Der Irak und das Erdöl

Eine Studie des Center for Strategic & International Studies zeigt die Abhängigkeiten.

Global Energy, Economic Interdependence, Iraq And the Gulf
Source: Center for Strategic & International Studies

As at the attached briefing show, the stability and security of the Gulf is absolutely critical to the world and will be for decades to come. That security also is not a matter of Iraq’s oil or Iran’s. It is the security of all Gulf oil and especially southern Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE. If the US goes to war with a nation like Iraq, it is because of the strategic importance of the region, and the broader threat it poses, not because of the size of oil reserves that the US could only exploit profitably if it totally controlled Iraqi oil for decades.

Nothing about these strategic realities is altruistic. The US does focus on critical strategic concerns. These concerns, however, are global and focus on far broader considerations that benefit the entire global economy. Moreover, the regional security of the Gulf is equally critical to all of the peaceful oil exporting nations in the region, which cannot then be intimidated, blackmailed, or have their export earnings and economies threatened by a local power.

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