{"id":72788,"date":"2011-02-25T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/25\/en-attendant-larabie\/"},"modified":"2011-02-25T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T07:03:00","slug":"en-attendant-larabie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/25\/en-attendant-larabie\/","title":{"rendered":"En attendant l&rsquo;Arabie\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Nous choisissons deux textes de commentaire sur la situation de ce que nous d\u00e9signons comme la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-de_la_chaine_crisique_au_temps_crisique__24_02_2011.html\" class=\"gen\">cha\u00eene crisique<\/a>, qui d\u00e9crit la situation en Egypte, en Libye, au Moyen-Orient, la situation du cours du prix du p\u00e9trole, la situation de l&rsquo;\u00e9valuation strat\u00e9gique, la situation de la civilisation am\u00e9ricaniste-occidentaliste, etc.,  tout cela en m\u00eame temps. En effet, les \u00e9v\u00e9nements ont, aujourd&rsquo;hui, de cette densit\u00e9-l\u00e0&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t  Le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/24\/world\/middleeast\/24saudis.html?_r=1&#038;hp\" class=\"gen\">23 f\u00e9vrier 2011<\/a>, le New York <em>Times<\/em> a publi\u00e9 un article sur la situation strat\u00e9gique au Moyen-Orient, principalement autour des positions respectives, per\u00e7ues comme antagonistes, de l&rsquo;Iran et de l&rsquo;Arabie Saoudite. La prospective est sombre,  ce qualificatif employ\u00e9 en r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 la position habituelle du quotidien qui n&rsquo;aime gu\u00e8re l&rsquo;Iran puisque le gouvernement et l&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em> washingtoniens n&rsquo;aiment gu\u00e8re l&rsquo;Iran. Tous les experts consult\u00e9s vont dans le m\u00eame sens, ce qui n&rsquo;a rien pour \u00e9tonner (les experts chantent toujours sur le m\u00eame registre,  qui est parfois le bon, comme dans ce cas). La victoire de l&rsquo;Iran est d&rsquo;ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 proclam\u00e9e.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>I think the Saudis are worried that they&rsquo;re encircled  Iraq, Syria, Lebanon; Yemen is unstable; Bahrain is very uncertain, said Alireza Nader, an expert in international affairs with the RAND Corporation. They worry that the region is ripe for Iranian exploitation. Iran has shown that it is very capable of taking advantage of regional instability.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Iran is the big winner here, said a regional adviser to the United States government who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em> If these pro-American&rsquo; Arab political orders currently being challenged by significant protest movements become at all more representative of their populations, they will for sure become less enthusiastic about strategic cooperation with the United States, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former National Security Council staff members, wrote in an e-mail.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>They added that at the moment, Iran&rsquo;s leaders saw that the regional balance is shifting, in potentially decisive ways, against their American adversary and in favor of the Islamic Republic. Iran&rsquo;s standing is stronger in spite of its challenges at home, with a troubled economy, high unemployment and a determined political opposition.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The United States may also face challenges in pressing its case against Iran&rsquo;s nuclear programs, some experts asserted. Recent events have also taken the focus away from Iran&rsquo;s nuclear program and may make regional and international consensus on sanctions even harder to achieve, Mr. Nader said. Iran&rsquo;s growing confidence is based on a gradual realignment that began with the aftershocks of the Sept. 11 attacks. By ousting the Taliban in Afghanistan, and then Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the United States removed two of Iran&rsquo;s regional enemies who worked to contain its ambitions. Today, Iran is a major player in both nations, an unintended consequence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Iran demonstrated its emboldened attitude this year in Lebanon when its ally, Hezbollah, forced the collapse of the pro-Western government of Saad Hariri. Mr. Hariri was replaced with a prime minister backed by Hezbollah, a bold move that analysts say was undertaken with Iran&rsquo;s support.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em> Iraq and Lebanon are now in Iran&rsquo;s sphere of influence with groups that have been supported by the hard-liners for decades, said Muhammad Sahimi, an Iran expert in Los Angeles who frequently writes about Iranian politics. Iran is a major player in Afghanistan. Any regime that eventually emerges in Egypt will not be as hostile to Hamas as Mubarak was, and Hamas has been supported by Iran. That may help Iran to increase its influence there even more.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t Deux jours plus tard, ce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/leading-articles\/leading-article-now-we-can-see-the-folly-of-our-faustian-bargain-on-oil-2224873.html\" class=\"gen\">25 f\u00e9vrier 2011<\/a>, <em>The Independent<\/em> \u00e9largit la perspective. Les \u00e9v\u00e9nements l&rsquo;y invitent : en deux jours, la crise libyenne est devenue un chaos sanglant et le prix du baril de p\u00e9trole s&rsquo;est \u00e9videmment envol\u00e9 puisque la Libye exporte du p\u00e9trole. Tous les experts auront not\u00e9 que ce prix a touch\u00e9 les $120 hier 24 f\u00e9vrier, pour la premi\u00e8re fois depuis la crise de mai-juillet 2008 qui pr\u00e9c\u00e9da l&rsquo;effondrement financier du 15 septembre 2008. L&rsquo;\u00e9ditorial du quotidien londonien appuie son argument sur le pacte faustien de l&rsquo;Ouest avec ces pays arabes qui ont aujourd&rsquo;hui bien mauvaise r\u00e9putation,  l&rsquo;Arabie Saoudite en t\u00eate ; le pacte faustien porte \u00e9videmment sur le p\u00e9trole, sur lequel repose toute notre \u00e9conomie et qui s&rsquo;av\u00e8re d\u00e9pendre effectivement de pays iniques, fragiles et en cours d&rsquo;effondrement ou menac\u00e9s dans ce sens. Le lien entre la Libye et l&rsquo;Arabie est ainsi fait, et la catastrophe pour la clique am\u00e9ricaniste-occidentaliste n&rsquo;a dans ce cas pas besoin de l&rsquo;\u00e9pouvantail iranien pour figurer dans la perspective.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>The price of oil is surging. At one point yesterday, the price of a barrel of crude touched $120  its highest level since 2008. The commodities trading markets are telling the world something it should have grasped long ago: that the global economy is disastrously over-reliant on energy from the most unstable of regions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The violent chaos in Libya is the proximate cause of the market jitters. The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt did not alarm oil traders, but Libya is a significant oil exporter. As Colonel Muammar Gaddafi&rsquo;s regime has imploded, the pumps have stopped. Output has fallen by three-quarters. And when the supply of any commodity suddenly falls, its price generally rises.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The markets are also casting wary eyes in the direction of Saudi Arabia, the world&rsquo;s biggest oil exporter. This week, King Abdullah promised a \u00a322bn financial relief package for his subjects. This is plainly an attempt to pre-empt the outbreak of popular protests occurring in his country of the sort that have been witnessed across the region. The Saudi Arabian oil minister is also suggesting that his country could increase production to make up for the shortfall from Libya.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>But the situation is not under the Saudi regime&rsquo;s control. A month ago, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya looked entirely secure. Now the first has been forced to resign and the sun has almost set on the regime of the second (although there is no telling how much damage Gaddafi could do on the way out). Anyone who asserts that the same could not happen in Saudi Arabia has few grounds for their confidence. King Abdullah certainly has more resources with which to buy off discontent, but it is impossible to say how effective this will be. When people have the scent of freedom in their nostrils, they can be impossible to deter. The markets certainly understand this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The knock-on effects of a spike in oil prices threaten to be painful&#8230;<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tD&rsquo;un c\u00f4t\u00e9, on observera qu&rsquo;il y a dans ces divers commentaires un air de d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. L&rsquo;Arabie Saoudite est un acteur central des supputations strat\u00e9giques, et un acteur central fragile, depuis l&#8217;embargo p\u00e9trolier d&rsquo;octobre 1973, l&rsquo;assassinat du roi Fay\u00e7al (1975), l&rsquo;attaque de la grande mosqu\u00e9e de La Mecque (1979). L&rsquo;Iran est le m\u00e9chant de la pi\u00e8ce, au moins depuis 1978-1979 (r\u00e9volution islamique),  sans oublier que les ambitions du Shah avant sa chute, jouant l&rsquo;extr\u00e9miste du prix du p\u00e9trole (\u00e0 partir de 1973) contre l&rsquo;attitude en apparence mod\u00e9r\u00e9e des Saoudiens, dessinaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 ce destin. Par cons\u00e9quent, on serait tent\u00e9 d&rsquo;observer que l&rsquo;instabilit\u00e9 qui nous est expos\u00e9e avec les deux articles sur la fragilit\u00e9 saoudienne et les ambitions iraniennes a montr\u00e9, depuis trente ans, une surprenante stabilit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tMais l&rsquo;on resterait court, avec une telle observation qui r\u00e9duit le champ du regard \u00e0 la seule occurrence r\u00e9gionale. Le propos de <em>The Independent<\/em> nous invite \u00e0 voir plus large, tout comme les \u00e9v\u00e9nements d&rsquo;ailleurs puisque l&rsquo;affaire libyenne et la question du prix du p\u00e9trole ont pris le devant de la sc\u00e8ne de notre perception durant ce laps de temps consid\u00e9rable (deux jours). Il nous y invite d&rsquo;autant plus qu&rsquo;il nous parle de l&rsquo;or noir et du pacte faustien pass\u00e9 avec les pays p\u00e9troliers, \u00e0 cause de notre d\u00e9pendance du p\u00e9trole. Cela nous am\u00e8ne,  nous, \u00e0 <em>dedefensa.org<\/em>,  \u00e0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/section-la_grace_de_l_histoire.html\" class=\"gen\">la th\u00e8se<\/a> m\u00e9tahistorique de <em>La gr\u00e2ce de l&rsquo;Histoire<\/em> dont l&rsquo;un des piliers est <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-premiere_partie_de_iena_a_verdun_25_01_2010.html?admin=1\" class=\"gen\">le choix du feu<\/a> ; il s&rsquo;agit de ce processus thermodynamique dirigeant les moyens de notre \u00e9conomie de force, et dont le p\u00e9trole est \u00e9videmment l&rsquo;aliment central, comme l&rsquo;on dirait d&rsquo;un sang noir irriguant ce monstrueux organisme fait de puissance incontr\u00f4l\u00e9e que repr\u00e9sente aujourd&rsquo;hui le Syst\u00e8me (notre civilisation am\u00e9ricaniste-occidentaliste). Ainsi la perception, qu&rsquo;on pourrait juger effectivement excessive, rejoint-elle la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 profonde en se justifiant \u00e0 mesure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tCe que nous nommons la cha\u00eene crisique (les \u00e9v\u00e9nements en cours, si rapides) est effectivement en train de s&rsquo;int\u00e9grer dans la structure crisique des crises chroniques depuis des d\u00e9cennies (l&rsquo;Arabie Saoudite et l&rsquo;Iran, le p\u00e9trole et son prix \u00e0 payer, etc.) pour renforcer peut-\u00eatre d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on d\u00e9cisive,  sans gu\u00e8re de doute, de notre point de vue,  le potentiel explosif de la situation. Cha\u00eene crisique int\u00e9gr\u00e9e dans la structure crisique, et nous sommes bien dans ce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-de_la_chaine_crisique_au_temps_crisique__24_02_2011.html\" class=\"gen\">temps crisique<\/a> qui d\u00e9finit notre situation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale actuelle. La dimension <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-l_histoire_accelere_01_02_2011.html\" class=\"gen\">universelle<\/a> de la succession d&rsquo;\u00e9v\u00e9nements commenc\u00e9s avec la Tunisie en d\u00e9cembre dernier n&rsquo;est plus \u00e0 d\u00e9montrer, tout juste s&rsquo;agit-il d&rsquo;acter la chose. Les experts et notre perception y aident puissamment, et les p\u00e9rip\u00e9ties de la cha\u00eene crisique tracent un chemin convenue \u00e0 la crise g\u00e9n\u00e9rale en pleine expansion (contraction du temps, expansion de la crise), en annon\u00e7ant les \u00e9tapes successives comme si notre destin \u00e9tait \u00e9crit dans le sable. Il est assez logique, effectivement, de regarder du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de l&rsquo;Arabie Saoudite, comme la prochaine \u00e9tape de la chose,  comme, il y a un mois, nous attendions avec une unanimit\u00e9 remarquable que quelque chose se pass\u00e2t du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de l&rsquo;Egypte.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tA en juger par l&rsquo;effet du chaos libyen sur le prix du p\u00e9trole et sur notre perception qui renvoie \u00e0 une psychologie exacerb\u00e9e, et que nous serions tent\u00e9e de qualifier de crisique elle aussi, le choc saoudien sera rude pour notre Syst\u00e8me. Il ne sera plus question alors de savoir si l&rsquo;Iran devient dominateur au Moyen-Orient et si le prix du baril d\u00e9passe ou non les $120, ou les $150. Il sera question d&rsquo;observer, d&rsquo;ailleurs d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on qui devient banale, que nous nous sommes un peu plus rapproch\u00e9s du cur de la crise du Syst\u00e8me. Toute cette affaire n&rsquo;est plus entre nos mains, \u00e0 nous les <em>sapiens<\/em>, et nous devons nous contenter de notre r\u00f4le  des spectateurs impuissants ou des observateur privil\u00e9gi\u00e9s, c&rsquo;est selon, et selon notre humeur par rapport \u00e0 la chose.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 25 f\u00e9vrier 2011 \u00e0 06H51<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nous choisissons deux textes de commentaire sur la situation de ce que nous d\u00e9signons comme la cha\u00eene crisique, qui d\u00e9crit la situation en Egypte, en Libye, au Moyen-Orient, la situation du cours du prix du p\u00e9trole, la situation de l&rsquo;\u00e9valuation strat\u00e9gique, la situation de la civilisation am\u00e9ricaniste-occidentaliste, etc., tout cela en m\u00eame temps. 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