After Ukraine: Into the Age of Anarchy
This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler
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The Middle East Crisis Factory
The West's dependence on both Russian and Middle Eastern energy has been a feature of our world since the middle of the 20th century. In 1991 a huge American led coalition deployed to the Gulf to protect Saudi Arabia against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The 9-11 attack from Osama bin Laden's point of view was a spectacular success because it knocked the most powerful country in the world off its rocker. And further compounding the error of that war was George W. Bush's decision to deploy neoliberal principles in the reconstruction of Iraq much as his father and then Clinton pushed what they called shock therapy for Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1990s.
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