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| Putin’s Geopolitical Chess Game with Washington in Syria and Eurasia |
| 27.07.12 10:49 |
Middle East |
| Since reassuming his post as Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin has lost no minute in addressing the most urgent geopolitical threats to Russia internationally. Not surprisingly, at the center of his agenda is the explosive situation in the Middle East, above all Syria. Here Putin is engaging every imaginable means of preventing a further deterioration of the situation into what easily could become another “world war by miscalculation.” His activities in recent weeks involve active personal diplomacy with Syria’s government as well as the so-called opposition “Syrian National Council.” It involves intense diplomacy with Erdogan’s Turkey regime. It involves closed door diplomacy with Obama. It involves direct diplomacy with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| Rising energy tensions in the Aegean—Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria |
| 11.03.12 23:37 |
Middle East |
| The discovery in late 2010 of the huge natural gas bonanza off Israel’s Mediterranean shores triggered other neighboring countries to look more closely at their own waters. The results revealed that the entire eastern Mediterranean is swimming in huge untapped oil and gas reserves. That discovery is having enormous political, geopolitical as well as economic consequences. It well may have potential military consequences too. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| Egypts Revolution: Creative Destruction for a Greater Middle East? |
| 06.02.11 10:29 |
Middle East |
| Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypts Hosni Mubarak. Contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of Mubarak, Washington in fact is orchestrating the Egyptian as well as other regional regime changes from Syria to Yemen to Jordan and well beyond in a process some refer to as "creative destruction." |
| F. William Engdahl |
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| Yemen: Behind Al-Qaeda Scenarios, a Geopolitical Chokepoint to Eurasia |
| 05.01.10 00:00 |
Middle East |
| On December 25 US authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmutallab aboard a a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on charges of having tried to blow up the plane with smuggled explosives. Since then reports have been broadcast from CNN to the New York Times that he was “suspected” to have been trained on his terror mission in Yemen. What the world has been subjected to since is the emergence of a new target for the US “War on Terror,” namely a desolate state on the Arabian peninsula, Yemen. A closer look at the background suggests the Pentagon and US intelligence have a hidden agenda in Yemen. |
| F. William Engdahl |
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