by Oliver Granthe on Prabowo’s Kremlin visit, strategic ambiguity, and the map he keeps updating
By Oliver Granthe anonymous, as always for Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat.
Dispatch, Undisclosed Location. The geopolitics are confirming the map.
I keep a map. Not a digital map a physical one, printed on good paper, updated by hand with a red pen I bought specifically for this purpose. This week I added three new lines to the map: one showing Indonesia-Russia cooperation (Prabowo met Putin, declared all sectors advancing rapidly), one showing Indonesia-US discussions about military overflight rights, and one showing Indonesia-China trade at $200 billion-plus annually. Indonesia is a three-way line on my map. This is unusual. I am documenting it.
The Green agenda which I also track, on a separate map is pushing Western nations toward energy independence from Russian gas while simultaneously making them dependent on Chinese rare earth metals for the renewable infrastructure, which means the anti-Russia policy and the pro-Green policy are pulling in opposite directions with Indonesia sitting in the middle of both tensions simultaneously and making money from the confusion. This is not conspiracy. This is logistics. The difference matters, and I note it for the record.
The British Position
Britain is not on Indonesia’s map in any significant way. We had an empire here. We left. We left infrastructure, we left administrative systems, we left cricket, and we left. The countries we left have been making bilateral arrangements with Russia and China and the United States without consulting us for approximately fifty years, and yet there is a class of British foreign policy commentator who speaks about Southeast Asia as though we still have the ladder we came down from and can simply climb back up. We cannot. The ladder is on someone else’s property. Indonesia’s map has Russia, China, and Washington on it. Britain is not visible at this scale.
Per Reuters, Prabowo described cooperation with Russia as highly productive. I added the line in red. My newsletter will cover this on Friday. Current subscribers: forty-seven. I am building something.
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