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The Black Sea

August 24, 2008 - 3:41 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Mark Maps
2008-08-24 17:51:39

The other signal sent by these naval forces is that the Georgian pipelines will be commercially viable and the sea-lanes used to ship some of those petrolium products are now fully protected. Russia would be stupid to try to interdict anything coming out of Georgia on the Black Sea.

Putin’s been checked; whether he’s been checkmated remains to be seen, but I’ve got to give our guys marks for the way they’ve managed this crisis so far.