The Baltics are caving from within.
Latvia is the start with the Russian population that is pro-Kremlin getting voted in positions of power. It took a while before they could get their Latvian citizenship to vote, but they are now voting.
Lithuania may be the saving grace. But like the E.U., they do need Russia’s natural gas as does Poland...
NATO will watch as Gazprom continues to remind Europe who supplies a large portion of their natural gas..
When you have Turkey playing with Russia on exercises, you have to ask, how strong is NATO.
Times have changed with China, Iran and Russia...
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Things are clearly moving to a head. The Russians are threatening an invasion of the rump of Georgia and there is no reason to believe that Obama has the slightest intention of doing anything about it after the event or to take any steps to prevent the event.
We must see these growing threats as connected. A look at the map of Georgia shows that Russia is moving geographically as well as philosophically toward a connection with Iran. If Russia takes Georgia it will be in possession of virtually all the pipelines running to Europe which supply my neighbors here with gas and Europe with oil and gas. If Iran gets the bomb, the whole of the Middle East will become a nuclear nightmare and a strike somewhere by some crazed country such as Iran or some crazed terrorist group which acquires the bomb, is almost inevitable. One of the victims of this madness will undoubtedly be Israel.
Even if there is no war the entire balance of power in the Persian Gulf will have shifted away from America toward Iran which will have the same effect on the Gulf states as it has on our NATO allies, they will move away from America toward Iran to appease away the immediate threat. The price of oil around the world will Spike and Russia and Venezuela and Muslim states who fund terrorists will be empowered to do mischief everywhere.
It is self evidently in Israel's national interest to strike against Iran and prevent or at least delay them getting the bomb while Iran is under the control of these mad Islamicists. But there is every reason to believe that Obama will not facilitate the strike, rather, he will affirmatively move to stop Israel doing it.
So elections have consequences. We have a Manchurian Marxist in the White House who is going to countenance the separation of Europe from energy sources and the inevitable blackmail of Europe by Russia which will follow. He will countenance the likely breakup of NATO which will be the price to appease Russia and secure energy for Europe. He will passively watch an alliance between Russia and Iran which might well grow to include an alliance with Venezuela and Cuba, all of whom having access to the bomb. His policies will make war in the Middle East almost inevitable. They threaten the very existence of Israel.
The consequences of this election might be very terrible indeed.
Ukraine will fall back into the Russian orbit next year. Kazakhstan and other ‘stans, with Belarus, have started talks towards a reunification with Russia to form a “Soverign Union” and eventually a total Pan-Russian union. This union will probably have Marxist-Leninist elements with some capitalism (like China). Welcome back, USSR.