THE NEW OLD U.S. STRATEGY AGAINST RUSSIA: THE REAGAN GHOST To implement the plan of strangling Russia by pushing it out from the international oil and gas markets, they are using the old scheme which worked quite successfully 30 years ago during Reagan’s presidency. With the help of Saudi Arabia, he significantly reduced oil prices depriving the USSR of foreign currency earnings. With active involvement of Western Europe, he also prevented the construction of a second gas pipeline from the Soviet Union limiting the ceiling of the European “dependence” on Soviet gas at 30% and banned large long-term loans to Moscow as well as exports of latest technology especially for drilling in offshore and northern permafrost regions. Politically, the undermining of the foundations of Moscow was carried out through Poland in the west and through Afghanistan in the south. So they are using an old scheme but with different actors. It is now Ukraine instead of Poland and Islamist radicals from the Arab region, especially the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria whose militants are being pushed out to the Russian North Caucasus. The scheme which Washington is using for gas is not new either; the goal is to prevent the emergence of the southern pipeline bypassing the Ukraine thus stalling the Southern Stream project and replacing it with the South Pars (a gas pipeline project from Iran) through Iraq (who will soon also start production of gas), Syria and further to Southern Europe. The intention is to use this pipeline for transporting the gas from Qatar from the Gulf’s North Field which is a part of the Southern Pars. The implementation of this project will take two years, provided, of course, that Washington is successful in changing the ruling regime in Iran, getting rid of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and returning Baghdad to the realm of its influence. These are exactly the goals of the decisions of senior American leadership made during the closed meeting mentioned earlier and of the NATO summit in Wales as well, although not all members of the Alliance have been informed about the details of the new US strategy “against Russia through the Middle East.” First appeared: journal-neo.org/2014/09/11/rus-ssha-vnov-py-tayutsya-organizovat-neftegazovy-j-kollaps-rossii/
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:38:43 +0000
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