From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just like Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan has a wealth in
petroleum resources. Its oil reserves are in the Tengiz oil fields
and western oil companies are investing heavily in this country. The
problem is that the existing pipelines go through Russia and Checyna
and ends at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Another underwater
pipeline is proposed from Aktau to Baku. There are several other
proposed pipelines, however, according to the last information I
presently have, the US capitalists began to reconsider its plan to
finance a trans-Balkan oil pipeline that will go through Bulgaria,
Macedonia and Albania which will even by-pass their Turkish "ally."
It becomes clear that the present struggle in Macedonia led by US
imperialism and their fascist proxies KLA/NLA/UCK is laying the
groundwork for the dominance of US capitalism and its pipeline.
The imperialists are not helping the "ethnic" KLA establish a "Greater
Albania" through a Marxist-Leninist defined "self-determination"
movement. It is the other way around.
The fascist KLA are assisting the US imperialists to dominate this
region with the hopes of being rewarded with a partnership in the
pipeline inorder to establish themselves as an emerging capitalist
profiteering elite....nothing but fascist surrogates of US
imperialism. Take a look at the "facts from the terrain" Partija
Rada. The history of US imperialism around the world shows that the
only regimes the US capitalist support are those of a fascist and
reactionary character who suppress their own people to stablize the
country for the US capitalists and their investments. Never does the
US capitalists support a "progressive" or "revolutionary"
organization. NEVER.
This pipeline will consolidate the influence and dominance of US
imperialism in the Balkans and reduce the cost of the proposed oil
pipeline through Turkey according to Stratfor Global Intelligence
Update of November 24, 1999. This pipeline was endorsed by
international oil investors, U.S. Eximbank, the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank and the US based
Albanian-Macedonian-Bulgarian Oil Company (AMBO). The cost of this
pipeline is expected to cost $825 million.
This of course will not please the Turkish ruling class who were
instrumental in furthering the US military and political interests of
the US capitalists in Yugoslavia and the Caucasus, including Georgia.
Barnett R. Rubin, Director of the Center for Preventive Action,
Council on Foreign Relations stated in an interview, "Stability is
already a thing of the past in the Fergana Valley." This area extends
through Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan which is Central Asia'a
largest "bread basket" region. He further stated that, "The
international community and the United States in particular, are
already engaged in Central Asia and the Fergana Valley, looking for
oil and gas, planning pipeline routes, pressuring governments on their
economic policies, trying to establish a security structure, trying to
cooperate with or displace Russia in many fields including the
military one..." This is classic CIA destabilition.
China's growing dependence on imported oil is also leading to
stronger ties with Russia. China, Russia and India are creating
alliances in response to US imperialism's offensive war of aggression
of "encircling" and dismantling Russia as well as all of Eastern
Europe. China not only perceives but believes that if US
imperialism is successful in dividing and recolonizing this area, it
will become the next target.
According to Jan S. Adams, Director Emerita of International
Studies at Ohio State University, "The US-Russian Face-off in the
Caspian Basin, Problems of Post-Comunism, 1-2/00, The United States
considers the countries of the former Soviet Union - including those
in Central Asia, the Caucasus and along the Black Sea - within the
zone of U.S. vital interests...Russia interprets this posture as
meaning the U.S. planes based at Incirlik, Turkey, could someday be
used to protect pipelines in the Caucasus and Caspian region.
Ukraine, an important CIS member bordering the Black Sea,
has...signed a partnership agreement with NATO...It is not a secret
the Ukraine, with western financing, hopes to become a link in the
transit of oil from the Caucasus and the Caspian Basin across the
Black Sea and Ukraine to Western Europe. Russia has responded
forcefully to US military presence...declaring that a stronger
American position in the Caspian oil-producing countries will not be
permitted..."
On September 15, 1997, the UN authorized a joint military operation,
Central Asian Battalion '97, which was organized and directed by the
US Atlantic Command with the approval of NATO. This exercise
consisted of 500 US troops from the 82nd Airborne Division and 40 from
the Central Asian Battalion that included Kazaks, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.
US Marine Corps General John J. Sheehan told reporters, "The message
is that there is no nation on the face of the earth that we cannot get
to."
The hypocracy of US imperialism is seen in a criticism of the
former US president Clinton criticizing Russia about its militarism
in Checyna. The response of Yeltsin was a warning to Clintion that
he "forgot for a second that Russia has a full arsenal of nuclear
weapons." Then on January 14, 2000 Putin changed the national
security doctrine of "no first use of nuclear weapons."
This changed he stated was that they can now be used "in case of the need
to repulse an armed aggression, if all other methods of resolving the
crisis situation are exhausted or have been ineffective."
This objection was made because of the US imperialist NATO aggression
against Yugoslavia and "criticizes the US for trying to create
'unilateral' solutions to global problems with military force,
sidelining the basic founding standards of international law."
I believe it is quite clear that US imperialism most assuredly does
have strategic interests in the Balkans and Central Asia. Its
interests are that of petroleum and oil resources located in these
regions and US imperialism is willing to risk a nuclear confrontation
to secure these resources thus the explanation of "Star Wars." I
hardly believe that the benevolence of US imperialism waging wars and
trading blood for oil, let alone a nuclear war has anything to do with
human rights and "sharing the same interests" of exploited and
oppressed people anywhere in the world!
To believe this and that Milosevic and the Serbs are responsible
for "ethnic cleansing" is nothing but a backwards opportunism based on
a complete failure of dialectical thinking by seperating and divorcing
the "interconnection" and "interdependence" of factual "phenomenon."
The selectiveness of isolated fantasy conjured into "facts from the
terrain" is nothing more than dogmatic demogoguery which constitutes a
bankrupt analysis...revisionism.
Fraternally Mark Scott
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