US outflanked in Eurasia energy politics

[tocqueville]

By F William Engdahl

The United States' global energy-control strategy, it's now clear to most, was the actual reason for the highly costly regime change in Iraq, euphemistically dubbed "democracy" by Washington. But while it is preoccupied with implanting democracy in the Middle East, the United States is quietly being outflanked in the rush to secure and control major energy sources of the Persian Gulf, the Central Asian Caspian Basin, Africa and beyond.

The quest for energy control has informed Washington's support for high-risk "color revolutions" in Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan in recent months. It lies behind US activity in West Africa, as well as in Sudan, source of 7% of China's oil imports. It lies behind US policy vis-a-vis President Hugo Chavez' Venezuela and President Evo Morales' Bolivia.

In recent months, however, this strategy of global energy dominance has shown signs of producing just the opposite: a kind of "coalition of the unwilling", states that increasingly see no other prospect, despite traditional animosities, but to cooperate to oppose what they see as a US push to control the future security of their energy.

If the trend of recent events continues, it won't be US-style democracy that is spreading, but rather Russian and Chinese influence over major oil and gas supplies.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HF10Dj01.html
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IMO the actual wars are sqirmishes over the control of decreasing essential ressources. The major one is to come...

[Greeby]

1. We have always been at war with East Asia

Sorry, saw the name and couldn't resist ;)

[oneighty]

2. It was just a matter of time

WW2=Japan's thirst and NEED for oil.

It is no different than for India China and other countries where people also desire the 'good life'.

180

[FreakinDJ]

3. The only problem is

instead of putting money into R&D of new sources of energy were throwing billions fighting over what is left of older sources

[sweetheart]

4. Combine that with this unreported warning..

Russian and China warn of space arms race
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY IN GENEVA

CHINA and Russia yesterday warned that space-based weapons would pose as great a threat as weapons of mass destruction, and called for global negotiations to stop their deployment.

Diplomats said the appeals from the two powers were mainly targeted at the United States, expected by some to leave open the option of putting weaponry in orbit when it issues a new space policy soon.
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The United Nations Conference on Disarmament is focusing talks this month on the prospects for launching negotiations on the prevention of an arms race in outer space. The United States and Britain are virtually alone among the forum's 65 member states in opposing the start of the negotiations.

"A world free of outer space weapons is no less important than a world free of the weapons of mass destruction," China's ambassador, Cheng Jingye, told the conference.
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