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CRG says USA to use Romanian bases to control Caspian Sea oil

Mediafax

The US wants to control oil resources in the Caspian Sea from bases in Romania and Bulgaria, the Center for Research on Globalization (CRG) has said in an analysis.

CRG's analysts said the US might send a peacekeeping forces to provide security for the transport of Caspian oil and gas and US troops in Romania and Bulgaria could be very useful.

"During a recent visit to Romania, US Vice President Joe Biden said Bucharest backed the new US missile shield Washington announced after scrapping earlier planned missile defence deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic," the cited source said, adding "this means that elements of the US missile shield complex may eventually appear in Romania."

According to the analysis, "many analysts believe that US efforts in Romania and Bulgaria are part of a global redeployment strategy started in the early years of the Bush Administration to shift US forces out of Germany and move them eastward.

"While the Pentagon explains all this by the need to move its forces closer to the volatile Middle East, Russia sees it as a direct threat to its interests," the analysis reads.

CRG is an independent research organization and media group of writers, scholars, journalists and activists based in Montreal, Quebec in Canada.

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