Close Menu
    Geopolitik

    Trumps Tankerangriff könnte tödliche Folgen haben. Das ist jetzt eine Weltkrise

    View 10 Comments

    10 Kommentare

    1. theipaper on

      It all marks a dramatic handbrake turn in the tangled personal relations between the American and Russian presidents.

      With his latest move to enforce his version of the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 – renamed the “[Donroe Doctrine](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-strangle-next-regime-hit-list-4148575?ico=in-line_link)” – Trump is likely to have reassigned Putin from “frenemy” to outright enemy.

      The oil embargo strikes at three of Russia’s close clients, allies or proxies – Cuba, Iran, and China.

      Trump’s oil strategy appears to have brutal simplicity. He aims to dominate, and even control where possible, the hydrocarbon resources of the American continent – “Our Hemisphere” in the words of the US national security strategy released last year – plus the strategic minerals from copper to rare earths, lithium and the like. 

      The events across the Atlantic from the Caribbean to the Baltic of the last days and hours, as well as the implosion of Iran, are parts of a rolling crisis, now changing by the hour.

    2. FingalForever on

      Unlike Russians or Chinese, Americans chose yet again to be the ‘bull in a china shop‘ and we are seeing the return of the 1800s in terms of international relations – including gunboat diplomacy and doctrines such as manifest destiny & Monroe Doctrine.

      The civilised world is shrinking.

      EDIT: 15 minutes in, some people may think I am praising Russia and China. My first sentence is contrasting the fact that neither of those countries are a democracy whereas the USA is. The American people chose the route they are now pursuing, unlike Russians and Chinese (who have no voice in the matter).

    3. ex0e on

      This is radical ideological whiplash.

      Yesterday Trump was too scared of Russia to seize a ship blatantly violating international law by flying false flags to evade sanctions – because it threw up a Russian flag. Clearly Trump is a Russian puppet and international rules mean nothing. Today Trump is risking WW3 by seizing the same ship for the same reasons. Clearly international rules mean nothing because it’s the opposite of yesterday.

      It’s so tiresome.

    4. Sasquatchii on

      First off it’s funny the author of this article seems to know for sure that an annonymous oil tanker, who in desperation flew a makeshift russian flag, which was important enough to be chased accross the ocean by the US Navy, and protected by at least one Russian submarine, was merely „empty“. The extent to which both nations went to recover this ship suggests there may be a highly sensitive item, or items, aboard this specific ship. Obviously it was silly of those nations to risk great international incident when they could have just spoken with this author.

      Second off, the more the illicit oil trade is choked off the more pressure is on Russia to end the Ukraine war. Simple as that.

    8. Bob_Spud on

      Apparently the Russian submarine didn’t arrive on time, There have been suggestions that it was carrying arms and other cargo. If that is the case, will the Russian submarine try to sink it, or the US could sink it and blame blame the Russians.

      There are theories that a Russians submarine sank this;

      [Russian “Ghost Ship” Sank While Smuggling Nuclear Reactor Parts Likely Bound for North Korea](https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-ghost-ship-sank-while-smuggling-nuclear-reactor-parts-likely-bound-to-north-korea-14622)

    9. SegheCoiPiedi1777 on

      Call me crazy but I don’t see these developments as crazy. On the opposite, I think they may result in finally containing Russia. I think this US admin is simply starting to repay Russia with its own money: by not respecting any international law and simply flexing muscles and bullying.

      Russia has been violating NATO airspace for YEARS (on top of conducting various other operations like cutting undersea cables), and only Turkey was brave enough to shoot dow. their jets (after that accident, magically Russia stopped accidentally invading their airspace). Did Russia nuke Turkey as a result? No.

      Obviously they won’t do anything to America seizing a tank they can’t even openly claim it’s theirs. It’s a nothing burger as far as escalation risk goes.

      Russia is a bully and only understands being bullied. Trump started ‘negotiations’ with Putin HORRIBLY, by basically treating him like a peer and signalling he was willing to give him everything. Maybe he finally understood he was being played, or maybe someone else in the White House has taken control, but the policy has now changed to putting economic pressure on Russia indirectly and stop nowhere to do so.

      This whole Venezuela operation is done with the implicit objective to push oil prices lower and make it unbearable for Russia to sustain the war for much longer. Let’s also not forget that Russia all but lost the support of Iran (which is incredibly weakened atm), Syria, Hezbollah and now Venezuela. It can only half count on China, which however is much more of a senior partner that already has Russia by the balls.

    10. jackKmart on

      Coupled with the US action in Venezuela, and the blustering about ‚invading‘ Greenland (which has curiously spurred more public support for accelerated armament/re-armament, from both EU leaders and populace alike). It looks like the US – maybe Trump specifically – is less and less accepting of Russia’s insistence on certain terms regarding Ukraine. The US are taking more and more opportunities to undercut Russian hard and soft power in an attempt to significantly weaken their bargaining power. Obviously, Russia will not like this, but they have hamstrung themselves with their war and subsequent (perceived) unwillingness to negotiate.

      This, of course, coincides too with the successful attack(s) on Iran and their proxies we saw last year, as well as the reasonable amount of economic/public unrest that is going on there currently.

      The US is continuously looking to China, and will take probably every opportunity, no matter how ‚internationally illegal‘ to hasten the positive resolution of the Ukraine conflict, and return more power to NATO allies in Europe. This is the optimistic thinking from the US side at least from my POV.

    Leave A Reply