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August 31, 2008
In response to Russia's recognition of independence for Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Gerogia the West's talk is "cold war" and condemns Russia over the conflict with Georgia, and Russia's de facto control over two major Black Sea ports. In doing so the West has ignored--or forgotten-- the fact that Georgian armed forces attacked the peaceful city of Tskhinvali in South Ossetia or that Central Asia is close to Russia's borders.
As M K Bhadrakumar says in Asia Times Online:
The emergent geopolitical reality is that with Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Moscow has virtually checkmated the US strategy in the Black Sea region, defeating its plan to make the Black Sea an exclusive "NATO lake". In turn, NATO's expansion plans in the Caucasus have suffered a setback.
the Georgian crisis is bound to linger for months, if not years, without resolution, particularly if the US continues to push for Georgia's inclusion into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Theoretically, with Germany dropping its opposition to Georgia's bid to join NATO, as it did at the recent NATO summit in Bucharest, nothing stands in the way of NATO's expansion to the South Caucasus, or Ukraine for that matter,
A core issue is energy security, given the fierce pipeline geopolitics in the Eurasian landmass. The US's traditional turf is the oil-prized Persian Gulf, hence the US antagonism to a feisty Iran.
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Ummmm they're Russians Gary. Russians are on the opposite team to us ... always have been. That's all you need to know.
I mean do the Maroons have to keep researching why they hate the Blues? Of course, not. Some things transcend the reasoned discourse beloved by the left.
Sorry, that should be "reasoned discourse (!)" to indicate how right-thinking people despise the concept.