May 13, 2014 02:00 am | Rebecca M. Miller
"Transnational pipelines are the contour lines of geopolitics in the twenty-first century. Russia’s design is now apparent to all. America needs to show it has one as well."
Gal LuftFor centuries, European royal families forged marital alliances with friends and adversaries in order to ensure security and influence. Prominent among them was Russia. In the 300 years prior to Czar Nicholas II’s 1894 marriage with Queen Victoria’s granddaughter Alexandra, almost at any point Russia was tied by marriage to its European neighbors. Today, it is no longer royal blood that solidifies Russia’s foreign relations but the energy pipelines that run the lifeblood of national economies.
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