Global Arctic wars already started
Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina.
Published time: December 19, 2013 11:02
RIA Novosti / Anna Yudina
Today’s globalized geopolitical
grand chessboard often plays out in interestingly complex and roundabout
ways. Such is the case of the on-going tug of war between the US, UK
and EU on the one hand, and Russia and its allies on the other.
Pieces are moved; sometimes a pawn from one square to the next,
at other times a rook or bishop straight across the chessboard;
even a knight in its more crooked way… Such is the game of the
looming “Arctic War” which is starting to unfold, in
which seemingly unconnected events begin to make sense when we
start joining the right dots correctly.
Round one in Syria: Putin: 1 / Obama: 0
Last September, US President Barack Obama suffered a crushing
diplomatic and political defeat at the hands of Russian President
Vladimir Putin over the Syrian crisis with its tragic civil war
that is claiming hundreds of thousands of lives.
Together with Iraq, Libya and Iran, Syria forms part of the
staunch Anti-Zionist front of Muslim countries in the Middle East
(and further afield, if we include Malaysia).
Allowing itself to be dragged (yet again!) by Israel’s own
selfish national interests and powerful Israeli lobbying at home
led by AIPAC – American Israeli Public Affairs Committee – the
White House got itself into a dangerous diplomatic row with
Russia and its allies, this time over Syria.
In 2013 this was reflected by Obama’s
“all-options-are-on-the-table” sabre rattling on behalf
of America’s increasingly embarrassing Israeli ally, which forced
him to stick his head too far out the window; particularly when
the so-called “Syrian Freedom Fighters” showed their
extreme brutality, mass-murder tactics, terrorist Al-Qaeda links,
and suspect use of Saudi-Israeli chemical weapons against
civilian populations in Damascus.
When things were on the verge of getting badly out of hand during
September’s G20 meeting in Russia (of all places!), reality
finally forced the US to stand down. That was when Russia’s and
Putin’s prestige peaked and Obama dropped one further notch into
becoming another lame-duck US president.
Round two: Setting up a trap against Russia?
So, when right smack in the middle of the Syrian affair and with
the US declaring defeat at the G20 Summit, how timely it was for
the “environmental NGO” Greenpeace’s vessel Arctic Sunrise show
to “just happen” to take place… in Russia!
The crew of that Greenpeace ship, led by its US-born captain
Peter Willcox, staged the irksome storming of the “Priraslomnaja”
oil and gas rig owned and operated by Russia’s giant
state-controlled Gazprom company, just off Russia’s Arctic coast
inside its exclusive economic zone.
Video images of half a dozen of its 30-odd “environmental
warrior” crew from 18 different nations hanging like a SWAT
team from the Russian oil rig hit the global media headlines big
time.
Given that Greenpeace is no innocent environmental organization
but rather an NGO that systematically cosies up to UK (and by
extension, US) geopolitical interests, one is tempted to insert
many of its actions into the “grand chessboard” logic.
Could its environmental zeal often play as a front for MI6, NSA,
CIA spook activities?
A
handout photo taken by Greenpeace on September 18, 2013, shows a
camouflage clad mask wearing officer of Russian Coast Guard (C) pointing
a knife at a Greenpeace International activist (L) during an
environmentalists' attempt to climb Gazprom’s ‘Prirazlomnaya’ Arctic oil
platform somewhere off Russia north-eastern coast in the Pechora Sea.
(AFP Photo / Greenpeace / DenisSINYAKOV)
Isn’t it odd that whilst Greenpeace makes lots of noise against
potential Russian environmental damage (by the way, no oil
contamination of any sort came from the Priraslomnaja drilling
rig), it never carries out high-media profile protests by trying
to storm, say, some BP, Exxon or Chevron rig these days?
This is particularly suspicious considering that these Western
oil giants have a simply horrific pollution track record as BP’s
“Deepwater Horizon” rig Gulf of Mexico disaster in 2010;
the “Exxon Valdez” in Alaska in 1989; or Chevron’s three
decades of mass pollution in Ecuador have proven time and again?
Greenpeace also kept thunderously silent when London’s “The
Guardian” newspaper reported in December 2003 that the UK
Ministry of Defence
“refused to say whether any nuclear depth
charges were on board (British war ship) HMS Sheffield, which was
sunk during the Falklands/Malvinas War” by Argentine forces
during its 1982 war
against Britain.
So whilst suspiciously quiet regarding US and UK polluters,
Greenpeace has a history of very noisy militancy when it involves
countries whose leaders do things counter to UK/US global
geopolitical interests.
The world remembers, for example, how the Greenpeace ship
“Rainbow Warrior” tried to stop French nuclear tests in
the Pacific Mururoa Atoll in 1985. They failed after France’s
General Foreign Security Directorate covertly sank that ship
before it could interfere with the French military. And, - oh
surprise! – US Captain Peter Willcox was also at the helm of the
“Rainbow Warrior” as its skipper. Are we seeing a
pattern here?
Russia, however, contrary to the French in 1985, kept a very cool
head last September. Instead, they arrested the “Arctic
Sunrise”, forcibly towed it to Murmansk Port in the Arctic,
and promptly threw its environmentally inspired crew in jail for
a couple of months.
Now, think what a media circus would have been staged by the
US-UK if Russia, following France’s bad example, had ordered the
sinking of Greenpeace’s intruder as the French did back then…
Oh, what a hullabaloo! One can almost imagine the headlines:
“Authoritarian and environmentally incorrect Russia ignores
basic human rights of a group of nice peaceful Greenpeace
environmentalists from 18 countries”.
The Western media would have relished in giving Putin one great
big “Zero” to tarnish growing Russian prestige. But, no:
Russia just ordered vessel and crew arrested for piracy on the
high seas. Again, US/UK: 0 / Russia: 1.
Ever since, Greenpeace has been licking its wounds with outright
lies. For instance, since two of the “Arctic Sunrise”
crew were Argentine nationals – Camila Speziale and Miguel Pérez
Orsi – Argentina has been simply plastered with a very costly
propaganda campaign which includes TV ads and giant posters
showing these two young adults’ faces with the legend,
“Prison for trying to avoid an oil spill? Outrageous!”.
The truth, however, is that there was no imminent oil spill;
there was no danger of pollution. Again, shouldn’t
Canadian-founded, Holland-based. US/UK-funded Greenpeace look
more at their own dirty and filthy polluting oil companies at
home rather than poking their noses in the Arctic?
Round Three: Run to the Pole?
No, I’m not talking about NATO’s Anti-Russian Missile
“defence” installations authorized by the Poles in their
native Poland. I mean, the North Pole!
For in recently months, the cat’s been scratching and biting its
way out of the proverbial bag, ever since simply huge oil and gas
resources have been discovered under the Arctic Ocean. Estimates
run as high as 90 billion barrels of oil (20% of global reserves;
13% of world supply), 1.67 trillion cubic meters of natural gas
(30% of world reserves), plus 30% of natural gas, plus platinum,
gold, tin, plus…
One of the most aggressive countries
claiming
territorial sovereignty over all this wealth is Canada, which
more than an actual country is but an offshoot of the British
Crown and an American beachhead into the Arctic. One can clearly
sense Uncle Sam’s breathe behind Canada’s forceful territorial
claims.
A
Russian NTV channel grab taken 03 August 2007 shows a manipulator of
the Mir-1 mini-submarine as it places a Russian state flag at the seabed
of Arctic ocean at a depth of 4,261 meters (13,980 feet), 02 August
2007. (AFP Photo / NTV)
Then there’s also NATO-ally Denmark filing its claims through
Greenland territorial projection, weak ally Norway and, of
course, there’s Superpower Russia which in 2007 actually planted
its flag on the Arctic sea bed right on the North Pole. Canada
too claims that the North Pole is hers. Alas! Poor Santa Claus,
let’s just hope he’s not evicted before Christmas…
As history has shown time and again, the only language that the
US-UK Alliance really understands is the language of force or the
threat thereof.
So President Putin has very prudently ordered his military
starting 2014 to beef up Russia’s presence and defence over its
entire huge Arctic sphere of interest: a
“top government
priority to protect its security and national interest” in
his own words.
In recent months, Russia has started creating new Arctic military
units, reinstating its military bases in the Novosibirsk
Archipelago and Franz Josef Land that had been abandoned after
the demise of the former Soviet Union, and began restoring key
airfields in the region including those on Kotelny Island which
includes making ready the towns of Tiksi, Naryan-Mar, and Anadyr
for increased military personnel and logistical needs.
10 Russian warships and nuclear powered icebreakers are now
operative in that region overseeing key shipping lanes joining
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including ports like Murmansk
(where the “Arctic Sunrise” lies peacefully anchored).
Clearly, the Arctic is very much on the global grand chessboard’s
radar screen. What happens there over the next few years will
have immense significance considering that the manoeuvring and
relative positioning achieved by the powers in conflict will also
help to consolidate their respective presences in the region and
worldwide.
For when it comes to oil and gas, the US and UK have clearly
decided to militarize oil exploration, exploitation and shipping
lanes. Just as they have done in the South Atlantic with the UK’s
Falkland/Malvinas nuclear military base and the US’s powerful
Fourth South Atlantic Fleet with its rosary of military bases
discretely spread into Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and
other countries in the region.
For there lies another even vaster and richer region: the
Antarctic which is not just a sea but an entire continent centred
on the South Pole.
Indeed, in our complex world what happens in the scorched deserts
of Arabia, Libya and Iraq; in the infinite steppes of Asia; in
the steaming jungles of Africa; or in the windswept pampas of
South America has an impact – albeit, indirect - on this new
front which we could described as the coming polar wars.
Wars involving superpower nations, their allied countries,
environmental NGO’s fronting for the global power elites, oil,
gas and mining giants, and of course the bankers pulling the
strings from above; way above 10 Downing, way above the White
House, the Palais D’Elysee and Greenpeace’s HQ in Amsterdam.
Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and
radio/TV commentator in Argentina. www.asalbuchi.com.ar
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