This has been the argument from the get-go, that selling gas to people in the EU somehow strengthens Putin's maniacal grip on the continent. What a joke. Would you, dear reader, be willing turn off the heat, tear up your energy bill, and freeze to death in the dark to prove to your gas company that you're not willing to capitulate to their tyrannical rule?
Of course not, because the idea is ridiculous. Just like blocking South Stream is ridiculous. Putin is selling gas, not tyranny. He doesn't want people clicking their heels and goosestepping to work. That's just propaganda from the people in the oil industry who lost the competition for supplying fuel to the EU. Call it sour grapes if you want, because that's what it is. Their pipeline failed, (Nabucco) and Putin's won. End of story. It's called capitalism. Deal with it.
And here's another thing: The countries that South Stream would have served, do not have a back-up supplier to meet their growing gas needs. So by following Washington's lead, they've basically shot themselves in the foot. Analysts figure that any replacement for Russian gas will probably be 30 percent more expensive then they would have paid Gazprom.
Hurrah for the US! Hurrah for stupidity!
The US has been determined to sabotage South Stream from the very beginning, mainly because Washington wants its corporations and banks to control the flow of gas to the EU market through privately-owned pipelines in Ukraine. That way they can rake in bigger profits for their moneybags shareholders. Without going into too much detail about the various methods the US has used to torpedo the project, there's one story that's worth a look. This is from Zero Hedge:
"...two months before the Ukraine government was overthrown the prime minister of Bulgaria, Plamen Oresharski, ordered a halt to work on the South Stream on the recommendation of the EU. The decision was announced after his talks with US senators.
"'At this time there is a request from the European Commission, after which we've suspended the current works, I ordered it,' Oresharski told journalists after meeting with John McCain, Chris Murphy and Ron Johnson during their visit to Bulgaria on Sunday. 'Further proceedings will be decided after additional consultations with Brussels.'
"At the time McCain, commenting on the situation, said that 'Bulgaria should solve the South Stream problems in collaboration with European colleagues,' adding that in the current situation they would want 'less Russian involvement' in the project.
"'America has decided that it wants to put itself in a position where it excludes anybody it doesn't like from countries where it thinks it might have an interest, and there is no economic rationality in this at all,' (said)Ben Aris, editor of Business New Europe told RT." ("Europe Gives Bulgaria A Bank System Lifeline As Battle Over 'South Stream' Pipeline Heats Up," Zero Hedge)
Let me get this straight: Madman McCain strolls into town and immediately starts ordering people around telling them he wants "less Russian involvement," and that's enough to bring South Stream to a screeching halt? Is that what you're telling me?
Yep. Sure sounds like it.
Does that help you see what's really going here? This isn't about Putin. It's about gas, and who's going to profit from that gas, and in whose currency that gas will be denominated. That's what it's about. The rest of the nonsense about "Russian involvement" or terrorism or human rights or national sovereignty is just gibberish. The people who run this country (like McCain), don't care about that kind of stuff. What they care about is money; money and power. That's it.
So what are they going to do now? How are the big powerboys in Washington going to express their rage over this new threat created by Putin and Erdogan?
It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out, after all, we've seen it a million times before.
They're going to go after Erdogan hammer and tongs. That's what they always do, isn't it?
The only reason they haven't started in already is because they're getting their propaganda ducks in a row, which usually takes a day or two. But as soon as that's taken care of, they'll start dismantling old Recep one excruciating headline at a time. Erdogan is going to be the new Hitler and the greatest threat to humanity the world has ever seen. You can bet on it.
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