“DEEP STATE” STRATEGY TOWARD RUSSIA (by charles hugh smith) (see curt’s commenta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_HistoryAMERICAN “DEEP STATE” STRATEGY TOWARD RUSSIA

(by charles hugh smith) (see curt’s commentary for libertarians at bottom)

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1) Frustrate Moscow’s ambitions to dominate Eurasia. The operative strategic analyses employed are MacKinder’s World-Island Theory as subsequently and heavily modified by modern hydro-carbon fuel economics: The Geographical Pivot of History.

2) Continue to improve the EU’s Central European position with respect to its hydrocarbon fuel supplies. The Neocons were already deeply worried about the growth of NATO dependence on Gazprom and the eastern pipelines in the mid-1980s. This has been on their radar for decades.

The overall objective is to destroy Putin’s capacity to set marginal natural gas prices in Europe. If pipelines under the Baltic and Black Seas are feasible so are pipelines under the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to France, and from the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean to Greece and southeastern Europe. Add some LPG terminals and European shale gas operations and this is achieved.

There may be a third goal in trying to set an example for domestic Russian opponents, which exist in great numbers. I think it’s more likely the Russian Federation’s Deep State will find another leader first.

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CURT’S COMMENTARY FOR LIBERTARIANS

We should never fool ourselves into thinking that the neocon’s are stupid. I write aristocratic libertarian philosophy, but with a distinctly mercantile bias. Conservative aristocrats do not have this mercantile bias but a MORAL bias in favor of security. Conservatives see risk abatement the way we see opportunity. It is genetic. It will never change. We are all different breeds of ants. Conservatives are the warriors.

The aristocratic, paternal, moral, secure vision, is not a stupid one. It’s an alternative allocation of capital. We want it for our consumption. The progressives want tit for lower class consumption and upper class status. And the conservatives want it as ‘stores’.

Conservatives think geopolitically. This is but one example of the long running imperial theme of the anglo conservatives.

if it isn’t clear, I don’t really mind if they do this kind of thing. I only mind that I get the choice to do something I prefer. After all, unlike conservatives, libertarians are info-vores and novelty hunters. And I want to be able to chase my ant-intuitions just like I am happy to let them chase theirs.