Russia and Georgia - the Oil game continues?

Submitted by Kai on Mon, 2008-08-11 06:49.
Russia is moving in to Georgia. Is the Big Bear securing it's oil reserves? Are they trying to close the West's access to the Caspian sea? Where will Putin head after Georgia? Is Putin the new Stalin?

These and many other questions have surfaced around the world for a while now. To many of us, Georgia is far away, thus the news are easily downgraded on our scale of importance. And this might very well be Putin's exact calculations - that Russia can go out and grab Georgia with little or no reactions from the international communities.

I hope that reactions will come. That the international community will raise it's voice and tell Russia and Putin that theft is not acceptable. That Georgia will receive support and help on their path to independence and democracy.

In our globalized market, we are all interdependent. That should also mean that we are equally responsible for each other, that we should care and that we need to voice our concerns.

Larko opened my eyes - by pointing my radar to the incident. Thus, I changed the filter mode in my brain, and interesting bits of information started to appear. Some of them are listed below.

I encourage you to spend a few seconds (as a minimum) to consider the questions I pose above. By spending that little investment of your time, you may find that you need to do something more. If you do, please go ahead! Thanks!

Please feel free to air your voice - and submit other interesting stories on this potentially global security threat! (Yes, I may exaggerate on a short term - but what are the long term damage that may occur?)

Thanks

@remont: the pleasure is all mine! I hope I can keep you interested!

thanks of post

Thanks for the interesting article, I love this site

Russian vs. Georgia

No doubt, this is a difficult situation, and as you note Anon, this is a bit outside of my particular area of expertise. But please, if we should keep quite every time we see something we do not like, but are not experts in, what would then be of the world?

Only by speaking up, and risking to be wrong, can we ever dream of making a better world.

Gents, may be you should

Gents, may be you should stick with IT security instead of talking rubbush re: Georgians vs Russians. You are obviously read and understand a lot about IT, but not thinking straight outside this area. Just imagine, what would USA do, if Serbia started taking Kosovo back by utilzing tanks and artillery AND killing a few US and EU solders there?

Oil and gas resources and

Oil and gas resources and access to pipelines are certainly a factor to consider but in a broader context all neighbors of Russia should be worried, especially those who have any significant number of Russian citizens as a part of their population. What Russia did, as Mr Bildt points out in the post you refer to, was that they issued Russian passports to anybody who cared to get one in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and then attacked Georgia with the excuse of "protecting their citizens". This is exactly what Hitler did with Czechoslovakia in the late 1930'ies. The current reactions of EU and NATO are frightenedly similar to that of Neville Chamberlain at the time.

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