From Twin Piillars To Twin Towers

US oil geopolitics in the 1948 to 2009 period can be said to have been dominated, until 2001, by the ‘Twin Pillars’ doctrine of regional partners in the Middle East guarding and protecting US oil interests. This doctrine had important ideological and non economic components, as well as apparent and basic economic objectives. After 2001 we switch to the ‘Twin Towers’ doctrine, the era of post 911 chaos. The Twin Towers oil doctrine, to be sure, is completely hidden from public view and just as surely we can fear that it is completely makeshift, a Pavolovian response to the USA’s entirely desperate situation regarding its proven and real remaining oil reserves.
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