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I see a lot of interesting but fundamentally incorrect comments here, likely reflective of an "intuitive" understanding of globalization, something I, myself, w
by ambientenv 4y ago
I see a lot of interesting but fundamentally incorrect comments here, likely reflective of an "intuitive" understanding of globalization, something I, myself, would have shared until quite recently. My two cents on this is, if you really want to understand globalization and its demise now underway, you need to understand the Bretton Woods agreement, the role the US played as the worlds maritime security enforcer, the end of asset-backed currencies and geopolitics in general.
- spiralx 4y agoYeah, I've been following this guy https://www.youtube.com/@RealLifeLore/videos https://www.youtube.com/@RealLifeLore/videos and one of the points that constantly comes up is the importance of oceanic trade and maritime borders, and how the geopolitics of that is dominated by a small number of vitally important choke points - the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab-el-Mandeb, the Strait of Malacca, the Bosporus Strait, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Panama and Suez canals. One of the reasons things seem so fucked up is how many countries are entirely dependent upon control - or at least access - to these choke points even - and especially - when they're thousands of miles away from them, and so their geopolitical interest involves meddling in those regions. Geopolitics would be orders of magnitude simpler if we lived on the super-continent Pangea.