El sitio web Strategic Culture Foundation vuelve a la carga con el tema de los proyectos gasíferos alternativos para el abastecimiento de Europa, con un artículo de Eric Zuesse en el que se detallan los proyectos, y las alianzas, en pugna:
Título: The
Oil-Gas War Over Syria, in Maps
Texto: Turkey’s
Anadolu News Agency, though government-run, is providing remarkably clear and
reliable diagrammatic descriptions of the current status of the U.S - and -
fundamentalist - Sunni, versus Russia - and - Shia - and - NON - fundamentalist
- Sunni, sides, in the current oil-and-gas war in the Middle East, for control
over territory in Syria, for construction of oil-and-gas pipelines through
Syria supplying fuel into the world’s largest energy-market: Europe. Russia is
now the dominant supplier of both oil and gas, but its ally Iran is a Shiite
gas-powerhouse that wants to share the market there, and Russia has no
objection.
Qatar is a Sunni
gas-powerhouse and wants to become the main supplier of gas there, and Saudi
Arabia is a Sunni oil-powerhouse, which wants to become the major supplier of
oil, but Saudi oil and Qatari gas would be pipelined through secular-controlled
(Assad's) Syria, and this is why the U.S. and its fundamentalist-Sunni allies,
the Sauds, and Qataris, are using Al Qaeda and other jihadists to conquer
enough of a strip through Syria so that U.S. companies such as Halliburton will
be able safely to place pipelines there, to be marketed in Europe by U.S. firms
such as Exxon. Iran also wants to pipeline its gas through Syria, and this is
one reason why Iran is defending Syria’s government, against the
U.S.-Saudi-Qatari-jihadist invasion, which is trying to overthrow and replace
Assad.
Here are the
most-informative of Anadolu’s war-maps:
The first
presents the effort by many countries to eliminate ISIS control over the large
Iraqi city of Mosul. A remarkably frank remark made in this map is "An
escape corridor into Syria will be left for Daesh [ISIS] so they can vacate
Mosul" - an admission that the U.S. - Saudi - Qatari team want the ISIS
jihadists who are in Mosul to relocate into Syria to assist the U.S. - Saudi -
Qatari effort there to overthrow and replace the Assad government:
The second is
about the Egyptian government's trying to assist the Syrian government's
defense against the Saudi - U.S. - Qatari invasion of Syria, at Aleppo, where
Syria's Al Qaeda branch is trying to retain its current control over part of
that large city. The Saud family are punishing the Egyptian government for
that:
Here is Russia's
proposed gas-pipeline, which would enable Russia to reduce its dependence upon
Ukraine (through which Russia currently pipelines its gas into Europe). Obama
conquered and took over Ukraine in February 2014 via his coup that overthrew
the democratically elected neutralist Ukrainian President there:
In addition,
there is the following map from oil-price.com:
That map shows
the competing Shiia (Russia-backed) and Sunni (U.S.-backed) gas-pipelines into
Europe — the central issue in the invasion and defense of Syria.
On 21 September
2016, Gareth Porter headlined «The War Against the Assad Regime Is Not a
‘Pipeline War’», and he pointed out some errors in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s
account that had been published under the headline «Syria: Another Pipeline
War». Porter argued: «It's easy to understand why that explanation would be
accepted by many anti-war activists: it is in line with the widely accepted
theory that all the US wars in the Middle East have been ‘oil wars’ — about
getting control of the petroleum resources of the region and denying them to
America's enemies.
But the ‘pipeline
war’ theory is based on false history and it represents a distraction from the
real problem of US policy in the Middle East — the US war state's determination
to hold onto its military posture in the region». Porter ignored the key
question there, as to why «the US war state» has a «determination to hold onto
its military posture in the region». Opening and protecting potential
oil-gas-pipeline routes are important reasons why. Clearly, Kennedy’s
documentation that the CIA was trying as early as 1949 to overthrow Syria’s
secular government so as to allow to the Sauds a means of cheaply transporting
their oil through Syria into Europe, remains unaffected by any of the
objections that Porter raised to Kennedy’s article. The recent portion of
Kennedy’s timeline is affected, but not his basic argument.
Furthermore, any
military strategist knows that «the US war state» is intimately connected to
the U.S. oil-and-gas industries, including pipelines («oilfield services») as
well as marketing (Exxon etc.). And Porter got entirely wrong what that
connection (which he ignored) actually consists of: it consists of U.S. government
taxpayer-funded killers for those U.S. international corporations. Here is how
Barack Obama put it, when addressing graduating cadets at West Point, America’s
premier military-training institution:
Russia’s
aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while
China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to
India, rising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater
say in global forums. And even as developing nations embrace democracy and
market economies, 24-hour news and social media makes it impossible to ignore
the continuation of sectarian conflicts and failing states and popular
uprisings that might have received only passing notice a generation ago.
It will be your
generation’s task to respond to this new world. The question we face, the
question each of you will face, is not whether America will lead, but how we
will lead - not just to secure our peace and prosperity, but also extend peace
and prosperity around the globe.
He was saying
there that America’s military is in service to U.S.-based international
corporations in their competition against those of Russia, Brazil, China,
India, and anywhere else in which «rising middle classes compete with us».
Those places are what Gareth Porter referred to as «America's enemies».
Economic
competitors are «enemies». Obama thinks that way, and even a progressive
journalist such as Porter doesn’t place into a skeptical single - quotation -
mark - surround, the phrase ‘America’s enemies’ when that phrase is used in
this equational context. On both the right (Obama) and the left (Porter), the
equation of a government and of the international corporations that headquarter
in its nation — the treatment of the military as being an enforcement-arm for
the nation’s international corporations — is simply taken for granted, not
questioned, not challenged.
RFK Jr. was
correct, notwithstanding some recent timeline-errors. Syria is «Another
Pipeline War», and Obama is merely intensifying it. (On 9 November 2015, I
offered a different account than RFK Jr. provided of the recent history — the
Obama portion — of the longstanding U.S. aggression against Syria; and it links
back to Jonathan Marshall’s excellent articles on that, and to other
well-sourced articles, in addition to primary sources, none of which contradict
RFK Jr.’s basic view, «Syria: Another Pipeline War».).
Another portion
of Porter’s commentary is, however, quite accurate: America’s ‘Defense’ (or
mass-killing-abroad) industries (such as Lockheed Martin) are not merely
servants of the U.S. government, but are also served by the U.S. government:
«the US war state's determination to hold onto its military posture in the
region» is protection of the major market — the Middle Eastern market — for
U.S. ‘Defense’ products and services. It’s not only America’s firms in the oil,
gas, and pipelines, industries, which benefit from America’s military; it is
also America’s firms in the mass-killing industries, that do.
To the extent
that the public (here including Barack Obama and Gareth Porter) do not condemn
the presumption that «the business of America is business», or that a valid
function of U.S. - taxpayer - funded military and other foreign-affairs
operations is to serve the stockholders of U.S. international corporations, the
hell (such as in Syria) will continue. Gareth Porter got lost among the trees
because he failed to see (and to point to) that forest.
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