Maybe
because America’s ruling class (cheered on by many of the brainwashed people
living in the States) is busy destroying the livelihoods of other countries so
it can lay claim to being the economic powerhouse in the world. Willliam Engdahl shows how this process has
played out in the energy sphere, with ‘Murca disrupting the oil production in
Libya, Iran, and Venezuela solely for its own gain:
As American motorists
complain of rising gasoline prices, the Trump Administration and the oil and
banking interests behind it are smiling on their way to the proverbial bank. If
we look at seeming disparate events in Iran, in Venezuela and now in Libya it
becomes clear there is a coherent strategy to promote disruption in key oil
flows to the immediate advantage of US oil domination .
A decade ago the idea that
the United States could displace Saudi Arabia or the Russian Federation as the
world’s largest oil producer was considered unthinkable. Today it is clearly a
foreign policy priority of the Trump Administration and the major Wall Street
banks financing US shale oil production. The strategy is geopolitical and
ultimately aims to weaken Russia, Iran and the other independent world oil
producing powers like Venezuela.
If we look at several
recent events that have dramatically impacted global oil prices a clear pattern
emerges not of free market forces but of geopolitical manipulation, above all
by Washington. The cases of Iran, of Venezuela and most recently of Libya make
the case clear that Washington is determined to push an oil price high enough
to again make economical investment in its developed shale oil industry.
. . .
Iran
has gotten most of the headlines lately about possible war scenarios, but
Venezuela may bear watching as well since NATO, hardly a peace-making
organization, is now nestled securely on her western marches in Colombia:
Colombian
President Juan Manuel Santos announced on May 25 that his country had
formally become a “global partner” of NATO — the first Latin American state to
obtain an official status in the organization, which is to be formalized this
week. Colombia joins Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Japan, South Korea,
Mongolia, New Zealand, and Pakistan — other nations
also listed as "partners across the globe" or
"global partners," but none of them in Latin America. The areas for
cooperation include improvements to the combat capabilities of the Colombian
military, good governance, military education and training, the security of sea
lanes, cyber security, and ways to combat terrorism and organized crime. A
partnership agreement with NATO was reached a year ago (May 2017) after the
Colombian government concluded a peace accord with FARC, a former terrorist
group that has since become a respectable political party. The president’s
statement came on the same day that the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD) said that Bogota would be officially invited to join —
their reward for steering a pro-Western course.
. . .
Source: Alex Gorka, https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/05/28/nato-comes-south-america-colombia-becomes-alliance-official-partner.html
Pres
Maduro of Venezuela is, unsurprisingly, sounding nervous about Colombia’s
future military plans regarding Venezeula:
Pres
Trump’s fixation on invading Venezuela must be overlooked, either:
Venezuela
and all of South America stand to lose quite a lot as a result of these latest
moves by Pres Trump and his corporate/globalist cronies:
At
the same time the Trump administration renews targeting Iranian oil in world
markets, with a delay until November, it is encouraging the complete collapse
of the Venezuela oil production as part of Washington’s ongoing financial and
political war against the Maduro government.
At
the time of the latest Venezuelan election victory of incumbent socialist
President Maduro, Washington escalated sanctions that cut off all access of
state oil company PDVSA and Venezuela to US banks, as well, cutting off all
refinancing of new debt. Prior to the recent OPEC ministers meeting, Venezuela
Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo declared, “These sanctions are very strong, the
sanctions are practically immobilizing PDVSA…It’s an attack on the oil market .” According to the International Energy
Agency, Venezuela oil production averaged 1.36 million barrels of oil daily in
June, down from 2.9 million bpd five years ago.
Then
with convenient timing, the major US oil company ConocoPhillips seized about
$636 million in assets belonging to Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA due to
a2007 nationalization of the US oil major’s projects in Venezuela. The seizure
has blocked PDVSA from meeting its export obligations and creating tanker
bottlenecks at Venezuelan ports. To counter significant loss in Venezuela oil
imports, China’s Development Bank has just announced a US$5-billion loan for
Venezuela’s oil industry. Among the major importers of both Venezuela and Iran
oil is China, a fact well known to the US Treasury and State Department .
Source: Engdahl
Syria,
Iran, and the unpredictable foreign policy of the US, which includes canceling
summits previously agreed to, as well as many other surprises
for the world community, are on the radar screen, undeservedly eclipsing other
events of great importance. Colombia’s new NATO status is one such example. The
North Atlantic Alliance has moved to the South American continent. The bloc’s
privileged partner has access to the Pacific. The organization has acquired a
new geographical scope. It’s not the end, it’s the beginning. The
military presence that will emerge there will be followed by political meddling
in South America’s politics and attempts to bring more South American states
into the NATO orbit.
Source: Gorka
Donald
Trump, making America great again, one destroyed country, one conquered
continent, at a time . . .
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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