Non-AI Opening Monologue
I
For those of us who had the privilege of being born in the previous century, it may be possible to recall the post-Cold War 1990s, early 2000s, as the time of hyper globalisation, where, apparently, states, borders, nations, continents, disappeared in the wake of the speed of planetary digital networks, the integration of the globe in a supposed InterNet, and the vast flows of capital that pushed boundaries of apparently boundary-less globalisation of investment flows and capital markets on perpetual brink of booms and inevitable busts. The grand illusion that drove these phenomena, and the delirium of the post-1990 ‘new age’ of an integrated/globalised world: physical instantiation, be it in a body (as human), or within geographic borders and related internal realities, that form nations, states, physical geographic boundaries that shape and define cultural-religious-spiritual precepts and beliefs, have been rendered useless and thus consigned to the dustbin of history.
II
If we think in rather broad historical sweeps, then it is possible to contend that the onset of the Russian SMO in Ukraine (2022), coupled with the actions of economic war taken against Russia in response, by Club Western World and its armed wing – the NATO bouncers, is what brought most illusions of an integrated, globalised, borderless, digitised, bodiless, non-state marketised world crashing down to terra firma. In fact, Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO, in March 2022, already announced that globalisation as the world has known it for the past 30 years, is dead on arrival in a Ukrainian emergency room!
III
Hence in this delivery we look at more than just Donald Trump’s postmodern colonial utterances regarding Canada, Greenland, and by implication the Arctic, as well as the Panama Canal. These utterances by Trump stumps commentators still hanging onto the illusion of globalisation, and a so-called western ‘rules based world order’. We are in a re-terrirorialised world, a world where geography, resources, markings on maps, and embodiment is ascendant – we are in a period where geography is being put back, in full force, into the concept of geopolitics. We propose that the SMO is one of the historical markers of how Vladmir Putin, and the Russian Federation, re-introduced the realities of geography, and its importance, in the concept and practice, of geopolitics. If as Larry Fink said globalisation died on the frontlines of the SMO, it also means, the SMO in Ukraine played a role in re-introducing geography as critical feature of geopolitics.
IV
On the opposite side it is also possible to speculate that the Israeli war of genocide in pursuit of the establishment of Greater Israel, as we have reported on before in Blindspot, and Trump’s MAGA acts of asserting at least linguistic control over the geopolitical narratives that define the Panama Canal, Canada, Greenland, and by implication in this case the Arctic, have much in common, and might be predictive of a discombobulated world map, turned on its head. This is the reason why we need another deep dive into Eurasia, and now, as in this case, the Arctic.
V
Postmodern imperialism – the narrative, the information flow, the cognitive effect, utterances designed to pre-program minds… the mere fact that he/Trump says it, establishes an action in the non-material digitospheric imaginary realms of media that then reinforces Trump’s statements even further through algorithms that boost or bust content ‘Liked’ by the digital feudal overlord in control of digital territory X (Twitter), digital territory Meta (Facebook), digital territory YouTube, Techno-Feudal Overlords such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, all it means is, Trump speaks & the dominant digital image machines spring to action, thus the narrative is set, and ready to go.
VI (Conclusion)
We thus see how war and conquest can be executed via language acts, as postmodern imperialism imposes mind viruses via the digitospehere, to dominate the discourse and impose a new narrative with associated dominant video or still images – ‘We make America Great Again by re-asserting dominance and control – and we stake conceptual territorial expansion as collateral for the greatest gamble a bankrupt empire in the history of humanity has ever taken. Thus we plunge into the age of de-globalisation and the re-territorialisation of world politics.