To: CharlesWayneCT
The whole point of the pipeline going through Georgia to the Black Sea was to lessen our dependency on Russian oil, and lessen the EU's dependency on it...and lessen dependency on Mid-East oil.
A lot of what Russia is doing is also about that. If they control Georgia, they will control that million barrel a day oil line.
49 posted on
08/11/2008 8:40:17 AM PDT by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Jeff Head
Sounds like a money and resource grab.
60 posted on
08/11/2008 8:45:37 AM PDT by
commonguymd
(A de facto single party country is nigh. The partisan bickering is a mere bilking mechanism.)
To: Jeff Head
Jeff: Does the pipleline run through Gori? I’ve seen maps depicting the pipline, but none of them show town names or topography.
78 posted on
08/11/2008 8:50:29 AM PDT by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Jeff Head
You got it - Oil and the reality that Georgia is strategically of great importance (logistics wise). Reality is Georgia took a foolish gamble here.....where the benefits were not worth the costs......
The Bear has been looking to flex is muscles...and has been wanting a way to renegotiate agreements (pertaining to this area of the world).
To: Jeff Head
And the libs keep screaming that ours is a war for oil? No, THIS is what a war for oil looks like folks - complete and total domination - no help to become free, just complete subjugation. God bless Georgia and Eastern Europe. It would seem like the bear is out of hibernation...
169 posted on
08/11/2008 9:33:10 AM PDT by
LibertyRocks
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