Is the shooting war between Azerbaijan and Armenia a developing proxy war between NATO and Russia? What of the provocations by the west over the election in Belarus? What do these have in common? Today, we look at the role of Chatham House/Royal Institute of International Affairs in pushing these crises, in the tradition of the British Empire's 19th century "Great Game" and Mackinder's geopolitics—not surprisingly, those same City of London networks continue to push for the removal of President Trump, fearing what might occur were he to hold a summit with Presidents Putin and Xi before the November 3 election.

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