Caroline Glick, in the Jerusalem World Review:

Georgia has several oil and gas pipelines that traverse its territory from Azerbaijan to Turkey, the main one being the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Together they transport more than one percent of global oil supplies from east to west. In response to the Russian invasion, British Petroleum, which owns the pipelines, announced that it will close them.

What this means is that Russia has won. In the future that same oil and gas will either be shipped through Russia, or it will be shipped through Georgia under the benevolent control of Russian “peacekeeping” forces permanently stationed in Gori. The West now has no option other than appeasing Russia if it wishes to receive its oil from the Caucasus.

Can someone address this contention? I know she intends it for domestic consumption and, largely, is trying to make a point to the Israeli public, but . . . for that very reason it is hyperbolic and far too pessimistic, right? Although she does serve to better frame the conflict (along with John Bolton today in the London Telegraph), I suspect they both are shouting to the world, “wake the hell up!”