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Is this a phenomenon engineered to draw a lot of western powers into one location for something really troubling?
MacCruiskeen » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:51 am wrote:Short answer: I see it heading towards World War III. In fact I think it's safe to say we're in the early stages of it already. It's just being fought mainly on the periphery*, so far. Latest grim joke is the War on Ebola (ffs), now being fought by thousands of US Marines in the oil-rich parts of Africa.
ISIS provides another handy excuse to fuck up the planet for profit. See Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, passim. The huge profits of destruction are followed by the huge profits of reconstruction, and the erasing of competitors (both material and ideological) is a large added extra.
The US Empire already imports around half its oil, and rising. The US peak of production came in the 1970s. The global Peak was passed in or around 2007. Russia and China (to name but two huge nuclear-armed nation-states) are competing for the same scarce and ever-scarcer (but utterly essential) resource. The Ukraine fiasco was and is a very worrying sign that the US is prepared to provoke an actual war with Russia (ffs), and to push its allies (including fucking Germany, ffs) into supporting it all the way.
TL; DR: We're fucked.
* But look at any atlas: what's not "periphery", to the USA? Its very geographical isolation is one of the things that has always made it so dangerous to world peace. It can't be invaded and it can't be conquered, and this has allowed it to act with impunity. The USA has practically nothing to fear from any other nation-state -- except competition for the world's dwindling resources and saturated markets. Which is inevitable and now taking place.
MacCruiskeen » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:06 am wrote:Me no comprendy, minime.
minime » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:11 am wrote:MacCruiskeen » Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:06 am wrote:Me no comprendy, minime.
I thought I was being clear. I suggest that your assignation of guilt is naive.
Öl-Krieg
USA wollen Putin mit niedrigem Öl-Preis in die Knie zwingen
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten | Veröffentlicht: 12.10.14, 10:35 | 41 Kommentare
Auf Drängen der USA hat Saudi-Arabien seine Öl-Produktion massiv ausgeweitet. Dies hat entscheidend dazu beigetragen, dass der Ölpreis seit Juni um rund 20 Prozent eingebrochen ist. Der Preisverfall schadet vor allem Russland, das den Großteil seiner Staatseinnahmen aus dem Export von Öl und Gas bezieht. Sollte Saudi-Arabien den Öl-Krieg fortsetzen, droht Putin erstmals ein deutliches Staatsdefizit.
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Oil War
USA Want Low Oil Price To Force Putin To His Knees
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten | Published: October 12, 2014, 10:35 | 41 comments
On the USA's insistence, Saudi Arabia has massively increased its oil production. This has contributed decisively to a collapse in the price of oil by around 20% since June. The fall in prices mainly hurts Russia, which makes most of its national income from the export of oil and gas. If Saudi Arabia maintains this oil war, Putin is threatened for the first time with a substantial state deficit.
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