Energy and food crisis will lead to riots in Europe
Previously:
Mass demonstrations spread worldwide as food, gas costs spiral
The US-dominated International Monetary Fund warns of an “erosion of dollar dominance,” noting use of Chinese yuan in global central bank reserves is increasing, while Western sanctions on Russia could strengthen other currencies.
IMF Admits US Dollar Hegemony Declining, due to Rise of Chinese Yuan, Sanctions on Russia
Flight MH17, Royal Dutch Shell and the Yuzovshi Shale Gas Field – What Could It Mean?
Originally posted 01-22-2020 without graphics.
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Ukraine Signs Drilling Deal With Shell for Shale Gas
Before the fear of war, fear of fracking in Ukraine
Russia’s silent shale gas victory in Ukraine
Shell, Chevron, pull out of fracking deals in Ukraine citing the war with Separatists and Russia
Ecuador’s exporters caught between US and China after debt deal
The agreement, signed by the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the Ecuadorean government just days before Donald Trump left office in January, envisages the US buying oil and infrastructure assets in Ecuador on the understanding Quito uses the proceeds to pay off its debt to China.
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Adam Boehler, the recently departed chief executive of DFC, has described the deal as a “novel model” to eject China from the Latin American nation.
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US development bank strikes deal to help Ecuador pay China loans
IMF agrees to lend Ecuador $6.5bn
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U.S. Geopolitics: Afghanistan and the Containment of China
China’s fear is replicating the fall of the Soviet Union. When its borderlands, Central Asia and Transcaucasus, were lost, the Russian core shattered into three states: Byelorussia, Ukraine, and Russia. Should China loses its borderlands, Tibet and Xinjiang, the Chinese core may similarly shatter.
Trump administration helped GOP donors get Syria oil deal
“By continuing to maintain control of the oil fields in Syria, we will deny [Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad] and Iran a monetary windfall,” Graham said in an October 2019 statement. “We can also use some of the revenues from future oil sales to pay for our military commitment in Syria.”
Nothing Delivered: Trump’s ‘Antiwar’ Deception
With Trump, the people thought they voted for something different, but what they received was more of the same. Like Obama and Bush II, Trump was lying to his base, despicably pretending to be opposed to unnecessary wars in faraway lands. Trump made snide comments about the military industrial complex, etc. while looting the American people to pay for it all. He carried on with his “antiwar” façade while bombing to smithereens the same far flung countries that Bush and Obama nearly destroyed. At the same time, he was starving some of the poorest people in the world, from Venezuela to North Korea, with “maximum pressure” sanctions. He prioritized satiating the Israel first crowd first, and set the stage for brinksmanship with Beijing, as well as Moscow, while ensuring ever higher military budgets.
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