The plot gets thicker and thicker.
Israel apparently would have based bombers out of Georgia for their attack on Iran.
And a question; who's the Superpower, the country with trillions in debt or the country with almost zero?
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7033-9.cfm
Has it occurred to anybody that Russia and China have the money to spend on their military like we do, they just see no reason as we are making ourselves a non threat by throwing our weight around to the point of breaking?
Israel apparently would have based bombers out of Georgia for their attack on Iran.
And a question; who's the Superpower, the country with trillions in debt or the country with almost zero?
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7033-9.cfm
Has it occurred to anybody that Russia and China have the money to spend on their military like we do, they just see no reason as we are making ourselves a non threat by throwing our weight around to the point of breaking?
NATOs guarantees that an attack against one member country is an attack against all are no longer what they used to be. Had Georgia been inside NATO, a number of European countries would no longer be willing to consider it an attack against their own soil.
The European Union is still a military dwarf that swings no weight in the Kremlin. And the ineptitude of Georgia's leadership gave Russian leaders a huge new window of opportunity.
The Jerusalem Post on Aug. 12 reported, "Georgian Prime Minister Vladimir Gurgenidze made a special call to Israel Tuesday morning to receive a blessing from one of the Haredi community's most important rabbis and spiritual leaders, Rabbi Aaron Leib Steinman. "I want him to pray for us and our state," he was quoted.
Israel began selling arms to Georgia seven years ago. U.S. grants facilitated these purchases. From Israel came former minister and former mayor of Tel Aviv Roni Milo, representing Elbit Systems, and his brother Shlomo, former director-general of Military Industries. Israeli UAV spy drones, made by Elbit Maarahot Systems, conducted recon flights over southern Russia, as well as into nearby Iran.
In a secret agreement between Israel and Georgia, two military airfields in southern Georgia had been earmarked for the use of Israeli fighter bombers in the event of preemptive attacks against Iranian nuclear installations.
Moscow's oil and gas revenue this year is projected at $201 billion, a 13-fold increase since Mr. Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin eight years ago.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/se … -caucasus/