Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part XII

In order to successfully conduct the above-described anti-communist (most importantly, anti-Chinese) project, the CIA bought out CAT (Civil Air Transport), a private airline. The CIA began to use it widely to transport combat units and weapons in Indochina, as well as for drug trafficking. This activity began during the Korean War (1950-53), and it quickly expanded, reaching its peak during the Vietnam War.

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Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part XI

Will China be successful in overcoming Pakistan’s doubts about whom to build strategic relations with in the future? Everything here depends on how badly China needs Pakistan, and what importance China assigns to using Iranian petroleum resources. The issue is also in the fact that China made an ambitious bid on its concept of the New Great Silk Road, and it cannot lose this bid without losing face. At this time, China has found itself on the brink of failure on one of the directions of the “New Silk Road”.

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Escalation of the Global Gas War. Part VII

After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that negotiations between Russia and the EU over the “South Stream” through the Black Sea to Bulgaria had reached a dead end, and he referred to the “Turkish Stream” through Turkey to Greece as an alternative, the European Commission briefly went into a state of shock. There were even declarations that Russia’s unilateral termination of the negotiations was illegal; therefore, negotiations over the “South Stream” are still in progress.

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