Russia takes control of Turkmen (world?) gas
From the details coming out of Ashgabat in Turkmenistan and Moscow over the weekend, it is apparent that the great game over Caspian energy has taken a dramatic turn. In the geopolitics of energy security, nothing like this has happened before. The United States has suffered a huge defeat in the race for Caspian gas. The question now is how much longer Washington could afford to keep Iran out of the energy market.
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The US bet on a gas pipeline through Taliban territory in Afghanistan and Pakistan to India while trying to sideline Russia and Iran! Putin is rivalling the emir of Kuwait as a fossil fuel master of the universe. The only question is when some big power will get hungry enough for natural gas to defy AIPAC’s congressional boycott on developing Iran’s oil and gas fields. It is likely that future historians will date the end of America’s superpower status from that date.
We are truly governed by idiots.
Oh yeah, Obama yada yada yada.
Update: Not in Afghanistan to guard pipelines, MacKay says
The proposed pipeline would run through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Construction is scheduled to start in 2010, one year before Canada’s Afghan mission is expected to end.
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