Grant Lawrence
This Russian-Georgian war that is presently being fought is actually part of a Grand Chess Game being played out right in front of your eyes. The players are making strategic moves to grow or to try to offset America’s corporatist global empire. Sure Georgia wants S. Ossetia and S. Ossetia wants to be independent. But in order to really understand what the war is about we need to go back in history and read what Barack Obama’s key international adviser has to say about America’s empire and where the empire game needs to be played.
But first some news on the Russian-Georgian war and a little background.
Georgia, the homeland of Stalin and once part of the Soviet Union, attacked its breakaway province of S. Ossetia. Russia, declaring the region independent, responded with massive force attacking Georgia. Now Abkhazia, another Georgia breakaway zone, has declared war on Georgia today. The latest news as of this writing is that Georgia, pleading for American help, has declared a cease fire and has withdrawn from S. Ossetia.
Russian jets, after the Russian-Georgian war started, bombed the (BTC) Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. which starts from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea in Azerbeijan and in part runs about 60 miles south of S. Osetia and continues onto Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea where it is shipped to an energy hungry West. All of this you will note bypasses Russia. This pipeline carries 1% of the world’s oil supply and it is an essential part of a future strategy for the Western world to gain access to oil from Central Asia, in which the reserves are estimated to be one of the largest in the world. Nearly 70% of the pipeline was funded by the World Bank. More
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