America's Geopolitical Nightmare

[katty]

America's Geopolitical Nightmare and Eurasian Strategic Energy Arrangements

by F. William Engdahl

May 7, 2006
GlobalResearch.ca


Part I: The disintegration of the Bush Presidency

excerpt:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20EN20060507&articleId=2401

Gennady Yefstafiyev, a former general in Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, says, ‘The US's long term goals in Iran are obvious: to engineer the downfall of the current regime; to establish control over Iran's oil and gas; and to use its territory as the shortest route for the transportation of hydrocarbons under US control from the regions of Central Asia and the Caspian Sea bypassing Russia and China. This is not to mention Iran's intrinsic military and strategic significance.’

Washington had based its strategy on Kazakhstan being its key partner in Central Asia.


The US wants to expand its physical control over Kazakhstan's oil reserves and formalize Kazakh oil transportation via Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, as well as creating the dominant US role in Caspian Sea security. But Kazakhstan isn’t playing ball. President Nursultan Nazarbayev went to Moscow on April 3 to reaffirm his continued dependence on Russian oil pipelines. And China, as we noted back in December, is making major energy and pipeline deals with Kazakhstan as well.

To make Washington’s geopolitical problems worse, despite securing a major US military basing deal with Uzbekistan after September 2001, Washington's relations with Uzbekistan today are disastrous. The US effort to isolate President Islam Karimov, along lines of the Ukraine ‘Orange Revolution’ tactics, is not working. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Tashkent in late April.

As well, Tajikistan relies heavily on Russia's support. In Kyrgyzstan, despite covert US attempts to create dissensions within the regime, President Burmanbek Bakiyev's alliance with Moscow-backed Prime Minister Felix Kulov, is holding.

In the space of 12 months Russia and China have managed to move the pieces on the geopolitical ‘chess board’ of Eurasia away from what had been an overwhelming US strategic advantage, to the opposite, where the US is increasingly isolated. It’s potentially the greatest strategic defeat for the US power projection of the post World War II period. This is also the strategic background to the re-emergence of the so-called realist faction in US policy.

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F. William Engdahl is a Global Research Contributing Editor and author of the book, ‘A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order,’ Pluto Press Ltd. He is about to publish a book on GMO titled, ‘Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Political Agenda Behind GMO’. He may be contacted through his website, www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net .

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. I'm not saying anything....

[Demeter]

2. The Great Game Goes On.....

Reread your Kipling, folks: the Great Game was Rusia and England fighting for control of the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan and by logical extension, China and the rest of Asia. So here comes Uncle Sam, thinking he's hot stuff, trying to muscle in on the game when the principle players have been at it for 200+ years already. And that's after the Mongols and Tatars and Huns and others even farther pack had exhausted themselves trying. Whatever Sammy gets is what he deserves.

Sometimes I hate people with their inadequate phallacies. (spelling intended)

[katty]

3. indeed it does

[teryang]

4. Great article!

Read this last week. Pretty good analysis.

[katty]

6. yes, it is laid out well, pt to pt analysis

[ixion]

5. excellent assessment

really puts the situation in perspective. :popcorn: