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DescriptionThe Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America's Grasp by Marin Katusa Language: English | Format: PDF | ISBN-10: 1118799941 | ISBN-13: 978-1118799949 Page count: 272 | Date Published: November 10, 2014 | Publisher: Wiley Business & Money, Investing, Commodities CONTENTS Intro The Colder War Contents Foreword Acknowledgments The Colder War 1 The End of the Lost Decade 2 Humbling the Oligarchs 3 The Great Game and the End of the Cold War 4 The Slavic Warrior 5 Ukraine 6 Putin the Statesman 7 The Putinization of Oil 8 The Putinization of Gas 9 The Putinization of Uranium 10 The Middle East: Oil, Wars, and the Great Game 11 Twilight of the Petrodollar 12 Post-Petrodollar America Afterword References About the Author Index Advert EULA Excerpt: I am going to tell you a story you’ll wish weren’t true. Sometime soon, likely in the next five years or so, there is going to be an emergency meeting in the White House Situation Room. It probably will start in the wee hours of the morning, when the early risers among Europe’s oil traders and currency speculators have already begun to scramble out of the way of what’s coming. None of the worried participants in that meeting will have a good solution to propose, because there will be no way for the United States to turn without embracing calamity of one kind or another. The president will listen as his closest advisers lay out the dilemma. After a long silence, he will say, “You’re telling me that everything— everything—is coming unglued.” He’ll be right. At that point, there will be no good options, only less awful ones. Don’t count on the wise and worldly who occupy the highest echelons of government power to know what they are doing when they sit in that meeting. Solving the puzzle of what to do will fall to the same kind of people who today are standing by and letting disaster build. Some of them just don’t know any better. They see all of mankind’s turmoil as cartoon like conflicts between white hats and black hats. Others know that reality is more complex, but it’s so easy, and often politically convenient, to let everything boil down to good guys battling bad guys. Sharing Widget |