Since 2011 I took active interest in enquiring the geopolitics of my times. I read and heard many stuff, but a lot of it I didn’t wrote it down. For remembering the developpements in this world, I decided to write the essence of my century I am observing. The articles of chronicles are still in writing, it will be a work of my lifetime and maybe my heritage for the 22nd century.

• Prologos

On September 11, 2001 the begining of the 21st century was marked by many kinds of violence like terror and war. During the presidency of George Bush the younger, I was an child who percieved little things on politics. Only after the election of Barack Obama I learned more about geo-politics and especially after the Arab Spring.

• The Arab Spring

In the arab world, widespread social inequality triggered a series of revolutions in 2011.

• The Aftermath oft he Arab Spring.

Tunesia as the sole beneficiary is the typical outcome of a revolution, because Egypt, Jemen and Syria didn’t profit from this years 2011 and 2012. The three fled into the Arab Winter. Anarchy or Authoritarianism became their heritage from the arab spring. The problems of revolutions are, that they can often change governments, but sometimes these ones are inable to restore order or aren’t better or even worse than the previous government. Maybe revolutions are there to make the future better. The first french revolution and its ideas paved the way for a century of struggles, until a long lasting republic could be established. At least the hopes and ideas of democracy, wellfare state and anti-corruption have a reference which will echo through the decades. Of course, the arab spring became a rather a symbol for violence and faillure, which shall also be taken into account, because revolutions bear high risks: for their undertaking and their result.

• The wars in Libya and Syria 2011-2021.

After a decade of deastrous wars. Libya and Syria became satellite States of Russia and Turkey. It seems to some observers, even supporters of the governments of these countries, that they want to reestablish some former empires.

• The refugee crisis

The wars and other miseries in Western Asia and Africa led to a massive refugee crisis in the year 2015. The rise of populism in the Western World was the consequence of illiberal populist politicians and sykophants, which spread fear on immigrants and on refugees in particular. When the refugee crisis was tempered, at least in europe, the populist parties still appealed their base with their provocative rhetoric.

• Inside Iran

During the Trump era, I studied history and philosophy in the Trier University which was full of communists, marxists and bolchevists. Especially during the 200th birthday of the cities best-known son: Karl Marx. During his jubilee-year 2018, I visited Iran. I felt like an inversed Borat, who wanted to visit the oriental country to know its culture and history.

• The COVID-19 pandemic

The populist parties and politicians lost elections during the pandemic due to their disappointing faillures to handle the sanitary crisis as robust as their speeches. It became for me a proove, that a rational handling government matters, not one with big words and no adequate actions.

• 2011-2021: resistance against every crisis

The movement of Fridays For Future was founded 2018 and is similar to the protests in 2011, where many social movements emerged due to rejection of the socio-economical system and the nefast impacts of the financial and economical crisis, which wasn’t totally resolved. Even a more than a decade after its beginning and before the eve of the new, greather economical crisis, which was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the years 2016-2021 I established a lifestyle philosophy, which says 1) that happiness exists through your closest circle, 2) that crisis and calm are like winter and spring; always interchnaging and therefore we have to be prepared for both 3) always thing about the higher good, we humans are imperfect beings, which couldn’t think about that sufficently.

• The assualt on the Capitol

The day I feasted the epiphania was tarniashed by Trump’s attempt of coup d’Etat. Five people died directly because of the assault. Three more afterwards. More than one-hundred police officers were injured defending Capitol. The tragedy was that Trump harmed that day, like all other days in his life, the very same people wich supported him the most. His greed for money and power as well as his infinite ego and lack of respect for laws and lack of good faith made him the most incompetent president in the history of these United States of America. He became the first president being impeached twice. Before he lost the 2020 elections, I said, very mildly, he was not very easy to handle with. After the assault on the Capitol, I said Trump was a tyrant.

• The returns of the Navalnys

The anticorruption foundation of Alexey Navalny triggered the greatest protests in Russia since decades. In more than one-hundre cities, tens of thousands portested against the presidential corruption scandals. President Vladimir Putin build a palace with illigal money, which unleashed the wrath of many young Russians. Navalny exhibited this palace-affair a few mounth after he nearly died by poison. Since Putin became again head of state in 2012 it became an extraordinary achivement to survive this poisener-president, when you are in the opposition or a critic journalist or both.

• The (Eur-)Asian century ?

During Cold War, China was a junior partner in the eastern bloc, and also only a few years. Now the sino-russian alliance is reinstalled, with their respective alliances and are incresingly in competition or in cold relations with India, Western Europe and Northern America. This not only give to some the reminiscence of the Cold War, but also the fear, that in the third decade of 21st century could emerge a real new cold war.

Julien Sita, 11th February 2021.