Keep your eye on the barrel. Also, what exquisite revenge for the Russians to form an Axis of OIl with a greater Iran. Literally and figuratively, a very cold war for the USA.

Whether Russia is able to trundle out some shells with Hewlett Packard stamped on them remains to be seen, but I’m subliminally convinced that we are already involved.

Shota Kochiev, 60, said: “This is America’s doing. They are supporting Georgia’s mad lust for new land – our land.”

USA will be involved and will be viewed as the aggressor, regardless of historical causation or modern realities.

Chickens coming to roost and dominos falling.

The reality of Peak Oil subsumed beneath global competition for resources.