Obamas Secret Deals With Saudi Arabia & Qatar Whats Behind Lower Gas-Prices and the Bombings of Syria and of Eastern Ukraine: Obama Represents U.S. & Arabic Aristocracies, Against Those of Russia & Iran By Eric Zuesse (The following report reconstructs U.S. President Barack Obamas foreign policy, on the basis of what I have deemed to be reliable news accounts of his Administrations actions, not of its mere words. This reconstruction is grounded in the linked-to news-sources, all of which I have investigated and verified -- and some of which I wrote. The ones that I wrote are themselves sourced to the links within those reports, all of which I have, likewise, personally checked and verified. Consequently, the chain of verifications back to this reconstructions primary sources is available to any online reader, and every reader is encouraged to track back to its ultimate source any allegation that might appear to be at all questionable to him or her in the present article. Not only will this exercise be helpful to the reader concerning that given point at question, but it will open that person to an associated world of deeper discovery, which I hope that this news-report and analysis will do for many readers, and which is the reason I wrote it: so as to share with others what I and other careful and cautious researchers have discovered, though it might be, in some instances, starkly at variance with what our Government, and most of the press, have been more commonly presenting as ‘truth about these matters. At least, this exercise will provide an alternative frame of reference regarding these issues, an alternative possibility to consider, and which I have verified, from every root to every branch, in this tree of historical reconstruction of the events.) INTRODUCTION: November 07, 2014 ICH - Why is the Ukrainian Government, which the U.S. supports, bombing the pro-Russian residents who live in Ukraines own southeast? Why is the American Government, which aims to oust Syrias leader Bashar al-Assad, bombing his main enemy, ISIS? I find that both bombings are different parts of the same Obama-initiated business-operation, in which the American aristocracy, Saudi aristocracy, and Qatari aristocracy, work together, to grab dominance over supplying energy to the worlds biggest energy-market, Europe, away from Russia, which currently is by far Europes largest energy-supplier. Here are the actual percentage-figures on that: Russia supplies 38%, #2 Norway (the only European nation among the top 15) supplies 18%, and all other countries collectively supply a grand total of 44%. Thats it; thats all -- in the worlds largest energy-market. Russia is the lone giant. But U.S. President Obamas team want to change that. (Unfortunately, the residents in southeastern Ukraine are being bombed and driven out to become refugees in Russia , as an essential part of this operation to choke off Russias gas-supply to Europe.) Obama has initiated, and is leading, this international aristocratic team, consisting of the U.S. aristocracy and Sunni Moslem aristocracies -- the Saudi and the Qatari royal families -- to choke off Russias economic lifeblood from those European energy sales, and to transfer lots of this business, via new oil and gas pipeline contracts and new international trade-deals, over to the royal families of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Those royals, in turn, are assisting Obama in the overthrow of the key Russia-allied leader of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who has performed an indispensable role in blocking any such massive expansion of Saudi and Qatari energy-traffic into Europe, and who has thus been a vital protector of Russias dominance in the European energy-market. Americas aristocracy would be benefited in many ways from this changeover to Europes increasing dependence upon those Sunni Moslem nations, which have long been allied with U.S. oil companies, and away from the Shiite Moslem nation of Iran, and from its key backer, Russia. The most important way that Americas aristocrats would benefit would be the continuance, for the indefinite future, of the U.S. dollars role as the international reserve currency, in which energy and energy-futures are traded. The Sunni nations are committed to continued dominance of the dollar, and Wall Street depends on that continuance. Its also one of the reasons the U.S. Treasurys sales of U.S. Federal debt around the world have been as successful as they are. This also provides essential support to the U.S. Federal Reserve. Furthermore, Obamas effort to force the European Union to weaken their anti-global-warming standards so as to allow European imports of oil from the exceptionally carbon-gas-generating Athabasca Canada tar sands -- which are approximately 40% owned by Americas Koch brothers, the rest owned by other U.S. and allied oil companies -- would likewise reduce Europes current dependency upon Russian energy sources, at the same time as it would directly benefit U.S. energy-producers. Obama has been working hard for those oil companies to become enabled to sell such oil into Europe . And, finally, the extension of U.S. fracking technology into Ukraine, and perhaps ultimately even into some EU nations, where it has been strongly resisted, might likewise reduce the enormous flow of European cash into Russian Government coffers to pay for Russian gas (which doesnt even require fracking). In other words, the wars in both Syria and Ukraine are being fought basically in order to grab the European energy market, away from Russia, somewhat in the same way (though far more violently) as Irans share of that market was previously grabbed away by means of the U.S.-led sanctions against that country. The current bombing campaigns in both Syria and Ukraine are directed specifically against Irans chief ally, Russia. First, will be discussed here the bombing-campaign against Irans and Russias ally Assad in Syria; then against the residents of the ethnic-Russian areas of Ukraine. SYRIA: As the articles that are headlined below document, there has been proposed, in order to promote Russian gas flowing into Europe, an eastbound Iran-Iraq-Syria-Turkey-Europe gas pipeline (but sanctions stopped that); and there was also proposed, in order to undercut Russian gas flowing into Europe, a northbound Qatar-Saudi-Jordan-Syria-Turkey-Europe gas pipeline -- those being two different and competing ways of supplying gas into Europe. Russias ally Syria is crucial to both proposed pipelines, which means that Assad has needed to be overthrown in order for the northbound pipeline from Qatar to be constructed and so to compete against Russias gas-supplies to Europe. There have also been some differences between the Saudi and Qatari royal families as regards their motives for removing the Shiite Assad from leading Syria. Qatars royals ( and also Turkeys aristocrats ) want him to be replaced by an anti-Iranian, Sunni Moslem Brotherhood leader (the type of person that Obama euphemistically calls by such terms as ‘moderate Moslems though they were hardly that in Egypt once they gained power there ). Qatars royals have protected themselves from being overthrown by fundamentalist Moslems; theyve done it especially by supporting the Moslem Brotherhood as a means of displaying their own loyalty to Moslem clerics. (The public trusts the clerics, but doesnt trust the aristocrats; and, like everywhere, aristocrats obtain their perceived ‘legitimacy from the local clergy, whom aristocrats buy-off with special favors.) The Moslem Brotherhood want to control Syria, and would love to approve a gas pipeline from Qatar through Syria to Europe, to reward their chief benefactor, Qatars royals. As for the Saudi royals, they want Assad to be replaced by an anti-Iranian, Sunni ISIS leader, who will represent the Sauds Wahhabist sect in Islam, which provides Saudi royals their ‘legitimacy. (Saudi royals say they dont like Al Qaeda and ISIS, but thats said mainly for public consumption in the West.) Right now, Saudi Arabia supplies less than 5% of Europes energy, which is a mere one-eighth of what Russia does. So: each of these two royal families relies primarily upon a different category of Islamists. Obama prefers the ‘moderate Muslim Brotherhood to the extremist ISIS, but Saudi royals accept his having that preference, because any way to weaken Iran and its backer Russia is fine with them, especially since it would open wide the enormous European market for their oil. Other internal conflicts also exist within Obamas team. For example, an expert on these matters, Felix Imonti, explained to me in a personal communication, that, “Qatar ... abandoned the [pipeline] plan in 2010 for a very simple reason. Saudi Arabia will not permit a pipeline to be constructed across its territory. Qatar is interested along with Turkey in installing a MB government in Syria. ... The Saudi objective is to drive out the Iranians from Syria.” The Saudis “objective was to establish a Wahhabi based [fundamentalist Moslem] state that would include western Iraq with Syria,” which, of course, is what ISIS is all about. Imonti also says: “Egypt [except for the brief time when it was controlled by the MB] is a bought puppet of Saudi Arabia. The Egyptians are bombing Qatari groups in Libya.” That Egyptian action is indirectly a Saudi attack against the Qatari royals own support-base. These issues between the two royal families are like squabbles within a family: more is shared in common than splits them apart. Obamas decisions are often determinative on such matters. So, Americas aristocracy supports both the Saudi and the Qatari aristocracies, despite their disagreements, in order to defeat the aristocracies in Russia, China, and the other “BRIC” countries. Or, as President Obamas speech at West Point, on 28 May 2014 , propagandized for this view on the part of Americas aristocracy: Russias aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while Chinas economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us.” So, Obama made clear to the graduating cadets that the BRIC countries are the enemy, from the standpoint of Americas aristocracy. Ours want to crush the aristocrats in Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Though its alright for those other countries to produce more, thats true only if American aristocrats control the local ones, like in any other international empire -- not if the local aristocrats there do. Similarly, for example, the British Empire didnt wish for local aristocrats in India to be in control, but only for those client aristocrats to be of use . Obama added, placing a nationalistic coloration on his promotion of Americas empire: “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation.” He promised to keep it that way: “That has been true for the century passed [sp.: past [[somebody at the White House didnt know the difference between ‘past and ‘passed]] and it will be true for the century to come.” An important asset of the American aristocracy happens to be shale-gas-fracking technology, which is overwhelmingly owned by Americas aristocrats . Though Qatar is a major gas-producer, it has no need for fracking, and so is merely a gas-competitor in that regard, but they do share Americas pro-Sunni, anti-Assad goal, and also Americas anti-Russian goal. Although Qatar ships most of its gas into Asia, theyd like to have some way to pipe it more nearby, into Europe, to undercut Russias Gazprom. And thats why the U.S. is working with Qatar to bump Assad from Syria. The Saudis are actually doing the most of all to defeat Russia, by driving oil prices down so low as to upset Russias economic plans, which have been based upon minimum $100/barrel projections. Were already around 10% below that. As Imonti writes, “The Saudis can sustain these lower prices for seven or eight years while drawing on their foreign reserves to cover the deficits. They could very well be trying to break the fracking business in the U.S. that has high production costs. [Of course, Americas gas aristocrats wont like that, but Obama has to balance multiple sub-constituencies, including Qatars royals.] They might also be directing the target towards Russia that supports Assad and Iran. They could be doing all of the above with one action.” If the Sauds keep this up “for seven or eight years,” then Russia will be hit a lot harder than Russia is being hit, or is likely to be hit, by any economic sanctions. Qatar has been the main funder of the overthrow-Assad movement, for the Moslem Brotherhood; and Saudi Arabia has been the main funder of the overthrow-Assad movement, for ISIS. Both are Sunni organizations. However, Qatar has also funded ISIS. Obama, when he decided to bomb ISIS, was acting on behalf of Americas aristocrats, but Saudi and Qatari aristocrats might have felt differently about it. He possessed the freedom to do this, which those aristocrats dont have, because everyone in the Islamic world knows that Obama is no Moslem; everyone understands that America is in a permanent state of war against fundamentalist Islam of all sorts. Only Moslem aristocrats need the approval of Islamic fundamentalists. In America, aristocrats dont even need the approval of Christian fundamentalists, the type of fundamentalists that might be able to threaten their authority in the West (since the West is predominantly Christian, not Moslem). And the same is true regarding Jewish aristocrats in Israel: aristocrats fear only their local majority clergy. Thats basic survival-knowledge for aristocrats, anywhere, in order to be able to get the public to accept the rightfulness of the aristocracy itself there. So, ISIS gets money from the aristocracies of Saud, and of Qatar (and also, more recently, of Kuwait) -- whatever is needed, in order for those aristocrats to retain the loyalty of their local clerics, and thus their public. Its like aristocrats do in every country, getting “Gods approval” of their wealth, by throwing a few coins to the preacher, the local mouthpiece for “God,” thus relying upon the publics trust in clergy. Even Mafia aristocrats do it. That has been the way of conservatism for millennia; its the way conservatism works. In more-recent centuries, a modified version of that trick has grown up, as liberalism, in which the aristocrats validation comes instead from scholars, and so aristocrats throw a few coins to them, instead of to clerics. But its no different -- its authoritarianism, equally in either case. Its purchased authority. Aristocrats dont really fear the clergy, nor the scholars: they actually fear the public, such as what happened during the French Revolution, and during the Russian Revolution. But thats another story altogether, going back millennia, actually. The recent bombings in Syria, and in Ukraine, are a business-operation being carried out as a war (and also very profitable for U.S. armaments-makers, who likewise are controlled by Americas aristocrats and so this is a double-whammy for Americas aristocracy -- and U.S. arms-makers have consequently been soaring on the stock market). Its basically a grab by U.S. and Sunni aristocrats, from Russian and Shiite aristocrats, of the market to supply oil and gas into Europe. And it provides other advantages, too, for U.S. aristocrats. Natural gas, especially of the non-fracked variety, is generally regarded as the bridge-fuel to get our planet to being able to survive long-term while fusion and renewable forms of energy come online as cost-competitive. Fracking is, as has been mentioned, an American technology, but its widely resisted even within American-allied nations. The U.S. Government can impose it upon the American people, because they are trusting in ‘free enterprise, but other governments are having a hard time trying to impose it on theirs. That public resistance in Europe is giving protection to the gas-import markets there; and this has benefited Russia, their major existing gas-supplier. Russia has the worlds largest proven reserves of natural gas , and thats without their even needing to use fracking-techniques in order to get at it. #2 Iran has 69% as much gas, and is allied with Russia, and it also doesnt frack. But sanctions close them out of Europe. Then #3 Qatar, at 47%, is allied with U.S. oil companies, but has no need to frack. Then #4 Turkmenistan, 37%, is allied with Russia, and also doesnt frack. Then #5 U.S., 20%, is allied with U.S. oil companies, and only fracks. Then #6 Saudi Arabia, 17%, is also allied with U.S. oil companies, and doesnt need to frack. The European Union bans fracking, because they have environmentally-concerned publics. But U.S. and other Western corporate-owned oil companies want to frack gas in Europe, just as they do in America; and the new Ukrainian Government is desperate enough to want their land to be fracked. UKRAINE: The main shale-gas (fracking) field in Ukraine is Yuzivska, right in the middle of the Donbass region, where the residents dont want fracking and dont want U.S. rule (which includes fracking). Furthermore, the people there reject the legitimacy of the Obama coup in Ukraine this year in February , and of its subsequent rulers of Ukraine , who have been bombing them , because 90% of the voters in that region had voted for the pro-Russian President whom Obama had overthrown , and because the new, anti-Russian, regime doesnt want those people to stay (or at least to stay alive ) in Ukraine, because otherwise that post-coup regime would become ousted if any nationwide election would ever again be held throughout Ukraine. This tactic of killing unwanted voters is a variant of what the Republican Party does in the U.S., simply trimming the voter-rolls in order to create a more-favorable “voting public.” Except that its being done in Ukraine by bombs and bullets , rather than by limiting or restricting ballots. “The West,” or the allies of Sunni aristocrats, are now bombing intensively, both in Ukraine and in Syria; and, in both instances, the argument for the bombings is to spread “democracy” there. Its giving a bad name to ‘democracy, to anyone who misbelieves that this is it. BACK AGAIN TO SYRIA: Below are the main sources that describe the Middle Eastern part of this Obama-Putin power-struggle, that is the part in Syria instead of in Ukraine. This is how international business is actually carried out – its a perfect libertarian world, since there is no international government; this market is unregulated to so extreme an extent that even ethnic cleansings and mass-murders go unpunished -- its a pure free market, which operates on an international scale (the only scale where libertarianism exists in even nearly this pure a form); this libertarianism is an exemplar of the conservative ideal: pure liberty for aristocrats, total lack of accountability . If anything, Barack Obama might be even more of a conservative than was George W. Bush: under Obama, the IRS specifically allows blatantly illegal tax-evasion by the mega-rich to go uninvestigated and unpunished, and concentrates virtually all its resources on pursuing two-bit tax-cheats. Thats what ‘democracy has come to in America. In Americas client-states, such as in the Middle East and (since February) in Ukraine, its even worse. The first of these articles explains why the price of oil has been plunging, and who has been behind that: --- boilingfrogspost/2014/10/24/the-secret-stupid-saudi-us-deal-on-syria/ The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria WILLIAM ENGDAHL | OCTOBER 24, 20143 COMMENTS The Kerry-Abdullah Secret Deal & An Oil-Gas Pipeline War
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