From: George Sherwood 

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:02:31 +0000, Adam wrote:


>
> Oh Good. However given the eternal "interests vs ethics" tug
of war wrt
> a foreign gov.....hmmm...landing rights for USAF or.....protesting the
> attack on any opposition forces etc. it's nice to see that at the very
> least the power ministries around the dear leader can be pressured.

Close, but you have the wrong pressure point.  Has nothing to do with USAF
landing rights, we negotiate on a case by case basis as does the RAF,
Canadian AF, Danish AF, etc.  This is all about European energy.  Most of
Europe is coming to the realization that they have their head so far up
Putin's ass that are blinded to what he is doing at home and in some, yet
unproven cases abroad.  What has happened to the Russian press makes a
newspaper eviction and TV station closure look like child's play. I
actually read a quote by a UK politician that this Litvinenko
"problem" will blow over cause the UK/Russian relationship is too
important.  Why so important?

They need another source of energy and there is a bunch of gas in the
Caspian Sea and Aliyev knows it.

>
> It will be interesting to see if this EU/Greek Cypriot - Turkish falling
> out will have any effects in Baku

More then likely will have something.

George

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