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August 11, 2008

Ask The French For Help

Nick has left an interesting comment on my error in the post Blazing Economies.

Seems to me the difference won't matter once the winter comes and the Russians shut the lights off on Germany.

I seem to recall that Secretary of State Rice warned the Europeans about getting too deeply dependent on Russian Energy supplies. Well what do you know? I recalled correctly.

ANKARA, Turkey, April 25 [2006 ed.] -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday warned Greece and Turkey against allowing Russia to obtain a monopoly over Europe's supply of natural gas, implicitly bolstering a planned pipeline from Azerbaijian that would weaken Russia's tight grip on European energy supply.

"It's quite clear that one of the concerns is that there could be a monopoly of supply from one source only, from Russia," Rice told reporters in Athens after meeting with Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis.

Rice waded into the battle over the increasing dominance of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom -- which recently sought a stake in a Greek-Turkish pipeline -- even as she sought to build support in Greece and Turkey for sanctions against Iran concerning its nuclear program.

Her trip to Athens was the first independent visit to Greece by a secretary of state in two decades. As she met with Bakoyannis, about 3,000 protesters marched with signs calling Rice a war criminal and urging her to "go home," and some youths clashed with riot police.

And who do they expect to defend them if the Russian Bear comes calling? I guess they couldn't see that far ahead. Fortunately, America has an administration with a little foresight.

What do you want to bet that the Euros ask for another American division to protect their sorry asses? I suppose we could just tell them we are busy. Ask the French for help.

Cross Posted at Power and Control

posted by Simon on 08.11.08 at 07:44 AM

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Yeah but at least Sarkozy is going to Tblisi...I'm a little disappointed in Bush not drawing a line on this. Have we learned nothing from 1936 (including handing the Olympics to murderous totalitarians)?

Watchman · August 11, 2008 09:53 AM

Friends you can't PUT ALL THE blame on Bush or any other president for this world mess. It was the fools in Congress who insisted on gutting our military after the fall of the USSR. Russia was done right? Cold war was over right? Gut the military and spend the surplus (what surplus) on worthless social programs. Some of our military leaders (if not all) knew better - Russia will be back (their voices were not heard - was not politically correct). Well here it is - Russia is back and this will not be the last. The political generals told Congress and the American people what they wanted to hear - we could fight two small wars at the same time with the gutted military - they lied. We are now fighting two wars and running our military ragged. We now have nothing left to fight a power like Russia or any other country for that matter. This is not a safe world - it probably will never be. WHEN WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WAKE UP - PROBABLY WHEN IT IS TOO LATE AND RUSSIA OR SOME OTHER POWER IS AT OUR DOOR STEP. AMERICA WAKE-UP NOW!!!!!! - GUT CONGRESS; ELECT MEMBERS OF ANY PARTY WHO HAVE THE WELFARE OF THE COUNTY AT HEART - NOT THEIR POCKET BOOKS AND SELF CENTERED IINFLUENCE GROUPS.

frank · August 11, 2008 09:01 PM

If you're dealing with a potential fossil-fuel blockade, it makes lots of sense to ask experts on building nuclear reactors.

Joseph Hertzlinger · August 14, 2008 12:11 AM

Joseph,

At this point in time nuclear is no substitute for oil as a transportation fuel.

M. Simon · August 14, 2008 06:52 AM