And again, back to “peace after November 1st.”
You have to agree, before November 1st, the news about the creation of Core 5, or the “Big Five,” seemed impossible.
Even now, it still seems so and looks more like the first stage of the “Overton Window” – discussing the unthinkable.
Let me remind you: there’s information that in an unpublished version of the U.S. National Security Strategy, signed by Trump, there is an idea to create a “five” composed of: the U.S., China, India, Russia, and Japan.
This, as you understand, would be in addition to the G7, where Europe would not allow China and Russia.
Although the phrase “in addition” could very well transform into “instead” in the future.
That will depend primarily on Europe’s own development strategy.
So far, there is no official confirmation of this information.
The idea itself has been launched for discussion and to test the global reaction.
But what we need to pay attention to right now is this:
In the “five,” aside from the U.S. and Russia, all the other countries are Asian.
Moreover, in the context of modern metageography and metahistory, Russia is already an Asian country.
That is, it’s the Global Eurasian Island plus Westernized Asia (Japan) and the U.S.
Remember, I always say: the focus of global economic development is shifting to Asia.
And the idea of Core 5 is a vivid confirmation of this.
In addition, this tests a whole range of my geopolitical hypotheses:
The format of the U.S. as the “Janus-faced” power, simultaneously looking at the Atlantic and the Pacific, shifting foreign policy priorities depending on where the core of the world’s productive forces is located – Europe or Asia.
The new role of Japan.
The concept of the Global Eurasian Island.
And India’s drift into the Eurasian geopolitical continuum.
But essentially, the Core 5 format is the G2 concept I’ve mentioned before, composed of China and the U.S.
Because this pair will form the actual core of the “five.”
India and Japan play the role of balancers, restraining China, while Russia is the third vertex of the U.S.–China–Russia triangle, which America will attempt to “play” in its “game” with Beijing.
Plus, this is a way to prevent India from drawing too close to Russia and China.
As you can see, Europe is not in this block of countries.
Because the U.S., as the “Janus-faced” power, goes where capital flows, resources, and productive forces concentrate.
In other words, America “looks” both toward Europe and toward the Global Eurasian Island.
Europe has the G7 format.
The Global Eurasian Island may get the Core 5 format.
At the same time, Core 5 can be interpreted as “core” or “power.”
The essence of the concept is the concentration of productive forces, natural resources, technology, demographic potential, and military power.
It’s a global club, but not based on shared principles and values like the G7 – it’s a “club of potentials.”
