Note: This is an older post from my Blogger days.
Me: The tie-in between the Arctic and Middle-East (as Pepe Escobar puts it) “pipelineistan” completes the circle. So, here is the plan, keep the Russians and Iranians (unless, of course, they fall into submission) from supplying Europe and China, seize the Arctic and so save the petro-dollar and control all of Euro-Asia to boot. So says Zbignew Bryzinski in the pages of the Grand Chess Board. The problem for the US is that the Russians and Chinese are excellent Chess players. Whatever interests Putin serves, he and the rest of the Russian leadership are head and shoulders above the likes of Obama, Nuland, Power, Kerry et al. Probably can say the same for the Chinese. Ours is simply a bunch of brutish, un-polished gangsters in comparison. To bad only some of us are listening.
R: The U.S. can’t seize the Arctic. The longest shoreline is Russia’s. It would take WW III. I don’t believe we’re going that far. But there will certainly be a tussle about oil fields in the Arctic. I agree that the Russians and Chinese are good chess players. We just barge in and bomb places. Continue reading
