Eggplant:

RAH:

Your analysis is very insightful. If you’ll pardon my asking, do you do this sort of thing for a living?

Eggplant, No I do it for fun. I would like to do it for money, but hard to show the professionals without any paid experienced in my resume. I just like the news and I read Spengler’s article 3-4 weeks ago about the Georgia- Russia possible war and started to track pipelines and Gazprom contracts because I was curious.

I had heard in the background about Gazprom, but US news is notoriously insular so I did the usual Internet search and came to the realization that Russia was cornering the non-OPEC energy market. I already knew about Schroeder’s connection to Gazprom and Russia heavy handed stopping of gas to various countries so it all fell together.

That is why when Georgia shelled S. Ossetia and Russia invaded that I started posting that this was really a push for control of the pipeline. I did not wanted to narrative to be about separatist independence issues because that is an obvious smokescreen.

Thankfully the media did pick up on the pipeline connection, which is surprising for western media, which loves celebrity news and elections news.