“Libya did not make it to the list because it stopped to affect the interests of America,” said Konstantin Sivkov, first vice-president of the Academy of Geopolitical Issues. “Its old sins were forgiven in exchange for lucrative oil and gas contracts. With the DPRK everything is clear. In 2006 it acquired nuclear weapons. Americans do not want to attack a country with nuclear arsenal.
Why did Cuba, Sudan, Syria and Iran make the list? First, these countries are the centers of anti-American resistance in different regions of the world. Secondly, some of them have large reserves of raw materials, which the U.S. wants to control.
In fact, the State Department list includes the countries which Washington (for the time of Obama presidency) has announced enemies. Various measures of economic and political nature will be taken against these countries. I do not rule out that they may suffer aggression, as it was with Afghanistan and Iraq that had previously appeared on this list".
Sergei Balmasov
Vadim Trukhachev
Pravda.Ru
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