Chain the Arabs and Cage the Russians

TEHRAN (Defapress) - In an interview with the question of how the United States took over the world and then blocked the way for other countries to reach the top, Leonid Krutakov, a Russian political analyst, said: The Americans understood that the key factor in domination is access to oil and gas; therefore, the slogan "chain the Arabs, cage the Russians" became their model on the path to dominating the global economy.

According to this expert, the Americans tied the global oil trade to the dollar since the 1970s. Then they installed a "turn-off faucet" to keep China, India, Russia, and other countries away from managing the market.

Referring to the destruction of the European gas market, Krutakov explained: "In oil and gas, it is important who insures the risks and controls the supply of facilities, the futures market, the final price, and the terms of the transaction. The Americans supply gas themselves and, in doing so, have destroyed the entire European gas market. This market was built on long-term contracts. Just as the oil market was built on this basis until 1973. Now the European gas market has been destroyed through Ukraine and the explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines. Everything has been thrown into the sea, and now the price of pipeline gas is tied to the cash and paper market.

Krutakov recalled that Leonid Brezhnev, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, once agreed to a huge 25 percent discount for American companies to sign long-term contracts for the development of oil fields. According to Krutakov, this mistake showed that the Soviet Union, instead of cooperating with the Europeans, who were ready to develop the fields, only wanted to deal with the United States as a superpower.

On the other hand, at the same time, the Americans were negotiating with everyone, including the Arabs, Europe, and the Soviet Union, and as a result, they chained the Arabs, caged the Russians, and Europe, with its traditional masochism, did not interfere with the American quest for domination.

Krutakov notes that all the recent growth in world oil reserves has not been due to the discovery of new fields, but to the rediscovery of old ones and the improvement of technologies. This situation indicates that we are approaching the “Hubbert peak” for oil. The expert concludes: “We are in a state of major global energy collapse. It is difficult to imagine how the United States could have left oil alone and allowed it to be separated from the dollar.