The Azerbaijan energy trap: U.S. policy initiated by Clinton and continued by Bush is making America dependent on oil from this region still run by Stalin-era Communists.(Communism)

From: The New American | Date: November 3, 2003| Author: Jasper, William F. | Copyright information

If asked to identify Azerbaijan, most Americans, unfortunately would be clueless. Is it a newly discovered planet? A mountain in India? An exotic virus? None of the above. Azerbaijan is a key chess piece in a global power play to reorient strategic geopolitical influence. One part of this important reorientation involves transferring U.S. and Western Europe's energy dependency from OPEC to Russia and the former Soviet republics of the Caspian region. This energy realignment is alre...

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