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at many of these areas that have become a nexus for strategy of tension. There does seem to be a pattern there that I've noticed. So on the conquest of Central Asia in the 19th century, the Russians took the city of Turkestan. It was a city…
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This goes back, as far as possession goes, to the 2nd century BC with the Han Empire, the Chinese rulers over the eastern Central Asia calling that area Turkestan. There was Arab forces in the 8th century.…
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In Central Asia today, these interests transcend the issue of a single nation or a pipeline. The goal is to access and control all of the oil and gas along the Caspian Basin, which obviously puts us at loggerheads with Russia, which is why …
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happened elsewhere. In 1998, the U.S. intervened in Kosovo on behalf of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which earlier the State Department had designated as a drug-financed terrorist force. Gosh, that sounds so familiar, like what we just did i…
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geostrategy, Brzezinski is quite clear that what makes the region of Central Asia geopolitically significant is above all its importance as a potential economic prize. An enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves in the locatio…
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What's interesting about all of this was the routing around, basically cutting off Russia, both of the countries that used to be former Soviet in Central Asia, but also all around Europe. Their idea is to isolate Russia and destabilize it b…
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Western oilmen flocking to the area have signed multi-billion dollar deals. U.S. firms are well represented in the negotiations, and where U.S. business goes, U.S. national interests follow. The presence of these oil reserves and the possib…
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and Central Asia to supply Japan and the West, these strategic concerns gain military implications. The uninterrupted supply of oil to global markets will continue to be a factor in international stability. Now, let me explain something tha…
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during the Soviet Union and never had a problem with it. The NSC energy expert, Sheila Heslin, told Congress in 1997 that U.S. policy in Central Asia was in, quote, to, in essence, break Russia's monopoly control over the transportation of …
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focus on bin Laden. No newspaper, to my knowledge, quoted from his 1999 biography by Yosef Bodansky, director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism. This is a quote. An up-and-coming venue for Islamist fun is a combination of th…
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Why is that significant? Germany and East Europe and Central Asia. That's where a whole bunch of the Nazis lived after World War II. Access to this seemingly unrelated group of states was made possible through bin Laden's building a relatio…