Re: [Marxism] Geopolitics 101

[Nestor Gorojovsky <nmgoro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect escribió:
> NY Times, February 6, 2009
> Analysis: US Base Falls Victim to Kyrgyz Crisis
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> 
> Filed at 11:21 a.m. ET
> 
> Kyrgyzstan may have felt it had no choice in expelling the U.S. from a 
> base vital to the war in Afghanistan.
> 
> Months of crippling electricity shortages, soaring food prices and 
> rampant unemployment have caused misery for much of the population. A 
> reinvigorated opposition has threatened to stage nationwide protests 
> against President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
> 
> Against that backdrop, Russia pledged to help raise $1.7 billion for a 
> much-needed hydropower plant and issue a $300 million low-interest 
> 40-year loan repayable over a 40-year period. Moscow also agreed to give 
> $150 million in aid and cancel an outstanding $190 million debt.
> 
> But Russia has also made clear its objections to the Manas air base, 
> saying it was only supposed to remain for two years after the U.S. 
> invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

Perú (that is the Quisling Peruvian regime of Alan García) may have felt 
it had no choice in admitting a U.S. naval base vital to the deployment 
of the Fourth Fleet in the war against Latin American unification.

Etc., etc., etc.

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