From Mike Whitney, in “Is Putin Creating a New World Order? Oil Price Blowback,” counterpunch.org:
Let’s cut to the chase: All these oil shenanigans are really aimed at just one man: Vladimir Putin. There are a number of reasons why Washington wants to get rid of Putin, the first of which is that the Russian president has become an obstacle to US plans to pivot to Asia. That’s the main issue. As long as Putin is calling the shots, there’s going to be growing resistance to NATO’s push eastward and Washington’s military expansion across Central Asia which could undermine US plans to encircle China and remain the world’s only superpower.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/06/oil-price-blowback-is-putin-creating-a-new-world-order/
This wins the award as the best conspiracy theory advanced, so far, to explain the decline in oil prices, if in fact there has been a conspiracy.
