Zainab Calcuttawala — Could Kurdish Independence Spark An Oil War?

Israel and the US are determined to create an independent Kurdistan. Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran are all determined to block it since they would all lose territory or be threatened by Kurdish separatists within their borders. Russia and China are allied with the latter group.

This has all the makings of a gripping reality show. Right now, the race is on for control of the oil fields that lie in Kurdistan that are part of Syria, Iraq and to some extent in Iran. This was part of the original plan involving Syria and Iraq as two of the four countries in "the axis of evil," along with Iran and North Korea. Iran is also rich in oil and natural gas.

Unifying Korea under South Korea would put the US and the US military on the eastern border of China and Russia.

Adding the conflict in Ukraine that putting NATO on or near Russia's Western border, the conflict in the South China Sea that has the US 7th fleet on China's southeastern border, and the US military presence in Afghanistan near the Central Asian underbelly of Russia and China's southwestern border completes the picture of a US pincer movement putting Russia and China in a kettle aka cauldron.

This could result in not just an "oil war." The US is not placing its forward military in this strategically significant array by accident. Russia and China can see the handwriting on the wall. They are the target.

OilPrice.com

Could Kurdish Independence Spark An Oil War?

Zainab Calcuttawala, American journalist based in Morocco

See also

The Kurdish Project
Kurdistan Oil: The Past, Present and Future