EU to delay Russian partnership talks

EU leaders have decided to delay talks with Russia on a new agreement about strategic co-operation. At an extraordinary summit in Brussels, the leaders condemned Russia's actions in the Caucasus, but promised to maintain contacts with Moscow and continue existing ties.

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[mima11vlad]

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BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH AND ANOTHER BLAH

[wyrd24]

It appears that it will be up to the Europeans to ease tensions with the Russians and broker fair deals where all the plutocrats are (reasonably) satisfied. The alternatives for the peoples of this planet are not acceptable. And it really is just that simple.

[wyrd24]

This West-East struggle has no (sane) military solution. Only dialogue will broker a deal that will eventually have to ensure a fair and equitable split of distribution rights and corporate profits. Unfortunately, the American Corporate Socialists have yet to display a willingness to cooperate fairly (to share, in Eurasia, or Iraq). From their (irrational) vantage, Russia is not a serious partner.

[wyrd24]

Given the double standards of the American position (as in Iraqi invasion and occupation over hydrocarbon resource access, not Iraqi liberation), both sides make their cases in regard to Georgia. In short, they each have their stories, and they're sticking to them. The real issue is energy distribution expressed in terms of National Interests on the global stage.

[wyrd24]

The Western geopolitical prize (the Eurasian energy corridor) suddenly became vulnerable (and the rage in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, et cetera, expressed the frustrated reality, that is, the BTC and South Caucasus gas pipelines are ever so close, even too close to rather pissed Russia). The primary media spin in the West (and East) is about genocide, territorial integrity, and so forth.

[wyrd24]

Unfortunately, Mr Saakashvili had more ambitious plans (the CIA sponsored politician is simply a useful pawn in the anti-Russian agenda being played out). And then Mr Putin set his trap by taunting Georgia into invading South Ossetia (namely through allowing militia types to antagonize villages on the edges of the territories) and allowing Saakashvili to reveal himself to be an unreliable partner (hothead) to the Western pipeline enthusiasts who sought reasonable stability in the region.

[wyrd24]

Thus, the geostrategic priority for Moscow became undermining international confidence in Georgia as a reliable corridor for energy distribution (all while the EU planned the Nabucco pipeline to reduce Europe's reliance on Russia). This is what the crisis in Georgia was/is about. Georgia's geostrategic importance is primarily about the US/EU-Russian struggle over the distribution of Caspian energy. Cheney/Bush armed/trained the Georgian military/special forces to protect the new pipelines.

[wyrd24]

(Then) President Putin re-nationalized many of the Russian companies previously privatized by Yeltsin, e.g., Yukos and Gazprom. Mr Putin then focused on the Caspian Sea basin with the intention of dominating export conduits to Europe and Asia (not to own the resources, the same as the interests of the Anglo-American cartels in Iraq) with precedence already established through agreements with Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (to ship gas through Russia to Europe via Gazprom).

[wyrd24]

Since Washington's Eurasian energy corridor passed near conflict zones (e.g.,Abkhazia and South Ossetia) Mr Clinton transformed the Georgian army into a military proxy of the USofA. The Russians (temporarily weakened by internal strife) watched this in their so-called near abroad and planned countermoves. The issues for both superpowers being National Interests (which Washington sees as anyplace around the globe and dismisses Russia's to within its own borders, a clear double standard).

[wyrd24]

In the 1990s, President Clinton embarked upon converting Georgia into an energy corridor for the export of Caspian basin oil and gas to the West in order to bypass Russia (that evolved into the BTC pipeline). It was America (corporate socialist interests) that presided over every stage of the BTC line's development and corporate structuring. It was a case of geopolitics, pure and simple (to enhance Western energy security while diminishing Russia's control over distribution).