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Topic: geopolitics

Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou (543-578) | The Kunlun Mountains (Kunlun Shan) forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the Tarim basin and the Gansu corridor and continues east south of the Wei River to end at the North China Plain. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Chinese climate change, past and present

Rae Hodge
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Adolph Hitler (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Geopolitics and the Ukraine conflict

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to holds up his face mask during a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump focused on his administration's handling of the global coronavirus pandemic. Poll numbers about his handling of COVID-19 have been falling as cases of deadly virus have spiked across the country. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How COVID-19 could upend geopolitics

John Feffer - TomDispatch.com
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Trump's foreign political relations

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
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(Jesco Denzel/German Federal Government via AP)

Taking on climate change without Trump

Eric Holthaus - Grist
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

dessert and destruction

Angelo Young
FILE - In this March 29, 2016, file photo, activists and residents from across Bergen County deliver petitions against the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline project in New York and New Jersey In Hackensack, N.J. Prolonged protests in North Dakota failed to stop the flow of oil through the Dakota Access pipeline. But they've provided inspiration for protests against pipelines around the country. Tactics used in North Dakota such as resistance camps, social media and online fundraising are now being used against pipeline projects in nearly a dozen states. (Amy Newman/The Record of Bergen County via AP, File) (AP)

Brian C. Black - The Conversation
Protestors gather in Tahrir Square on February 1, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt (Getty/Peter Macdiarmid)

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super
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Sean Hannity, Milo Yiannopoulos and Sarah Palin feed the fire of Alt-Right politics (AP/Getty/Salon)

Origins of the Alt-Right

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super
A passerby argues with two Scottish independence referendum 'Yes' supporters holding a Scottish Saltire flag outside the "Better Together" No campaign offices in Edinburgh, Scotland, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. If Scottish voters this week say Yes to independence, not only will they tear up the map of Great Britain, they'll shake the twin pillars of Western Europe's postwar prosperity and security — the European Union and the U.S.-led NATO defense alliance. () (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super
People shout slogans during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. The leader of Romania's ruling center-left coalition said Monday the government won't resign following the biggest demonstrations since the end of communism against a measure that would ease up on corruption. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) (AP)

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, welcomes pro-Brexit British politician Nigel Farage. (AP)

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP)

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (AP)

"Strongmen will emerge"

Elias Isquith
Russian President Vladimir Putin (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Pepe Escobar - TomDispatch.com
Adam Tooze (Malene Korsgaard Lauritsen)

"A political failure"

Elias Isquith
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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2014 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the media at the end of an EU-Russia summit, at the European Council building in Brussels. With Crimea in Russia’s pocket, the world anxiously awaits Putin’s next move. The Russian President has held regular conversations with Western leaders - with no visible result. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
Russian President Vladimir Putin (AP)

Putin's saber rattling

Natasha Lennard
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