Part 2 in The Kellogg Plan is DOA Series
By George McMillan, owner of McMillan Geostrategic Consulting
Introduction: Natural Gas and Shifting the Global Political Center of Gravity
In this second article of the series I will explain why it is in Putin’s best interest to adopt a “do nothing” strategy and delay any meetings with the Trump administration as long as possible. Primary reasons include letting the energy prices in Europe continue to soar and their automotive and heavy industries continue to collapse. However, these are ultimately just the first dominos in a potentially much more significant chain of events in which Putin achieves several major strategic objectives for Russia.
The correlation of soaring energy costs and industrial collapse has created the conditions under which either the AfD rises to power in Germany and the Populist parties rise to power in the entire Danube River Valley and (a) rebuild Nordstream to save their industries, and then exit the Petrodollar, the EU, and NATO in combination; or (b) if the globalists are successful in the USAID/NED and Western NGO funded color revolution protests that are occurring in these same Danube River Valley countries and manage to retain their grip on power, then Europe’s path towards deindustrialization and Third World country status will only hasten; Keeping in mind that Russia, China, and Iran will be fine with either outcome.
The logic of this rationale is simple, the Wolfowitz/RAND/Blinken strategy to cut off Germany and all of Central Europe from affordable natural gas via pipeline has been successful as I have been discussing publicly since November of 2023. However, the main underlying objective of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) was to control both the petroleum fields and the pipeline routes to provide Europe with alternative affordable natural gas to replace Russian Natural Gas via pipeline. It is this aspect of the ‘Grand Chessboard” that has failed.
The summum bonum of the Wolfowitz strategy has been to prevent the Global Political Center of Gravity from shifting from a Washington-London alliance to some sort of a Berlin-Moscow-Beijing-Tokyo alliance across the axial ends of Eurasia based on overland oil and natural gas pipeline economic integration that avoids US Navy-controlled maritime chokepoints (The land-power breakout strategy discussed in the prior series).
The irony is that the Wolfowitz strategy is creating the conditions under which their worst fear is becoming a possibility. Russia, China, and Iran have coordinated their overland logistical supply route counterstrategy with an increasing sense of urgency since the 2014 Euromaidan coup in Kyiv. Each one of these three countries realizes that the objective of the West is to control both the Caspian Sea region's natural gas reserves and the pipeline routes to Europe going through Turkey.