Federico Bordonaro

Michael T. Klare offre oggi, su Asia Times Online, un’analisi di ampio respiro della crisi iraniana. Riecheggiando quanto sostenuto da Pierre Biarnès nel suo Pour l’Empire du Monde, l’accademico americano spiega:

“When it comes to grand strategy, top Bush administration officials have long attempted to maintain US dominance over the “global chessboard” (as they see it) by diminishing the influence of the only other significant players, Russia and China.

This classic geopolitical contest began with a flourish in early 2001, when the White House signaled the provocative course it planned to follow by unilaterally repudiating the US-Russian Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and announcing new high-tech arms sales to Taiwan, which China still considers a breakaway province. ”

“[…] on June 3, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld weighed in on China, telling an audience of Asian security officials that Beijing’s “lack of transparency” with respect to its military spending “understandably causes concerns for some of its neighbors”. These comments were accompanied by publicly announced plans for increased US spending on sophisticated weapons systems such as the F-22A fighter and Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines that could only be useful in a big-power war for which there were just two realistic adversaries - Russia and China.”

E conclude:

As the crisis over Iran unfolds, most of the news commentary will continue to focus on the war of words between Washington and Tehran. Political insiders understand, however, that the most significant struggle is the one that remains just out of sight, pitting Washington against Moscow and Beijing in the battle for global influence and energy domination. From this perspective, Iran is just one battlefield - however significant - in a far larger, more long-lasting, and momentous contest.