At the just-completed U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing titled, โThe Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom,โ Admiral Dennis Blair โย formerย Director of National Intelligence, President and CEO ofย Institute for Defense Analyses and Commander in Chief of U.S. Pacific Commandย โย admitted what’s still considered conspiratorial toย some.
Put tersely: the U.S. and allied forces launched the ongoing occupation in Iraq and occupy large swaths of the Middle East to secure the flow of oil to the U.S. and its global allies, explainedย Blair.ย
Blair began his analysis lasting just over a minute after a line of questioning (beginning at 1:02:56 in the video below) coming from U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC)ย about TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, โenergy as an instrument of geopolitical powerโ and geopolitical tensions inย Venezuela.ย
