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| Russia spins global energy spider's web |
| 2006-08-25 |
| A circle defining international energy security is now being drawn. The artist is Russia, which is steadily pulling into this circle all the resource-rich corporate states around the globe. These countries have a profound political affinity for one another and a simultaneous collective disdain, and even a hatred, for US-led unipolar dominance. The multinational oil companies of the West are being marginalized as a direct result. More... |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 DailyPundit posted a link saying that it is all about oil.... Cos when it's all said and done, we and the Ozzies will be the only 2 to have supplies in our countries. I think that was the Oz continent. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-08-25 19:03 |
| #3 It is a fact that Russia is working to secure Iran' dependence on its nuclear and other technology. Iran still imports most of its refined oil products from Saudi Arabia. Without refinery dependence, Iran would become the dominant regional power. One more reason why we have no choice but to destroy the Ayatollah dictatorship. The Russian gamble has to fail. |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-25 11:45 |
| #2 Saudi Arabia, for example, continues its "Look East" policy of diversifying its markets away from the US Hard to take an article seriously when it has something like this in it. 1. According to EIA figures, Saudi Arabia accounts for 15% of our imports. 2. Also from the EIA, we account for 14% of Saudi's exports (roughly 1.5 million barrels/day out of 11 million b/d produced). Obviously, 15% of your total business is important, but the notion that all these countries are working together to freeze us out of the oil market is absurd. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2006-08-25 10:41 |
| #1 It's hard to take Thomas Barnett's pipe-dream of a world divided between "Core" and "Fringe" seriously when most of his "New Core" is working to relegate the US to the Undeveloped Fringe. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2006-08-25 09:03 |