Resource warfare intensifies across ”Grand Chessboard” and Horn of Africa

With the world now one full year off the Peak Oil and Gas cliff (according to work of geologists such as Kenneth Deffeyes), it is no surprise to see geostrategic tensions superheating quickly in several key oil and gas regions, as the world
Turkmenistan in chaos

Adding to the worsening crisis across the Middle East (Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia) and Central Asia (Afghanistan), and continued chaos from Anglo-American occupation, Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov has suddenly died, leaving a gaping and dangerous power vacuum in gas-rich Turkmenistan—and throwing a key part of the “Grand Chessboard” into doubt.

Turkmenistan, under Niyazov, has been one of the central strategic player in the continuous resource war over the Caspian Sea region and Central Asia that has unfolded in bloody fashion since the late 1990s.

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