ITS 201 Lecture 6: ITS LECTURE NOTES 6
20 Dec 2017
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Mercator map doesn"t do well in projecting the size of countries. Greenland is bigger than africa on the map but is actually fourteen times smaller. Having the north at the top is a map making construction, you can just as easily flip the map upside down. Geopolitics: combination of geographical and political factors affecting a country or area. *if europe attacks, ukraine is russia"s buffer zone. *annexing crimea was for protection and naval power. +russia needs warm water ports for their navy to function. *russia has ports in tartus, syria and sevastopol in crimea. +russia is supporting assad in syria because of warm water port and russian industry in tartus. *russia doesn"t care who is in power, just that their interests are protected. +russian north sea ports are frozen over during the winter. +blocked in the east by china, korea and japan, but not a warm water port. +blocked in the west by europe and former satellite states.
