Posted on 08/08/2008 11:40:31 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I believe this was a completely planned and orchestrated move by Russia.
Russia wants to control all energy exportation to Europe and the region. The US was invisioning Georgia being a serious transport coridor from the oil areas by the caspian sea in Azerbaijan across Georgia and into Turkey and the black sea ports of Georgia. Russia wants total control of this.
They also want to derail any attempt by Georgia to become a NATO member. Now that the Kremlin has seized control and nationalized most of its natural resources, squashed any political opposition to Putin’s party, and control all the media again, their next move to is re-exert itself to superpower status by expanding its “sphere of influence” completely into the caucasus and start thuging eastern europe again with a mixture of military threats and energy.
The move by them on Georgia is meant to be a message to the west.
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