Russia-China Gas Deal: End of US Superpower?

Shanghai — China and Russia signed a $400 billion gas deal giving Moscow a megamarket for its leading export and linking two major powers that, despite a rocky history of alliances and rivalries, have drawn closer to counter the clout of the United States and Europe.

 The 30 year deal which Mr. Putin called an “epochal event,” will lead to pipelines and billions of dollars in investments by these two nations. This also solidifies a Russia-China alliance that puts the US and it's NATO allies trailing behind. Back in 2012 the Obama Regime blocked the Keystone Pipeline which is a 1,661 mile pipeline from Canada into the US including Nebraska, Illinois, and the Texas Gulf Coast. This pipeline would create over 20,000 jobs and produce over 700,000 barrels of oil a day; while bringing industry and respect back to the former United States.

  With western sanctions over Russia following the Ukraine crisis this deal once again puts Russia into the global market despite the European Union, United States and NATO all being against them. Providing lower gas prices than the EU China also offered a loan of $50 billion dollars and gas is expected to start flowing by 2018.

   Our government it seems for awhile now hasn't been good at anything except military force so don't expect us or our children to have industry come home. Our bridges are collapsing, our railroads are over 100 years old and we a have millions of barrels of oil in Alaska and the Gulf Coast we aren't allowed to pump. Only the entrepreneurship spirit which built this country will save this country. It's up to all of us to do what we can for ourselves and others; working together we can overcome.  


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Cold War 2

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine, Ukraine (AP) - Masked gunmen stormed the parliament of Ukraine's strategic Crimea region as Russian fighter jets screamed above the border, while Ukraine's newly formed government pledged to prevent a national breakup with the strong backing of the West - the stirrings of a potentially dangerous confrontation reminiscent of Cold War brinksmanship.
  
 Moscow, meanwhile, has launched a major military exercise involving 150,000 troops and put fighter jets on patrol along the border. Barack Obama’s national security adviser said it would be a “grave mistake” for Vladimir Putin to send soldiers into Ukraine to restore a friendly government after the upheaval. The White House sent a stern message Sunday to Russian President Vladimir Putin to butt out of the Ukrainian crisis, warning a military intervention on his part “would be a grave mistake.”

 And then you have rational people like myself saying "Not again". Why does the US always feel the need to get involved in all Geo-politics even if the region is for strategic counter measures. We have had too much war and too much bad news in the country and nobody wants to hear Cold War rhetoric from politicians who've never even been in fight. This Slavic territory has been contested for a long time and if these people want to shape their own destinies I say so be it. No more American deaths in the name of national security or policing the world.

    

                                                                                                            -Sodaghar 2/27/14