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"In the Great Game of Pipelinestan, as envisioned by former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, the US has suddenly found itself holding all the wrong cards. While the US continues to audibly dream of a NATO-controlled Silk Road, pulling Eurasian wealth westward through a vortex of pipelines, it has suddenly found itself becoming a renter rather than a bona-fide landlord of Eurasian property. Eurasian dictators want to be courted, but the violent regime changes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and more recently, Libya have sent a rather unpleasant set of signals. US power-projection in the area dwindles with its economy, just as Russia and China are binding the Eurasian countries closer to their own economic interests."
"Pakistan is condemned property, condemned to dereliction by Zionist-neocon existential horror at nuclear weapons in the hands of an Islamic state (even if Islamic in name only). The Khyber Pass border opens and shuts in the tango of death between the ISI and CIA-Pentagon — once dubbed brothers in arms — as they cooperate and surreptitiously blood-let each other. This state of affairs places the US in the unenviable position of staking out its supply grounds in the theatre of war itself. For even as the United States moves ahead with its plans to develop natural gas pipelines moving through Afghanistan into the warm-water ports of India and Pakistan, the volatile Eurasian states that are the headwaters of the liquid gas wealth — and over which Russia, China, and the EU are competing — have become the main supply routes for the US Afghan war."
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