Russian-Georgian conflict: The Oil Wars Exposed
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Aug 12, 2008, 8:15:15 PM8/12/08
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The outbreak of serious conflict in Georgia clearly shows what all
these wars are about: Oil.
In Summary: Bush has handled all this as well as FEMA handled New
Orleans.
For the details, read on.
Russia wants to get back it's control of the Caspian Sea Oil. This
means stopping it going from Azerbaijan to Georgia and shipped across
the Black Sea and it means stopping the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
(from Azerbaijan to Georgia, across Turkey to the Mediterranean.
On a scale of 1 to 10 this is a 10. Russia has no intention of backing
down, this is not a temporary issue, it's more like China crossing the
Yalu River to kick America back from it's border, during the Korean
War. (In the USA we don't hear much about that because it was a big
defeat.)
Or, to stretch the comparison further back into history, this is as
dramatic as Caesar crossing the Rubicon and it means: "The die is
cast," and we're in deep *hit.
Of course we can think that it's all about spreading Freedom and
Democracy...especially (speaking sarcastically) freedom and democracy
along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. But it's all about OIL, and
Natural gas. Just like our USA war in Iraq.
The oil and natural gas in the Caspian Sea is estimated to be approx.
$ 12 Trillion dollars (USD).
With the successful Cold War breakup of the Soviet Union the West has
been able to stick it's straw into the Caspian Sea and start sucking.
The pipeline goes from the post-Soviet "pro-Western," republic of
Azerbaijan and the post-Soviet "pro-Western," republic of Georgia.
"Pro-Western," in this case means we have been able to swing their
elections our way with lots of cash and buy their politicians.
When Azerbaijan became a nation in the early 1990's, after the
collapse of the Soviet Union, almost immediately it was recognized as
a nation by the United States and Turkey-- the same with Georgia.
The older oil and gas pipeline -- The Baku-Novorossisk pipeline is
under Russian control so now the project is to build a Baku-Tbilisi-
Ceyhan pipeline, started in April 2007, and intended, as mentioned,
take the oil from the Caspian Sea and ship it from Azerbaijan to
Georgia and across Turkey down to the Mediterranean Sea. From there it
will ship to Europe and a pipeline will be built to go across Lebanon
to Israel. Because of the capital cities it goes through this is known
as the BTC pipeline.
USA policies since World War II have been very misguided, IMO: Korea,
Vietnam, the Middle East, Iraq, and these Caucasus States.
(Of course, there is the joke, this is the only way Americans learn
geography).
It seems -- if one was to speak like a university professor -- you'd
say things like: The USA trying to pick up the old pieces of post-WWII
colonialism --- French colonialism in Vietnam and Japanese colonialism
in Korea.
Or one could talk about the New Imperialism.
Trying to be colonialist and imperialist is a tragic twist for my
country, I believe. It doesn't really suit our founding principles in
fact it is drastically opposed to everything that started the American
Revolution...a revolution AGAINST colonialism and imperialism.
I'll point out too that the USA, the West trying to get Caspian Sea
oil would be like Russia doing offshore drilling in the Mediterranean
or like Russia doing offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico....and
like the USA plans for offshore drilling in Nigeria.
Nigeria (sarcastically) is another place where the U.S. is beginning
to talk about it's concerns for Freedom and Democracy. That's not
working out too well though, so it appears the small island off the
coast of Nigeria and Cameroon, Malabo,
Last month the U.S. warship visited Malabo (which had previous
centuries of British and Spanish colonialism) as part of an
"International-African," Security Pact...this is another of the prime
time ploys of Old and New Imperialism..."helping people."
Helping people fight drugs, slavery, piracy, environmental degradation
and all sorts of other good-sound things....like demands for religious
freedom in China today and in China a hundred, two hundred years ago.
Ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing...it's a pity.
Moscow's long=term objective in Georgia is probably to install a
friendly government in Tbilisi (it has tried more than once to do that
since Georgian independence), to keep Georgia out of NATO, stop the
arms flow into Chechnya, and take control of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
oil pipeline, the only important export route from the Caspian that
does not pass through Russia.
This is an utter failure, another failure, of Bush's foreign policies.
Eventually it will all tumble down like a house of cards. With the USA
invasion of Iraq for proven false reasons and with the use of
deliberately fabricated lies and with constant USA and Israeli threats
of attacks against Iran, no one in the world takes seriously the U.S.
A's plaintive calls to "stop aggression."
With the documentation of U.S.A. torture at Abu Ghraib, the approval
of torture and secret CIA prisons in 2006, the growing revelations of
more kidnappings and indefinite detentions without trial, the military
mockery of justice at Guantánamo Bay, no one in the world take
seriously the U.S.A's plaintive calls for "human rights."
The problem is Bush, warmongering Republicans, and Zionist neocon
extremist want to continue and exaggerate the confrontational world
view of " We're All Perfect," and everyone else (including the French,
who successful negotiated an end of current Russian military advances
in Georgia)...we're all perfect and do nothing wrong and everyone else
is evil and bad.
This won't work anymore. Russia is taking back the Caucasus. We're
dug ourselves into a no-win hole in Iraq. South America is more anti-
American now than ever. Bush's plans to put nuke missiles on Russia's
border in Poland (calling them defensive missiles), has re-ignited the
Cold War with Russia threatened to land nuclear armed planned in Cuba
-- another situation Bush will not be able to handle.
Bush has handled all these wars like FEMA took care of New Orleans.
Wall Street and the economy is the same way. We're being screwed left
and right and Bush-Cheney and his gang of cohorts still want us to
wave the flag and shout: "Go USA."
The recent splitting off of Kosovo from Serbia, with USA active
support may have been the straw that broke the camels back. Most of us
don't know Kosovo from Knot's Farm and could care less. It's worth
nothing to us. Yet, for this nothing, we deeply offended the Russians
and triggered issues and unrest that goes back hundreds of years.
For winning 2-cents in Kosovo we just lost million dollar deals in the
Caucasus states.
The solutions are not in the past. The solution is more like Obama's
call for a War for New Energy. We need to put our heads and our hearts
into becoming energy independent of both Middle East and Caucasus'
oil. That's the real and permanent victory and we have to engage it,
push it with all the energy and resources we've been putting into
these wasted wars and plans in the Middle East and former Soviet
republics.
It's going to be real difficult. Even Obama has to do the war-dance or
fears he won't get elected unless he appears tough in challenging
Russian, Iran, etc. and the Zionist extremist, neocons, warmongering
Republicans and the Bush White House continue to try to play the same
old propaganda games: We're all right and everybody else is all wrong.
If you want to start a 'reality check,' on that, BTW, click here, for
a composite of photos from Abu Ghraib.
http://www.americancitizenstogether.org/ACT/Pictures/ABuBush.jpg
Or else we'll continue to stick our heads in the sand, waving an
American flag from our butt, and the charade and house of cards of our
American Dreamland will tumble down.
There is some satisfaction, at least, in knowing that venal, greedy,
two-faced corrupt liars can't get away with their crimes and
pretensions forever. There is some satisfaction knowing that without
some degree of good faith, integrity, and constructive effort you
can't build a better world or make a better nation.
The outbreak of serious conflict in Georgia clearly shows what all
these wars are about: Oil.
In Summary: Bush has handled all this as well as FEMA handled New
Orleans.
For the details, read on.
Russia wants to get back it's control of the Caspian Sea Oil. This
means stopping it going from Azerbaijan to Georgia and shipped across
the Black Sea and it means stopping the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
(from Azerbaijan to Georgia, across Turkey to the Mediterranean.
On a scale of 1 to 10 this is a 10. Russia has no intention of backing
down, this is not a temporary issue, it's more like China crossing the
Yalu River to kick America back from it's border, during the Korean
War. (In the USA we don't hear much about that because it was a big
defeat.)
Or, to stretch the comparison further back into history, this is as
dramatic as Caesar crossing the Rubicon and it means: "The die is
cast," and we're in deep *hit.
Of course we can think that it's all about spreading Freedom and
Democracy...especially (speaking sarcastically) freedom and democracy
along the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. But it's all about OIL, and
Natural gas. Just like our USA war in Iraq.
The oil and natural gas in the Caspian Sea is estimated to be approx.
$ 12 Trillion dollars (USD).
With the successful Cold War breakup of the Soviet Union the West has
been able to stick it's straw into the Caspian Sea and start sucking.
The pipeline goes from the post-Soviet "pro-Western," republic of
Azerbaijan and the post-Soviet "pro-Western," republic of Georgia.
"Pro-Western," in this case means we have been able to swing their
elections our way with lots of cash and buy their politicians.
When Azerbaijan became a nation in the early 1990's, after the
collapse of the Soviet Union, almost immediately it was recognized as
a nation by the United States and Turkey-- the same with Georgia.
The older oil and gas pipeline -- The Baku-Novorossisk pipeline is
under Russian control so now the project is to build a Baku-Tbilisi-
Ceyhan pipeline, started in April 2007, and intended, as mentioned,
take the oil from the Caspian Sea and ship it from Azerbaijan to
Georgia and across Turkey down to the Mediterranean Sea. From there it
will ship to Europe and a pipeline will be built to go across Lebanon
to Israel. Because of the capital cities it goes through this is known
as the BTC pipeline.
USA policies since World War II have been very misguided, IMO: Korea,
Vietnam, the Middle East, Iraq, and these Caucasus States.
(Of course, there is the joke, this is the only way Americans learn
geography).
It seems -- if one was to speak like a university professor -- you'd
say things like: The USA trying to pick up the old pieces of post-WWII
colonialism --- French colonialism in Vietnam and Japanese colonialism
in Korea.
Or one could talk about the New Imperialism.
Trying to be colonialist and imperialist is a tragic twist for my
country, I believe. It doesn't really suit our founding principles in
fact it is drastically opposed to everything that started the American
Revolution...a revolution AGAINST colonialism and imperialism.
I'll point out too that the USA, the West trying to get Caspian Sea
oil would be like Russia doing offshore drilling in the Mediterranean
or like Russia doing offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico....and
like the USA plans for offshore drilling in Nigeria.
Nigeria (sarcastically) is another place where the U.S. is beginning
to talk about it's concerns for Freedom and Democracy. That's not
working out too well though, so it appears the small island off the
coast of Nigeria and Cameroon, Malabo,
Last month the U.S. warship visited Malabo (which had previous
centuries of British and Spanish colonialism) as part of an
"International-African," Security Pact...this is another of the prime
time ploys of Old and New Imperialism..."helping people."
Helping people fight drugs, slavery, piracy, environmental degradation
and all sorts of other good-sound things....like demands for religious
freedom in China today and in China a hundred, two hundred years ago.
Ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing...it's a pity.
Moscow's long=term objective in Georgia is probably to install a
friendly government in Tbilisi (it has tried more than once to do that
since Georgian independence), to keep Georgia out of NATO, stop the
arms flow into Chechnya, and take control of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan
oil pipeline, the only important export route from the Caspian that
does not pass through Russia.
This is an utter failure, another failure, of Bush's foreign policies.
Eventually it will all tumble down like a house of cards. With the USA
invasion of Iraq for proven false reasons and with the use of
deliberately fabricated lies and with constant USA and Israeli threats
of attacks against Iran, no one in the world takes seriously the U.S.
A's plaintive calls to "stop aggression."
With the documentation of U.S.A. torture at Abu Ghraib, the approval
of torture and secret CIA prisons in 2006, the growing revelations of
more kidnappings and indefinite detentions without trial, the military
mockery of justice at Guantánamo Bay, no one in the world take
seriously the U.S.A's plaintive calls for "human rights."
The problem is Bush, warmongering Republicans, and Zionist neocon
extremist want to continue and exaggerate the confrontational world
view of " We're All Perfect," and everyone else (including the French,
who successful negotiated an end of current Russian military advances
in Georgia)...we're all perfect and do nothing wrong and everyone else
is evil and bad.
This won't work anymore. Russia is taking back the Caucasus. We're
dug ourselves into a no-win hole in Iraq. South America is more anti-
American now than ever. Bush's plans to put nuke missiles on Russia's
border in Poland (calling them defensive missiles), has re-ignited the
Cold War with Russia threatened to land nuclear armed planned in Cuba
-- another situation Bush will not be able to handle.
Bush has handled all these wars like FEMA took care of New Orleans.
Wall Street and the economy is the same way. We're being screwed left
and right and Bush-Cheney and his gang of cohorts still want us to
wave the flag and shout: "Go USA."
The recent splitting off of Kosovo from Serbia, with USA active
support may have been the straw that broke the camels back. Most of us
don't know Kosovo from Knot's Farm and could care less. It's worth
nothing to us. Yet, for this nothing, we deeply offended the Russians
and triggered issues and unrest that goes back hundreds of years.
For winning 2-cents in Kosovo we just lost million dollar deals in the
Caucasus states.
The solutions are not in the past. The solution is more like Obama's
call for a War for New Energy. We need to put our heads and our hearts
into becoming energy independent of both Middle East and Caucasus'
oil. That's the real and permanent victory and we have to engage it,
push it with all the energy and resources we've been putting into
these wasted wars and plans in the Middle East and former Soviet
republics.
It's going to be real difficult. Even Obama has to do the war-dance or
fears he won't get elected unless he appears tough in challenging
Russian, Iran, etc. and the Zionist extremist, neocons, warmongering
Republicans and the Bush White House continue to try to play the same
old propaganda games: We're all right and everybody else is all wrong.
If you want to start a 'reality check,' on that, BTW, click here, for
a composite of photos from Abu Ghraib.
http://www.americancitizenstogether.org/ACT/Pictures/ABuBush.jpg
Or else we'll continue to stick our heads in the sand, waving an
American flag from our butt, and the charade and house of cards of our
American Dreamland will tumble down.
There is some satisfaction, at least, in knowing that venal, greedy,
two-faced corrupt liars can't get away with their crimes and
pretensions forever. There is some satisfaction knowing that without
some degree of good faith, integrity, and constructive effort you
can't build a better world or make a better nation.
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