The best-selling video game worldwide "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" pits the United States against Russia in a war for oil scenario.
by Alfredo
Jalife-Rahme
For Mexican
geopolitical expert, Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, the simultaneity of the events
illuminates their meaning: soon after announcing the creation of an alternative
to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that is to say the
dollar, Russia is having to face at the same time the accusation of having
downed the Malaysia Airlines jet, the Israeli attack on Gaza backed by US and
UK military intelligence, the chaos in Libya and the Islamic State offensive in
the Levant. In addition, in each of these war theaters, the fighting revolves
around the control of hydrocarbons, which until now were traded exclusively in
dollars.
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Calendars,
flow charts, diagrams and genealogical indexes are most useful for making a
geopolitical analysis. Thus, two days before a mysterious missile blew the
Malaysia Airlines plane out of the sky – an event as obscure as the
circumstances surrounding both its recent flights – the sixth summit of the
BRICS including a number of UNASUR member countries, such as Colombia and Peru,
had ended successfully. [1]
One day
before the deadly missile strike, Obama had heightened pressure on Russia and
its two inextricable assets : banks and energy resources. "Pure
coincidence", the day the mysterious missile was fired in Ukraine,
"Netanyahu, at the helm of a state with a nuclear arsenal, ordered his
army to invade the Gaza Strip", as Fidel Castro rightly pointed out when
denouncing the coup government in Kiev which he accused of having carried out a
"new form of provocation" under United States sponsorship. [2]
What could
this old spoilsport of the Caribbean possibly know about this case?
As the
mysterious missile was shredding the Malaysia Airlines flight, Israel, a racist
and segregationist state, invaded the Gaza Strip, in violation of UN
resolutions and "antagonized the international public opinion", as
stated by former President Bill Clinton. [3]
Concurrently
with the "coincidence" (dixit Castro) relating to the geopolitical
objectives in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, clashes of a confessional nature
involving the control of energy resources took center stage in the three Arab
countries classified as "failed states" by U.S. strategists : Libya,
Syria and Iraq, not to mention the wars in Yemen and Somalia.
In Libya, a
balkanized and decimated state as a result of the "humanitarian"
intervention led by Britain and France under the hypocritical oversight of the
United States, just two days prior to the mysterious missile shooting in
Ukraine rebel Zintan brigades barred all access to Tripoli (the capital)
International Airport, while clashes escalated between rival clans in Benghazi
from where jihadists in Syria and Iraq were provided with weapons and where the
U.S. ambassador in Libya was murdered under bizarre circumstances.
Beyond the
tie-in of weapon flows into Libya, Syria and Iraq within the region controlled
by Al Qaeda/Al-Nusra and the new Islamic State (Daesh) [4], the crucial issue
for the US, British and French oil and gas corporations is to secure control of
the raw materials (gas and fresh water) belonging to Libya, where Russia and
China naively walked into a trap [5].
As for the
appropriation of Iraqi oil by the US/UK imperialist duo, which also led to the
balkanization and destruction of Iraq, plunging the country into a
"30-year war", it would be futile and lethally boring to have to go
over the well-known evidence again.
During my
recent visit to Damascus, where I was interviewed by Thierry Meyssan, president
of Voltaire Network, he told me that the sudden volte-face of "the West
(whatever is intended by that)" against Bashar al-Assad is due in large
part - in addition to the gas fields located along the Mediterranean coast – to
the profusion of oil deposits which lie inside Syria, deposits that are now
controlled by the "New 21st century Caliphate (Daesh)."
The
interdependence between oil and gas is back in the spotlight in Gaza five years
after the "Cast Lead" operation, whose strategy is being pursued by
Operation "Protective Edge" (sic), without an investigation to
conclusively establish who was responsible for the horrific murder of three
young Israelis – which had been prophetically announced by Tamir Pardo, the "visionary"
chief of Mossad [6] - and served as a pretext for yet another Israeli invasion
of the Gaza Strip which has claimed the lives of several hundred children.
According to
the geographer Manlio Dinucci, writing in the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto
[7], the abundance of gas reserves located in the coastal waters of Gaza is one
of the reasons for the Israeli intransigence.
Similarly,
the substantial shale gas reserves deeply buried in the Autonomous Republic of
Donetsk, which seeks to separate from or federate with Ukraine, is the source
of the fierce psychological war between pro-EU and pro-Russian media to pin the
responsibility on the other side for the explosion of the Malaysia Airlines
aircraft. Could it not be a false-flag operation contrived by the Ukrainian government
to incriminate the separatists using "recordings" that may very well
have been doctored in order to accuse them of "terrorism" and thus
obliterate them?
Two months
ago the news channel Russia Today (RT) - which is increasingly viewed in Latin
America to counter the disinformation spewed by the Israeli-Anglo-American
controlled media and which was held up to public obloquy by Secretary of State
John Kerry – had already stressed the importance of shale gas in the region of
Donetsk (the region in eastern Ukraine which seeks to gain independence) and
wondered whether "the interests of Western oil companies may not be behind
the violence" [8].
Indeed, the
eastern part of Ukraine, currently engulfed in a civil war, is full "of
coal and a myriad of shale gas deposits in the Dnieper-Donets Basin." In
February 2013, British Shell Oil signed with the Ukrainian government (the
previous one, which was overthrown by a neo-Nazi coup backed by the EU) a
50-year agreement to share the profits emanating from the exploration and
extraction of shale gas in the Donetsk region. [9]
According to
RT, "the profits that Kiev does not want to miss out on" are such as
to prompt the Ukrainian government to unleash a "military campaign
[disproportionate] against its own people."
Last year,
Chevron signed a similar agreement (with the same government filed) for 10
billion dollars worth.
Hunter Biden,
son of the U.S. Vice President, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of
Burisma, the largest private gas producer (supersic) in Ukraine [10], which
"opens a new perspective for the exploitation of Ukrainian shale gas"
to the extent that "it holds the license covering the Dnieper-Donets
basin." John Kerry will not be left out in regard to the distribution of
profits and Devon Archer, his former adviser and step-son’s college roommate,
joined the controversial company in April.
Can an
"alienation of property" license to exploit shale gas in Ukraine also
serve as a "license to kill" innocent people?
Is hydraulic
fracturing in the process of fracturing Ukraine? This has been a permanent
feature of the tragic history of hydrocarbons exploitation by
"Western" oil companies throughout the twentieth century.
There is no
doubt that hydrocarbons are the common denominator of the wars in Ukraine,
Iraq, Syria and Libya.
Alfredo
Jalife-Rahme
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[1] “6th
BRICS Summit: the seeds of a new financial architecture”, by Ariel Noyola
Rodríguez, Voltaire Network, 3 July 2014. “Sixth BRICS Summit: Fortaleza
Declaration and Action Plan”, Voltaire Network, 16 July 2014. «Momento BRICS en
Fortaleza», par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, 17 juillet 2014.
[2] «Fidel
Castro: El derribo de avión malasio es una "provocación insólita" de
Ucrania», Russia Today, 17 July 2014.
[3] AFP,
17/07/14.
[4] «¿Yihad
global contra los BRICS?», por Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, La Jornada (México), Red
Voltaire , 18 de julio de 2014.
[5] «El botín
del saqueo en Libia: "fondos soberanos de riqueza", divisas,
hidrocarburos, oro y agua», by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, La Jornada, 28 August
2011.
[6]
„Mossad-Chef sagte Entführung der Jugendlichen voraus“, von Gerhard Wisnewski,
Voltaire Netzwerk, 8. Juli 2014.
[7] “Gaza, il
gas nel mirino”, di Manlio Dinucci, Il Manifesto (Italia), Rete Voltaire, 17
luglio 2014.
[8] «Shale
gas and politics: Are Western energy giants’ interests behind Ukraine
violence?», Russia Today, 17 May 2014.
[9] «
L’Ukraine brade son secteur énergétique aux Occidentaux », par Ivan Lizan,
Traduction Louis-Benoît Greffe, Однако (Russie), Réseau Voltaire, 2 mars 2013.
[10] “In
Ukraine, Joe Biden’s son mixes business with pleasure”, Voltaire Network, 15
May 2014.
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