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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (56953)	10/26/2009 9:53:52 PM
From: pogohere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217858

Ankara, Moscow and Washington in the Eurasian Pipeline Calculus By F. William Engdahl 17 June 2009 Calculus has two main variants—derivative and integral. The Eurasian energy pipeline geopolitics between Turkey Washington and Moscow today has elements of both. It is highly derivative in that the major actors across Central Asia from China, Russia to Turkey are very engaged in a derived power game which has less to do with any specific state and more to do with maintaining Superpower hegemony for Washington. Integral as the de facto motion of various pipeline projects now underway or in discussion across Eurasia hold the potential to integrate the economic space of Eurasia in a way that poses a fundamental challenge to Washington’s projection of Full Spectrum Dominance over the greatest land mass on earth. engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net PMs of Turkey, Russia, Italy gather for teleconference Thursday, October 22, 2009 Energy security and football were on the agenda of the prime ministers of Turkey, Russia and Italy who met at a teleconference meeting on Thursday. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed joint energy projects with his Russian and Italian counterparts – Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi. Turkey, Italy and Russia signed an agreement Monday to construct the Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline that will carry crude oil from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Italian Eni and Turkey’s Çalik Energy will build the pipeline to carry Russian and Kazakh oil while providing an alternative route to the congested Bosporus Strait. “The Bosporus, which is seen as Istanbul’s flower, will have less ecologic risks. We are strengthening our position to be a transit corridor and an energy hub,” Erdogan said. “I know how much you identify with Istanbul,” Berlusconi said and assured him the new project would make the congested route safer. Putin said the project would contribute to Europe’s energy security and Kazakhstan was eager to join. hurriyetdailynews.com "The Obama administration would prefer to avoid war with Iran, and instead build an international coalition against Iran to force it to back down on any number of issues of which a potential nuclear weapons program is only the most public and obvious. But building that coalition is impossible with a Russia-sized hole right in the center of the system." Sounds to me as if the Obama administration has "a Russia-sized hole right in the center of [its head]."