And if you look at the vast central Pacific, which people forget, the Eurasian land mass, as massive as that, is Mackinder's whole geopolitical strategy of who controls the heartland of the Earth, the, The Pacific, that vast central Pacific is actually the size of the Eurasian landmass. And that's why Pete Hegseth went. The three island chains from Hawaii to then Guam to then Philippines, Taiwan and Japan, those three island chains protected by the United States, … (24:00–24:07)
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Asserts that the central Pacific is the size of the Eurasian landmass.
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