Why Georgia Matters

William Collier

8/13/08 UPDATE: 9:09 PM UKRAINIAN Foreign Ministry Announcement:  Ukraine sends two aircraft with humanitarian aid for Georgia - Ukrainian Foreign Ministry

The Presidents of the three Baltic Republics and Poland are in Tbilisi and the Government in Tbilisi is standing firm despite Moscow’s invasion, which is proceeding forward but in a slovenly and inefficient manner, and the people are still massing in Tbilisi to support their government. US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has announced that she will be heading tro Tbilisi and there is more talk of US troops coming into the country. Additionally, some 12 or more Russia aircraft have gone down, some to small arms fire.

MARK LEVIN August 13, 2008 On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show: Mark takes a different angle on the Russia / Georgia conflict. He says that it has not come as Russia had expected and that it showed Russia’s military weaknesses. Russia has had some embarrassing military problems against a small country such as Georgia. Later in the hour, Mark focuses on how the American people don’t want government to control everything. Harry Reid and these liberals think that high oil prices are a joke. They are disconnected from the public and yet they want to institute policy that they see fits well; they put the Democratic Party before America.

In the 2nd hour, Senator Fred Thompson joins Mark and discusses Russia and how we need to help the newly formed democratic countries around Russia that are still vulnerable.

UPDATE: August 13, 2008: As Russian troops invade, from bases in southern Russia, 127 American military trainers remain in Georgia (the one in the Caucasus). They weren’t the only foreign troops around, as at the end of July, a thousand Ukrainian, Azeri, Armenian and U.S. troops departed after holding joint training exercises with their Georgian counterparts.

The American Communicator

The WAR IN Georgia is all about oil and the next phase in that war may involve the Ukraine.

Israel’s Channel 2 featured Ehud Ya’ari, Muslim specialist, who told viewers that Russia and neighboring countries were seeking to control a strategic oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. This pipeline passes through Azerbaijan and Georgia to Turkey and is the only pipeline between Asia and Europe that does not pass through Russia or Iran. Israel is expecting to receive oil and gas through the pipeline.

The Russian master plan, to upset the natives in Ossetia, was twofold: provoke a response from Georgia and then use that as a pretext in an effort to topple the government.

The roots of the conflict go back to 2005 when prime ministers of Ukraine and Georgia agreed that the flow of oil in a key Ukrainian pipeline would be reversed.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said that the Odessa-Brody pipeline would be used for oil shipments from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan through Georgia to Western European markets, in contrast to the former government’s decision to pump Russian crude through the pipeline to the Black Sea port of Odessa, said Vitaly Chepinoga, a spokesman for Tymoshenko.

The present fight in Ossetia may indeed be part of a two-pronged attack which will see Russia turning its attention to Ukrain.

The objective is: GET CONTROL OVER ALL CAPSIAN and Central Asian Oil. This is not merely a strategic decision, it is an economic decision as it will give badly needed capital to the Russians who are now pumping billions of rubles into expanding their military.

The PRESENT fight in America over oil drilling will take on more critical dimensions. OPEC and Russia have sought to limit the oil supply in order to increase profits (it costs around $6 to obtain a barrel of crude oil, which sells for over $110 now). The oil that the Ukraine and Georgia were pumping, against the wishes of Russia, was not subjected to those production limits as set by Russia and OPEC.

Look for the next “shoe” to drop in the Ukraine.

Keep coming here for more updates on this important news item.

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