Media: The Great Game of Geopolitics is Not What You Think

• Media: The Great Game of Geopolitics is Not What You Think
  by Tom Luongo, https://tomluongo.me/
  My talk from June’s Ron Paul Institute Conference on Foreign Policy in Houston is above.
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  To be honest, I go back and forth in my thinking as to whether geopolitics is the seven-player game of Go I talk about here or just Calvinball, as I posited in an older post here. The most salient point from that article, regardless of the game metaphor you prefer is this one:
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  {By invading Ukraine} Russia acted, setting the operational tempo from that moment forward. It forced the US and Europe to react to them as they created a new reality, set new rules.
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  The US was now the rule-taker rather than the rule-maker. You knew this because it prompted multiple rounds of scurrying to Moscow by officials from all over the West trying to talk the Russians off their new game.
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  To zero avail. This rules of the global game have changed because now there is more than one player capable of dictating them. It is always been a world of ‘might makes right’ and any real discussion of the ‘rules based order’ is wholly dependent on who has the biggest stick at the moment the rules are articulated.
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