[lbo-talk] Putin's Pipeline

[boddi satva]

The entire thesis of the document is that BP was foolish for not
realizing that the Russians would steal everything they could by using
political power to nationalize any petro-assets they could get their
hands on.

This is not news, and of course it confirms my thesis completely.

What is ridiculous is the idea that Vladimir Putin was going to risk
what is happening - possible direct conflict with American forces -
simply to help a few South Ossetians. It's just absurd. It would be
completely irresponsible of him, not to mention out of character.

As in Iraq for America, if oil did not flow through Georgia the
Russians would never make this gambit. Add the oil, it all makes
sense. Subtract the oil, it's a Kremlin fairytale.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Dennis Claxton
<ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 05:26 PM 8/12/2008, boddi satva wrote:
>
>> A lovely document, full of deceptive passive voice, canards, insults
>> but still managing to overtly confirm my entire thesis:
>
>
> So now we know you're more interested in being right than anything else and
> that you can't read.
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