purposes was on the verge of
extinction.
Mackinder’s geopolitics demands a closed
system
In 1904, as a
response to these
developments,
British Fabian
Society member
and director of
the London
School of Eco-
nomics Sir Hal-
ford Mackinder,
formulated a
s c h o o l o f
thought known
as Geopolitics.
This study has
influenced all
imperial strate-
g i s t s w h o
emerged from
the 20th century
from Rhodes
scholar William
Yandell Elliot, his Harvard students ‘Sir’ Henry
Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bernard Lewis as
well as Samuel P. Huntington to name a few. It
was also the foundation for the Heartland theory
extolled by Nazi geopolitician Karl Haushofer and
adopted by Hitler.
Mackinder’s program was little more than a refor-
mulated “divide to conquer” policy already prac-
ticed for centuries by the British Empire, and
arose entirely as a response which the threat Lin-
coln’s American System program of rail develop-
ment posed to the continued existence of the fail-
ing British Empire as mentioned above.
Mackinder’s Geopolitics versus LaRouche’s World Landbridge
(1) Were it not for Britain’s offer to bribe BC merchants during a
heated period of 1867-1870, all onlookers from Canada and the USA
alike believed that this British colony was nearly about to incorporate
into America, as this provided the only economically viable options
available for the bankrupt colony. The Transcontinental railway had
just been built into San Francisco and an active ferry system connected
the BC merchants to the USA. The British had to move fast and did so
by 1) paying off British Columbia’s massive debt, and 2) then purchas-
ing the massive territory separating its eastern and western colonies
also known as Rupert’s Land and owned by the Hudson’s Bay Com-
pany in 1868 and 3) finally promising to build a railway connecting
BC to Eastern Canada which was accomplished in 1885. The only
condition was that British Columbia join the Confederation and not
choose the American option.
(2) Funds totalling six million dollars were raised privately,
concluding the project could be done for $300 million. An
editorial in the New York Times of October 24th, 1905, ob-
served that “the Bering Strait Tunnel is a project which at
some time in the future is likely to command a great deal of
very purposeful consideration.”
Sir Halford Mackinder summarized
his theory: “Who rules East Europe
commands the Heartland; Who rules
the Heartland commands the World
Island; Who rules the World Island
commands the World."
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Not only did rail pose a threat to the Empire, but the
advent of the new energy dense fuel source known
as petroleum was threatening to replace the largely
monopolized (and less energy dense) coal for indus-
trial production.
From Japan’s Meiji Restoration, to Chancellor von
Bismarck’s “Berlin to Baghdad Rail” initiative, to
R u s s i a ’ s T r a n s -
Siberian Railway, inter
-continental develop-
ment driven by Ameri-
can System rail pro-
grams were initiating
new dynamics of coop-
eration and develop-
ment amongst all na-
tions of North Amer-
ica, Europe, Russia and
Asia. Most impor-
tantly, these pro-
deve lopment ap -
proaches to national
e c o n o mi e s w e r e
founded on the con-
certed rejection of all
British Free Trade
dogma and the vigor-
ous adoption of the
protective tariff, pro-
ductive credit and long
term planning, all act-
ing under the principle
of the general welfare.
To their horror, the British Empire was witnessing a
worldwide emergence of the American System.
After successful expeditions to the South and North
Pole had been accomplished by 1909, Mackinder
declared, like Malthus before him that all that could
be discovered on the Earth had been discovered, and
that human society was now officially locked within
an absolutely closed system. All that remained was
for leading monopolies to map out finite resources,
and get victim nations to slaughter each other in
territorial disputes that would necessarily occur as
the outcome of each striving to possess as many of
these “finite resources’ as possible before they ran
out. This would be achieved by getting nations to
look at the future not from the American System
standpoint of their creative potentials to change
those limits for the better, but rather from the mone-
tarist free market filter of pleasure-pain and momen-
tary profit. Were the bestial dynamic of each against
all not adopted, all hope for world domination
would be lost.
Mackinder’s theory was expressed most clearly in
his observation: "Who rules East Europe commands
the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands
the World Island; Who rules the World Island com-
mands the World."
Reality is an Open System
In the logic of empire, nations must be kept fighting
each other in a closed system of absolute scarcity.
Rather than creatively moving outside of those lim-
its by discovering new principles of the universe,
and creating new energy sources such as nuclear
fission, thermonuclear fusion power, or desalinating
ocean water to green deserts, nations have been
told, rather arbitrarily, that ‘scarcity’ has to be re-
spected and, like beasts, adapted to in a survival of
the fittest paradigm.
Lincoln admirer von Bismarck
was among the many world
statesmen importing the Ameri-
can System by the end of the
19th century. His ouster would
lead to the unleashing of World
Wars 1 and 2. See the film 1932
for the full story.
For a full documentation of the American System and the British
Empire’s orchestration of World War one, then check out:
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This logic has been used to manipulate idiots with
political power into initiating almost every single
un-necessary war during this past century, and
governs the geopolitical thinking that is resulting
in potential territorial conflict the world over to-
day.
According the BP Statistical Review of World
Energy 2011, this past year has witnessed the
greatest drop of nuclear energy use on record
(with a 4.3% fall) while coal has become the
world’s fastest growing fuel (totalling 30.3% of
global use). While “green energies” such as wind
and solar power have risen by 25.8% and 86.6%
respectively, their combined total contribution to
global energy consumption is a measly 2.1%.
The energy required to produce “renewable” en-
ergies far outweigh their output while the wasted
land area required to sustain them is not only bad
economics, but it is more importantly, the sickly
effects of a community of nations turning their
backs on 600 years of progress and embracing an
ideology which will permit no more than one bil-
lion humans living in political, mental and physi-
cal conditions not terribly different from feudal-
ism.
Today, new energy sources await the political
will to overcome those boundary limits met by
our current addiction to fossil fuels and ineffi-
cient green “renewables”. On top of the prospect
of connecting Eurasian countries in a “New Silk
Road” known as the World Landbridge and Ber-
ing Strail Tunnel, the new frontier defining Mack-
inder’s fraud is located in the prospect of un-
bounded space exploration, lunar and Mars in-
dustrialization and asteroid defence.
None of these are “utopian fantasies”, but rather
active policies either already being applied by
leading nations such as China and Russia, or be-
ing offered by leaders among those nations such
as Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry
Rogozin’s offer for Strategic Defense of Earth
(SDE), and Russian Transport Minister Yakunin’s
Bering Strait proposal.
The effect of continuing to tolerate the limits we
find imposed upon ourselves as a species, will
entail not only undoing the industrial revolution,
but also ushering in new wars with the use of
thermonuclear weapons, risking the extermina-
tion of humanity.
LaRouche’s World Landbridge is already becoming a reality in Eastern Russia and Asia. Will
the rest of the world wake up in time to get on board?