The story continues from part 1
5 The Unipolar Period – (1990-2020)
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991, the US emerged without any rivals, to contest it for global domination.
The American financier elite, centered in New York, planned a final push to secure their position in the world. Their reasoning went like this: The Cold War or ideological contest between the capitalist west and the communist bloc (Russia and China) had come to an end. A whole new equation was needed to go forward, in maintaining the status of the US as a dominant global power. It was the time of economic wars.
We are today living in the hydrocarbon age. All modern economies are energy based. Without energy (oil and gas), we regress back to the standard of living of the 19th century. Just as a human body depends on oxygen to survive, so a modern economy needs energy to function. This energy comes in the form of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear. The most important of these are oil and gas.
As Henry Kissinger once remarked in the 1970s, “who controls food controls people. Who controls finance controls governments. Who controls oil controls the destinies of nations”? Kissinger at that time was the US Secretary of State. It is a well-known fact that Kissinger began his career serving the Rockefeller brothers, Nelson and David, beginning in the mid-1950s. And he has remained a loyal servant of the family till his death. Although a Jew, he was once chastised by former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir for not doing enough to help Israel; to which Kissinger replied, and told her that “my first loyalty is to the Rockefeller family, then America, and then Israel”.
NATO & the Fall of the Soviet Union
By 1989, it was becoming clear that the Soviet Union would cease to exist shortly. Historically, Germany and Russia were natural allies. Germany had the technological and industrial know how, which Russia lacked, and Russia had the natural resources which Germany needed. The British always feared a tie-up between these two countries. With the end of the Second World War, America put an Iron Curtain between Russia and Europe, and further divided Germany into 2 parts. Trade between Russia and Europe was very limited. Europe’s largest and most influential bank is Germany’s deutsche Bank. Its head in 1989 was Alfred Herrhausen. In November of 1989, he proposed to rebuild Russia and Eastern Europe through revitalizing its industrial infrastructure, in return for much needed Russian raw materials – mainly oil and gas. This was followed by the German Chancellor who spoke to the nation of his dream of constructing a modern rail link connecting Paris and Berlin to Moscow, as the foundation for the infrastructure of the emerging new Europe.
This ran counter to the Rockefeller plan, which was to de-industrialize Russia, and make it a primary exporter of raw materials. Furthermore, it was to be looted dry, so that it never poses a threat to America’s game plan for Eurasia. The decision was made early in December to “punish “ Europe for even thinking about industrializing Russia and building transport corridors to Russia, by using Middle Eastern oil reserves. Both London and New York were determined that the serious threat of an economically expanding Continental Europe must be countered using the Anglo-American oil weapon. The CIA – a Rockefeller entity – used one of its synthetic creations – the Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany to assassinate Herrhausen on December 2. This message was meant to be a warning to the German elite to “forget about uniting with Russia economically”. It worked.
For Washington, the Cold War with the Soviet Union may have technically ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, their real war was for total domination of the planet. “Full Spectrum Domination “as the Pentagon called it, had just begun. Again, control of oil-all the oil -everywhere – was to form the heart of the new domination strategy. The next phase was to target Russia and China and the nations of the Eurasian Heartland, utilizing the strategy of Halford Mackinder and Zbigniew Brzezinski. After the end of the Cold War, the two most formidable future geopolitical rivals to American domination were Russia and China; any alliance of these two great Eurasian powers would threaten US domination globally. From 1991 onwards, the Rockefeller priority was to encircle, dismantle and otherwise permanently cripple its only serious nuclear rival, Russia. After 1991, the CIA gave the highest priority to fomenting the breakup of Russia by financing and arming local separatist movements; the reason was Rockefeller control of Russian oil. Washington’s immediate agenda was to break up the former Soviet Union into disconnected pieces to secure control over its vast oil wealth. It was of the highest priority for the future power of the Rockefellers- to deny that oil to potential challengers.
The second aim was the shift of China from an oil exporter to become an oil importer- for the first time in China’s history. The geopolitical implications did not go unnoticed in the boardrooms of Exxon, et al. China had been gradually modernizing its economy along western lines. China at that time did not pose any strategic threat to America’s overwhelming naval and air power, and so long as Chinese leaders could be convinced to hitch their economic wagon to an American made star; Rockefeller strategists calculated that they could keep Russia and China from moving closer to each other. The US strategy was to bind China to western markets by outsourcing US manufacturing jobs to China – a haven of cheap labor. Washington was content to let China boom during the 1990s, especially as she was eager to join the WTO and play by American-made economic roles. By 2000, the Rockefellers began to look at China as a potential threat. Chinese strategy for development of its economy was predicated on the view that China had another decade or more to quietly for an ultimate confrontation with the US. One of the first acts of the US military occupation of Iraq was to cancel contracts between Iraq and China. The US was now in control of China’s primary oil source. By 2008, Washington was counterattacking Chinese oil and gas initiatives across the globe.
Soon, those oil wars expanded, both overtly and covertly, to Russia, Africa, Myanmar, Xinjiang in China, Georgia and across Eurasia – as well as the Middle East. The War on Terror against a faceless enemy was used as a pretext for the global war to control all the oil everywhere. The wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq were but the opening shots of a series of geopolitical oil and energy pipeline wars – undeclared wars. These energy wars were fought with bombs, terror tactics and drones, as well as color revolutions.
The Background of Events that led to 9-11
Fast Forward to Today….
The center of Eurasia and the Middle East is oil and mineral -rich area. Control of this would be the key to the control of Eurasia, especially its western and eastern zones that rely on energy imports from the Middle East. Also, the center of Eurasia is the missing link, in terms of connecting both ends, via transportation corridors. This will enable Eurasia to become independent of the maritime powers, principally the US Navy. If both ends of Eurasia were connected to the center, and then to each other, then there would be no need for the US military presence in Eurasia. The US will become redundant. Its global dominance will decline, and American power will crumble. Look at the map below. The center of Eurasia is a zone of “potential instability”. Control the center, and one can control the both ends of Eurasia.
So, the game-plan of the US, which could not have been more clearly spelt out. How they went about achieving this is part of what we are informing you about.
Reducing Russian Influence in Europe
By 1991, the US had managed to regain its military prestige – destroyed by Vietnam. This was the 2nd Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein of Iraq invaded Kuwait; and the subsequent defeat of Iraq by a US-led coalition. Immediately after that, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. It had broken up into 15 separate countries. Russia was the largest of these. It was also the largest country in the world, spanning 11 time zones. Rich in resources, it was also the only nuclear power on earth capable of challenging the US. It had to be destroyed. Between 1991 and 1999, Russia degenerated into a semi-failed state. It was looted systematically by the Anglo-American financier elite, and it was a shadow of its former self.
With the emergence of Vladimir Putin as its new head of state, Russia began to turn itself around. Rising energy prices helped this process greatly. The US aim was to control oil pipelines from Russia to Europe, in order to gain leverage over both ends of Eurasia – policies that would favor the US. To do this, Washington focused on two areas of vital importance to both Russia and Europe: Yugoslavia and Chechnya.
Dismantling Yugoslavia
The first was the breakup and dissolution of Yugoslavia- it had to be neutralized as successful economic model. A state-based economic entity – this was not on. It had to be shown to the rest of the emerging countries of Eastern Europe that this model was no good. These new countries had to move to a “market-based” economy, in which finance, and not the state calls the shots. And all of this was tied to London and New York. Then came the takeover of Kosovo in 1998.
Combined with NATO control over Afghanistan, the Pentagon is building a web of encirclement around Russia that is anything but peaceful. Now that Kosovo was secured, the next step was to go ahead and build a pipeline from Baku (Azerbaijan) to Ceyhan (Turkey), via Tbilisi (Georgia); in short, the BTC pipeline. To achieve this, the US created a war in Chechnya, in the Caucasus.
The ‘Great Game’ and the Pipeline Wars
A battle has been raging since the collapse of the Soviet Union over control of oil reserves in and adjoining the Caspian Sea, believed to be the largest untapped oil reserves found since those of the Alaska North Slope .The fight over the region, which, for almost a century, was the heart of Britain’s “Great Game” geopolitical manipulations to control Central Asia and contain Russia, has pulled into its vortex every State in the region from Russia to Turkey to Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. The strategic tug-of-war was fought over decisions on the routing of pipelines to carry oil from the Tengiz field in Kazakhstan and the offshore fields near Baku in Azeri waters. Unlike Russian oil and gas reserves, the Caspian fields are shallow and relatively easy to exploit, making them cheaper to develop. The critical issue is what route pipelines should take to market the oil and gas abroad.
A fierce diplomatic struggle ensued from 1993 about a new pipeline route from Baku. Moscow wanted it to be routed north through Chechnya, going to a Russian port on the Black Sea- Novosibirsk. New York and London said no. To re-enforce their position, the intelligence networks of the Anglo-American financier elite, went into action. The CIA, British Intelligence MI6, and the Mossad caused a pretext for a war between Russia and the Chechen independence fighters. Chechnya was imbued with a need to gain independence from Russia. Russia said no. A war broke out. Russia invaded Grozny in December 1994 and was promptly defeated. With the defeat of Russia in the first Chechen war, in January 1995, this northern pipeline route was now as good as dead.
In September 1994, the “deal of the century” was signed between a consortium of Western oil companies, led by BP, and the Azerbaijan government. The next step was now to get this oil to market. A short while later, construction began on the BTC pipeline. Completed in early 2005, the first oil began to flow, and tankers began loading up this oil in October 2005 – a million barrels per day.
This whole episode shook the Russian leadership to its core. The nationalist faction in Moscow told Yeltsin that the state of affairs is not good for Russia, and Russia’s future survival is at stake, if they remain quiet. Something had to be done.
In 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin was very upset regarding American moves in the Caucasus. He wanted to form a counter to the US moves in Central Asia. He met the Chinese President. To avoid further unrest in its soft southern underbelly, Yeltsin went to Beijing, and proposed a security alliance with China and key Central Asian states. And, thus was born the “Shanghai Five “. The date was April 1996, and its founding members were Russia, China, Kazakstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The aim was to build mutual trust among member states, to disarm the border regions and to encourage regional cooperation.
In June 2001, it renamed itself the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – the SCO. It is a Eurasian political, economic, international security and defense organization.
In June 2017, it expanded to eight states, with India and Pakistan. Iran joined the group in July 2023 and Belarus in July 2024.
The current US strategy targets many Eurasian former Soviet republics which have no known oil or gas reserves. What they do have is strategic, military or geopolitical significance for the US policy of dominating Eurasia. In order to understand why the attacks of September 11(2001), in New York, took place, we will have to do some background. And it all has to do with the quest for American dominance of Eurasia.
Geopolitics
Mackinder’s Heartland and Brzezinski’s Chess Game
It’s essential to understand the historic background to the term geopolitics. In 1904, an academic British geographer named Halford Mackinder made an address before the Royal Geographic Society in London which was to change history. In his speech, titled, ‘The Geographical Pivot of History,’ Mackinder sought to define the relation between a nation’s or region’s geography—its topography, in relation to the sea or land, its climate—with its politics and position in the world. He posited two classes of powers: sea powers including Britain and the United States as well as Japan; and he posited the large land powers of Eurasia, which, with development of the railroad, would be able to unite large land masses free from dependency on the seas.
For Mackinder, an ardent Empire advocate, the implicit lesson for continued hegemony of the British Empire following the 1914-1917 World War, was to prevent at all costs a convergence of interests between the nations of East Europe—Poland, Czechoslovakia , Austria-Hungary–and the Russia-centered Eurasian heartland, as he termed it. After the Versailles peace talks, Mackinder summed up his ideas in the following famous dictum:
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland
Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island
Who rules the World-Island commands the world
Mackinder’s Heartland was the core area of Eurasia, including Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia and the World Island was all of Eurasia.. Great Britain, never a part of Continental Europe, he saw as a separate naval or sea-power. The Mackinder geopolitical perspective shaped Britain’s entry into the 1914 Great War; it shaped her entry into World War Two. It shaped Churchill’s calculated provocations of an increasingly paranoid Stalin, beginning 1943, to entice Russia into what became the Cold War.
It was a brilliant attempt to look at the world as an entirety – or as a single whole, with what Mackinder termed ‘natural space’. For him Russia was a mammoth threat to the future of the dominant British Empire because of its vast geography as the world’s largest land power with its vast steppes, its huge natural resources and its people. He wrote, “The oversetting of the balance of power in favor of the pivot state, Russia, resulting in its expansion over the marginal lands of Euro-Asia would permit the use of vast continental resources for building a navy, and the empire of the world would then be in sight.
That might happen if Germany were to ally herself with Russia.”
As George Friedman, founder of Stratfor, had to say, “The prime interest of the United States, over which we have fought two world wars, has been the relationship between Germany and Russia because united there; they are the only force that could threaten us.” In his 1904 essay, Mackinder wrote, “True that the Trans – Siberian Railway is still a single line of communication, but the century will not be old before all Asia is covered with railways. The spaces within the Russian Empire and China are so vast, and their potential in population, wheat, cotton, fuel and metals so great, that it is inevitable that a vast economic world will develop there, inaccessible to marine commerce.” He meant inaccessible to the British control of the oceans. Instead, two world wars, and six (1945-2005) decades of NATO Cold War delayed that natural fusion of the economies of all Eurasia. Basically it was a fight between “maritime powers” versus “land powers”. And so far, the globe has been dominated by a maritime power; first Britain, and now America.
Mackinder’s idea of geopolitics shaped the Anglo-Saxon world until British financial policies caused her defeat in the two world wars to the emerging power of the world’s second land power – North America. He shaped the idea of postwar military strategy from Henry Kissinger to Zbigniew Brzezinski to George Friedman.
For the US, it was going to an economic war going forward, backed up by military force. The Rockefeller family motto is “competition is a sin”. The two regions that posed the greatest economic rivals to the US were Western Europe (France, Germany, and Italy) and East Asia (China, Korea and Japan). These were advanced economies whose key vulnerability was its reliance on imported energy, principally from the Middle East. The US reckoned that if they gained undisputed control of the energy resources of the Middle East and surrounding regions, then they would be in a position to dictate the economic well-being of these two zones, and ultimately gain undisputed control over these two zones. No rival economic bloc would be allowed to challenge American domination, and that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia, and thus challenging America. We shall see how the US went about it, using all their tools on hand. These tools include finance, economics, military force, terrorism, color revolutions, coups, food, health, religion, and the manipulation of public opinion, amongst others. This is the key to understanding all that has happened since 1991 to present.
This was the analysis of the Rockefeller Network of Power (or the New York elite). It was best summed up by another former US official, Carter’s National security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski (another loyal servant of David Rockefeller), in his best-selling book, “The Grand Chessboard”, published in 1997. A few quotes are as follows: –, in describing the principal strategic aim of the United States to keep Eurasia from unifying as a coherent economic and military bloc or counterweight to the sole superpower status of the United States.
- “Eurasia is the world’s axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world’s three most economically productive regions, Western Europe and East Asia. A glance at the map also suggests that a country dominant in Eurasia would almost automatically control the Middle East and Africa. With Eurasia now serving as the decisive geopolitical chessboard, it no longer suffices to fashion one policy for Europe and another for Asia.
What happens with the distribution of power on the Eurasian landmass will be of decisive importance to America’s global primacy…’
- “For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia – – – America’s global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained”;
- “In this context, how America ‘manages ‘Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination – – – “.
- “About 75% of the world’s people live in Eurasia, and most of the world’s physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about 60% (now 75%) of the world’s GNP and about 75% of the world’s known energy resources. Eurasia is also the location of most of the world’s politically assertive and dynamic states. All but one of the world’s nuclear powers is located in Eurasia. The world’s two most populous aspirants to regional domination and global influence are Eurasian. All of the world’s political and economic challengers to American primacy are Eurasian”.
- “In brief, for the US, Eurasian geo-strategy involves the purposeful management of geo-strategically dynamic states – – – to put it into terminology that goes back to the most brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to:-
- Maintain security dependence among the vassals (the EU, Korea, and Japan)
- To keep tributaries pliant and protected (the above plus others such as Israel, the Arab world)
- To keep the barbarians from coming together (Russia, China, Iran).
From a US perspective, the 1946-1991 Cold War era was all about who shall control Mackinder’s World-Island, and, concretely, how to prevent the Eurasian Heartland, centered on Russia, from doing just that. A look at a polar projection map of US military alliances during the Cold War makes the point: The Soviet Union had been geopolitically contained and prevented from any significant linkup with Western Europe or the Middle East or Asia. The Cold War was about Russian efforts to circumvent that NATO-centered Iron Curtain. A similar role was played out in East Asia- the US plan to “contain China”.
Target China
The Rockefeller policy has targeted China as its geopolitical, economic and military rival. A look at the Eurasian map and at the target countries for various US-sponsored Color revolutions makes this clear. To the east of the Caspian Sea, lie the Central Asian states. These serve as a potential US-controlled barrier or buffer zone between China and Russian, Caspian and Iranian energy sources. Washington is out to deny China easy land access to Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East or to the oil and gas fields of the Caspian region.
The one power in Eurasia that has the potential to create a strategic combination which could checkmate US global domination is China. However, China has an Achilles Heel, which the US understands all too well – oil. In November 1993, China became a net importer of oil. Today China is the largest importer in the world. China’s energy demand is growing fast, thus pushing China to secure long-term oil and gas supplies, especially since the Iraq war made clear to China that the US was out to control and militarize most of the world’s oil and gas sources. The goal is not only strategic encirclement of Russia through a series of NATO bases. We find an ongoing policy by America to contain oil-rich Iran and Russia, and to be in a position to control the supply of oil going from these two nations to America’s economic rivals – Europe and China.
However, both the Chinese and Russian high command also studied Mackinder thoroughly. The conclusion reached brought about the formation of two organizations to counter this American threat – the SCO and BRICS This is today’s Silk Road, integrating for the first time in history the vast untapped resources of Eurasia. This is what is now unfolding before our eyes. This is what creates such alarm in Washington and London.
Given that both Beijing and Moscow know that they face the same “geopolitical opponent”, namely an American superpower in terminal decline, the invitation to the EU and the Central Asian countries to join the Silk Road is a brilliant further development in the creation of a multi-polar world to replace a NATO-Washington superpower dictatorship.
Seen from Berlin, Paris and Rome, the Eurasia emerging to their East with the multi-trillion dollar trade potentials around the creation of the world’s largest rail infrastructure development, is creating the magnet for rescuing the EU from its own foolishness. It will not be long before German industrial circles bring Berlin onto that constellation, even if kicking and screaming. The world is simply tired of these endless wars for nothing.
China is building the world’s greatest economic development and construction project ever undertaken in human history: The New Silk Road aka the BRI. The project aims at no less than a revolutionary change in the economic map of the world. It is also seen by many as the first shot in a battle between East and West for dominance in Eurasia.The plan envisions building high-speed railroads, roads, and highways, energy transmission and distribution networks, and fiber optic networks. Cities and ports will be built for economic development.
An equally essential part of the plan is a sea-based “Maritime Silk Road” (MSR) component, as ambitious as its land-based project, linking China with the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea through Central Asia and the Indian Ocean. When completed, like the ancient Silk Road, it will connect three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa. The chain of infrastructure projects will create the world’s largest economic corridor, covering a population of 4.4 billion people and an economic output of $21 trillion. In the process creating around 1.5 billion sustainable jobs! This is not a typo. Truly, 1.5 billion NEW JOBS.
The idea for reviving the new Silk Road was first announced in 2013 by the Chinese President Xi Jinping. As part of the financing of the plan, in 2014, the Chinese leader also announced the launch of an Asian International Infrastructure Bank (AIIB) providing seed funding for the project. But, we are getting ahead of ourselves. First the key players, Russia and China, had to secure themselves from the destabilizing games of London and New York.
The story continues in Part 3 ….
