Monday, June 17, 2019

Iran at the center of the Eurasian riddle — Pepe Escobar

Iran is at the heart of the BRI-SCO-EAEU integration road map – the nuts and bolts of Eurasian integration. Russia and China cannot allow Iran to be strangled. Iran boasts fabulous energy reserves, a huge internal market, and is a frontline state fighting complex networks of opium, weapons and jihadi smuggling – all key concerns for SCO member states....
The article is about much more than Iran.

Iran is a a key piece in Eurasian integration. This is a major reaons that US strategist have wanted to begin with Iraq, Syria and Iran in the Middle East, Afghanistan in Central Asia, and North Korea in Asia. The ultimate goal is to divide Russia and China into smaller states that can be managed by the US-UK. Eventually, this is also seen as necessary for India, and India is already a fractured state. That would tie up US-UK global hegemony and establish the Anglo-American Empire's 1000 year rule of the planet. Ambitious, eh?

Asia Times
Iran at the center of the Eurasian riddle
Pepe Escobar

3 comments:

Bob Roddis said...

Good thing that the US and UK aren't revenue constrained!!

Kaivey said...

It's easy to make a vassal state once you have subjecated a nation. Just pay the ruling elite you have put in charge a ton of money, and they will do the rest.

Andrew Anderson said...

Good thing that the US and UK aren't revenue constrained!! Bob Roddis

But they are constrained by politically acceptable domestic price inflation and one corrupt relic of the inherently corrupt Gold Standard are positive yields on the inherently risk-free debt of monetary sovereigns like the US and UK.

This encourages foreigners to NOT spend their US Dollars (British Pounds) on US (British) goods and services and thus possibly cause US (British) domestic price inflation but instead to receive a positive risk-free return from US (British) sovereign debt.

So the problem isn't inexpensive fiat (since that is beyond reproach) but relics of the corrupt Gold Standard.