Details of Plausible Routes: The Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), which is owned by a consortium of oil companies, has proposed two pipeline routes that will deliver oil to the Western market. These pipelines would transport oil and natural gases to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. ... The Russian government does not like the idea of the oil running just outside of their boarders. ... (http://www.treemedia.com/cfrlibrary/library/images/olcottable.gif) Europe consumes 22.4 % of all oil produced in the world and building an oil pipeline to service this region efficien...

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The book begins as the Soviet Union's ability to provide their own oil is cut off by a terrorist attack. ... The leaders of the Soviet Union decided that the only way to prevent the total collapse of their economy and country was to seize the oil rich Middle East. ... Consequently the Soviets determine that it will be necessary to neutralize NATO conventionally; that is to say without nuclear weapons. ... This is very intriguing to examine the possibilities which include all the new technological weapons in the American and Soviet arsenals. ...

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With a Ukrainian government that is both out numbered and out-funded against Russia, a large question the Administration faced was whether or not to aid Ukraine by sending weapons. The goal of the U.S. and other world leaders has been to avoid military conflict, leading to split views in whether or not to weaponize Ukraine. ... According to Landrieu, the project would greatly benefit Ukraine (while bringing millions and millions of dollars to her oil-abundant state.) ... Shortly after Putin's invasion of Ukraine, these weapon manufacturers spoke out about the importance of developing new...

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In the end all that has remained from this "decaying" corpse" is a strong oil economy and other raw materials and a strong army although not trained in the arts of combat since the Georgian War was more of a training with live ammunition, but in the end sticking to the Russian side of the road as Lenin said in every quantity is a quality. ... But as we can see there are some opposing parties in the alliance already in form of Germany and France the last one having a contract to honor and the first being the primary weapons distributor for Russia. ... So what is unfolding before our very own ...

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The owner of Yukos, this was one of the biggest oil companies in Russia. ... The Russian government under Putin is said to be using Presumptive guilt as a weapon against opponents in order to accuse them of being criminals. ...

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The owner of Yukos, this was one of the biggest oil companies in Russia. ... The Russian government under Putin is said to be using Presumptive guilt as a weapon against opponents in order to accuse them of being criminals. ...

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During the end of the WWII, the USA was at the verge of becoming the world's largest superpower, producing more than 50% of the globe's manufacturing outputs, owning a navy that was as big as the rest of the globe's combined navies, and possessing the only weapon of atomic bomb in the world, and this was demonstrated even before the end of the war (Todd, 2011) Therefore, Roosevelt demonstrated deep interest to fill the power vacuum in Europe when the Nazi Germany would be defeated by spreading the doctrine of democracy (Todd, 2011). ... For instance, according to The Churchill C...

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An example of a hard power exercising military forces can be the invasion of Iraq by the US in 2003 over the concern of Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (UCLA International Institute, 2014). ... The sanctions were created to limit the US' investment in Iran's oil fields. ...

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