A great - and still growing - divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. While a large part of the global population appears still transfixed by words, there is a growing perception that great fissures already rend the global strategic architecture.
Gregory R. Copley for the OilPrice.com believes this is a trend which will compound during 2010. Read his predictions on the decline in Western asset values, the increasing conflict in Afghanistan and the Arabian Peninsula, and forced moves in the US toward natural gas exploitation and possible exploitation of US oilfields as The West shrinks away from dominance of major fields of Iraq, Iran, Nigeria against competition from the People’s Republic of China and India.
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