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US military will stay in Georgia
BBC ^
| August 18, 2008
| Natalia Antelava
Posted on 08/20/2008 10:51:36 PM PDT by Bokababe
US officials have said that their military presence in Georgia will now become permanent.
The American military has been training and equipping the Georgian army since the spring of 2002.
Having trained three battalions of Georgian soldiers, US military instructors were due to leave in March.....
For Moscow, the Caucasus is a geopolitical backyard, rich in energy resources and crucial to the conflict in Chechnya.
Moscow's refusal to remove its military bases from Georgia has long fuelled tensions between the two countries.
Georgia's President-elect, Mikhail Saakashvili, says the removal of the Russian troops will be high on his government's priority list.
The US, whose own stakes in the Caucasus include a multi-billion dollar Caspian oil pipeline, backs this demand.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: geopolitics; georgia; russia; us; ustroops
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What do Kosovo and Georgia really have in common? They are both oil routes for delivering Caspian oil.
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posted on
08/20/2008 10:51:37 PM PDT
by
Bokababe
To: Bokababe
Oil runs the world. If the bad guys control it the good guys are screwed. We can supply all of our own but our allies can’t. Russia is using it as a extortion tool.
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posted on
08/20/2008 10:55:32 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
To: Bokababe
Bush rocks!
Nice to see that we’re standing firm in Georgia.
3
posted on
08/20/2008 11:07:22 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Eagles6
"Oil runs the world. If the bad guys control it the good guys are screwed. We can supply all of our own but our allies cant. Russia is using it as a extortion tool."I hear you, but at what point did we become the oil companies' army? Five bucks a gallon and giving up our first born sons to their wars just doesn't sound like "a deal" to me.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:09:22 PM PDT
by
Bokababe
( http://www.savekosovo.org)
To: Bokababe
Pipeline War I: Caspian-Balkan Adventure
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan line
Chechnya/Kosovo conflict.
Another pipeline through Georgia/Kosovo in the works
Pipeline War II: Return of Bears
Flush with oil cash, Russians push forward into Georgia, threatening key pipelines outside their control, while pressuring EU with gas supply using another pipeline through Russia.
Concurrently, Russia earnestly embarks on reclaiming its near-abroad.
Attention vacuum occurs in E. Asia. What would N. Korea and China do?
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:10:30 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: Bokababe
And how about some nice, new F-35’s?
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:16:44 PM PDT
by
unspun
(Mike Huckabee: Government's job is "protect us, not have to provide for us.")
To: Bokababe
Will continue tomorrow. Goodnight.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:25:32 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
To: Bokababe
Last Updated: Sunday, 18 January, 2004
This article is four years old. I believe the Russian base it mentions has already been removed.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:29:17 PM PDT
by
Sharrukin
To: Southack
The article is from 2004. However, we do have military in Tbilisi and I believe it is their presence, as do many Georgians, that have kept the city safe from the Russians.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:36:15 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Georgia has stood for freedom around the world -- now the world must stand for freedom in Georgia.)
To: Southack
This article is from January. We will see if it still holds as policy. I hope so.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:37:09 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Berlin '36, Moscow '80, Beijing '08 ... Olympic games for murdering regimes.)
To: Bokababe
The oil company’s wars? Looks more like communist Russia’s war here.
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posted on
08/20/2008 11:39:58 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Berlin '36, Moscow '80, Beijing '08 ... Olympic games for murdering regimes.)
To: Bokababe
Yawn! We support free people period. This is a screwed up situation. Neither territory has a clean claim to Russia or Georgia and they have been arguing about it since the ‘90s but that doesn't mean we should back off. The Russians may think that their might makes right, but we can force them to talk to the Georgians and that may make a difference. If the Russians wanted a fair conversation they would not have threatened the Poles over 10 whole ICBM interceptors.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Another pipeline through Georgia/Kosovo in the worksHas Kosovo moved?
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posted on
08/21/2008 12:02:16 AM PDT
by
Hoplite
To: Hoplite
No, Georgia-Turkey-(another country or countries)-Kosovo-...-EU.
You know pipeline is usually pretty long.
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posted on
08/21/2008 12:08:28 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
And they can be infinitely long if they exist only in the imagination.
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posted on
08/21/2008 12:11:24 AM PDT
by
Hoplite
To: Bokababe
I wonder how our troops are doing....just a handful there. A real tightrope
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posted on
08/21/2008 12:16:44 AM PDT
by
rrrod
To: Hoplite
Hmm.. I was watching CNN international broadcast reporting on Georgian crisis. It did show a pipeline project starting from Caspian Sea going through Turkey, crossing near Bosporus Strait, onto Balkans near(or through) Kosovo
While it was long, it did not look infinitely long.:-)
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posted on
08/21/2008 12:17:50 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Nabucco or South Stream perchance?
Neither runs through Kosovo, which can claim to be more centrally located for oil or gas pipelines than... Montenegro. Which means it's on the opposite end of the spectrum from Georgia as far as being strategically located, hydrocarbon-wise.
And while Kosovo does have a pipeline, from a refinery in Macedonia (OKTA), it's owned by the Greeks (Hellenic Petroleum), and terminates in Kosovo, its intended market.
You may recall some nonsense about us invading Afghanistan in order to secure oil routes to the Indian ocean - it's the same level of thinking which leads one to the same conclusion in regards to Kosovo.
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posted on
08/21/2008 12:48:35 AM PDT
by
Hoplite
To: Bokababe
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posted on
08/21/2008 1:00:01 AM PDT
by
MarMema
(Georgia has stood for freedom around the world -- now the world must stand for freedom in Georgia.)
To: Eagles6
Russia can hurt Europe and Asia by cutting off oil and gas supplies, but in the process, they will hurt themselves too. They don’t have a diversified economy that can compensate for the loss of oil revenues.
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posted on
08/21/2008 1:06:32 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
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