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Re: 'Geo-politics'

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Le 24/08/2026 à 11:11, occam a écrit :
> On 24/08/2026 10:32, Hibou wrote:
>>
>> You've omitted the definition I copied from Wikipedia: "Geopolitics
>> [...] is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and
>> international relations."
> 
> And you have a partial quote of it.  From that page (which I had looked
> at, BTW):  "...this usage builds on an "early-twentieth-century term for
> a pseudoscience of political geography" and other pseudoscientific
> theories of historical and geographic determinism.
> 
> As a Greek speaker, I am sensitive to the 'pseudo-' part of that
> sentence, as I am to the 'geo-' .  Do I give a sausage about wiki
> definitions?  Rarely and barely.


A rare and bare sausage, eh? I'm struggling a bit with that one.

I think geography can influence politics. Take our "… precious stone set 
in the silver sea / Which serves it in the office of a wall" for 
instance. That wall has protected us from much Continental turbulence, 
stabilised our borders and our government, made us strong on the water, 
perhaps enabled the Empire…. Quite a lot of politics there.

Point to ponder: did the sea give us the Tory wets?

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'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-24 07:56 +0200
  Re: 'Geo-politics' Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2026-08-24 07:57 +0100
    Re: 'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-24 09:59 +0200
  Re: 'Geo-politics' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-24 08:20 +0100
    Re: 'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-24 10:01 +0200
      Re: 'Geo-politics' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-24 09:32 +0100
        Re: 'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-24 12:11 +0200
          Re: 'Geo-politics' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-24 17:37 +0100
            Re: 'Geo-politics' "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-08-24 17:41 +0100
          Re: 'Geo-politics' Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-08-24 12:34 -0700
          Re: 'Geo-politics' Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-08-24 22:07 +0100
      Re: 'Geo-politics' wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2026-08-24 10:52 +0200
        Re: 'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-24 12:06 +0200
          Re: 'Geo-politics' wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2026-08-24 16:11 +0200
      Re: 'Geo-politics' Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-08-24 21:46 +1000
        Re: 'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-24 19:23 +0200
          Re: 'Geo-politics' wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-08-24 17:46 +0000
          Re: 'Geo-politics' Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-08-24 12:35 -0700
            Re: 'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-25 09:09 +0200
              Re: 'Geo-politics' nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-08-25 11:16 +0200
    Re: 'Geo-politics' Silvano <Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> - 2026-08-24 10:33 +0200
      Re: 'Geo-politics' Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-08-24 09:57 +0100
      Re: 'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-24 12:15 +0200
  Re: 'Geo-politics' Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-08-24 10:37 +0200
  Re: 'Geo-politics' Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-08-24 02:52 -0700
    Re: 'Geo-politics' occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-08-24 12:25 +0200
      Re: 'Geo-politics' wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) - 2026-08-24 14:32 +0000
        Re: 'Geo-politics' Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> - 2026-08-24 15:47 -0400
      Re: 'Geo-politics' Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-08-24 12:39 -0700
        Re: 'Geo-politics' Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-08-25 12:05 +0530

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