Russia Gets Its Own 9-11 / 7-7 Today

[Peter Presland]

I'm impressed with Paul's Essay too - talk about prescient. The trajectory of global US/NATO policy wrt to Russia really is crystal clear to anyone prepared to remove the blindfold.

Speaking of which, this article by William Engdahl illustrates that the 100+ year old chess game over Central Asia is still at the heart of US/UK/NATO policy towards Russia.

It's too long to post in full but shows that, despite everything, Russia's position is rather better than may be supposed. It seems that the much vaunted Nabucco pipline project aimed at side-lining Russia in the 'Gas supplies to Europe' stakes, is close to collapse. There is a growing realisation in Europe (if not in the Baltic countries and Poland) that relations with Russia need very delicate handling indeed if the security of its energy supplies are to be assured - must be galling in the extreme for the US/UK Establishments.

BUT - in a startling - even ominous - illustration of Mackinder's original analysis brought utd - even to the extent of Germany being the most reluctant Russia-basher, the following paragraph leaps off the page:

In addition to Serb Bosnia, Gazprom’s partners now include Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. It almost retraces the Balkan route of the controversial Berlin-to-Baghdad railway which played such a decisive geopolitical role in British machinations that ultimately led to World War I following the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand.

In view of the unravelling of US/UK/NATO plans for the region - Ukraine election result especially - it does make the question "why an upsurge of Russia-Targeted terrorist attacks right now?" pointed and deserving of special attention - especially when Chechnya appears to be at its most tranquil in decades.