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Sunday | 12 February 2006

The Iran crisis & global peak oil

..........Everything I see and read tells me that this clash and conflict is probably now inevitable, especially due to the belligerent, bellicose, intransigent, uncompromising nature of the antagonists on each side whose positions and rhetoric are becoming increasingly hardened and dug in. The world is becoming increasingly polarized in this brewing conflict, with the Europeans now becoming more unified and pushed into the American camp by the whole Prophet Muhammed cartoon affair with all of its targeted violence directed against Denmark, Norway, France, Britain, and Germany. On Iran's side, you have Russia, China, Syria, and Venezuela (which is the United States' third largest oil supplier, after Canada and Mexico, and whose president, Hugo Chavez, has said that he would cut off all oil exports to the US in the event of any US attack on Iran). The other Arabs and the Turks seem to be caught somewhere in the middle at the moment. The battle lines are hardening. I can see the train wreck coming. The repercussions will be devastating...............