The “Heartland” (Eastern Europe, Siberia and Central Asia) has basically been civilizational backwater for all of human history, but somehow controlling it is the key to controlling the World. I know it was invented by some bong, but the only ones who actually believe it is zigger eurasianists because they hope it will make Russia more relevant than the gas station with nukes that it is.
Heartland theory has to be the biggest slavcope of all time
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The Heartland theory is like Dugin, a meme. Actual Eurasianists (who don't matter in the first place politically) usually base their ideas around their own territories. And Mackinder (who isn't some bong but is considered the father of geopolitics and geostrategy) and his Heartland theory generally more deals with how to secure the heartland and therefore the world island from Russia not for it. His three scenarios are an invasion of Russia, a Western Euro-Russian alliance and an Asian invasion of Russia. Only the middle one sees Russia in any position of strength and at the time it was envisioned that said Western power would be Germany (and we can see how that panned out).
Insofar as Russian leaders are inspired by the theory their aims would be Central Asia down to Iran ala the Great Game not the rest of Eastern Europe as that's the heavily missing chunk of the "pivot area" that remains in order to saddle the World Island. Putin's focus is obviously more focused on the westward Moscow axis of the former Soviet states.
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It's basically Soviet Westward Offensive Part II after they left in 1991.
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Maybe after ww3 destroys all of modern civilization and we have to go back to horses it will be true again
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Surely the geographical regions most affected by a nuclear war, specifically Russia and Eurasia will be surely recover and become a great power again, not irrelevant shitholes in Far South America who are unaffected by the nukes & fallout and still have agricultural capacity
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The theory explicitly regards the weakness of pre-modern transportation methods as a key factor in why no one had secured the heartland at the point of its creation and the mass installation of railways as key going forward so going back to horses would nix it.
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There won't be trains so they'll have to settle for horses
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You don't need to believe the eurasianists, you just have to believe all the nations conquered by the hordes coming out of the Eurasian steppes.
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Are you french
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STOP POSTING ABOUT SNEED! I'M TIRED OF SEEING IT! ANONS ON 4CHAN SEND ME MEMES, ON GROOMERCORD IT'S FRICKING MEMES! I was on a board, right? and ALL OF THE THREAD was just sneed feed and seed memes. I-I showed season 11 episode 5 of the simpsons to my girlfriend and I said "hey babe, when the joke means frick and suck, HAHA DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DU DU NUH NUH NUH, I fricking looked at a barn and said "THAT'S A BIT SNEED" I went and bought a hooker, and I said "FRICK AND SUCK? MORE LIKE SEED AND FEED" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHGESFG
I can't fricking take it. I see an image of a random place posted and then I see it, I fricking see it. "Oh that looks kinda like the feed and seed" it started as. That's funny, that's a cool reference. But I kept going, I'd see a man who looks like sneed, I'd see a fat guy who looks like chuck, I'd see a barn that looked like feed and seed. And every time I'd burst into an insane, breath deprived laugh staring at the image as the words SNEED ran through my head. It's torment, psychological torture, I am being conditioned to laugh maniacly any time I see a simpsons reference. I can't fricking live like this... I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't! And don't get me fricking started on the words! I'll never hear the word feed again without thinking of sneed. Someone does something bad and I can't say anything other than "Frick." I could watch a man murder everyone I love and all I would be able to say is "frick and suck " and laugh like a fricking insane person. And the word "sneed" is ruined. The phrase "feed and seed" is ruined. I can't live anymore. Sneed has destroyed my fricking life. I want to eject myself from this plane of existence. MAKE IT STOP!
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