Inkwell Institute

Eastern European Desk

Since WW2 there has been a gigantic game of chess going on….East vs West…….First world vs second world……basically battle lines that are being formed…….a massive geopolitical game of chess.

First, the Soviet Union formed a buffer zone between them and the West….including E. Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and the Baltic states…..it was a logical necessity for every invasion has come through these areas…..they were forming a safety zone of early warning.

Then shortly after WW2 the West formed NATO as a safety zone of their own which included most of western Europe….this to feed the paranoia of the Iron Curtain.

Then in the late 80’s and early 90’s the Soviet Union began falling apart….there seemed to be a short period when the alliances of the past would not be needed……..but experts could not let the chess game go…….there had to be a way to keep it going.  there was….the answer….expand NATO to include as many post Soviet countries as possible…….

One would think that it would end there, right?  Wrong oh great one!

Russia tried to keep some of their past members with the CIS……..the Commonwealth of Independent States……..an institution t try and counter the expansion of NATO…….

A loose confederation of prior Soviet states that has been shrinking ever since it was established…..to try and slow the disintegration of the organization a new Eurasian Economic Union…….(see previous post)………..an attempt to head off the charge to join the EU.

Posturing has begun……spheres of competing influence are being formed……and in the end we will return to the days of yore and a new cold war…….hard to see how this bodes well for the nation of the world…….

What’ next?  Will corporations divide the earth up and start the Roller Ball concept?

I guess we could look on the bright side and say that this grab is better than a grab by warfare…..but any type of land grab will effect the people involved in one way or the other…..thoughts?