The invasion of Georgia by Russia has been a long time coming and one that was easy to foresee. The Russians have been pointing their cannons that way for months now and made no secret of their feelings about Georgia’s refusal to allow South Ossetia to rejoin North Ossetia.
When the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, North Ossetia was included within Russian borders and their family and friends living in the South half of this tiny province wanted to rejoin them. A separtist movement grew, supported by the Russians who naturally saw it as an opportunity to gain a little more territory. That Georgia became an ally of the United States and a candidate for NATO only upset the Russians further, since Russia still sees us as an enemy to be competed with.
Georgia should have allowed the South Ossetians to settle the matter by democratic vote. They didn’t because they knew that the vote would be to rejoin North Ossetia and Russia, so they continued to hold South Ossetia by force in the face of Russian might and Russian demands. They should have known better.
The Russians are as aggressive as ever and they’re going to sieze every possible opportunity to take advantage in any way, to once again expand their sphere of dominance, to again try to conquer and rule Europe. Up until now they’ve been trying to do this economically using oil for their leverage. The wealth of oil has been rebuilding the Russian war machine, however, and this is a display meant to do a lot more than just snatch back a bit of territory. It’s intended to intimidate the other breakaway nations who escaped when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Russia may well not stop with taking South Ossetia but continue advancing into Georgia and force Georgia to become their satellite once again. Since we are doing nothing to protect our ally, the Russians may not stop there but start renewed aggression against other neighboring states to force them into their “Federation” once again.
The reason nothing is being done to stop Russia by us or Free Europe is simple. Oil. Russia has pipelines going right into European refineries and supplies much of their oil. Russia has already given a display of what happens when their demands aren’t met, by shutting off the natural gas supply in the dead of winter and letting people freeze.
With the U.S., Bush won’t defend our ally Georgia simply because the Russians won’t interfere with Iraq. It’s pretty plain that deals have been made and plain that the Russians feel that they’re exploiting a weakness of ours. How far they go with this exploitation, will no doubt unfold soon. Will they conquer Georgia and force them into their Federation, in spite of outrage from the West?
We’ll soon find out.
Existential Threats.
http://www.nlpwessex.org/
Explore this site as fully as possible
http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2008/08/massive-us-naval-armada-heads-for-iran.html
Insane Sabre rattling, or the real thing.
Iran very near to Georgia, is Russia preparing military launch-pad.
The Georgia attack on Ossetia was/ is orchestrated.
The Russian response was immediate, and given it would take at least a week to assemble Russian forces at the border……….
States wishing to ditch the dollar dominance were/are Iraq, (look what happened!), North Korea, (oops), and Iran, (now). There’s your “AXIS OF EVIL”!
http://www.financialsense.com/Market/kirby/2008/0728.html
And here are the masters of corruption
I must emphasise again, explore the links on the first link above.
Some interesting stuff on that natural law site (was that the NL party – yogic flying etc?). Much content that looks sound, pity that appearance of some pages, mixtures of bold red and blue text, gives wrong impression as that website style tends to be associated with extreme parties and nutters.
Talking about extreme parties and nutters, – - try this for size.
Another false flag operation?????????????????
http://pacificfreepress.com/content/view/2774/1/
Did the neo-cons just swap Georgia for Iran?
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_08/brown081408.html
Just as central banks manipulate currencies in concert, so gold can be manipulated by massive selling of central bank reserves. Oil and any other market can be manipulated as well. But markets can be manipulated by only so much and for only so long without fixing the underlying problem. There is more bad news coming down the pike, news of such magnitude that no amount of ordinary manipulation is liable to conceal it.
For one thing, roughly $400 billion in ARMs (adjustable rate mortgages) have or will reset between March and October of this year. Assuming 3 to 6 months for strapped debtors to actually hit the wall with their payments, a huge wave of defaults is about to strike, continuing through March 2009 – just in time for the next huge wave of resets, in option ARMs.3 Option ARMs are loans with the option to pay even less than just the interest on the loan monthly, increasing the loan balance until the loan reaches a certain amount (typically 110% to 125% of the original loan balance), when it resets. The $800 billion credit line recently opened to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may be not only tapped but tapped out, at taxpayer expense. The underlying problem is little discussed but impossible to repair – a one quadrillion dollar derivatives scheme that is now imploding. Banks everywhere are facing massive writeoffs, putting the whole banking system on the brink of collapse. Only public bailouts will save it, but they could bankrupt the nation.
What to do? War and threats of war have been used historically to distract the population and deflect public scrutiny from economic calamity. As the scheme was summed up in the trailer to the 1997 movie “Wag the Dog” –
“There’s a crisis in the White House, and to save the election, they’d have to fake a war.”
Perhaps that explains the sudden breakout of war in the Eurasian country of Georgia on August 8, just 3 months before the November elections. August 8 was the day the Olympic Games began in Beijing, a distraction that may have been timed to keep China from intervening on Russia’s behalf. The mainstream media version of events is that Russia, the bully on the block, invaded its tiny neighbor Georgia; but not all commentators agree. Mikhail Gorbachev, writing in The Washington Post on August 12, observed:
“What happened on the night of Aug. 7 is beyond comprehension. The Georgian military attacked the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali with multiple rocket launchers designed to devastate large areas. Russia had to respond. To accuse it of aggression against ‘small, defenseless Georgia’ is not just hypocritical but shows a lack of humanity. . . . The Georgian leadership could do this only with the perceived support and encouragement of a much more powerful force.”
moderation heaven
Gogle – Zbigniew Brzezinski,, and CFR, and Rockefeller, and obama, etc.
Most interesting
Indeed. I view the Georgian thing as more a case of cynical and typically very poor western strategy. Ossetia has been largely autonomous and Georgia broke agreements, perhaps believing it would have rather more support from the west than just verbal outrage. Rings a bell but cannot recall what at the moment.
PS You are Jordan and I claim my $200.
Shame, Xoggoth. You’ll be outing homosexuals next.
This whole thing reeks of rotting fish. As I said in the post, Georgia should have known better. Therefor they were encouraged to commit their act of stupidity, no doubt by our people, in order to give the Russians the excuse they were waiting for, again as I said because deals have been made between them and us. Georgia was sucker-punched.
No doubt the Russians will move back out again after securing those two areas, which should have been handed over to them in the first place since that was clearly the will of the people there and there’s historical precedent anyway.
This is all about oil and the control of oil. Either the world is going to war over it or we’re going to reach agreements based on our levels of aggressiveness, economic control and military capability. Russia wants to control all the oil and gas fueling Europe. The United States wants to control all the oil and gas supplies that will meet our own requirements now and in the future. The Chinese also have this same goal, which is why they’re trying to take over all the African oil fields. The idea is to maintain ascendant economies as military power is now secondary to economic power. This latter has come about because of the great recent increase in global population. The bottom line for power has always been power over the people and today this power is economic, not military.