Wondering What Georgia & Russia Is All About?
Russia… at it Again!
August 11, 2008
It didn’t take Russia long to begin flexing her military muscle, once she got her feet under her again, now did it? Yep! She’s up to her old tricks again, driving here troops across borders and into neighboring countries, stirring up trouble, just like in the old days. Some things just never change’well, not for long, anyway.
So, what is Russia incursion into Georgia all about, anyway? OK, to get to the truth and cut through all the garbage, this is a fight between Russia and the United States. Russia is royally PO’ed at the US for messing around in what it considers its backyard. Blame NATO.
You see, The Ukraine and Georgia are on the waiting list to become members of NATO, a US led alliance of nations. Once an organization for nations along the North Atlantic Ocean, (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Nato long since left the seaside and moved inland’. way inland! This does not sit well with Russia. Not at all.
Georgia, in an attempt, we believe, to gain US support in its bid for NATO membership, lent some two thousand troops to the effort in Iraq. Until today Georgia had the third largest contingent of troops serving in Iraq after the US and the UK’. a fact little known by the remainder of the world. Comrade Putin didn’t miss it, however. Those troops will be flown back to Georgia, ASAP, to assist their own country in its struggle with Russia.
Georgia is pro-US’ and’ the US is pro-Georgia. That irks the living daylights out of the Russians. Maybe it would be more nearly correct to say that it irks Comrade Putin. Do not mistake the fact that even though Dimtry Medvedev is the ‘front man’ Comrade Putin is pulling the strings.
Now that Putin is out of the persistent limelight, after turning the office of President of Russia over to Dimtry Medvedev, he has been freed up to REALLY instigate trouble all over the globe for the US. And he is allowing no grass to grow beneath his feet.
Just a few days ago we learned of Putin’s plans for a Russian Nuclear Bomber base being planned for the Island of Cuba, just 90 miles south of the US mainland. Of course, the Russians vehemently denied it, but nobody can convince me that it is not a tit-for-tat from Comrade Putin over the US insistence on placing defensive anti-missile ‘missile bases’ in Putin’s backyard. He is furious about that. The Georgia adventurism, we believe, is all a part of his scheme to rattle America’s cage during what is probably one of the only periods of time when America is in a weakened state, and that is during the closing months of a Presidential election. For all intents and purposes the US government goes into limbo for those critical weeks and it is a prime time for enemies of the US to provoke trouble for the US. Putin is not unaware of the less that stellar leadership in the US Congress currently, which is to say, basically NONE, and he is bound to take advantage of it. That is exactly what he is doing.
You will have noted, I take it, one of the Russian Air Force’s targets was that vital US supported pipeline bringing that black gold from the Caspian Sea area. The oil coursing through that petroleum artery allows the US to reduce its dependence on Middle Eastern oil’ and’ at the same time, it bypasses Russia ‘ and the other trouble spot in the Middle East’ Iran. It is a persistent irritant to the Bear now prowling the woods once again.
By the way, that pipeline carries some one million barrels of crude, per day,. Folks’ that are a bit more than one percent of the world’s crude oil output per day! That is HUGE! The oil, itself, comes from the fields of Azerbaijan located near the Caspian Sea. Mostly unknown, those oil fields are thought to hold roughly one-third of the world’s known oil reserves today. And to make matters worse’ those vitally important oil fields are immensely important to the US! Crude oil prices, gasoline prices, and, yes, fuel oil prices are bound to skyrocket in a few days just when they had dropped to a level at which American voters could finally see a light at the end of the black, black, tunnel! To make matters worse, those Azerbaijan oil fields are extremely vulnerable to attack from Russian forces.Even as US President George Bush was speaking to Russia’s New Prime Minister, Comrade Putin, about the violence in Georgia Russian tanks were rolling in. The Georgian Ambassador to the US was pleading with the US, and other Georgian friends, for assistance in stopping what can only be referred to as a Russian ‘Invasion’ of Georgia. The US State Department, within hours, sent a message to Russia asking Russia to halt this invasion with a ‘cease fire’ and prepare for a mediator from Washington due, on scene, almost immediately.
The truth is, that any way you parse it this is Russian aggression, something we became accustomed to during the Cold War One. It would now seem that Cold War Two is upon Us!
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As for the pipeline, I think it’s oil for Western Europe, not the US.
August 11th, 2008 at 6:55 amSad thing is, we won’t do a damn thing about it until the very moment that pipeline is about to go under Russian control, and by then it will be too late. Maybe Ukraine will get involved — we know the Europeans and NATO won’t, given their history of ignoring genocide in their own backyard, what’s going to motivate them to do anything? I’m not so sure the prospect of losing any oil from the pipeline will wake them up.
August 11th, 2008 at 6:59 amCold War 2? Oh. I don’t know about that… let’s see what the Dhimmi candidate for POTUS had to say….
““Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint and to avoid an escalation to full-scale war. Georgia’s territorial integrity must be respected.”
Hmmm…. no wait. After conferring with his 300 advisors he changed his ‘mind’….
Obama called for direct talks among all sides and said the United States, the U.N. Security Council and other parties should try to help bring about a peaceful resolution.
“I condemn Russia’s aggressive actions and reiterate my call for an immediate ceasefire,” Obama said in a statement.
“Russia must stop its bombing campaign, cease flights of Russian aircraft in Georgian airspace, and withdraw its ground forces from Georgia.”
And what did McCain have to say?
“Today news reports indicate that Russian military forces crossed an internationally-recognized border into the sovereign territory of Georgia. Russia should immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all forces from sovereign Georgian territory.”
So I guess the ‘answer is maybe.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:02 amIt’s all about oil. Who needs nukes when you can just cut off their energy supply. How cool is that, America? Hey, I have an idea, why not we drill for our own oil and not play the silly game game? Throw in a few billion barrels of oil shale, a few extra billion barrels of coal to liquids manufacture — Let’s just not play.
Nanny ’save the planet’ Peloser wants the USA to be a captive of the world’s other communist countries … It’s sort of like watching the commie Olympics, except it’s real life.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:05 amOil for western Europe is oil for the Us.
Oil is global.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:08 amand Nato/ U.N. = Neville Chamberlain so we’re screwed
August 11th, 2008 at 7:09 amTime for regime change in terrorist supporting Venezuela? This would allow us to put a friend in office and pump more oil and lower oil prices and bankrupt scum Putin & Russia!
August 11th, 2008 at 7:45 am“As for the pipeline, I think it’s oil for Western Europe, not the US.”
for that, you have to rely on Madeleine Albright & Clinton office that started the project, uh, don’t remember that was for the Europeans first
“You see, The Ukraine and Georgia are on the waiting list to become members of NATO, a US led alliance of nations.”
that is also why there are not anymore reason that Nato exists as in its former statuts
it’s should be a mere US alliance, not more
August 11th, 2008 at 9:38 amOils well that ends well and we have plenty of our own oil. Now let’s go fetch us some–fucking right now!
August 11th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Bob -
August 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pmYou’re on to something. Thus unto Russian proxies
Franchie will sing a different tune next time her shithole of a country is either invaded or a coup is attempted by all of the Mooselimbs that her and leftards like her are breast-feeding delicious multi-culti sustenance.
Irish Gal was only partially correct on another thread…we also hate France because the collective envy and self-loathing of its unwashed inhabitants is so incredibly ridiculous in light of the pitiful state of affairs in the country. You can feel superior, Franchie, but be aware that by any objective measure, France is a country in decline…morally, economically, and socially. You and your commie friends will hasten the fall, but when you are weak enough, the Islamofucks will strike (or some other group of filthy idiots who want to live among your ruin).
August 11th, 2008 at 4:21 pm