Ukraine, Chevron, Condi Rice and shale gas ... join the dots - The Ecologist

[MattSh]

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But the most-revealing voice in the chorus is Condi Rice. She penned a tension-filled op-ed on Ukraine for the Washington Post - the newspaper of broken records.

Her nostalgic, "Baby, It's a Cold War Outside" ditty on the "Ukrainian Problem" came just two days after a Teflon-coated Henry Kissinger opined about the "art of establishing priorities" in his own Ukraine-themed op-ed for the Post.

Why should we care about Condi?

As the world learned through painful experience, Condi Rice, much like Henry Kissinger, was all about establishing priorities. But now that she's out of power, why should anyone waste any time considering Ms. Rice's opinion about anything, much less about the 'crisis' in Ukraine?

Why? Because it's telling. Like most American Exceptionalists, her bluster and posturing can be reverse-engineered to find the banal truth about US foreign policy.

For example, her steadfast belief that Ukraine "should not be a pawn in a great-power conflict but rather an independent nation" might have something to do with Chevron's 50-year lease to develop Ukraine's shale gas reserves.



http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2325091/ukraine_chevron_condi_rice_and_shale_gas_join_the_dots.html

[pscot]

1. The key

This is the Rosetta Stone for US foreign policy for the last 100 years.

[TBF]

2. Excellent. K&R nt

[pscot]

3. Repost this in Good Reads

It will be visible longer over there, and it's a must read in my opinion.

[sabrina 1]

4. There is one good reason we should care about Condi, she lied this country into a disastrous war

and has yet to be held accountable for it.

Didn't Chevron name a ship after Condi?

Good article, especially the part about reversing everything Condi says to find the truth.

[niyad]

5. k and r and thoroughly, although unsurprisingly, depressing.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. "might have something to do with"

Or it might have something to do with Russia using military force to seize war-making assets from a sovereign nation.

Just tossing that out there.