[austrian]

It’s called doing the right thing.

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doing the right thing?. so you think to first care about your own people is the wrong thing a government should do?
oh the people here shure would love the government when they say hey oil now is 200$ a barrel not because it was needed no but we only desided not to buy from russia anymore because it´s the right thing to do. but who cares lets make it 300$ because we stop buying from iran too because if russia is so bad how can we still buy from iran.
shure our industry will go to hell and we will not be able to compete on the international market anymore. but who cares it was the right thing to do. but we can take confort because hey if we are less competive on the world market it will help others like the US and china to fill this hole.they will make more money while we get poor. this will teach russia and the world what it means to do the right thing. sorry for the sarcasm.
so in our world doing the “right” thing is not that easy as it may sound.

[MarMema]

But the whole point about Georgia, besides supporting them, is keeping the world safe AND an alternative energy supply.

That is why Cheney is there now. Or in Baku, actually.

[MarMema]

It will get easier the more of a tyrant Russian becomes.
Not to worry.

[MarMema]

Dick Cheney, the US vice-president will arrive in the Caucasus on a mission to prevent Russia from gaining a stranglehold over Central Asia's vast reserves of energy.

Because with Russia, price hikes are the gift that keeps on giving. At any given time, Russia can double the price of keeping warm, whenever Pootin feels so inclined. Or maybe you didn't dust that statue of Stalin in your town square and polish it enough. Whoops. Sorry, heat gets lots more expensive.

[MarMema]

moscow times

"Russia's resources also cannot be compared to those of the West. This is because Russia has nothing but oil and gas. Our stores sell Turkish clothes, Chinese electronics, Indonesian sneakers, Finnish toilets, Taiwanese cell phones, and so on. Even cement is now cheaper to import from abroad than to produce in Russia."

"But South Ossetians will probably never concede that tens of thousands of Ossetians who live peacefully in Georgia proper. Has it ever occurred to them that the notoriously bloodthirsty Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili hasn't attacked Ossetians in Gori, Tbilisi or Poti, where they are vulnerable and unprotected by South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity? It would seem that enclaves like South Ossetia and Abkhazia cannot be defeated. Relying on the full support of their populations -- at least those people who did not run away -- these statelets can survive indefinitely. But there is no rational reason for Russia to support these enclaves -- or for turning itself into a terrorist enclave."