US attempts to get Georgia into NATO, coupled with its desire to erect an anti-missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech republic would give it first strike capability towards Russia. Moscow sees this as a national security threat against the sovereignty of Russia. Political economist F William Engdahl believes this is the geopolitical endgame being played out in Georgia. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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...
