So
long as Russia and China remain the region's dominant political and
economic powers, the Central Asian heartland will remain a US and EU
target for threats, bribes, and color revolutions...
Authored by Pepe Escobar: The
historical Heartland – or Central Eurasia – already is, and will
continue to be, the prime battlefield in the New Great Game, fought
between the United States and the China-Russia strategic partnership.
The
original Great Game pitted the British and Russian empires in the late
19th century, and in fact, never got away: it just metastasized into the
US-UK entente versus the USSR, and, subsequently, the US-EU versus
Russia.
According to the Mackinder-designed geopolitical game conceptualized by imperial Britain back in 1904, The
Heartland is the proverbial “pivot of History,” and its re-energized
21st century historical role is as relevant as in centuries ago: a key
driver of emerging multipolarity.