Road Map to Iran Strike: In Either Case, Israel will ‘Pay’

Road Map to Iran Strike: In Either Case, Israel will ‘Pay’

 

Geopolitics consists of a series of feints within feints, threats and counter-threats mixed with mutual back-scratching. But someone always pays the piper and, notwithstanding the old phrase, it is rarely he who calls the tune. That was then, but this is the age of terminal Machiavellianism when doing evil means never having to say you’re sorry when you’re big enough to make others pay for your power trip and mistakes.

 

What is called “the Georgian crisis” contains a series of long-brewing tit-for-tats with a substantial quantum of cooperation between the larger belligerents, whose belligerence appears to be increasing, -- at the expense of oth ers, of course. Russia’s invasion in support of secessionist Islamic groups in the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions of Georgia is both a reprisal for and an imitation of NATO’s support for jihad in the Balkans, its dismembering of Eastern Orthodox Serbia and the creation of Muslim states like Kosovo there. Russia also is, or pretends to be angry at the spread of NATO’s missile defenses to Poland, Georgia and potentially Ukraine. Surely it does not expect to be attacked from Poland or Georgia; there is another 'mate' to this end game...

 

There also is an oil aspect. Georgia’s attempt to retain its territorial integrity, new-minted in 1991 involves a BP (British Petroleum) pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan across Georgia to northeastern Turkey for transshipment throughout the West. The Russians demanded that BP shut its pipeline; after a train laden with fuel tankers was turned to an inferno by Russian mines, BP complied. Shifting its irritation and feeling of entitlement further southeast, Russia announced that it would resume work on Iran nuclear facility at Bushehr, with work on the plutonium creating plant expected by year’s end. “If nobody wants to talk with us on these issues [Georgia and Iran], and Russia’s cooperation is not needed [to halt Iranian weapon’s development] than for God’s sake do it yourself” exclaimed PM Putin [1]....  

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