Old World Order

Time magazine did an article in their magazine of March 31, 2014 about the problems in the Baltics and the Middle East.  In essence, Time points out that the boundaries for these countries were artificially drawn.  The article was written by Robert Kaplan who is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm.  And this was taken straight from the time article so I am not plagerizing.  Anyway, Mr Kaplan points out that the West sees things in economics while geography trumps economics in these countries.  And he states that what is happening in Ukraine is geography's revenge.  These countries with artificial boundaries will revert to their ethnic and tribal boundaries and there is nothing the West can do about it.  He further points out that the West sees the world in terms of laws and international agreements while the rest of the world still thinks in terms of mountains, deserts and strategic ports.  I saw it stated once that Great Britain, in the early 1900's just lay down  a map of the Middle East and drew the boundaries for the countries giving no heed to tribal lands nor to what tribe they were including in these countries nor whether these tribes could get along to make a country.  So because of this, we have the mess in the Middle East.  Iraq is home to three feuding tribes.  So are several other countries in that area and Saudi Arabia is stirring the pot.  We may be living in the 21st century, but the rest of the world is still in the 19th century.  As Mr.Kaplan points out, international relations are still about who can do what to whom.  Ergo, Putin seizing the Crimea and eventually all of Ukraine.