3000 US Troops to Fight Ebola in West Africa? Get Real! This is Another Proxy Resource (Oil) War…

 New Front in the Proxy Resource Wars – J C. Collins

The movement of troops, especially American troops, is the dead giveaway to any broader game plan which is intended to be hidden within the structure of propaganda and media campaigns.  So it is with muted surprise that we hear the news of the United States sending 3,000 troops to help fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

The MSM’s slant is of course the American consideration of other nation’s woes:

“Under pressure to do more to confront the Ebola outbreak sweeping across West Africa, President Obama on Tuesday is to announce an expansion of military and medical resources to combat the spread of the deadly virus, administration officials said.” 

BUT:

What isn’t reported is that 1/3rd of all new oil discoveries have taken place in West Africa.  As reported by Business Day back in May:

West Africa Region accounts for a third of the world’s new oil discoveries, especially in the Nigeria’s Niger Delta basin and the Gulf of Guinea. According to the US Geological Surveyj (USGS), the West African Coastal Province has an estimated 3 200 million barrels of oil.

The firs map is of the offshore oil discoveries in West Africa from the USGS:

Below this one is a map of the Ebola outbreak from the same region.  This map is provided by USAID and the CDC: You can literally superimpose one map over the other and conclude that the moblization of 3 000 American troops to West Africa has more to do with securing the offshore oil resources than it does the Ebola outbreak.

Your tax dollars at work and guess what?  The price of gas is gong to fall and Big Oil will post smaller profits this year!!

Oil exploration off the coast of West Africa has surged since 2007 when Tullow Oil found the Jubilee field in Ghana, one of the continent’s biggest recent finds. New finds have been made in Liberia and Sierra Leone, while Mauritania’s discoveries over the last decade remain to be replicated. Niger has now become a producer and Mali awaits discovery of commercial hydrocarbons. 

There has also been a burst of exploration activity in the neighbouring countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gabon with the hope of finding Jubilee-type giants in the Cretaceous fan formations and pre-salt structures. In Guinea, Tullow is undertaking a seismic survey looking at a potential reserve of 10 billion barrels of oil, and Simba is exploring for oil in Guinea, Ghana, Mali, and Liberia. Cote d’Ivoire has been through a number of political changes and a civil war but Lukoil are on the verge of investing about $400-million in exploration activities in a prospect there.

Considering the resource proxy wars which are taking place in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, are we to think that the large offshore oil fields in Western Africa are not subjected to the same proxy strategy?

http://philosophyofmetrics.com/2014/09/16/ebola-and-west-africas-offshore-oil/