The former Soviet Union has finally embraced the Western ideals of Capitalism, however they will now use it to take a stranglehold on Europe. Gazprom, the Russian sponsored oil juggernaut, revealed its plans to build two new oil pipelines to Western Europe. They will be built underneath the Black Sea and Baltic Sea to bipass Eastern Europe. These former Soviet satellite nations claim that this is Russia's attempt to divide Eastern Europe from the West by controlling their ability to recieve oil. The industrial nations of the West, however, have not found any major problems with this new form of Russian expansion. They view this as mutually beneficial to Russia and the West, seeing it as a way to connect Russia to the rest of the World and by ensuring a steady stream of prime Russian gas to Western Europe. Nevertheless, the Eastern Bloc is still fearful of the Russians true intentions citing that the only thing that has changed in terms of Russian foreign policy is the use of natural gas rather than tanks.
By: Travis James
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