Russia Times, Oil Countries 2 switch out of dollar

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huh, they say it might mean war between USA and China...?

reply to post by Anti-Evil


They are just trying to stir the pot. They are the ones who may have issues with China.

Russia may face wars over energy: Kremlin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may face wars on its borders in the near future over control of energy resources, a Kremlin document on security policy said Wednesday.

The paper did not name potential adversaries, but Russia, the world's biggest energy producer, shares a border of more than 3,600 km (2,250 miles) with resource-hungry China and a small sea border with the United States.

"In a competition for resources, problems that involve the use of military force cannot be excluded that would destroy the balance of forces close to the borders of the Russian Federation and her allies," said the document, which maps out Russia's security strategy until 2020.

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Iraq to Deal Oil in Euros

You may remember that among the million and one reasons why we may have "really" gone into Iraq was this one, embraced mostly by alleged conspiracy theorists and silly leftists who thought that the invasion might have something to do with oil and the dollar:

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- A U.N. panel on Monday approved Iraq's plan to receive oil-export payments in Europe's single currency after Baghdad decided to move the start date back a week.

Members of the Security Council's Iraqi sanctions committee said the panel's chairman, Dutch Ambassador Peter van Walsum, would inform U.N. officials on Tuesday of the decision to allow Iraq to receive payments in euros, rather than dollars.

Today, there is a lot of chatter about this:

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

Nobody knows for sure that this is happening, but if it is, it's a profound change, and one that may have simply been put off by our little six year adventure in the middle east.

Ian Welsh unpacks what this would mean for all of us over at C&L. Shorter Ian: for a lot of reasons, "it will hurt."

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edit : missed quote tags

[edit on 9-10-2009 by Drexl]

reply to post by SLAYER69


Thats actually a really interesting analysis... I never thought of that fact before I wouldnt be surprised if things are heating up between the two giants of Asia.... after all China is becoming increasingly agressive over its resource reserves... and russia has become rather menacing (e.g artic claim). The Chinese and Russians have always been wary... even more so than their views on the United states....

reply to post by Southern Guardian


Hey Southern.

Have you seen these?


The New Great Game

OR

Iranian revolt Explained - Wake Up!

As a rebel I find it hard to ignore the external

reply to post by Anti-Evil


Here is the thing, we in the US sit on the biggest depoists on Natural Gas and oil... SO they can have there energy war all we need to do is open up the pipelines in Alaska and in the Gulf as well as assist are northren Brothers and sisters the Mighty Canucks in develping theres... Heres a novel idea we should suck it up and drill and for a long term plane regrid are nations power and how it operates A smart grid. We can build windmills like the brits do along there highways and we have plenty of land in the plains to do it, instead of bailing out wall street we should do this... Build some nuke plants in the desert in our south west were noone lives.... Its time to take off the gloves.