Sour Grapes: Big Oil's "Sore Losers" Lead the Drive to War

In our last article, we tried to draw attention to the role of big oil in the present crisis. Author Nafeez Ahmed expands on that theme in a "must read" article in Monday's Guardian. Check out this brief excerpt from Ahmed's piece titled "Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry":

"Ukraine is increasingly perceived to be critically situated in the emerging battle to dominate energy transport corridors linking the oil and natural gas reserves of the Caspian basin to European markets... Considerable competition has already emerged over the construction of pipelines. Whether Ukraine will provide alternative routes helping to diversify access, as the West would prefer, or 'find itself forced to play the role of a Russian subsidiary,' remains to be seen." (Guardian)

The western oil giants have been playing "catch up" for more than a decade with Putin checkmating them at every turn. As it happens, the wily KGB alum has turned out to be a better businessman than any of his competitors, essentially whooping them at their own game, using the free market to extend his network of pipelines across Central Asia and into Europe. That's what the current crisis is all about. Big Oil came up "losers" in the resource war so now they want Uncle Sam to apply some muscle to put them back in the game. It's called "sour grapes," which refers to the whining that people do when they got beat fair and square. Here's more from Ahmed:

"To be sure, the violent rioting was triggered by frustration with (Ukrainian President) Yanukovych's rejection of the EU deal, (in favor of Putin's sudden offer of a 30% cheaper gas bill and a $15 billion aid package) along with rocketing energy, food and other consumer bills, linked to Ukraine's domestic gas woes ... Police brutality to suppress what began as peaceful demonstrations was the last straw..." (Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry, Guardian)

In other words, Yanukovych rejected an offer from Chevron that the EU and Washington were pushing, and went with the sweeter deal from Russia. According to Ahmed, that pissed off the bigwigs who decided to incite the rioting. ("Putin's sudden offer of a 30% cheaper gas bill and a $15 billion aid package provoked the protests...")

Like we said before; it's just a case of sour grapes.

So, tell me, dear reader: Is this the first time you've heard a respected analyst say that oil was behind the rioting, the coup, and the confrontation with Moscow?

I'll bet it is. Whatever tentacles Wall Street may have wrapped around the White House, Capital Hill, and the US judiciary; Big Oil still rules the roost. The Apostles of the Fossil are the oldest and most powerful club in Washington, and "What they say, goes." As Ahmed so articulately points out:

"Resource scarcity, competition to dominate Eurasian energy corridors, are behind Russian militarism and US interference...Ukraine is caught hapless in the midst of this accelerating struggle to dominate Eurasia's energy corridors in the last decades of the age of fossil fuels." ("Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry." Guardian)

Did I hear someone say "Resource War"?

As we noted in an earlier article, NWO mastermind Zbigniew Brzezinski characterized the conflict with Russia in terms of cutting off "Western access to the Caspian Sea and Central Asia." For some unknown reason, America's behemoth oil corporations think the resources that lie beneath Russian soil belong to them. The question is whether their agents will push Obama to put American troops at risk to assert that claim. If they do, there's going to be a war.