Studie des US Army Combined Arms Center: Cultural Perspectives, Geopolitics & Energy Security of Eurasia – Is the Next Global Conflict Imminent?
It is obvious that Russia-China rapprochement presents a profound challenge to the United States. The realpolitik question for US policy makers would be how to prevent this historically unlikely alliance between the two major global and regional players. The same question would apply to evolving Russia-Iran collaboration in different areas, including military cooperation, which have never been friends in the past. Turkey renewed its efforts to rebuild ties shattered by downing of a Russian warplane last year. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Russia in August 2016 as part of that effort.
At the same time, Turkey’s relations with traditional allies – the United States and Europe – show increasing strain amid Ankara’s crackdown following a failed coup. It is believed a new alliance between Turkey, a NATO member, and Russia, is an example of the latter power’s strategy to split NATO. The United Kingdom’s Brexit in summer 2016 vote shows the likelihood for more strain in the EU and NATO as well. That new important development would potentially meet the objectives of the anti-American economic and strategic agenda in Europe, would diminish US in uence among its traditional allies, already affected by Europe’s pragmatic considerations of close trade and economic relationships with Russia and China. Adding to that complexity was Poland’s decision in July 2016 to le a formal objection against Russia’s proposed “Nord Stream 2” gas pipeline.7 Observers say that construction of that pipeline would divide Europe from the US, isolate Ukraine, and reinforce Moscow’s energy dominance for another generation. This initiative is another example of how consistent pipeline politics serves as an important tool of regional and global geopolitical efforts to achieve strategic objectives.
Diese Initiative stellt ein weiteres Beispiel dafür dar, wie konsistente Pipeline-Politik als wichtiges Werkzeug regionalen und globalen geopolitischen Engagements dienen kann, um strategische Ziele zu erreichen.