Originally Posted by
dannolars
Yeah, I was trying to make two points, albeit quite poorly. 1- We already are invovled in this. Not much, but airlifting troops back to Georgia is something. I agree, there is no way we are going to do much else, nor will the U.N. or anyone else for that matter.
2-I was trying to be a bit sarcastic with this one, I think the Russian advance was purely a grab for the oil pipeline.
Regardless, it will be interesting to see what happens.
I think you were right - they want to control the oil & gas and they want it to flow through their and not Georgian pipelines - it looks like they’ve achieved that objective already.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/markets/bp_pipeline.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes
Last edited by ⌐ AV8OR WANNABE; 08-12-2008 at 08:28 AM.