This is CBS Eye of the World with Professor Antonio Colabasano.

She's in Bucharest at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration.

She has a new book coming about the geopolitics and geoeconomics of borderlands and of all

of Eurasia.

And that's what we're discussing.

It's not just talk about Ukraine and that doesn't matter to Afghanistan or that doesn't

matter to China.

No, it all connects.

Talk about the Philippines and that doesn't matter to Russia or that doesn't matter to

Berlin.

No, it all connects.

The World Island has a much clearer sense of this through history.

And Antonio is featuring three geographical geopolitical thinkers.

All gone now.

Alfred Leathera Bahan, of the Naval War College born in 1840.

A Hufford Mackender born in London in 1861.

And Professor Nicholas Speakman born in Europe and left us in the 1940s, the young man,

all thinking about the World Island.

Speakman called it containment, but the US is no longer practicing containment.

Antonio, before we go to the US, I had forgotten that Russia had overtures to the Duterte

government and that Duterte had twice visited Moscow.

Now that there's a new government inviting the US back, is Russia still maintaining its

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