If you look at all the recent wars, invasions, and humanitarian - TopicsExpress



          

If you look at all the recent wars, invasions, and humanitarian interventions that have resulted in collapsed countries and anarchy across whole regions, it is clear that beyond oil and gas the key issue is money: pre-2003 Iraq tried to trade what oil it could in euro not dollars and Saddam Hussein was deposed; despite being welcomed briefly back into the international fold, once Libyas Colonel Gaddafi began to talk about establishing an African gold dinar currency, backed by Libyas oil wealth to challenge the petrodollar, he too was toppled; Assad wanted to facilitate energy pipelines to Europe for Russia and Iran, and he was attacked; even Iran tried to trade its energy reserves in euro, and lo and behold it was almost invaded in 2008; and finally Russia itself trades some of its energy in rubles.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:14:30 +0000

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