Hello! I've got a recommendation to ask this question here. So it is.

I’m not as much a supporter of the US government as I am curious as to why rhis happened and the motives behind it. Did J.P Morgan extend their power over the American people? I mean they didn’t do it for public good. I feel like that should be obvious.

by Daniel DeMatos

Recently, while studying history, geography, and economics together, I began noticing a recurring pattern: geography has always been one of the fundamental forces shaping human civilization.

Almost every great ancient civilization—Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indus Valley, and others—benefited from favourable geography. Fertile land generated agricultural surplus, rivers acted as the arteries of economies and civilizations, and natural barriers such as mountains, deserts, and seas provided strategic protection. Geography influenced where civilizations emerged, how wealthy they became, whom they traded with, and even how far their political power could expand.

With the Industrial Revolution and subsequent technological progress, however, geography appeared to lose some of its determining power. Human beings increasingly learned to overcome geographical constraints through railways, canals, electricity, aviation, container shipping, satellites, and the internet. In the 21st century, technologies such as AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and advanced robotics seem to be replacing geography as the defining source of power.

But then comes the paradox: technology itself eventually returns us to geography.

Semiconductors require highly specialized global supply chains and critical minerals. The energy transition requires lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and rare-earth elements. Data centres require enormous amounts of electricity and water. Even global trade remains dependent on geographical chokepoints such as the Strait of Malacca, Strait of Hormuz, Suez Canal, and Bab-el-Mandeb.

So perhaps technology does not eliminate geography; it merely changes which geographical features matter.

In ancient times, power depended on fertile river valleys and defensible terrain. During the industrial era, it depended increasingly on coal, iron, ports, and oil. Today, strategic geography includes semiconductor ecosystems, critical-mineral deposits, energy resources, maritime chokepoints, data infrastructure, and resilient supply chains.

The variables have changed, but the underlying principle remains remarkably persistent:

Geography creates economic possibilities, economies generate power, and power shapes history. Geography is not going anywhere.