This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

Ukraine conflict is a way of looking at Eurasia, the world island, and especially looking

at the serial empires of the world island for the last 2,000, 5,000 years.

Right now we're in the 21st century.

What we're looking at is Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Is an example of borderlands and the constant conflict of borderlands of empires, great

empires and middle empires, great powers and middle powers.

A welcome Antonia Kulabashanu.

She is the geopolitical futures analyst about the Black Sea Basin and the Eurasian world

island.

At the same time, she's the author of a new book that will be extremely helpful to everyone

to understand the scale of the conflict that the U.S. is now involved in.

Not separate conflicts, not Ukraine here and South China see there.

All one.

The way we look at this is a new book that Antonia is publishing in this late summer early

fall of this year.

Geopolitics, due economics and borderlands, a study of changing Eurasia and its implications

for Europe.

Antonia is in Europe.

We're in North America.

There are geographers over these last 100 years who understand that the fate of North

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