// MAPPED VIDEO
Every place Dwarkesh Patel mentions in "Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography", mapped
// THE CRUX Geopolitical strategy and global order have historically been defined by the stark structural differences between continental land powers and maritime sea powers.
45 places, in order of mention
| 01:23 | Normandy | June 6th 1944 D-Day Normandy landings |
| 01:44 | Ukraine | cannot think Ukraine a navy is not going |
| 01:47 | Russia | save them from Russia |
| 02:26 | Canada | United States tried invading Canada a couple times |
| 03:14 | Louisiana | when the Louisiana Purchase is made |
| 03:21 | Alaska | United States bought not only Alaska |
| 03:30 | Mexico | what happened with Mexico |
| 03:39 | Texas | how the United States gets Texas |
| 03:44 | Tucson | gets the United States Tucson Arizona |
| 05:55 | China | and you look at China and Russia today |
| 06:09 | Russia | Russia has a lamentable internal transportation grid |
| 07:28 | Eurasia | and he defines as the pivot area Eurasia |
| 09:11 | Netherlands | citizen from the Netherlands then under Nazi occupation |
| 10:05 | Europe | brought to bear on Europe and the Far East |
| 12:12 | China | I'm going to start out with China |
| 14:23 | Dzungaria | competing Dzungar and Tibetan empires |
| 14:25 | Tibet | competing Dzungar and Tibetan empires |
| 15:10 | Yellow River | Han start up north in the Yellow River Valley |
| 15:41 | Lake Baikal | Mongols start out east of Lake Baikal |
| 16:06 | Manchuria | folks aren't Han, they're Manchu |
| 17:28 | Moscow | They start in Moscow |
| 17:56 | Siberia | as you go out into Siberia |
| 18:48 | Finland | Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Caucasus |
| 18:50 | Poland | Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Caucasus |
| 18:51 | Ukraine | Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Caucasus |
| 18:52 | Caucasus | Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Caucasus |
| 18:53 | Turkestan | khanates of Turkestan, Siberia |
| 20:05 | Germany | Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary |
| 20:08 | Austria | Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire |
| 20:10 | Turkey | the Ottoman Empire, China, and Japan |
| 24:05 | Syria | In Syria, Ukraine, and other places |
| 28:28 | Atlantic Ocean | look at the Atlantic Ocean |
| 30:02 | Aegean Sea | shores of the Aegean and Ionian seas |
| 30:12 | Mediterranean Sea | The Romans likewise another rimland empire |
| 31:40 | Silk Road | used to go by camels on the Silk Road |
| 31:56 | Suez | tollbooths on that thing made loads of money |
| 34:20 | Netherlands | It's the Dutch who are the real followers |
| 38:10 | United Kingdom | The British are the real pioneers of maritime empire |
| 40:20 | France | maximum extent of the French Empire |
| 45:36 | Suez Canal | industrial revolution is the Suez Canal |
| 46:26 | Persian Gulf | from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam |
| 46:28 | Rotterdam | from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam in the Netherlands |
| 46:35 | Africa | long way around Africa |
| 52:10 | Taiwan | I need to take Taiwan really |
| 58:00 | North Korea | difference between North and South Korea |