Sebbene Vladimir Putin e la sua amministrazione cerchino di rassicurare in merito alla propria affidabilità in materia di sicurezza energetica, non pochi osservatori rilevano un sempre più evidente legame tra l’enorme disponibilità russa di petrolio e gas naturale e il loro uso politico-strategico da parte di Mosca.
Secondo il diplomatico indiano M.K. Bhadrakumar,
Russia has grasped the Central Asian and Caspian energy resources in a bear hug. Meanwhile, an increasingly nervous US looks at the dismal failures of its energy diplomacy and realizes it needs allies to combat the “adversorial regimes” - Russia is one - which wield the oil weapon. And Washington may just have found one in China. The two meet, along with Japan, India and South Korea, next week to look for ways to break out of the Russian squeeze
Per W. Joseph Stroupe, le promesse “rassicuranti” di Putin non potranno essere mantenute, e l’ascesa di una “superpotenza energetica” è ormai sicura:
Putin heads a resurgent Russia that is racing ever faster toward the consolidation of its key global position as respects energy security, the unique global position where it, more than any other single energy exporter, can and in fact already is setting the global agenda and taking the unquestioned leadership role in defining and drawing the circle of international energy security.
As evidenced at the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in June, where Putin proposed the creation of an SCO-centered energy club, and the Group of Eight summit the following month, Russia has already expertly threaded the needle of international energy security policy, doing so with the thread of its own compelling energy security vision and strategy, powerfully bolstered by its mounting global energy leverage. It is now deftly wielding that needle and thread to sew together the circle made up of the globe’s key energy producers and the powerful rising energy consuming economies of the East.
