http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4873Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War by F William Engdahl. Thecontext of Putin's speech about US expansionism is explained: US plans tosurround Russia and launch a premptive nuclear war, in the quest forabsolute global supremacy. One big problem: seeing US efforts to controlworld oil as indicative of war plans, rather than the other way around (Thereason the US is willing to resort to war is to maintain global economicsupremacy, which included control of world oil) http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4888Theater Iran Near Term (TIRRANT), by MIchel Chossudovsky. On US planning forwar with Iran since 2003. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20070224/a4887940/attachment.htm>