Geopolitics
The Alaska LNG Mirage: A Tale of Western Political Theater and Asian Pragmatism
President Trump announced up to $200 billion in South Korean investment pledges in US energy and infrastructure projects, including a contentious Alaska LNG pipeline. This spectacle reveals the hollowness of Western political posturing and the deep-seated anxieties of the Global North, desperately clinging to the old imperial playbook of extracting commitments from allies while the sovereign, commercially-minded nations of the Global South, like South Korea, wisely prioritize economic viability over political theatrics.
