Breathe
By Stephanie Henaro
Donald Trump's calls with Vladimir Putin and Volodimir Zelensky are much more than just calls. They go beyond that, and can even be seen as the flagship of the new international order, in which as always, those who win share the world.
So, to make no bones about it, what is clear is that Russia and the United States won the war and Europe along with Ukraine have been relegated to a supporting actor, simply because the powerful can and because the world has already changed.
A new world order will come with new actors and new rules, but in the meantime, there will be a disorder in which everyone will do what they want and we will be at times in a world where the only law will be the law of the strongest... or has it always been like that? Sometimes I have doubts. However, what is clear is the geopolitical logic that Donald Trump has to bring the United States and Russia closer together.
Beyond the fact that both nations are in an expansionist momentum seeking to return to past glory, Donal Trump is aware that geopolitical power is expanding as climate change advances and is playing pure geopolitics.
Climate change, which accelerates the melting of the Arctic ice, makes the Eurasian nation increasingly strategic. In addition to being the geopolitical land power par excellence in what Halford Mackinder (1904) called the Heartland or heart of the world, the activation of the North Sea will increase its maritime competitiveness and give it greater geopolitical weight at the center of a new global vision, which will give life to cardinal points that, with the thaw, will activate neighborhoods that are still dormant in our imagination.
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