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The wide-open [[steppe]] of the borderlands between Europe and Asia, East and West, Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim, Slav, German, Turk and others, with its lack of mountainous terrain to serve as natural boundaries between groups with linguistic, cultural, religious and traditional background differences is how the term or study of "geopolitics" came into existence. "Geopolitics" is a 19th & 20th century invention to study the intersection of the Occident & Orient, with its sordid history of conflict over many millennia.  

The wide-open [[steppe]] of the borderlands between Europe and Asia, East and West, Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim, Slav, German, Turk and others, with its lack of mountainous terrain to serve as natural boundaries between groups with linguistic, cultural, religious and traditional background differences is how the term or study of "geopolitics" came into existence. "Geopolitics" is a 19th & 20th century invention to study the intersection of the Occident & Orient, with its sordid history of conflict over many millennia.  

It is only by study and interaction between these peoples in an effort to understand each other better that racial, ethnic, and military conflict can be reduced (A notorious [[racist]] Senior [[Conservapedia]] Admin consistently and disparagingly refers to these efforts as "falling in love" with different societies at different points in their social and economic development from [[Western civilization|Western societies]]).

It is only by study and interaction between these peoples in an effort to understand each other better that racial, ethnic, and military conflict can be reduced (A notorious [[racist]] Senior [[Conservapedia]] Admin consistently and disparagingly refers to these efforts for better understanding to avoid conflict as "falling in love" with different societies who may be at different points in their social and economic development from [[Western civilization|Western societies]]).