The three superpowers are all trying to line up resources by fair means or foul. From Matt Braken at steelcutter.substack.com:
I am a visual thinker, and I love maps and charts, so I just put this one together. In my opinion, we are moving from peacetime economic trade war conditions to a quazi-kinetic war for the control of the critical natural resources that are needed by the major powers in our emerging multipolar world.
So, just what in the Sam Hill is a quazi-war?
Well, it turns out that we already fought one. Read about it at the link.
Today, the unipolar period which followed the end of the cold war is coming to an end. It’s being replaced by a tri-polar world if you count the three greatest military powers: the USA, Russia and China. Or, it’s a bipolar world if you consider it to be a contest between the USA and its allies, and the emerging BRICS bloc.
In my humble opinion, (news flash), the US naval fleet currently assembled in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific is not actually about stopping drug boats. It’s about securing the largest oil reserve in the world for U.S. refineries. It’s also a message to Russia and China that the USA is exerting a new economic Monroe Doctrine, with the Americas in our zone of control.
LOL at memesters with AI generated Timmeh and Somali pirates.
Without cheap energy all are gulag bound?