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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Thomas O'Malley
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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door chiquillo
De oorlogen die de vs tegen derde wereld landen als afganistan, irak, ... voerde waren vanuit de kapitalistische logica ingegeven. Het geweldadig vrijmaken van de markt, het plunderen van de grondstoffen voor de eigen economie, ... kan je toch moeilijk vredelievend noemen.
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Ik zag nog een stukje over het hoofd waarbij me nog één en ander niet duidelijk is en waarbij ik graag wat staving van je had gezien: hoe kunnen landen als Afghanistan van economische (en dus ook kapitalistisch) belang zijn voor de VS? |
While the US and Russia jointly sponsored the latest UN sanctions against Afghanistan, there are sharp tensions between the two countries and with other major powers that are vying for domination in Central Asia. The region has some of the richest reserves of oil, gas and minerals in the world and has the potential to become a key link in trade and transport links between Europe and Asia.
An oil deposit estimated at 50 billion barrels found last July in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea is the largest discovery in the last 30 years.
The major powers and oil corporations have competing plans for major pipeline projects to pump oil and gas out of landlocked Central Asia. One route backed by Washington-via Azerbaijan and Turkey-cuts across tentative Russian deals with Iran and Armenia. Afghanistan and the Taliban not only pose a threat to the political stability of Central Asia but also threaten to become a focus for other rivals. One of the shortest, and therefore potentially cheapest, routes from Central Asia to seaports is via the Indian subcontinent.
In an article entitled "The 'Great Game' continued" in the July-September 2000 issue of World Affairs, Rahul Peter Das commented: "The US, but also many other Western States, seems to prefer links that do not have to traverse Russia, China or Iran. The option via Turkey, though viable, is at the same time also quite risky, especially because of the restless Caucasus region that must be passed through; this is apart from the fact that to avoid Russia and Iran, this route must also lead through the Caspian Sea. The only other route available is the route through South Asia, and it is obvious that this must, in such a context, assume great importance. But this route to the sea has to traverse the connecting link between Central and South Asia,
namely Afghanistan"
je vind het artikel "Oil and Afganistan" op "http://www.wsws.org/"