It's hard to judge Engdahl's credibility, but he does presenting compelling background information about NATO expansion, that while covered in the MSM, hasn't been a point of focus.

Interesting video report about the unstable situation in Georgia. The report is largely based on an interview with political economist William Engdahl, which provides an insightful perspective on this conflict. Engdahl makes an important point that the roots of the conflict are much deeper than just a regional strife -- as it appears related to a larger geopolitical endgame between western forces and Russia. However, this report lacks additional perspectives from multiple sources, which makes it more of an opinion piece than a straight news report.

This guy sounds like Noam Chomsky. The Russian invasion of Georgia shows why we need NATO. The first strike business is a flat out lie. Having a small anti missile force in Europe does not significantly affect Russian ability to blow us all up. They have so many missiles that they can easily overwhelm this defense. The Russian interest in Georgia is to get control of the oil pipelines so as to control the flow and keep the price up. Russia is run by a mafia type government that uses murder and intimidation to get what it wants. Without a countervailing force, like NATO, they will run wild.

What kind of simplistic anti-American nonsense is this? The fact that Ukraine and Georgia very much want to be in NATO, and are supported by all of the former communist members, is pretty understandable now that the tanks have gone in. This German guy is really just puppeting the Kremlin line, that Russia is being "encircled" by mean old NATO. Not that these new states might want to get out from under the thumb of the Kremlin, which has not reduced its number of nukes anymore than the U.S. has, thank you. And it might also maybe just happen to have something to do with the pipelines that go through Georgia, the only export route from the Caspian that Russia can't control...