Chapter 90 Garrison everywhere

If pessimistic estimates of the imminent peak world oil explain why Washington risked an invasion of Iraq, then the United States has developed strategic plans to target countries from the coast of West Africa to Libya and Sudan, from Colombia and Venezuela to Russia and Georgia, and from Azerbaijan to Afghanistan. There is an explanation for a series of puzzling new foreign policies. Bush wants to bet on his re-election. The pattern of US military policy and energy policy is clear.There is only one conclusion, that is, the current foreign and military policy of the United States is to control every existing and potential oil production and transportation route on the earth.Such control would be unprecedented.As the world's only military superpower, the United States will determine who gets how much energy and at what price.The impact of the oil supply crisis on the world economy and social stability will be devastating. As the supply crisis is gradually approaching, the above-mentioned decision-making power has incredible power.Washington is clearly waging what critics call a resource war.

Faced with unpredictable and imminent supply shortages, especially in fast-growing economies like China and India, the United States, as the world's sole military superpower, will dictate the order of the world's economic development.It has the right to decide whether to give you oil, and oil is the most important raw material for economic development.In order to be able to control the coming energy crisis, Washington has already acted well before the world realizes the crisis.Deception is necessary, but fortunately the Bush administration has never lacked such means. Another speaker at the Paris Petroleum Summit in May 2003, resource studies scholar Michelle Claire quoted US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham's speech at the National Energy Summit in March 2001.Bush's energy officials warned, "America faces a major energy crisis over the next 20 years. Failure to meet this challenge will threaten our nation's economic prosperity and national security, and will change the way we live."Referring to Cheney's 2001 energy report, Claire said: "The point of everything is to remove obstacles to America's ability to buy oil overseas, whether that be political, economic, legal, or shipping." He added: " Cheney's energy plan has major implications for U.S. security policy and the deployment of U.S. military power."

The prospect that global oil and gas peaks may suddenly come in about 5-7 years, less than 10 years, can really explain why Washington has decided to go to war.This also explains why a respected liberal outlet like The New York Times published a January 2003 column by Michele Ignatieff describing U.S. foreign policy as its defense.In the past, this was unimaginable for the traditional, liberal New York Times. Looking back during the Bush administration, the United States has been gradually expanding its military power and the scope of its military presence, entering some areas of the world that were previously impossible to enter.The disintegration of the Soviet economic structure made possible U.S. military expansion and the expansion of Washington-controlled NATO into what Brzezinski called the "heartland," right on Russia's doorstep.

Regarding whether there is an inevitable link between the Bush administration's energy policy and military policy, Claire commented: ...it cannot be denied that President Bush has given the highest attention to strengthening the energy supply of the United States, and at the same time, the current energy strategy is based on The reality that the United States is increasingly dependent on oil from a region of crisis and conflict... On the one hand, the goal of this strategy is to ensure that more oil comes from other parts of the world, and on the other hand to enhance US intervention in these areas Regional Capabilities...

Clare concluded: "They have the overall design for the United States to rule the world in the 21st century." After the Iraq War, US military bases have expanded to former Soviet territories such as Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as Afghanistan.Judging from the U.S. military position in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has already controlled most of South Asia.Pakistan relies on US military pressure.The entire Gulf region is now under US military protection. The U.S. military occupation of Iraq completely changed the old energy pattern in the world like overthrowing dominoes. Washington is the driving force behind this.Georgia, the country at the key point of the oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, has been effectively protected by the United States since early 2004.At the time, Mikheil Saakashvili, a 36-year-old lawyer educated in the United States, ascended to the presidency in the "Rose Revolution."Mikheil Saakashvili is backed by the Washington and Soros Foundations, and also has the personal intervention and support of James Baker, whose law firm represents the interests of BP in the Caspian Sea.

At the beginning of 2003, when everyone turned their attention to Iraq, the Pentagon and two Pacific Oceans [should be the Atlantic Ocean. - Translator]'s small island, Sao Tome and Principe signed a long-term military base agreement.The two islands are of great military-strategic importance and their position allows for direct attack on West African oil fields from Morocco to Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Angola.George Bush made an extraordinary trip to West Africa to secure a political secret.Some analysts in Washington estimate that 25 percent of U.S. oil demand will soon come from West Africa.They called the Gulf of Guinea an area of ​​"significant interest" to the United States.According to Cheney's energy policy report, West Africa is projected to be one of the fastest-growing regions supplying the US oil and gas market.France's traditional role in different parts of Africa is being squeezed out by the United States.

Libya is also becoming the sphere of influence of the United States. In January 2004, Colonel Gaddafi announced his rejection of terrorist actions and the opening of oil investment to foreign countries in exchange for the approval of the United States.When talking about his welcome to the United States, Gaddafi emphasized that "this is the era of globalization, and many new factors are shaping the world order."Libya still has sizable oil reserves, and Washington wants a hand.Libya had already begun signing contracts with Japan, Italy, France and other foreign companies not subject to U.S. constraints, as well as with China to build oil and gas pipelines.Now, that's all about to change.American oil companies were invited back.Gaddafi narrowly escaped.

In Sudan, the Khartoum government signed an agreement in January 2004 with southern rebels to share the region's oil resources, ending a 20-year civil war.Washington coveted in the background.Sudan has been cooperating with Chinese and European oil companies, and American companies have not been given opportunities due to Washington's sanctions policy.Sudan has vast oil resources that Washington believes are ripe for acquisition. Oil in Colombia, as well as in neighboring Venezuela, is also facing a U.S. military presence.The Bush administration announced plans to spend $98 million to provide military training and assistance to Colombia.This is not to stop the flow of cocaine into the United States, but to quell the activities of guerrilla groups such as the FARC and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, which threaten the safety of Western oil pipelines.Colombia has become the seventh largest oil supplier to the United States.When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tried to adopt a policy of more direct control over the state oil company, the Bush administration attempted a coup in the background (the United States imports more oil from Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador than the entire Middle East).

The same is true for Indonesian oil and gas: the war of terror has opened the door to a new, super-strong American military presence.American analyst Zotan Grossman commented: "For the US war planners, the establishment of new military bases is a long-term consideration. It is more critical than the war itself, and it is also more important than the enemy of the United States." Much.” By the end of George Bush’s first term, a rookie in foreign affairs, he had already led the most dramatic military expansion in American history.The military bases of the United States allow him to strategically control all energy routes in Eurasia, which is unprecedented.The United States can take the initiative in future energy relations with Japan, China, East Asia, India, Russia, and the European Union.Belgian writer Michel Colin once said bluntly: "If you want to rule the world, then you have to control oil. Any oil anywhere".That's exactly what Washington is doing right now.

After the Iraq War, when energy-dependent Japan tried to secure a long-term contract with Iran to develop a major oil field in August 2003, Washington used Iran's nuclear program as an excuse to prevent Japan from signing.Tokyo has grasped America's intentions.By October they were frantically trying to get Russian oil out of China at a premium to Yukos when the Russian company was negotiating with George Bush to sell a big chunk of Yukos to Chevron Texaco company.Washington's oil radar can see everyone, everywhere. America's war against Iraq is a warning, it shows the true intention of the United States, that is, the United States is determined to lock every major oil and gas producing area as far as possible.No wonder the world has begun to doubt the motives of the President of the United States and the true purpose of spreading freedom and democracy as he preaches.Bush's proposal to double the budget for the National Endowment for Democracy to advance democracy in the Middle East is troubling.

On the eve of the US invasion of Baghdad, Anatoly Liffin analyzes the determination of the United States to wage war.Liffin, who works at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the United States, believes that: the unanimous consensus is to rule the world through unilateral military power with absolute superiority, which has been the case since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. • Consistently advocated and executed by the think tank around Pearl. Liffen sees the issue of oil strategy as being on the agenda in Cheney's circle: "The only consideration that matters to those around Cheney is the guaranteed, unlimited access to cheap oil as much as possible."