{"id":31394,"date":"2023-02-25T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T03:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=31394"},"modified":"2023-02-25T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T03:07:50","slug":"how-do-100000000-loaded-guns-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/how-do-100000000-loaded-guns-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"How do 100,000,000 loaded guns sound?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Prisoners of Geography<\/em>, Tim Marshall shares several ideas, and as I read the book question remains whether there will ever be peace on this side of heaven.\u00a0I found this book interesting and will look at a few key ideas. My main takeaway is that, as suggested in his title, we might all be prisoners somehow.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Russia is an aggressive presence of fear of invasion from the West.<\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cDid you know that the land you stand on has shaped the society you\u2019re living in? If this sounds a tad abstract, think of it this way: the geographic features and resources around you have strongly influenced your country\u2019s economy, as well as how it has fared in the many wars that have been fought throughout history.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blame the Russian war on the land?<\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cSo, Vladimir Putin had no choice but to claim Crimea\u201d[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has not been simply fighting as a means of showing off his power and might, but he is a prisoner of geography. Marshall reveals what causes Vladimir Putin spend sleepless nights, as described by Blinkist, is the area of land called the North European Plain,<\/em> \u201cwhich stretches from France across Belgium, the Netherlands, Northern Germany, and Poland and ends at the Russian Urals. As the name suggests, this flat area makes the European gateway to Russia vulnerable and difficult to defend.\u201d [3]<\/a><\/p>\n

The author calls this land a pizza slice very hard to defend, and adds that Putin is not simply afraid, but this is precisely what has happened to Russia.<\/p>\n

Any country within the North European Plain could send an army across the flatlands and directly into Moscow. As Putin knows all too well, this is precisely what has happened to Russia throughout its history During both world wars, and this is the path the Germans took in their military campaigns. But that\u2019s not all; since 1812, invaders from the \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Northern European Plain have attacked Russia an average of once every 33 years![4]<\/a><\/p>\n

While I was looking at the book, Putin showed up in my news feed on the computer with a justification for his attack on Ukraine in his Annual State of the Nation Speech. \u201cThe responsibility for starting the war for the growing number of victims lies totally with the west.\u201d[5]<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 China\u2019s fear of India is the reason for victimizing Tibet!<\/h3>\n

The freedoms and democracy the West has enjoyed for years can be a death sentence in some countries worldwide. If you\u2019re familiar with the history of Tibet, you know it\u2019s been the site of an ongoing struggle for freedom from Chinese rule. It also involved regular, though always shocking, acts of Tibetan monks setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese oppression. In 2008, 21 Tibetans died after protests turned especially violent.[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The blessed gun-rich land of the free<\/h3>\n

The author mentions, “Guns and geographical good fortune make the United States invulnerable.\u201d In terms of freedom from invasions, I must agree with the author that the United States has is the safest place in the world. \u201cAs for the state-of-the-art security system \u2013 how do 100,000,000 loaded guns sound? The United States’ lenient gun laws have resulted in every small town having the potential to take up arms and immediately defend itself from invasion without any help from the federal government. This country has the right to bear arms written into its social fabric, so guns are within easy reach for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are all Prisoners of our environment.<\/h3>\n

Marshall writes like one who has seen lots of guns. He must look at the world through the journalist’s lens, primarily covering areas devastated by conflicts.<\/p>\n

He was a diplomatic editor at Sky News and worked for the BBC and LBC\/IRN radio before that. He has reported from forty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.[7]<\/a><\/p>\n

It is clear the influence his diplomatic reporting has had on the writing of this book. The places Marshall has covered as a journalist have seen the worst of our global wars and conflicts; no wonder he shares another angle to help his readers understand or at least look deeper into the root cause of these wars and atrocities worldwide.<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Blinkist, \u201cPrisoners of Geography\u201d (Blinkist, n.d.), accessed February 24, 2023, https:\/\/www.blinkist.com\/en\/nc\/reader\/prisoners-of-geography-en.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Daniel Dombey, \u201cPrisoners of Geography\u2019, by Tim Marshall\u201d (August 9, 2015), accessed February 25, 2023, https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a3203b9e-3b54-11e5-8613-07d16aad2152.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Blinkist, \u201cPrisoners of Georgraphy.\u201d<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> \u201cUkraine War,\u201d YouTube (Sky News, February 21, 2023), accessed February 25, 2023, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F4WWUnjfXJ0.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Blinkist, \u201cPrisoners of Georgraphy.\u201d<\/p>\n

[7]<\/a> Tim Marshall’s career as a journalist and author – Google Search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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