10/27/2023 Heating up the cold war political cartoon why is the cold war called the cold warRead NowPerhaps because in the final essence, lie huge nuclear arsenals that could be deployed in a final unimaginable madness. Of importance to understand, and pursued also by this essay, is the real necessity by the powers on both sides to seek popular support for their positioning and jostling on the Eurasian stage. So embedded in the evolution of this eternal competition by the land powers of Eurasia, and the sea powers of the “inner and outer crescents” (Sempa 2002: 12) is this rhetorical discourse, that through the works of rhetoricians such as Charteris-Black, Chomsky, Medhurst and Wander, this essay devotes a substantial room to its practical delivery by the major political protagonists. Alongside the political manoeuvring of these powers, rides a rhetorical discourse that gained intensity during the Cold War years of 1947 to 1991. These great power conflicts still exist today as more contemporary, energy source derived competitions. It will seek its historic pedigree through the geopolitical theories of the great British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder. This essay will investigate the growing tension in Eurasia. With so many geopolitical agendas agitating in the same region, over what are centuries-old geopolitical contradictions, the potential for a mishap affecting the peace of the entire globe is a real risk. ![]() ![]() It is not by coincidence that for the first time in history, the Great Powers of China, India, Russia, the US and the EU are all present in Eurasia. ![]() Submission by Frank Brun first published in 2014
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