Nov 17 2008
Next Cold War?
Was it a “dress rehearsal”? Russia set the August “surprise” up from the get go. It had two divisions in place along the Georgia border, ready to move, having quietly positioned them there in late July. They then told their funded ethnic Russian surrogate agitators in South Ossetia to start trouble so that the Georgia president , Mikhail Saakasvili would take the bait and try to put them down, thereby giving Russia its excuse to invade. It’s precisely what Hitler did in 1936 with the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
Only a fool can’t see what’s really going on here. It’s plain as day. Russia is letting everybody know that it’s going to start pushing back aggressively against what it sees as a progressive encroachment on their traditional territories by the west. They know full well that we need their oil & gas and so they feel secure that the West’s responses will be limited, and they’re probably right.
Now, according to todaysfinancialnews.com
20% of Russia’s GDP comes from oil and gas, and with the decrease in oil prices, it is starting to feel the pinch. That is why, the Amberger and Snyder have pointed out that Putin still have their troops in Georgia for a possible future attack on the Nabucco Pipeline, which is now bypassing Russia altogether.
Russia has its own gas monopoly, Gazprom, which has the potential to be used as an economic weapon, and Gazprom also has its own “shock troops”.
And, timing will be of the essence. The dead cold of Russian Winter. They predict a few weeks after Obamabi is sworn into office, the week of February 13-20 2009. He’s non-confrontational, so that is another reason for the timing.
This “confrontation will allow Russia to re-nationalize after western shareholders “dump” their stocks and Russia will buy them at fire-sale prices. It will be an “energy shakedown.”
