Pipeline politics in Europe: security perspective.
Abstract
Yesterday there were tanks, today there is oil”. The words of A. Krushelnycky, former Head of Poland’s Security Service, are interesting from the following two perspectives. On the one hand, they show us what energy has become in the modern world. The modern world is an energy addict and from day to day, energy demand is rising more and more. Therefore, those, who have an energy dose, have power over an energy addict. That means energy is not only about the economy anymore. It has shifted into the political dimension and transformed into the tool of influence. Energy has become a weapon and if the Soviet Union used tanks to get control over Eastern Europe in the last century then Russia uses gas for the same goal today. Yesterday there were tanks, today there is gas.References
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