August 26, 2008 From theTrumpet.comKazakhs, watching events in Georgia, seem to be aligning their energy-export policy with Putin’s wishes.Russian tank treads rolling all over Georgia is making another regional country besides Ukraine stand up and take notice: Kazakhstan. Along with other factors, Moscow’s resurging pressure on its former Soviet neighbors has the Central Asian republic considering its options, particularly in one of its most vital sectors: energy.Turkish daily Referans...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Georgia and Kosovo: A Single Intertwined Crisis August 25 2008
August 25, 2008By George FriedmanThe Russo-Georgian war was rooted in broad geopolitical processes. In large part it was simply the result of the cyclical reassertion of Russian power. The Russian empire — czarist and Soviet — expanded to its borders in the 17th and 19th centuries. It collapsed in 1992. The Western powers wanted to make the disintegration permanent. It was inevitable that Russia would, in due course, want to reassert its claims. That it happened in Georgia was simply the...
Saturday, August 23, 2008
The Week in Review
« (PT/Getty Images)The Week in ReviewAugust 23, 2008 From theTrumpet.comRussia’s war against Georgia ripples across continents, Berlin and Moscow are making the pact we’ve been anticipating for decades, and U.S. leaders are realizing what the Trumpet has said for years: America lacks will. Middle EastPakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned August 18. The Pakistani parliament had initiated impeachment...
Monday, August 11, 2008
A New Russia Many would have believed that the death of the Soviet Union brought about the birth of a new Russia. But one question we should really ask is has Russia really changed? Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau describes Russia's national character. "In Russia the tradition of obedience to the authority of the government and the traditional fear of the foreigner has made large permanent military establishments acceptable to the population"(Politics Among Nations)....
My first post
This is my very first post and i guess i should give you a rundown of what my blog is about. i will post world news events that really matter for our worl...
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