Russia vs Ukraine - Kisa ni Chevron ya USA?

[Sikonge]

Huu ugomvi unaoendelea huko Ukraine, ugomvi wake ni GAS iliyopo Ukraine? Haya mambo yanachanganya kwelikweli. Ila kama wanavyosema wengi, ukiona wanagombana na sababu haieleweki basi ujuwe ni Fedha. Kumbe hii sijui Ukraine kuingizwa ndani ya EU ni upuuzi tu. Naanza kuelewa kwa nini EU wanaiepuka sana hii vita kwani ukisoma na kuunga DOTS, unaanza kuona ukweli kuwa ni RUSSIA vs UKRAINE. Mrusi inabidi awe mkali kwa sababu kitumbua chake kinaharibiwa. Tatizo tu naona hajui kucheza na Diplomasia/media za dunia.

Hebu soma na wewe hii habari ya Mwaka jana November:

Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron
(Reuters) - Ukraine signed a $10 billion shale gas production-sharing agreement with U.S. Chevron (CVX.N) on Tuesday, another step in a drive for more energy independence fromRussia. The deal to develop its western Olesska field followed a similar shale gas agreement with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) in January and boosts Ukraine's leadership at a time of fraught relations with Moscow over gas supplies.

"The agreements with Shell and Chevron ... will enable us to have full sufficiency in gas by 2020 and, under an optimistic scenario, even enable us to export energy," President Viktor Yanukovich told investors shortly before the signing.....................

Read more: Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron | Reuters

 

[Sikonge]

Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry.

But US efforts to turn the political tide in Ukraine away from Russian influence began much earlier. In 2004, the Bush administration had given$65 million to provide 'democracy training' to opposition leaders and political activists aligned with them, including paying to bring opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko to meet US leaders and help underwrite exit polls indicating he won disputed elections.

This programme has accelerated under Obama. In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington DC last December as Ukraine's Maidan Square clashes escalated, Nuland confirmed that the US had invested in total "over $5 billion" to "ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine" - she specifically congratulated the "Euromaidan" movement.

So it would be naive to assume that this magnitude of US support to organisations politically aligned with the Ukrainian opposition played no role in fostering the pro-Euro-Atlantic movement that has ultimately culminated in Russian-backed President Yanukovych's departure.

Read more: Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

 

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

Everybody's got an opinion about the 'showdown' with Russia.
Some say it's about freedom and the right to self-determination. Some say it's about standing up to aggression and halting a dictator's march.
Some say it's about the future of everything-from Syria to North Korea to Iran's nuclear program - and, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, it all stems from Obama's failure to kill the people who killed Americans at Benghazi.
But the most-revealing voice in the chorus is Condi Rice. She penned a tension-filled op-edon 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 Kissingeropined 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.

It's the gas, stupid
When that lease was signed on November 5, 2013, it stoked Russian fears about losing its influence on, and a major gas market in, a former satellite.
It also came on the eve of the much-disputed trade deal with the European Union that, once abandoned due to Russian pressure, led to the toppling of Ukraine's government.
Reuters characterized Ukraine's "$10 billion shale gas production-sharing agreement with US Chevron" as "another step in a drive for more energy independence from Russia."

Of course, Ms. Rice knows something about driving for more energy. She sat on Chevron's board of directors for ten years before resigning to become President Bush's National Security Adviser in January of 2001.
She was such a titanic figure at Chevron and so beloved by their corporate captains that they even named a 129,000-ton oil tanker 'Condoleezza Rice'. Do people name tankers after people? People do!

But four months after leaving Chevron, they "quietly renamed" the tanker, apparently sensitive to the implication that she might prioritize their interests in places like Kazakhstan (a de facto dictatorship never targeted by American Exceptionalists) or the Caspian Sea (where Chevron is heavily invested) or Afghanistan (where they've long sought a pipeline from the Caspian region to the Indian Ocean).

Read more: Ukraine, Chevron, Condi Rice and shale gas ... join the dots - Comment - The Ecologist

 

[Mndengereko]

human beings are selfish by nature. russia wana haki ya kukasirika.sie tuliingia vita na idi amin kisa kagera sembuse wao kisa gas??