The shale and gas oil revolution is already shaping the new economic and warfare battleground of this century.
Middle East is getting abandoned and the new places are North/East/South Africa (US, France, China, Japan, Germany mainly), the Antarctic (US, Russia, China, Canada, Norway and Sweden mainly) and South Pacific (China, USA, Japan, Russia, South and North Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, India mainly).
There are some flashpoint where shale gas is at sea (Falkland again and the piece of sea between Cyprus and Turkey/Israel, mainly)
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