ALEA IACTA EST THE DIE IS CAST IN THE SHADOW OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC
GOERAN B JOHANSSON
Alea Iacta Est The Die Is Cast
ALEA IACTA EST THE DIE IS CAST EURASIANISM CONFRONTS ATLANTICISM IN THE SHADOW OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC
GOERAN B JOHANSSON
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Alea Iacta Est The Die Is Cast Copyright © 2020 Göran B. Johansson First Edition All Rights Reserved. ISBN: 9789179695965 Original Title “Alea Iacta Est. Tärningen är kastad. I skuggan av Covid 19 Pandemin.” Cover: Edited by the author Background: Can Stock 4777504 Stock Illustration - Blue internet background (Global and Communication concept) Wikimedia Commons: Vladimir Putin met the winners and finalists of "Russia is a Country of Opportunities" and spoke at the final event. Date 15 March 2018 Author: Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation. Edited by the Author https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Vladimir_Putin.jpg Wikimedia Commons: General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping. Foto: Adnilton Farias/VPR Date 24 May 2019 Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/palaciodoplanalto/47945730807/ Author Palácio do Planalto. Edited by the Author. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xi_Jinping_2019.jpg Wikimedia Commons: Large rasterized png of the center of the US Seal. Date 24 August 2012 Author Michelle Corbe
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Alea Iacta Est The Die Is Cast
CHAPTERS SANTA FE, BANTAYAN ISLAND, PHILIPPINES
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BRETON WOOD AND THE PETRODOLLAR-SYSTEM
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THE MIDDLE EAST NEW ENERGY SUPERPOWER
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FUNDAMENTAL GEOPOLITICS 1800-1900
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THE LEADING ANGLO-AMERICAN GEOSTRATEGISTS
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FOUNDATIONS OF GEOPOLITICS
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THE FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY
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THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 2016
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IN THE SHADOW OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC
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EURASIANISM
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CONCLUSION
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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ABOUT AUTHOR
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Alea Iacta Est The Die Is Cast SANTA FE, BANTAYAN ISLAND, PHILIPPINES DECEMBER 2019
I arrived with Singapore Airlines to Mactan International Airport, Lapu Lapu, via Moscow-Changi in November and spent my first time in Bacolod, Negros Occidental. Later, the journey by bus across Negros Island went down to Dumaguete. A stressful drive on crooked mountain roads that took almost eight hours. In Negros Oriental, located about 35 km south of Malapatay, I took the opportunity to visit Apo Island with a Nipa boat, which brought a stunning noise due to the fact that no muffler existed so that one could have become deaf, paving the way for an upcoming dive expedition to the world's second-largest coral reef. The conditions are excellent, and the island very charming. Electricity, however, you have access to only twelve hours per day, and no Aircon units or fridge/freezer could be used. So, for my part, it can't be considered to live there more than just when diving is going on. On the other hand, a rechargeable fan could be provided, which can be used at night. Still, on the other side, as the island is located a bit out between the southern tip of the Negros Oriental, which faces Mindanao in the south, it can often inflate sharply, either from the Sulu Sea or the Mindanao Sea and you can get free fan so to speak. After being in the area for about 14 days in different places, I went back to Lapu Lapu and Cebu to eventually make my way up to Hagnaya. It was a four-hour bus ride, which usually follows the eastern side of Cebu Island up to Bogo and then leaves west towards Hagnaya, where the harbor is located.
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Goeran B Johansson This time, however, to my surprise, the bus took a completely different route via Tabuelan and then followed the west side of Cebu Island up to Hagnaya. There I received the unexpected message that the typhoon Tisoy was in the area, and all ship traffic was canceled for at least a couple of days. Sure, I noticed that it was windy on the way up, but it was the first time in all the years I had been here that ship traffic had been canceled due to typhoon risk. I was therefore forced to spend the night in Hagnaya and ended up with a tricking carrier in a house where the owner drove me up with the double price. But I was lucky for already the next day at two o'clock Cocaliong Shipping started again, and I finally arrived in Santa Fe, located just a stone's throw from the charming white beaches. But it could have been awful because when I entered the room, I booked via Airbnb even before leaving Lapu Lapu. After I got the package inside the room, I went to the beach directly and had both wallets with several thousand pesos and mobile in my pants pockets. I put the shorts on the beach, and right here, the bottom was rocky, so I only went out maybe twenty meters or so and dipped myself while watching the clothes. All of a sudden, some Filipino teenagers came rushing out of nowhere, and I got back in a hurry. As I reached for the dresses, they also came and looked at me while looking at the bundle of clothes. But they were too late. Otherwise, I could have had significant problems, because the lady at the AirBnb accommodation warned me about this particular behavior before I went down that people could simply take the clothes and run away with them. A good lesson that I, so many years I lived down here, really should have learned by this time; but it can happen when you relax too much. The next day I went to LR-Lodge, where I had always lived.
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Alea Iacta Est The Die Is Cast My habit faithful in the last ten years back here in Santa Fe I go to the beach every day for two to three hours with gym, swimming, and sunbathing. This day, at a leisurely pace, I swam pretty close to the edge of the beach, holding my green-yellow Philippine slippers in my hands to get better pressure in my chest swims. While I was swimming, I thought about the frontal attack from Russia and China against the unpopular "Petrodollar system," also called "Oil for Dollar." Could it be disbanded entirely by Russia and China already abandoning it several years ago? I had already written about this in my three previous books on the global upheaval, which was initiated by Vladimir Putin in early 2000 when he ensured that the former colonial victims in the BRICS countries consolidated. All to later confront the Western powers with the United States in the forefront. As if this complex system, which has been in use since the early 1970s, was not enough, I was thinking about the fourth political theory of Alexander Dugin, including its predecessor, the first political theory. That is Liberalism; its challenger's number two in the order. Marxism inclusive, Communism and or Bolshevism, Socialism, and even Social Democracy for that matter. Last but not least, number three, Fascism which symbolizes the State and Nazism or National Socialism, where its only real viability was brutal racism. The second political theory, the left-wing Marxism of Liberalism, had to give up after the Cold War in 1992. The third, the rightist fascism and Nazism were demolished after the end of the Second World War and, on how the same could be integrated within the fourth political theory globally. But, not only that. How could one integrate all these ideologies into a single brew with fundamental global geopolitics? Not only that but also from a Russian point of view?
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Goeran B Johansson Then I came to think of the comparison of the tellurian (landbased) powers, described by Halford Mackinder 1, Nicolas Spykman2. Besides, the thalassocracy (sea-based) empires in today's global world. They can have their comparison as far back in time as to the Punic Wars between Carthage and the Roman Empire from 264–146 BC, where eventually Carthage, which may be considered a sea-based power, was defeated. Maybe Alfred Thayer Mahan3 has been inspired by these more than 2000 years old historical theories. Then quite suddenly there came a giant wave that from nowhere and I got a proper cold soup and pulled out on deep ideological water of the back suck from the stream, I, to top it all, also was burned well and truly on the arms by so-called transparent jellyfish, which you do not even discern in the water. All my thoughts were abruptly interrupted, and I became fully occupied with swimming in shallow water again. I dare, or instead do not want to swim alone in deep water for safety reasons. Especially not now that I am about to analyze today's, by historical measure, tremendous global upheaval. But what I intrinsically wanted to say is how over the past week, I have been thinking feverishly about both the historical ideologies I mentioned above where everyone, but one played their part. What remains, though in the days contested by at least one if not two world leaders, is Liberalism with its emphasis, which, according to ideology experts, would be the only 1
British geo-strategist. Founder of Heartland theory. British-born American professor and founder of Rimland Theory 3 US Navy officer and founder of the naval power strategy. 2
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If you are in favour of global liberal hegemony, you are the enemy. Alexander Dugin