The US’ Achilles Heel
Earlier this year I wrote about Russia gaining ascendancy in the oil patch. Now there are two very good articles in Asia Times
that elaborate on this theme.
Russia has found the Achilles’ heel of the US colossus. In concert with its oil-producing partners and the rising powerhouse economies of the East, Russia is altering the foundations of the current US-led liberal global oil-market order, insidiously working to undermine its US-centric nature and slanting it toward serving first and foremost the energy-security needs and the geopolitical aspirations of the rising East.
All this is at the impending incalculable expense of the West. What is increasingly at stake is secure US access to global energy resources - strategic US energy security - because the West’s traditional control respecting those global resources is seriously faltering in the face of the compelling strategies undertaken by Russia and its global partners.
The US giant is increasingly at risk as it faces what is gradually but now more widely being recognized as Russia’s clever exploitation of US foreign energy dependency and the hemorrhaging of its all-important economic-geopolitical capital: its traditional global energy leadership and dominance via its onetime virtually all-pervasive oil majors.
Go read them they are eye-openers and they give you the real basis for the war against Iraq and the war in Afghanistan, the need to end run the Russians and secure a supply of oil.
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