How Putin fuses Ukraine and the Middle East

He is the author who opined that "geography is taking revenge" and that "you have to think about war, that's the only way to be prepared." Kathimerini met with the distinguished geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan, Robert Strausz-Hupe Chair at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), in the "library" of the 9th Delphi Economic Forum after his speech. Robert Kaplan joins the group of analysts who agree that we have long been experiencing a global upheaval in the balance of power, with him caustically stating that "it has now broken into the headlines."

"We have a war in Ukraine, which is the biggest war in Europe since 1945. It is much bigger than the wars of the 1990s in the Balkans, which were between minor powers and basically energized only Western elites. These wars did not really penetrate into the Western public."

"Today," he explains, "we have the war in...