Interessanter Artikel im Guardian ueber die Hintergruende und Motive fuer den Putsch in der Ukraine.
Chevron soll 10 Milliarden US-$ fuer das Olesky Gasfeld der Westukraine hingeblaettert haben und zwar bereits im November 2013. Chevron will der Westukraine dabei helfen, bis 2020 von den russischen Gaseinfuhren unabhaengig zu werden.
Aehnliche Geschaefte sollen auch schon mit Shell und ExxonMobil abgewickelt worden sein.
Hinter dem Putsch stehen somit eindeutig Finanz- und Konzerninteressen der 8 maechtigsten Familien dieser Welt:
http://deanhenderson.wordpress.com/2...ight-families/
Die Ukraine wird als wichtiger und zentraler Korridor fuer den Transport von Oel und Gas aus dem russischen und kaspischen Raum angesehen, den es zu kontrollieren gilt:
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Indeed, at her 2013 speech, Nuland added:
"Today, there are senior officials in the Ukrainian government, in the business community, as well as in the opposition, civil society, and religious community, who believe in this democratic and European future for their country. And they've been working hard to move their country and their president in the right direction."
What direction might that be? A glimpse of an answer was provided over a decade ago by Professor R. Craig Nation, Director of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the US Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute, in a NATO publication:
"Ukraine is increasingly perceived to be critically situated in the emerging battle to dominate energy transport corridors linking the oil and natural gas reserves of the Caspian basin to European markets... Considerable competition has already emerged over the construction of pipelines. Whether Ukraine will provide alternative routes helping to diversify access, as the West would prefer, or 'find itself forced to play the role of a Russian subsidiary,' remains to be seen."
A more recent US State Department-sponsored report notes that "Ukraine's strategic location between the main energy producers (Russia and the Caspian Sea area) and consumers in the Eurasian region, its large transit network, and its available underground gas storage capacities", make the country "a potentially crucial player in European energy transit" - a position that will "grow as Western European demands for Russian and Caspian gas and oil continue to increase."
Ukraine's overwhelming dependence on Russian energy imports, however, has had "negative implications for US strategy in the region," in particular the strategy of:
"... supporting multiple pipeline routes on the East–West axis as a way of helping promote a more pluralistic system in the region as an alternative to continued Russian hegemony."
But Russia's Gazprom, controlling almost a fifth of the world's gas reserves, supplies more than half of Ukraine's, and about 30% of Europe's gas annually. Just one month before Nuland's speech at the National Press Club, Ukraine signed a $10 billion shale gas deal with US energy giant Chevron "that the ex-Soviet nation hopes could end its energy dependence on Russia by 2020." The agreement would allow "Chevron to explore the Olesky deposit in western Ukraine that Kiev estimates can hold 2.98 trillion cubic meters of gas." Similar deals had been struck already with Shell and ExxonMobil.
The move coincided with Ukraine's efforts to "cement closer relations with the European Union at Russia's expense", through a prospective trade deal that would be a step closer to Ukraine's ambitions to achieve EU integration. But Yanukovych's decision to abandon the EU agreement in favour of Putin's sudden offer of a 30% cheaper gas bill and a $15 billion aid package provoked the protests.
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http://www.theguardian.com/environme...vals-pipelines
Hintergrund:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-...to-war/5373250
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/...oke-point.html