[Geopolitics 1] Why the World Fears Russia [Russian History] #408

There are countries that are feared even if their economic power or technology is not the top.

Even though it is neither the richest country in the world nor has the best technology, Russia has been the most guarded country by nations around the world from the 19th century to the present. The personality carefully explains why Russia is so feared and how to read the reasons from the map.

The nature of the state is classified from the perspective of geopolitics.

The program proceeds based on geopolitics proposed by British geographer Mackinder in the first half of the 20th century. The process of broadly classifying nations into land power countries with superior military power and sea power countries with superior naval power is explained very clearly.

The story extends to the strategy surrounding the center of the Eurasian continent.

Russia, a typical land power nation, has the characteristic of relying on land transportation and not being able to freely go out to the sea. The deeper story continues, but please listen to the main episode for the rest.