That would represent not only the ultimate nightmare for Mackinder-drenched Anglo-American elites, but in fact the definitive passing of the geopolitical torch from maritime empires back to the Eurasian heartland.
It's not a fiction anymore. It's on the table.
Adding to it, let's do some little time traveling and go back to the year 1348.
The Mongols of the Golden Horde are in Crimea, laying siege to Kaffa -- a trading port in the Black Sea controlled by the Genoese.
Suddenly, the Mongol army is consumed by bubonic plague.
They start catapulting contaminated corpses over the walls of the Crimean city.
So imagine what happened when ships started sailing again from Kaffa to Genoa.
They transported the plague to Italy.
By 1360, the Black Death was literally all over the place -- from Lisbon to Novgorod, from Sicily to Norway. As much as 60% of Europe's population may have been killed -- over 100 million people.
A case can be made that the Renaissance, because of the plague, was delayed by a whole century.
COVID-19 is of course far from a medieval plague. But it's fair to ask.
What Renaissance could it be possibly delaying?
Well, it might well be actually advancing the Renaissance of Eurasia. It's happening just as the Hegemon, the former "end of history," is internally imploding, "distracted from distraction by distraction," to quote T.S. Eliot. Behind the fog, in prime shadowplay pastures, the vital moves to reorganize the Eurasian land mass are already on.
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