By Matthew Ehret-Kump

American economist Lyndon LaRouche’s propos-

als for a Eurasian Landbridge and Russia’s current

proposal for the Bering Strait Rail Tunnel connec-

tion from Vladivostok through 100 km of water to

Alaska and into Canada are not new. These vision-

ary proposals are a long time in the making and

have represented a tormenting nightmare to sev-

eral generations of imperial geopoliticians.

By the turn of the 20th century, Russian Transport

Minister Count Sergei Witte working in tandem

with American System leaders and engineers in

Siberia were completing the final stretch of the

Trans-Siberian Railway. This development fol-

lowed 1) hot on the heels of Lincoln’s victorious

suppression, with the help of Russia’s Czar Alex-

ander II, of the British financed Confederate upris-

ing in 1865, 2) the 1867 United States purchase of

Alaska from Russia, and 3) the near annexation of

British Columbia into America in 1870 (1). The

feasibility studies to connect the two continents

were first presented by the Trans-Siberian Railway

Company in 1905 (2). The British Empire at the

time was known as “the old man of Europe” and

in all intents and purposes was on the verge of

extinction.

Mackinder’s geopolitics demands a closed

system

In 1904, as a

response to these

developments,

British Fabian

Society member

and director of

the London

School of Eco-

nomics Sir Hal-

ford Mackinder,

formulated a

s c h o o l o f

thought known

as Geopolitics.

This study has

influenced all

imperial strate-

g i s t s w h o

emerged from

the 20th century

from Rhodes

scholar William

Yandell Elliot, his Harvard students ‘Sir’ Henry

Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bernard Lewis as

well as Samuel P. Huntington to name a few. It

was also the foundation for the Heartland theory

extolled by Nazi geopolitician Karl Haushofer and

adopted by Hitler.

Mackinder’s program was little more than a refor-

mulated “divide to conquer” policy already prac-

ticed for centuries by the British Empire, and

arose entirely as a response which the threat Lin-

coln’s American System program of rail develop-

ment posed to the continued existence of the fail-

ing British Empire as mentioned above.

Mackinder’s Geopolitics versus LaRouche’s World Landbridge

(1) Were it not for Britain’s offer to bribe BC merchants during a

heated period of 1867-1870, all onlookers from Canada and the USA

alike believed that this British colony was nearly about to incorporate

into America, as this provided the only economically viable options

available for the bankrupt colony. The Transcontinental railway had

just been built into San Francisco and an active ferry system connected

the BC merchants to the USA. The British had to move fast and did so

by 1) paying off British Columbia’s massive debt, and 2) then purchas-

ing the massive territory separating its eastern and western colonies

also known as Rupert’s Land and owned by the Hudson’s Bay Com-

pany in 1868 and 3) finally promising to build a railway connecting

BC to Eastern Canada which was accomplished in 1885. The only

condition was that British Columbia join the Confederation and not

choose the American option.

(2) Funds totalling six million dollars were raised privately,

concluding the project could be done for $300 million. An

editorial in the New York Times of October 24th, 1905, ob-

served that “the Bering Strait Tunnel is a project which at

some time in the future is likely to command a great deal of

very purposeful consideration.”

Sir Halford Mackinder summarized

his theory: “Who rules East Europe

commands the Heartland; Who rules

the Heartland commands the World

Island; Who rules the World Island

commands the World."

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Not only did rail pose a threat to the Empire, but the

advent of the new energy dense fuel source known

as petroleum was threatening to replace the largely

monopolized (and less energy dense) coal for indus-

trial production.

From Japan’s Meiji Restoration, to Chancellor von

Bismarck’s “Berlin to Baghdad Rail” initiative, to

R u s s i a ’ s T r a n s -

Siberian Railway, inter

-continental develop-

ment driven by Ameri-

can System rail pro-

grams were initiating

new dynamics of coop-

eration and develop-

ment amongst all na-

tions of North Amer-

ica, Europe, Russia and

Asia. Most impor-

tantly, these pro-

deve lopment ap -

proaches to national

e c o n o mi e s w e r e

founded on the con-

certed rejection of all

British Free Trade

dogma and the vigor-

ous adoption of the

protective tariff, pro-

ductive credit and long

term planning, all act-

ing under the principle

of the general welfare.

To their horror, the British Empire was witnessing a

worldwide emergence of the American System.

After successful expeditions to the South and North

Pole had been accomplished by 1909, Mackinder

declared, like Malthus before him that all that could

be discovered on the Earth had been discovered, and

that human society was now officially locked within

an absolutely closed system. All that remained was

for leading monopolies to map out finite resources,

and get victim nations to slaughter each other in

territorial disputes that would necessarily occur as

the outcome of each striving to possess as many of

these “finite resources’ as possible before they ran

out. This would be achieved by getting nations to

look at the future not from the American System

standpoint of their creative potentials to change

those limits for the better, but rather from the mone-

tarist free market filter of pleasure-pain and momen-

tary profit. Were the bestial dynamic of each against

all not adopted, all hope for world domination

would be lost.

Mackinder’s theory was expressed most clearly in

his observation: "Who rules East Europe commands

the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands

the World Island; Who rules the World Island com-

mands the World."

Reality is an Open System

In the logic of empire, nations must be kept fighting

each other in a closed system of absolute scarcity.

Rather than creatively moving outside of those lim-

its by discovering new principles of the universe,

and creating new energy sources such as nuclear

fission, thermonuclear fusion power, or desalinating

ocean water to green deserts, nations have been

told, rather arbitrarily, that ‘scarcity’ has to be re-

spected and, like beasts, adapted to in a survival of

the fittest paradigm.

Lincoln admirer von Bismarck

was among the many world

statesmen importing the Ameri-

can System by the end of the

19th century. His ouster would

lead to the unleashing of World

Wars 1 and 2. See the film 1932

for the full story.

For a full documentation of the American System and the British

Empire’s orchestration of World War one, then check out:

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This logic has been used to manipulate idiots with

political power into initiating almost every single

un-necessary war during this past century, and

governs the geopolitical thinking that is resulting

in potential territorial conflict the world over to-

day.

According the BP Statistical Review of World

Energy 2011, this past year has witnessed the

greatest drop of nuclear energy use on record

(with a 4.3% fall) while coal has become the

world’s fastest growing fuel (totalling 30.3% of

global use). While “green energies” such as wind

and solar power have risen by 25.8% and 86.6%

respectively, their combined total contribution to

global energy consumption is a measly 2.1%.

The energy required to produce “renewable” en-

ergies far outweigh their output while the wasted

land area required to sustain them is not only bad

economics, but it is more importantly, the sickly

effects of a community of nations turning their

backs on 600 years of progress and embracing an

ideology which will permit no more than one bil-

lion humans living in political, mental and physi-

cal conditions not terribly different from feudal-

ism.

Today, new energy sources await the political

will to overcome those boundary limits met by

our current addiction to fossil fuels and ineffi-

cient green “renewables”. On top of the prospect

of connecting Eurasian countries in a “New Silk

Road” known as the World Landbridge and Ber-

ing Strail Tunnel, the new frontier defining Mack-

inder’s fraud is located in the prospect of un-

bounded space exploration, lunar and Mars in-

dustrialization and asteroid defence.

None of these are “utopian fantasies”, but rather

active policies either already being applied by

leading nations such as China and Russia, or be-

ing offered by leaders among those nations such

as Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry

Rogozin’s offer for Strategic Defense of Earth

(SDE), and Russian Transport Minister Yakunin’s

Bering Strait proposal.

The effect of continuing to tolerate the limits we

find imposed upon ourselves as a species, will

entail not only undoing the industrial revolution,

but also ushering in new wars with the use of

thermonuclear weapons, risking the extermina-

tion of humanity.

LaRouche’s World Landbridge is already becoming a reality in Eastern Russia and Asia. Will

the rest of the world wake up in time to get on board?