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With Pipelineistan and the new Silk Road that the balance of economic power would begin to shift to Eurasia. That would be followed by a shift in the balance of military power. The dominance of Atlanaticsm would be over, and we'd be looking at a new world order — if the West allows this to happen without pushback.
The 21st century is about globalism, the emergence of the first comprehensive world order. The West is determined that this will be on the basis of democratic capitalism controlled by Western capital. There is a strong push back against that coming from the emerging world that is not willing to accept the position of vassals.
In current geostrategic thinking, who controls Eurasia controls the world. So this is perceived as a direct threat to the Atlanticism that has been dominant since the end of WWII owing to the economic and military power of the Allies and absorbed Axis, contested by the USSR and China. With the break up of the USSR and the market reforms in China, it looked like Atlanticism would prevail. Now that is being called into question.
Why wouldn't China and Russia build a pipeline south -- it is the cheapest, safest way to transport fuel? A conspiracy theory for anything related to Asia or Energy. Give them the two together and... never mind the benefits of having pipelines connecting European-Asian-Russian-Arctic energy markets connected by pipe.
While Ukraine & Moldova are poorer than many African nations yet people want to see cold war instead of people trying to cast off oppression and corruption. There is an element of truth to any conspiracy theory but mostly it is paranoia and ridiculous.
Instead of always transporting raw materials to population centers ... why don't more people migrate to where the desired [natural] resources are?
a) why doesn't Russia just make it more attractive for immigrants?
b) this situation suggests that dynamic human resources continue to trump "natural," raw or static resources? (Russia, like OPEC, ought to be selling static energy assets as fast as they can, before yet newer energy resources are invented; e.g., the Bloom household fuel cells? http://www.bloomenergy.com/fuel-cell/energy-server/
or, better yet, Russia, like OPEC & China, ought to be practicing how to develop more dynamic assets [i.e., human capital] )
or, better yet, Russia, like OPEC & China, ought to be practicing how to develop more dynamic assets [i.e., human capital] )
Michael Hudson has been preaching them this doctrine, pretty much since the fall of the Berlin Wall. His advice has been so little heeded that, in the midst of all the Ukraine kerfuffle, "Grandmaster Putin" came to the realization that even his country's payment system is handled by American banks. GMP then said "Surely, we could at least handle that ourselves, couldn't we?" Neo-liberalism is apparently a really potent opiate, but there are signs of waking from the hypnogogic trance state.
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So the $550B in trade between the US and China "doesn't count" anymore?
While China's trade with Russia is less than 20% of that?
With Pipelineistan and the new Silk Road that the balance of economic power would begin to shift to Eurasia. That would be followed by a shift in the balance of military power. The dominance of Atlanaticsm would be over, and we'd be looking at a new world order — if the West allows this to happen without pushback.
The 21st century is about globalism, the emergence of the first comprehensive world order. The West is determined that this will be on the basis of democratic capitalism controlled by Western capital. There is a strong push back against that coming from the emerging world that is not willing to accept the position of vassals.
In current geostrategic thinking, who controls Eurasia controls the world. So this is perceived as a direct threat to the Atlanticism that has been dominant since the end of WWII owing to the economic and military power of the Allies and absorbed Axis, contested by the USSR and China. With the break up of the USSR and the market reforms in China, it looked like Atlanticism would prevail. Now that is being called into question.
Why wouldn't China and Russia build a pipeline south -- it is the cheapest, safest way to transport fuel? A conspiracy theory for anything related to Asia or Energy. Give them the two together and... never mind the benefits of having pipelines connecting European-Asian-Russian-Arctic energy markets connected by pipe.
While Ukraine & Moldova are poorer than many African nations yet people want to see cold war instead of people trying to cast off oppression and corruption. There is an element of truth to any conspiracy theory but mostly it is paranoia and ridiculous.
Instead of always transporting raw materials to population centers ... why don't more people migrate to where the desired [natural] resources are?
a) why doesn't Russia just make it more attractive for immigrants?
b) this situation suggests that dynamic human resources continue to trump "natural," raw or static resources?
(Russia, like OPEC, ought to be selling static energy assets as fast as they can, before yet newer energy resources are invented; e.g., the Bloom household fuel cells?
http://www.bloomenergy.com/fuel-cell/energy-server/
or, better yet, Russia, like OPEC & China, ought to be practicing how to develop more dynamic assets [i.e., human capital] )
or, better yet, Russia, like OPEC & China, ought to be practicing how to develop more dynamic assets [i.e., human capital] )
Michael Hudson has been preaching them this doctrine, pretty much since the fall of the Berlin Wall. His advice has been so little heeded that, in the midst of all the Ukraine kerfuffle, "Grandmaster Putin" came to the realization that even his country's payment system is handled by American banks. GMP then said "Surely, we could at least handle that ourselves, couldn't we?" Neo-liberalism is apparently a really potent opiate, but there are signs of waking from the hypnogogic trance state.
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