Russia's Return Bites the Neocons' Grand Energy Scheme in the Ass
By James Howard Kunstler,
Kunstler.com
Posted on August 19, 2008, Printed on August 19, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/95546/
The feeble American response to Russia's assertion of power in the Caucasus
of Central Asia was appropriate, since our claims of
influence in that part of the world are laughable. The US had taken
advantage of temporary confusion in Russia, during the
ten-year-long post-Soviet-collapse interval, and set up a client government
in Georgia, complete with military advisors, sales of
weapons, and even the promise of club membership in the western alliance
known as NATO. These blandishments were all in the
service of the Baku-to-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which was designed specifically
to drain the oil region around the Caspian Basin with an
outlet on the Mediterranean, avoiding unfriendly nations all along the way.
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