![]() Yet, as Marshall argues in this pop excursus, geography does have something to do with how we live. Geography has a grim matter-of-factness to it: argue that the Mongols came exploding out of Central Asia due to a bumper crop in grass or that the Vikings left Scandinavia because of the horrible monotony of the fjords, and you’re likely to be pegged as a determinist without sufficient regard for free will. Pizza and, of course, the Ukraine, his next-door neighbor and a ripe plum for any vision of a Russian empire. “When Vladimir Putin isn’t thinking about God, and mountains, he’s thinking about pizza,” writes the author. ![]() Is geography destiny? Perhaps not, but Manifest Destiny certainly had a geographical component-and so, writes former Sky News correspondent Marshall ("Dirty Northern B*st*rds!": And Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain's Football Chants, 2014, etc.), will a future world in which the United States may not be a superpower. ![]()
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