Столетняя война за нефть

Vozrosshai͡a s kont͡sa 2006 goda konfrontat͡sii͡a mezhdu SShA i Rossieĭ trebuet bolee glubokogo ponimanii͡a togo, pochemu, po mnenii͡u amerikanskikh strategov ot Genri Kissindzhera i Zbigneva Bzhezinskogo do ikh nyneshnikh uchenikov, imenno Rossii͡a i͡avli͡aetsi͡a prizom v igre za vlastʹ na mirom. Prizom, dazhe bolee vazhnym, chem Kitaĭ. Dannai͡a rabota i͡avli͡aetsi͡a popytkoĭ raskrytʹ kli͡uchevoe znachenie segodni͡ashneĭ Rossii vsem, kto pytaetsi͡a osmyslitʹ nevrazumitelʹnye tendent͡sii mirovoĭ politiki. Analizu sobytiĭ vokrug Iraka i Afganistana i volny "t͡svetnykh revoli͡ut͡siĭ" na postsovetskom prostranstve predshestvuet ot͡senka geopoliticheskogo i istoricheskogo konteksta ėtikh sobytiĭ. Avtor tshchatelʹno proslezhivaet rolʹ nefti kak stolpa anglo-amerikanskoĭ vlasti v proshlom stoletii i pokazyvaet, chto vazhna ne neftʹ sama po sebe, a dai͡ushchiĭ realʹnui͡u politicheskui͡u vlastʹ kontrolʹ nad neĭ. Kholodnai͡a voĭna proshlogo stoletii͡a stala dli͡a ėtogo nailuchshim sredstvom, poskolʹku strakh pered sovetskoĭ ugrozoĭ uspeshno izoliroval Rossii͡u i ukrepli͡al dominirovanie Britanii i SShA za schet obladanii͡a resursami. Ėta kniga proslezhivaet rolʹ nefti kak stolpa anglo-amerikanskoĭ vlasti, nachinai͡a so vtoroĭ poloviny XIX veka. No leĭtmotivom i͡avli͡aetsi͡a ne neftʹ sama po sebe, a dai͡ushchiĭ politicheskui͡u vlastʹ geopoliticheskiĭ kontrolʹ nad neĭ.

The increased confrontation between the United States and Russia since the end of 2006 requires a deeper understanding of why, according to American strategists from Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski to their current students, it is Russia that is the prize in the game for power in the world. A prize even more important than China. This work is an attempt to reveal the key importance of today's Russia to everyone who is trying to comprehend the incomprehensible trends of world politics. The analysis of the events around Iraq and Afghanistan and the wave of "color revolutions" in the post-Soviet space is preceded by an assessment of the geopolitical and historical context of these events. The author carefully traces the role of oil as a pillar of Anglo-American power in the last century and shows that it is not oil itself that is important, but control over it that gives real political power. The Cold War of the last century was the best means for this, because fear of the Soviet threat successfully isolated Russia and strengthened the dominance of Britain and the United States through the possession of resources. This book traces the role of oil as a pillar of Anglo-American power since the second half of the XIX century. But the leitmotif is not oil itself, but the geopolitical control over it that gives political power.