"In brief, the stakes are very significant. At stake is access to oil as that resource grows ever more scarce and expensive and how a major power conducts itself in our newly interdependent world, conduct that should be based on accommodation and consensus, not on brute force.
"If Georgia is subverted, not only will the West be cut off from the Caspian Sea and Central Asia. We can logically anticipate that Putin, if not resisted, will use the same tactics toward the Ukraine. Putin has already made public threats against Ukraine." ("Brzezinski: Russia's invasion of Georgia is Reminiscent of Stalin's attack on Finland," Huffington Post)
Huh? It sounds a lot like Brzezinski thinks that oil should be his. Or maybe he thinks it belongs to the western oil giants; is that it?
So we're not dealing with national security, sovereignty or spheres of influence here. What we're really talking about is "access to oil." Not only that, but Brzezinski is being quite blunt in his assertion that "the West" -- as he calls it -- has a legitimate claim to the resources on other people's land. Where'd he come up with that one?
In another interview on Kavkacenter.com, in 2008, Brzezinski sounded the same alarm with a slightly different twist. Here's an excerpt from the article titled "Russia tends to destabilize Georgia":
"Brzezinski said the United States witnessed 'cases of possible threats by Russia motivated not by some territorial disputes...but caused by intention to take control over the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline.'
"'If Georgia government is destabilized, western access to Baku, Caspian Sea and further will be limited,' said Brzezinski.' He stated that Russia will try to consolidate its monopoly on these markets and will use all existing political and economic levers, including 'politically motivated cessation of energy supplies' in Europe and Baltic states.
"Russia actively tends to isolate the Central Asian region from direct access to world economy, especially to energy supplies, considers the political scientist." ("Zbigniew Brzezinski: "Russia tends to destabilize Georgia," kavkacenter.com)
Putin is not isolating anyone and he's certainly not taking over anyone's damned pipeline. He's the president of Russia. He sells oil and makes money, that's how the system works. It's called capitalism. But the oil is theirs. The natural gas is theirs. The pipelines are theirs. Not ours. Get over it!
Don't kid yourself, it's all about oil. Oil and power. The United States imperial ambitions are thoroughly marinated in oil, access to oil, and control of oil. Without oil, there's no empire, no dollar hegemony, no overbloated, bullyboy military throwing weaker countries against the wall and extorting tribute. Oil is the coin of the realm, the path to global domination.
Putin has the audacity to think that the oil beneath Russian soil belongs to Russia. Washington wants to change his mind about that. And that's why the situation in Ukraine is so dangerous, because the voracious thirst for oil is pushing us all towards another world war.
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