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The Authoritarian Eurasian Superpowers

Challenge The US-led Liberal World Order Quadrology

Goeran B Johansson

The Authoritarian Eurasian Superpowers Challenge The US-Led Liberal World Order Quadrology

Goeran B Johansson

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand, Stockholm, Sverige Print: BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt, Tyskland 2

The Authoritarian Eurasian Superpowers Challenge the US-Led Liberal World Order Quadrology

From the Author Having served in the UN forces in Cyprus earlier in life, I am not happy to see that the role of the UN is now totally overplayed in its highest decision-making body, the Security Council. We currently have a world where the law of the jungle prevails. First, the US-led NATO alliance during the Kosovo war in 1999 violated international law, and now, since February 24, 2022, authoritarian Russia. What I have wanted to do with this quadrology is to describe pretty accurately and in various geostrategic, political, ideological, military, and economic aspects the reason why Vladimir Putin appeared out of nowhere after the Kosovo war and then led the development of BRICS / SCO, vis-à-vis The US-led western world, which ultimately resulted in today's hazardous global situation. I do not think it is reasonable for any power to rule the world unilaterally and impose its values on other states and their cultures, whether they are liberal ideologies or traditionally conservative authoritarian ditto. The world must have a functioning UN Security Council in a global world built on the unrestricted rights of all nation-states and peoples.

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” I think the world has gone mad! Lasting peace!No more war! What flummery, what childishness! Do they think they can change the cosmic system? What conceit! And what infidelity toward the past and the great traditions! No more war! Is there to be no more bloodshed, and are glory and honor to be of no further account?“ Citation from “The Dwarf,” by the Swedish author and Nobel Price Laureate, Paer Lagerkvist.

The Authoritarian Eurasian Superpowers Challenge the US-Led Liberal World Order Quadrology

Contents

Part One ........................................................................................................ 9 Prologue Sweden ........................................................................................ 11 A Brief History of Russian Geopolitical Development............................. 12 The Last Decades of the Soviet Union ........................................................ 15 In close contact with the Russian soul .................................................... 16 Soviet Union's Last Years ........................................................................ 19 The Geo-Strategy of the United States in a Historical Perspective ............ 25 Who Will be Able to Challenge the USA's Global Dominating Position? 29 The Comeback of Capitalism to Russia ....................................................... 33 Vladimir Putin ............................................................................................. 39 The Incalculable Consequences of the Kosovo War ................................... 43 In the Trace of Cold War ............................................................................. 51 The War in Georgia ..................................................................................... 57 Meeting with an American Army Officer. ................................................... 61 BRICS ........................................................................................................... 65 Between the Baltic and the Black Sea......................................................... 69 With Glances Directed Towards the Middle East ....................................... 75 Part Two ...................................................................................................... 83 Instead of an Introduction. Ukraine in the Borderland East-West ............. 85 Sweden and the Obsession of Russia.......................................................... 93 Period 1914-2014. One Hundred Years of America's Strategy in Eurasia 109 Sweden's Balancing Act during the War ............................................... 117 5

Goeran B Johansson United States Strategy in Europe during the Cold War and at this Stage. ............................................................................................................... 121 From Kosovo to Libya............................................................................ 123 The Unipolar World Order is Broken .................................................... 125 Russia's Military Strategy and Rearmament ............................................. 133 The Russian Arctic and the Northern Sea Route................................... 147 The Railroad to North Korea ................................................................. 149 In Vietnam................................................................................................. 151 Ukraine in a Wider Perspective................................................................. 173 Talk with ex Swedish Intelligence Officer in Palo Beach, Leyte, Philippines ............................................................................................................... 197 Ad Extremum ............................................................................................ 209 Part Three ................................................................................................. 237 Praeludium................................................................................................ 239 Malaysia Boeing MH17 over Eastern Ukraine’s War Zone, July 17th, 2014. .................................................................................................................. 243 Tank Destroying Mix of Ammunition Bullet holes in the Outer Skin .... 249 Reviews What Was the Most Likely Motive?........................................ 253 The Islamic Caliphate in the Syrian Civil War and its Consequences........ 263 A Reborn Russian Global Military Power in Action within the BRICS ..... 273 The Latest Military Development ......................................................... 290 Future Global Military Projects ............................................................. 291 The Dramatic Developments in the South China Sea ............................... 295 The Philippines Strongly Increasing Significance .................................. 304 Russia's and China's Joint Strategy ....................................................... 308 6

The Authoritarian Eurasian Superpowers Challenge the US-Led Liberal World Order Quadrology In Sweden.................................................................................................. 329 Naive Sweden in the Epicenter of the Refugee Crisis........................... 333 Sweden and NATO ................................................................................ 339 Princeps Mundi ......................................................................................... 347 Vladimir Putin's Strategy in the Syrian Civil War and the Middle East . 349 Towards a Gigantic Eurasian Continental Nationality-Based Superpower Constellation ......................................................................................... 353 Vladimir Putin and the Current Strategic Situation in Eurasia and Globally. A Brief Review and Summary................................................................ 361 The Global Upheaval................................................................................. 377 Part Four ................................................................................................... 383 Santa Fe Bantayan Island Philippines........................................................ 385 Breton Wood and the Petrodollar System................................................ 393 The Petrodollar system increases the demand for Dollars................... 399 Petrodollar System Increases Demand for American Debts................. 402 The Petrodollar System Allows the USA to Buy Oil with a Currency that Can Be Printed Out at Any Time ........................................................... 403 Petrodollar Recycling ............................................................................ 403 The Middle East New Energy Superpower ............................................... 407 Fundamental Geopolitics 1800–1900 ...................................................... 413 Friedrich Ratzel ..................................................................................... 413 Rudolf Kjellén ........................................................................................ 416 Karl Houshofer ...................................................................................... 417 Peter Savitsky........................................................................................ 421 The Leading American Geostrategists ...................................................... 425 7

Goeran B Johansson Halford Mackinder ................................................................................ 425 Alfred Thayer Mahan ............................................................................ 431 Nicolas Spykman ................................................................................... 435 The Global Empire................................................................................. 435 Foundations of Geopolitics ....................................................................... 443 Alexander Dugin The Challenger of the Classic Anglo-American Geostrategies ........................................................................................ 443 The Geopolitical Axes in Eurasia ........................................................... 449 Moscow – Berlin.................................................................................... 449 Moscow-Tokyo...................................................................................... 452 Moscow – Teheran................................................................................ 453 Moscow Jerevan Teheran ..................................................................... 454 The Fourth Political Theory....................................................................... 457 The Strategic Development since 2016 .................................................... 473 In the Shadow of Covid 19 Pandemic ....................................................... 487 New Completely Decisive Russian Weapon Systems............................ 489 The Eurasian Landmass is Consolidated ............................................... 498 China a Growing Rimlandpower ........................................................... 505 Heartland Rimland Alliance................................................................... 507 Eurasianism ............................................................................................... 521 The Author's Summary and Analysis......................................................... 535 Thursday, February 24, 2022 ................................................................ 559 Treaty between the United States and Russia on security guarantees 562 About Author ............................................................................................ 587 Source Index.............................................................................................. 589 8

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Part One

Publisher : Lulu.com (April 7, 2013) First Edition in English published 2013, ISBN-13: 978-1300542315 Only spellchecked using Grammarly. No Other Changes Cover Author Cover photo, Cathedral of the Archangel, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia Canstock csp5887192

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Prologue Sweden That morning, Wednesday, March 24th, 1999, I, a music teacher, was on my way to, lo and behold, teach a lesson in German. The new teaching rules said that teachers must be able to go in and teach a class on any subject. One was expected to watch the students do their private individual studies. It was so that the school would not have to hire substitutes and thereby save money. Yes, nice thought, but students were not interested in it because they wanted a teacher who mastered the subject. Although I had a complete mastery of music, I felt entirely lost here in the German class. I took a deep breath of courage and entered the hall with steady steps. Then, articulated with attractive labial plosive and booming voice, out came my poor vocabulary of German words from elementary school repertoire without any time to think about it: - Guten Morgen Swedische Jugend! The students responded with a single voice: - Guten Morgen Mein Fuhrer! The boys stood up together like men and made a Hitler salute. Apparently, the girls were not amused and had downturned mouths showing signs of unease and fear. The old German doyen, who at the moment was teaching in the hall next door, opened the door, looked in, smiled sweetly, and then the lesson continued very well. The students studied in silence according to the instructions I gave to them. After class, I took a break and went to the cafe to have my morning coffee before the next lesson, but it was canceled, and this free time I spent at the coffee table with a delicious cheese sandwich and freshly brewed coffee with a Mazarin pastry and read newspapers. Cafeteria staff 11

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turned on the TV, and the news trumpeted that NATO 1 had just attacked Yugoslavia and Serbia. I now had to reluctantly see something vulgar and distasteful as the American pop singer Mariah Carey, lying lightly dressed on the wing of a B-1 bomber, singing mushily, caressed the wing plate as if it were an erotic object. This nasty process had a dominantnegative impression on me. I will never forget the day when the USA and NATO attacked sovereign Yugoslavia in the Kosovo War without UN Security Council approval.

A Brief History of Russian Geopolitical Development "What a colossus," I say when I look at the Russian Empire map from the 1800s. Then, Alaska still belonged to Russia, although later, it was sold to the USA.

On the globe, the dark green areas show the Russian Empire, when it was at its highest, from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. The light green areas show spheres of Russian influence. Wikipedia: The territories 1

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The western defense alliance founded April 4th, 1949. 12

The Authoritarian Eurasian Superpowers Challenge the US-Led Liberal World Order Quadrology that were, at one time or another, part of the Russian Empire. April 22nd, 2011. Graphics: Shadowxfox The expansion, expansion, and again expansion. The result is necessary to defend the geographically vulnerable European part – the country's core. There is no natural geographical protection in rivers, mountains, or swamps along the borders. People were forced to rely on climate and forests for defense. But forests only stopped the Mongol riders temporarily. In the early 1200s, the Mongols occupied the Russian more or less independent principalities - remnants of Kievan Rus. Then Russia came to be invaded by the Mongols for the next 250 years. First, Ivan III (Ivan the Great), in the late 1400s, began the process of consolidation around Moscow. The Russian expansion, mainly north towards the Arctic and the Ural Mountains, accelerates through the constant battles against the invaders. Ivan IV, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, fought against Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, and the state of the Teutonic Order in the effort to conquer and secure areas westwards. The expansion of Russia continued southwards to the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, and Grozny. The latter would be a strategic point in the Caucasus during the Chechen Wars after the USSR's dissolution in the late 1900s. They also conquered Siberia with the help of Cossackriders reaching the Pacific Ocean in the mid-1600s under the Romanov dynasty. In the 1700s, Peter the Great came to the Baltic Sea, and the new capital of Russia, St. Petersburg, was founded. His successor, Catherine II, secured the vulnerable flanks around the Baltics and Ukraine. Thus, through the centuries, Russia had become geopolitically a vast empire that stretched itself from Eastern Europe through the Asian continent to the Pacific and from the Arctic in the north to the Black Sea and Asian deserts in the south. 13

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Russia hardly needed to fear any attack from the Arctic in that situation. Nor from Siberia, where the Tien Shan Massif, an offshoot of the Himalayas, provided adequate protection. The Caspian Sea protected Russia from Iran, and along the border in Central Asia mainly was lowland consisting of deserts that made any attack virtually unfeasible. Apart from a small area at the edge of Afghanistan. A weak point concerning Russia through the ages

Tsar Cannon in the Kremlin. Watercolor by the author. 14

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The Last Decades of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union). Wikipedia. Graphics: Ssolbergj. March 30th, 2009. The year 1945 marked for Europe, particularly the European part of the Soviet Union, the end of the devastating Second World War. At the end of the war, Harry Truman, the U.S. President, was ultimately responsible for the mass murder of unarmed civilians on August 6th, 1945, when the USA dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, which abruptly ended the war in the Pacific Ocean area. The Soviet Union, the biggest single winner in the Second World War and the only power to defeat Nazi Germany in a land war, secured its borders and controlled the Elbe River in eastern Germany. East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland were part of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. The Baltic States were incorporated into the Soviet Union, and thus the number of republics that the Soviet Union consisted of finally came up to fifteen. So, the open landscape along the North German plateau and Poland, which tempted outsider powers for centuries to attack Russia, was blocked. 15

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The Soviet Union also incorporated a German territory around the former Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) and the southernmost of the Kuril Islands. Even the current situation is looked upon with disapproval by the defeated powers in WW2. After the war, a long period during the Cold War was characterized by a massive arms race between the two superpowers, the USA and the USSR. It was a heavy burden for the Soviet system wrestling with bureaucracy and inefficiency. Mikhail Gorbachev's 2attempts to reform the Soviet economy and democratize the society resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26th, 1991.

In close contact with the Russian soul In the 1970s, my interest in Russia was aroused, first in music, then in the country. I found the depth, power, and melodic sound of Russian folk music intertwined with the drama of the eternal struggle against invaders that characterized Russian history through the centuries. I started to read Russian. I married Russian, and we had children. I continued to play the Russian accordion in a balalaika orchestra in Stockholm. Thanks to the orchestra, I had contact with several prominent Russian musicians at the time. One of them was Dmitri Pokrovsky from Moscow, who devoted his life to recording and popularizing the authentic folk music that still existed in rural areas. I visited Moscow and met Pokrovsky as often as I could. I sang along with his fellow artists, not just in their rehearsals. Once Pokrovsky invited me to follow him to a Suzdal concert, a small town with ancient and well-preserved architecture from ancient times. I wanted to join him but did not have a valid visa. 2

The first and the last president of the Soviet Union during 1990-1991. 16

Following the attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russia is on the front lines against the Anglo-Saxon Western world. Yet, except for French Guiana in Latin America , the rest of the world refuses to follow the West's sanctions policy against Russia. In the near future, the struggle between Russia and the Anglo-American Western world will have the character of a positional political and economic war, and whoever first gives up will lose.

If Russia falls, Eurasia's authoritarian superpowers will fall, and the AngloAmerican Western world will take over globally.

But if the Anglo-American Western world falls, Eurasia's authoritarian superpowers, Russia and China, will have crushing world domination in control of the World Island, Eurasia, and Africa.