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No Tulsi, You Cannot Simply ‘Aloha’ Your Way Through Geopolitics
I don’t even like my pizzas with pineapple. The Hawaiian way is not the smart move. Feat: Admiral Nelson and ABBA.
When he comes to power in January, Donald Trump might attempt to do a cynical Neville Chamberlain. After meeting with Adolf Hitler in Germany Chamberlain returned to the UK convinced he would have ‘peace for our time’. For the naive PM, this would prove his undoing (that and the aggressive stomach cancer). A few short years later it turned out young Adolf was telling porkies about the scope of his political ambition.
Geopolitics is fascinating. Each country is a separate organism with its own internal complexity and the wider global political stage is like the ecosystem in which these national organisms operate. You cannot take a snapshot on a random Tuesday in 2019 and presume you have captured its nature.
Things change. Scrap that… are changing, and quickly.
Apex predators emerge and flourish with alarming alacrity. The British were an apex predator between the end of the 1700s until around the 1950s, replacing the Dutch and the Spanish. If you’re not sure why we’ve got Trafalgar Square in London, then I have three weekdays in the summer of 1798 and a random Sunday in…