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When you trust George Friedman, and he should know better, then funding of both sides actually is a strategy not a mistake. People often think that there is mor
by davnn 11y ago
When you trust George Friedman, and he should know better, then funding of both sides actually is a strategy not a mistake. People often think that there is moral involved in those decisions, but there isn't, not at all.
- grandalf 11y agoTrue. The desired outcome is to create massive instability there, massive loss of life, and to deal a crippling blow to a region that the US wishes to dominate from afar.
- agumonkey 11y agoWhat would be the reason for such domination ? Is America really imperialist at its core ? do they wish for resource independence (again) by disrupting this region ? The Syrian war has ripples up to Europe core now. I'd be surprised if minds would keep on pushing a direction that could create a worldwide chaos.
- hammock 11y agohttp://www.oil-price.net/cartoons/iran-iraq-syria-pipeline.jpg http://www.oil-price.net/cartoons/iran-iraq-syria-pipeline.j...
- agumonkey 11y agoVery "generous" of you. I know oil flows from there. I mean that's an old song that didn't work before. And people are also vocally trying to get away from oil based energy as much as possible (be it solar, wind, waves). Causing a proto WWIII for this ? .. Tell me more if you have data.
- hammock 11y agoTrying but not succeeding. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/images/us__en_us__oil__oil_gas_info2__364x350.gif http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/images/us__en_us__oi... The US economy hinges on sustaining the petrodollar system. http://ftmdaily.com/preparing-for-the-collapse-of-the-petrodollar-system/ http://ftmdaily.com/preparing-for-the-collapse-of-the-petrod...
- JumpCrisscross 11y ago> The US economy hinges on sustaining the petrodollar system This is an incredibly uninformed view. Dollar hegemony rests on our being the sole trusted enforcer of the oceans' open navigation. That confers us, directly and indirectly as a large economy, economic advantages which in turn reinforce our military's ability to defend this position. Petrodollar monetarism is no longer a dominating factor to our financial system. Relying on it as a forecasting model, for economic or geopolitical aims, will produce bad outputs.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoThe oil price has an enormous effect upon world economies.
- hartpuff 11y ago> Is America really imperialist at its core ? If you look at the history of the USA, from its original 13 states, which themselves were a product of imperialism, and at Manifest Destiny, I'm not sure how this is even a serious question.
- binarray2000 11y agoI assume, you are reffering to this: https://youtu.be/QeLu_yyz3tc https://youtu.be/QeLu_yyz3tc Chilling insight into foreign policy of a superpower (an euphemism for "empire"). Not that he says something new (if you've read Carroll Quigley), but still... it's a fresh proof from the founder of the "Shadow CIA".
- davnn 11y agoTrue, it's the most explicit reference I know of.
- selimthegrim 11y agoFriedman is a tool, and the email dumps exposed that. Better to read Kennan if you want insight into American imperialism.
- davnn 11y agoWould you recommend a specific book?
- selimthegrim 11y agoHis letters and telegrams on Korea from the 1950s as well as his late in life writings. I'm not sure if there's a book.
- binarray2000 11y agoWell, he is a tool. But, I think that those e-mails are just a "limited hangout": They are exposing just so much to let us think that there is not much to see anyway. Stratfor does "consulting" as well and those e-mail conversations are not exposed. EDIT: It seem that, at least some, of the e-mails of the "consulting" branch are exposed.
- pdkl95 11y ago> (an euphemism for "empire") Lawrence Wilkerson, "The Travails of Empire" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckjY-FW7-dc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckjY-FW7-dc
- 13of40 11y agoImagine what our reaction would be if two parts of the Russian government had provided weapons to different groups, who immediately turned around and fought each other. Would we be calling them (the Russians) bumbling incompetents or talking about how it was part of their sly plan all along?