Joschka Fischer: Mega crisis looms in the Middle East | | Print | |
11.09.2012 |
Joschka Fischer: It threatens a mega crisis. Escalation of the crisis in the Middle East: "The coming months threaten to become dangerous. More severe regional economic and political crises could combine into a mega crisis that will lead to very severe global shocks. " Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer warns in the
Handelsblatt (Wednesday edition) of an escalation of the crisis in the Middle East: "The coming months threaten to be dangerous. More severe regional economic and political crises could combine into a mega crisis that will lead to very severe global shocks. The drums of war in the Middle East were and are "always beat louder, he wrote in a commentary. All the world is now talking about a "military option" in Syria and in the Iran crisis. If such prophecies occur, there would be no limitable "surgical operation", "but the beginning of two wars: a US-led air war, and Israel, and one led by Iran and its allies on asymmetric warfare. Since there will not be all! limited too much "Such a war in the Persian Gulf, the" gas station of the world economy "- would hit oil exports, and the price of oil would go through the roof, writes Fischer. |