dysnomia.us » pipelines http://www.dysnomia.us Piracy, space and post-Soviet conflicts. Also treehugging, mayhem and high weirdness. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 geopolitics http://www.dysnomia.us/2009/03/geopolitics/ http://www.dysnomia.us/2009/03/geopolitics/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:38:59 +0000 jfb http://www.dysnomia.us/?p=511 Been a long time since we checked in on the remaining Republic of Georgia, eh? Long story short: Georgians stuck by President Saakashvili during the war and immediately after, but now that it’s clear that Georgia got pwned, the opposition is heating up. Can the government remember it’s on the side of democracy, or will it crack down? Meanwhile, the Russians (I almost typed “Soviets”) are digging in in both Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Global financial crisis or not, oil and natural gas are the long-term keys to an inexorable transfer of economic power from the West to Asia. Those who control Pipelineistan — and despite all the dreaming and planning that’s gone on there, it’s unlikely to be Washington — will have the upper hand in whatever’s to come, and there’s not a terrorist in the world, or even a long war, that can change that.

And this:

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