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The orchestrated, manufactured crisis in Ukraine, is more about oil than it is democracy.
www.fromthewilderness.com...
The Grand Chessboard
Brzezinski sets the tone for his strategy by describing Russia and China as the two most important countries - almost but not quite superpowers - whose interests that might threaten the U.S. in Central Asia. Of the two, Brzezinski considers Russia to be the more serious threat. Both nations border Central Asia. In a lesser context he describes the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Iran and Kazakhstan as essential "lesser" nations that must be managed by the U.S. as buffers or counterweights to Russian and Chinese moves to control the oil, gas and minerals of the Central Asian Republics (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan).
He also notes, quite clearly (p. 53) that any nation that might become predominant in Central Asia would directly threaten the current U.S. control of oil resources in the Persian Gulf. In reading the book it becomes clear why the U.S. had a direct motive for the looting of some $300 billion in Russian assets during the 1990s, destabilizing Russia's currency (1998) and ensuring that a weakened Russia would have to look westward to Europe for economic and political survival, rather than southward to Central Asia. A dependent Russia would lack the military, economic and political clout to exert influence in the region and this weakening of Russia
MysterX
reply to post by whatzshaken
The orchestrated, manufactured crisis in Ukraine, is more about oil than it is democracy.
You wanna know what i think?
It was never about Ukraine or about oil/coal.
It was always about PUTIN.
Ukraine is bait, Putin is the real target of the operation.
He goes in to help...he become a juicey, oozing propaganda target and gets mangled in the Western media, kicked out of G8, economic 'costs' for Russian industry and a host of other penalties for doing exactly what the US has done themselves many times with less legitimacy than Putin has in Crimea.
He doesn't go in to help...he becomes a juicey, oozing propaganda target and gets mangled in the Western media AND domestic media, turmoil ensues in the Russian Federation, Putin 'retires' with grace and a 'Western friendly' idiot is installed in his place.
What now?
Syria and Iran...the jewels in the Wests 10 year+ Middle east campaign lose a staunch ally in Putin, a less able and less stalwart, Western firendly Russian president, wouldn't have the balls to resist or seriously oppose an invasion of Syria and soon afterwards, Iran.
Ukraine have been expertly used as pawns in a game of brinkmanship and glorified stepping stones...although it doesn't appear to have worked out as the planner would have hoped. Putin couldn't give a toss about Western media or political propaganda, and the West is looking like losing the initiative and running out of steam.
My opinion.edit on 3-3-2014 by MysterX because: typo
whatzshaken
reply to post by SevenThunders
"Give me control of a nation's money
and I care not who makes the laws."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
[Mayer Amschel Bauer] (1744 -1812), Godfather of the Rothschild Banking Cartel of Europe
AntiPrivateWestBankers
reply to post by whatzshaken
Standard Western Agencies modus operandi, though they copied it from mossad LOL
I must tip my hat off to them though, sly is sly, they mastered it. Evil though, eventually loses.