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Every place Dwarkesh Patel mentions in "Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography", mapped
// THE CRUX Global geopolitical conflict is driven by the structural divide between land-based continental powers focused on territorial conquest and maritime powers reliant on open seas, free trade, and collective alliances.
71 places, in order of mention
| 01:23 | Normandy | D-Day Normandy landings where sea power |
| 01:44 | Ukraine | think Ukraine a navy's not going to save them |
| 01:46 | Russia | not going to save them from Russia |
| 02:22 | West Coast of the United States | expanding to guess what here right to the West Coast |
| 02:26 | Canada | United States tried invading Canada a couple times |
| 02:50 | Americas | telling the Europeans to stay out of the Americas |
| 03:14 | Louisiana Territory | that's when the Louisiana Purchase is made |
| 03:22 | Alaska | United States bought not only Alaska |
| 03:31 | Mexico | which is what happened with Mexico |
| 03:39 | Texas | and that's how the United States gets Texas |
| 03:45 | Tucson | which gets the United States Tucson Arizona |
| 04:01 | Middle East | not the recent stuff in the Middle East |
| 04:20 | North America | control a good part of North America |
| 05:55 | China | look at China and Russia today |
| 07:31 | United Kingdom | comes a generation later by a Briton |
| 07:38 | Eurasia | occupies the best geopolitical location on the world |
| 09:20 | Netherlands | naturalized American citizen from the Netherlands |
| 10:06 | Europe | brought to bear on Europe and the Far East |
| 10:08 | East Asia | Europe and the Far East only by means |
| 10:10 | Atlantic Ocean | communications across the Atlantic and the Pacific |
| 10:12 | Pacific Ocean | and the Pacific to give her access |
| 13:38 | Xinjiang | here's where it doesn't rain very much |
| 13:40 | Northeast China | that's where it's awfully cold |
| 13:44 | North China Plain | topography that's where it's flat |
| 14:07 | China Proper | where the Han the preponderant ethnic group |
| 14:33 | Dzungaria | laid waste to the competing Zunghar |
| 14:34 | Tibet | and Tibetan empires |
| 15:11 | Yellow River | up north in the Yellow River Valley |
| 15:16 | Xi'an | Han dynasty with Chang'an and Luoyang |
| 15:26 | Hangzhou | Southern Song dynasty in Hangzhou |
| 15:42 | Lake Baikal | Mongols start out east of Lake Baikal |
| 16:04 | Beijing | come back with the Ming dynasty |
| 16:14 | Manchuria | these folks aren't Han they're Manchu |
| 17:28 | Moscow | start in Moscow and then Moscow lays waste |
| 17:57 | Siberia | as you go out into Siberia |
| 18:48 | Finland | Finland Poland Ukraine Caucasus |
| 18:49 | Poland | Finland Poland Ukraine Caucasus |
| 18:51 | Caucasus | Caucasus all the khanates of Turkestan |
| 18:52 | Central Asia | khanates of Turkestan Siberia |
| 19:39 | Germany | Britain Germany Austria-Hungary the Ottoman Empire |
| 19:40 | Austria-Hungary | Austria-Hungary the Ottoman Empire China and Japan |
| 19:41 | Ottoman Empire | the Ottoman Empire China and Japan |
| 19:42 | Japan | China and Japan this security world |
| 26:01 | Syria | in Syria Ukraine and other places |
| 28:45 | Muromtsevo Castle | photograph of an aristocrat's whimsical palace |
| 30:04 | Aegean Sea | hugging the shores of the Aegean and Ionian |
| 30:06 | Ionian Sea | shores of the Aegean and Ionian seas |
| 30:19 | Mediterranean Sea | terminology Mediterranean meta middle terranean land |
| 30:37 | Istanbul | Byzantine Empire another Rimland Empire |
| 30:52 | Silk Road | used to go by camels among other things on the Silk Road |
| 30:58 | Suez | whoever controlled the westward tollbooth |
| 31:09 | Arabian Peninsula | the Muslim conquest settled it they controlled it |
| 31:18 | Frankish Empire | empire created by Charlemagne at the turn |
| 32:00 | Spain | Spanish and the Portuguese to try this |
| 32:01 | Portugal | Spanish and the Portuguese to try this |
| 32:16 | Dutch Empire | the Dutch who are the real followers of maritime empire |
| 33:40 | South China Sea | in the East and South China seas |
| 33:41 | East China Sea | in the East and South China seas |
| 35:55 | Holy Roman Empire | called the Holy Roman Empire but it's really a tidbit zone |
| 37:25 | Iberian Peninsula | find a theater that is peripheral to that main theater |
| 45:26 | Port Said | blocking the entrance to the Suez canal at Port Said |
| 45:30 | Israel | Israel fighting Egypt Jordan and Syria |
| 45:31 | Egypt | Israel fighting Egypt Jordan and Syria |
| 45:32 | Jordan | Israel fighting Egypt Jordan and Syria |
| 46:44 | Persian Gulf | from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam |
| 46:45 | Rotterdam | Persian Gulf to Rotterdam in the Netherlands |
| 46:56 | Cape of Good Hope | long way around Africa I believe it's a third |
| 52:13 | Saint-Lô | Saint-Lo Normandy France 1944 |
| 57:49 | North Korea | difference between North and South Korea |
| 57:50 | South Korea | between North and South Korea |
| 61:19 | Taiwan | we need to take Taiwan really |