The Pacific and Thucydides in the

'Age of Energy Descent'

The big blocs are taking positions to maintain their hegemony in a world with fewer resources and in which the rules of the game will be different

Juan Bordera – AntonioTuriel
 

Although the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to place the centre of the theatre of operations in Eastern Europe, something is happening a little further away from the spotlight, as if behind the scenes. Something vital. The shift of the world's centre of power from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. A shift that will paradoxically coincide with an increase in the potential for a large-scale military - even nuclear - conflict in an era marked by energy decline. All is well and good.

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