By Panagiota Paparouna*

Πηγή: defenddemocracy.press

“Whoever rules the Eastern Europe will rule the Heartland, whoever rules the Heartland will rule the World Island, and whoever rules the World Island will rule the world”! This thesis became well known, as the Heartland Theory of Halford John Mackinder in 1904. That is exactly the western strategic doctrine since then with the improvement of Rimland Theory by Nickolas Spykman after the Second World War to avoid Eurasian powers come together under Brzezinski’s modern geostrategic blueprint.