By Guest authorThis is a guest post by Pepe Escobar, the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for the Real News. This article draws from his new book, Obama does Globalistan.He may be reached at pepeasia AT yahoo.com. This post was originally published at TomDispatch, and it is republished here with Tom's kind permission.-----What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentric world