Quote from Random.Capital:
According to your own earlier statement, that attitude makes you a fanatic.
Period.
The problem is there are way too many fanatics running around on all sides. The only link between them is oil. The reason why we make up all these fantasis to invade other nations is the caspain sea and it's immense as yet unproven reserves of oil and potential for unlimited LNG for the booming Asian markets. In the next decade, just China alone will require more Oil than what the US consumes.
http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/MAPS & CHARTS/CASPIAN SEA_ESTIMATED & PROVEN OIL RESERVES.JPG
Looking at that map, and that tells you pretty much what the theatre of operation is.
It's all about the oil and the old men whose dynastic fortunes depend on oil wealth. If they can control the Caspian sources, then they effectively control most of the future oil flow like they do the present ones.
