Chapter 2 Sir Halford Mackinder and Anglo-American Petroleum Geopolitics

Whether it's the "realpolitik" policies of the Rockefeller family politicians such as Henry Kissinger and Bignew Brzezinski, or the neoconservative war and war policies of a small group of Washington hawks such as Dick Cheney. Projects of Conquest, to understand America's foreign policy and creeds of power, one must go back to the source of their ideas - the elite of the British Empire. A red thread that runs through the book is the war for oil control, control of all oil, control of oil around the world, and this red thread runs through many little-known events.First of all, it was a war and conflict between Great Britain and the United States, or more accurately, between British Petroleum ("BP", the British state-owned company at the time) and the Rothschild-controlled Royal Dutch Shell oil company in London. conflict between.A clash ensued between the two oil giants in Britain, backed by Britain's Royal Secret Police, and the Standard Oil Trust, to which Rockefeller belonged in the United States.Because of this, Rockefeller also received the necessary protection and support from the US government.

Whether in Tampico, Mexico, or Baku, Azerbaijan, or Texas or California in the middle of the United States, or Persia, or Mosul, or Romania, Britain and the United States revolved around control of oil and The huge wealth brought by oil has launched a fierce competition.The oil scramble between Britain and the United States lasted until 1928, when all British and American oil bigwigs gathered at Archinakari Castle in Scotland to sign the "Red Line Agreement," which gave American companies greater rights to oil fields in the Middle East. share.Since then, despite years of ups and downs, the world has been monopolized and controlled by the Anglo-American oil giants.

The control of oil and gas energy has been at the heart of all Anglo-American action for the past hundred years.Today, if there is no oil, any country will inevitably face economic disaster.For this point, no country knows and understands it as deeply as China.When the United States controls oil, it also controls the key to the economic development of potential competitors.