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2008-08-24 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 What rational do our Russian friends offer for controlling the port city a hundred miles (?) fro South Osettia? Or do they bother with an explation?

Posted by Bobby 2008-08-24 08:23|| 2008-08-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia, you have to leave Georgia a port.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-08-24 08:25|| 2008-08-24 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Its the major oil terminal port for Georgia on the Black Sea..

That's why Putin and his mafia thugs want control of it.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-24 12:26|| 2008-08-24 12:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The fork of the BTC pipeline terminates at Supsa, not in Poti. Oil is then railroaded to Poti--a major railroad terminal beside beint a port, but can be redirected, for time being, to Batumi.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-24 13:51|| 2008-08-24 13:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Just maybe their rational is "We've lost the port in the Crimea so we'll make one here instead.

Posted by linker 2008-08-24 18:12|| 2008-08-24 18:12|| Front Page Top

#6 They've got Sochi and Sukhumi. That's enough.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-24 21:03|| 2008-08-24 21:03|| Front Page Top

#7 INTERFAX > RUSSIA > "KEEPING FRIENDS CLOSE AND ENEMIES CLOSER". Russ is desiring to hold MILEXS wid other CSTO Member-States [includ Muslim] every TWO YEARS.

IMO 'tis more evidence RUSS COVERTLY WANTS THE US-NATO/EU COVERING IT SIX in ASI AGZ RISING NUCLEAR ISLAMISM + CHINA.

ION ARMENIAN NEWS NETWORK/TOPIX > ANKARA: TURKEY, RUSSIA TO DISCUSS [Turk-proposed]CAUCASUS BLOC/UNION, + BAKU: IFF THREAT EXTENDS TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ARMENIA WILL SIGN ALLIANCE IMMEDIATELY [Armenia plans to surrender and give formal recognition iff NagornKarab decides to secede], + US GLOBAL STRATEGY [anti-Russia]IN GEORGIA.

* MIDDLE EAST TIMES > SOMETHING IMPORTANT [+ Global Dangerous] IS STIRRING IN THE DEEP DARK WATERS OF GEOPOLITICS. US-NATO is projecting power and extending into the Caucasus + CENTASIA; THE REAL WORLD: GEORGIA WAR LESSONS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST. The post-Cold war/USSR era's got nuthin' on the Arts of War.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-24 22:59|| 2008-08-24 22:59|| Front Page Top

#8 TOPIX > WATCHING AND WAITING: IRAN VERSUS TURKEY IN THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA.

Also from TOPIX > BHUTTO SUCCESSOR ZARDARI: THE TALIBAN AND MILITANTS ARE WINNING.

And now you know, Virginia, why RUSSIA HAS ITS PANTIES IN A WAD!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-24 23:05|| 2008-08-24 23:05|| Front Page Top

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