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    Oil Wars
    Oil Wars
    Oil Wars
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    Oil Wars

    By Iakovos Alhadeff

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    This booklet describes various incidents of oil and natural gas wars between different countries. There is no connection between the booklet's chapters. Each chapter was written as an independent short essay.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIakovos Alhadeff
    Release dateSep 18, 2014
    ISBN9781311593757
    Oil Wars
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    Iakovos Alhadeff

    I have studied economics to postgraduate level. I never worked as an economist though. I worked in the field of charter accountancyand I completed the relevant professional exams (the Greek equivalent of the English A.C.A.). My essays are written for the general reader with no economic or accounting knowledge, and the emphasis is on intuition. All my documents are extremely pro market and quite anti-socialist in nature. I admire economists from the Chicago and the Austrian School i.e. Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard. I am Greek and English is not my first language, so I hope you will excuse potential errors in my syntax.

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    Oil Wars - Iakovos Alhadeff

    Oil Wars

    Iakovos Alhadeff

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    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2014 by

    Iakovos Alhadeff

    Published by Iakovos Alhadeff at Smashwords

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Introduction

    China Russia Iran vs the U.S.A.

    The Shanghai Cooperation Agreement as a Challenge to NATO

    The U.S.A. Russia Energy War as a Simple Addition

    The U.S.A. Russia Energy War in 3 Paragraphs

    The 3 Wars for the Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline

    The True Causes of the Conflict Between Turkey and Israel

    The Kirkuk-Ceyhan Pipeline and the Creation of PKK

    The War in Kosovo and the Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline

    Why Saudi Arabia Blamed Hamas and Qatar Blamed Israel in the July 2014 Gaza War

    The New Cold War Between U.S.A. and Russia

    The Ceyhan-Haifa Pipeline

    The Israel-Lebanon War of 2006

    Introduction

    What follows are some very short essays I wrote about oil and natural gas wars. Each chapter is an independent. They are independent in the sense that they were not written to form the parts of a booklet, since all oil and natural gas wars are interrelated.

    China Russia Iran vs the U.S.A.

    China’s agreements with Kazakhstan and Russia, for the construction of pipelines that will supply China with oil and natural gas from these two countries were of great geopolitical importance, for both China and Russia as individual countries, but also as a coalition against the U.S.A. It is not a secret that the Russian oligarchs, most of them ex KGB agents, have formed an alliance with the Chinese communists against the Americans.

    The Russians to begin with, sell most of their natural gas to the European markets. If the Europeans were to boycott them, they would face severe financial difficulties. With the new contract with the Chinese, the Russians will sell 400 billion dollars of natural gas to the Chinese for the next 30 years and will have a second major buyer.

    The Chinese on the other hand, in contrast to the oil and natural gas rich Russians, have to import most of their oil and natural gas. Energy dependence on the Persian Gulf is a great handicap for the Chinese, since the Gulf is dominated militarily by the Americans (area in the red circle).

    Moreover, the ships carrying energy from the Gulf to China have to pass though the straits between Malaysia and Indonesia (area with blue circle). However Malaysia has a close military cooperation with the U.S.A. Basically the Americans can very easily cut off the Chinese energy supplies in case of a military confrontation.

    With energy flowing from Kazakhstan and Russia, the Chinese ensure that they will not run out of fuels in case of a confrontation. For an article on the tensions between the U.S.A. and China for the Persian Gulf oil see the following Wall Street Journal article.

    http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324755104579073283948517714

    Moreover China has built with Turkmenistan a natural gas pipeline, following the route

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