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Originally Posted by pgardn
Putin fooled GW also.
All that time playing "the man he could do business with" and
Putin is probably just seething having to play GW without any
brute force recourse.
Throwing the Western Oil companies out is pure stupidity.
Venezuela already failed with this trick. Russia's oil production will
now deteriorate slowly but surely.
This is really a confusing situation. Unless Putin is trying to slash
and burn his own country to gain some sort of despotic control.
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All GW was doing was giving the guy public respect which leaders tend to do. That means nothing except to the looney talk radio guys.
Putin is KGB dont forget. He invited the westerners in to steal their technology and let them do the dirty work in drastically updating the Russian gas and oil production. It costs billions to locate and extract oil and gas and after the systems were set up he threw the west out and took over the Russian companies and threw their execs in jail. He got exactly what he needed. They have plenty of money now and with the US seemingly reeling economically and with its military stretched he is striking while he has the advantage. Anything that Georgia did or didnt do is semantics, a good excuse to flex muscles and bait the West (us). The Russian general's quotes were released by the Russian controlled papers which tells you that Putin wanted it said in another muscle flexing move. The chances that they use nukes against poland are remote but the message is clear. Dont fck with us, we are going to make some moves that will piss everybody off but we have nukes and will make things ugly unless you back down.