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Reshuffling Eurasia’s Energy Deck — Iran, China and Pipelineistan
Reshuffling Eurasia’s Energy Deck — Iran, China and Pipelineistan Pipelineistan – the prime Eurasian energy chessboard — never sleeps. Recently, it’s Russia that has scored big on all fronts; two monster gas deals sealed with China last year; the launch of Turk Stream replacing South Stream; and the doubling of Nord Stream to Germany. Now, with […]
New Silk Road Could Change Global Economics Forever
New Silk Road Could Change Global Economics Forever Part 1: The New Silk Road Beginning with the marvelous tales of Marco Polo’s travels across Eurasia to China, the Silk Road has never ceased to entrance the world. Now, the ancient cities of Samarkand, Baku, Tashkent, and Bukhara are once again firing the world’s imagination. China […]
Eurasian Pivot? Moscow Expects “Progress” From Tsipras Visit
Eurasian Pivot? Moscow Expects “Progress” From Tsipras Visit As Athens prepares to try and convince eurozone creditors that its latest set of proposed reforms represents a credible attempt to address Greece’s fiscal crisis, and as Greek depositors face the very real possibility that they will soon be Cyprus’d, a leverage-less Alexis Tsipras faces a rather unpalatable […]
Westward ho on China’s Eurasia BRIC road
Westward ho on China’s Eurasia BRIC road “…it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger (to the U.S.) emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America” Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997 What’s in a name, rather an ideogram? Everything. A single Chinese character – jie (for “between”) – graphically illustrates the key […]
Vladimir Putin Proposes “Eurasian” Currency Union
Vladimir Putin Proposes “Eurasian” Currency Union While the distraction that is the stock market continues to enthrall most Americans, the big shots in the global monetary which for now are taking place behind the scenes, are getting ever louder. Several recent cases in point: US Attacks “Closest Ally” UK For “Constant Accommodation” With China De-Dollarization […]
“Stratfor [VIDEO]: US aims to prevent a German-Russian Alliance”
“Stratfor [VIDEO]: US aims to prevent a German-Russian Alliance” The head of the private intelligence agency Stratfor has for the first time publicly said that the US government considers to be its overriding strategic objective the prevention of a German-Russian alliance. Blocking that alliance is the only way to prevent an alternative world power capable of challenging extension of the American position of being the world’s lone superpower. […]
Russia’s “Startling” Proposal To Europe: Dump The US, Join The Eurasian Economic Union | Zero Hedge
Russia’s “Startling” Proposal To Europe: Dump The US, Join The Eurasian Economic Union | Zero Hedge. Slowly but surely Europe is figuring out that as a result of the western economic and financial blockade of Russian, it is Europe itself that is suffering the most. And while Germany was first to acknowledge this late in […]
2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia
2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia Upcoming 2015 year will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia, Pepe Escobar believes. BEIJING, December 31 (Sputnik) — Fasten your seatbelts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against what I have described as the Empire of Chaos. So yes – it […]
