A Slavic People A Russian Superpower A Charismatic World Leader

The Trilogy analyses Vladimir Putin's strategic acting due to the Kosovo war in 1999 when USA/NATO attacked a sovereign European country for the first time after WWII and without UNSC approval and depicts the global strategic development leading up to the 2016 US presidential election.

In part one, he develops and strengthens relations with SCO, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, that today covers next to the whole of Eurasia. Also, BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

The author visits Santa Fe and Cebu in the Philippines, where he dialogues with a retired major from the Swedish military intelligence service, a former US commander of the US Pacific Fleet, and a retired colonel for the border police between Mexico and the United States.

Part two describes the continuation of Russia's path towards global recovery. It describes developments globally and mainly in Eurasia around the events in Ukraine. A comprehensive description and analysis of the United States' hundred-year strategy in Eurasia connected with the two world wars. Russia's military rearmament and several visits by the author to Santa Fe, Philippines, and Vietnam, followed by an interview and dialogue with a Swedish retired officer from the Swedish military intelligence service as well as a Russian researcher and geopolitical expert in Ho Chi Minh Town in Vietnam.

Part three begins the book with a comprehensive analysis of the MH 17 tragedy over eastern Ukraine. It is followed by a review of ISIS and the background to the conflict in the Middle East in the shadow of the importance of oil and concerning the US Pax Americana advance. Further description of Russia's military rearmament occurs to a lesser extent, but the extremely dramatic development in the South China Sea is examined all the more.

Vladimir Putin's strategy in Syria and the Middle East is analyzed in detail.

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Goeran B. Johansson is a retired teacher and previously a leisure politician. He has traveled a lot and lived in different countries in Southeast Asia for a long time. Mainly in the Philippines. His primary interests are history and independent geopolitical analysis, focusing on the ongoing global power struggle between the US-NATO vis-à-vis Russia and China within the BRICS, SCO.

He served in the UN forces in Cyprus in the 1960s, and he is also enthusiastic about chess and its strategic thinking. He is a multi-instrumentalist and plays piano, violin, classical guitar, and various accordions. He is fluent in English and Russian. Also, he published a fourth part in the series, Alea Iacta Est, The Die is Cast In the Shadow of Covid 19 Pandemic , Moreover a Quadrology as an e-book, The Authoritarian Eurasian Superpowers Challenge the US-Led Liberal World Order.

He has also written two short stories published in Swedish and English: 2020, A Swedish Fellow in Asia, and 2021, Lymene Holy Mother of Divine Grace. In English also A Gorgeous Buddy in Asia