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laodan discovered 5 months ago- Russia, Iran tighten the energy noose in Asia Times by M K Bhadrakumar career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for over 29 years, with postings including India's ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995-1998) and to Turkey (1998-2001).
... how Moscow proceeds with the reconfiguration of Russo-Iranian relations could well form the centerpiece of the geopolitics of energy security in Eurasia during 2008. The dynamics on this front will doubtless play out on a vast theater stretching well beyond the Eurasian space, all the way to China and Japan in the east and to the very heart of Europe in the west where the Rhine River flows. Russia, Iran tighten the energy noose The general context of the world energy game: - the demand for energy is bound to increase fast in the next decades due to the rapid economic growth of the BRIC countries. - the worldwide offer of energy is stalling since a few years at its present plateau of some 86 million barrels per day. According to Peak Oil theory that plateau is bound to be left behind soon by decreasing output levels. This general context indicates that the prices of fossil fuels are bound to continually increase over the next decades until other sources of energy can successfully reduce the demand for fossil fuels by significant quantities. In the meantime we'll assist at a feverish dance on two fronts: - geopolitics: countries will position themselves so as to control the supply of the available fossil fuels to their own shores or to avoid the supply of their competitors. All means will be used including resorting to military force. - science and technology: huge budgets will be made available to scientists in order to devise new methods to generate energy and free us from our fossil fuel bind. Bhadrakumar gives here a masterly description of the geo-politics of fossil fuels.
- Russia, Iran tighten the energy noose in Asia Times by M K Bhadrakumar career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for over 29 years, with postings including India's ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995-1998) and to Turkey (1998-2001).
- Yoza rated 5 months ago
- Russia, probably more than any other country, has benefited from the disaster that is U.S. foreign policy. This article succinctly outlines the diplomatic coups Russia has struck against U.S. interests in Europe, the Middle-East and the former Soviet satellites bordering the Caspian sea.
