Russian threat to Nato supply route in Afghanistan
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Russia played a trump card in its strategic poker game with the West yesterday by threatening to suspend an agreement allowing Nato (sic) to take supplies and equipment to Afghanistan through Russia and Central Asia.
The agreement was struck at a Nato (sic) summit in April to provide an alternative supply route to the road between the Afghan capital and the Pakistani border, which has come under attack from militants on both sides of the frontier this year.
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Mr Kabulov also suggested that the stand-off over Georgia could lead Russia to review agreements allowing Nato (sic) members to use Russian airspace and to maintain bases in the former Soviet Central Asian states of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
If that is true Ernest, I fear that an Afghan invasion by Russia might also be in the works. If we don’t move in Georgia, they must think we would abandon Afghanistan as well. I hate to be so pessimistic but we may very well be in for a fight, or, depending who’s elected, turn tale and run.