We are looking at the world’s monstrous zero sum game. The only way for someone to win is for someone else to lose because there is only so much of this shrinking pie to go around.’ Thus, the feeding frenzy has begun in earnest! It is somewhat strange that the word “oil” is not central in the national dialogue on. The USA cannot and will not allow that to happen. The USA cannot continue to survive as a superpower if it loses control of. Middle East oil. Those are the stakes on the table. That is the (not so) hidden agenda.

In Robertson’s novel , the United Nations is mentioned just once, as a kind of relic that failed to deliver the new