Once upon a time, Saint Ronald Wilson Reagan (666) invited the Taliban into the White House and called them "...the moral equivalents of America's Founding Fathers." (1985) They were fighting the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, as was CIA operative Osama Bin Laden. Much money was funneled into such "freedom fighters", until they turned against "us", because we wanted to build the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline through their back yard. Hey, friends let friends build pipelines through their back yards, don't they? What gives! Reagan dedicated a space shuttle flight to them, now they're supposed to let us pipe oil wherever we want!
Years later, or is it:
Ukraine hosts several Russian energy pipelines which feed consumers in North Africa and various European countries. Note that Vladimir Putin is a multi-billionaire through such gas and energy investments, so it's personal. Late last year, Chevron signed a $10,000,000,000.00 deal in Ukraine. Note that the "Petrodollar", the international currency through which oil trading occurs, helps or hinders that same country's economy as it rises and falls via oil deals and crisis.
Gee, capitalism isn't our friend? The government cares more about money than its people? They'd risk world war over money? NAH. NAW.
References:
Years later, or is it:
Ukraine hosts several Russian energy pipelines which feed consumers in North Africa and various European countries. Note that Vladimir Putin is a multi-billionaire through such gas and energy investments, so it's personal. Late last year, Chevron signed a $10,000,000,000.00 deal in Ukraine. Note that the "Petrodollar", the international currency through which oil trading occurs, helps or hinders that same country's economy as it rises and falls via oil deals and crisis.
Gee, capitalism isn't our friend? The government cares more about money than its people? They'd risk world war over money? NAH. NAW.
References:
"Since the collapse of the USSR at the end
of 1991, U.S. oil companies and their friends in the State Department
have been salivating at the prospect of gaining access to the huge oil
and natural gas reserves in the former Soviet republics bordering the
Caspian Sea and in Central Asia. These have been estimated as worth $4
trillion."
"Outside this country, there
is a widespread belief that U.S. military deployments in Central Asia
mostly are about oil.
An article in the Guardian of
London headlined, 'A pro-western regime in Kabul should give the U.S. an
Afghan route for Caspian oil,' foreshadowed the kind of skeptical coverage
the U.S. war now receives in many countries."
Key gas pipelines in Ukraine
(Pic of huge number of Russian pipelines through Ukraine)
(Pic of huge number of Russian pipelines through Ukraine)
"The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's Maeve McClenaghan talks to a Russian political analyst who says that Putin owns shares in three major oil and gas companies:
4.5% of Gazprom, 37% of oil supplier Surgutneftegas and up to 75% of oil
trader Gunvor."
Europe Has Finally Found A Way To Make Russia Hurt Economically In Ukraine Crisis
"South Stream, the multi-billion-euro pipeline intended to bring Siberian gas to Europe, has become an economic pawn in the Ukraine crisis, analysts say, after Bulgaria halted work under pressure from Brussels and Washington.The pipeline project backed by Russian giant Gazprom Italy's ENI and France's EDF, is intended to bring an annual 63 billion cubic metres of Russian natural gas to Europe."
Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron
Chevron has no plans to end fracking agreement with Ukraine
This oil giant could get crushed by Ukraine
"Ukraine sits on 39 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves. That's about one-quarter the world's entire proven reserves."
September 11th Attack on America - The Energy Connection
Petrodollar
