<html> <head> <style> P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body> <pre><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4873" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4873</a> Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War by F William Engdahl. The context of Putin's speech about US expansionism is explained: US plans to surround Russia and launch a premptive nuclear war, in the quest for absolute global supremacy. One big problem: seeing US efforts to control world oil as indicative of war plans, rather than the other way around (The reason the US is willing to resort to war is to maintain global economic supremacy, which included control of world oil) <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4888" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4888</a> Theater Iran Near Term (TIRRANT), by MIchel Chossudovsky. On US planning for war with Iran since 2003. </pre></body> </html>