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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Real Man who wrote (10079)	8/10/2008 7:32:06 AM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71454

What is zad? What is "hot" folks? en.wikipedia.org You see this as peacekeeping? Never knew Stalin was Georgian. Thanks youtube.com

To: Real Man who wrote (10079)	8/10/2008 8:08:20 AM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71454

It´s difficult to decide which side to support. It does not remind me on bosnia; but it has much more in common with the secession of the Katanga province in Kongo (a nationalist movement sought the separation from a likewise nonseasoned totalitarian country which just gained independence from Belgié). On a side note also back then the USA played a small role in supporting the secession and in the subsequent removal and assassination of Patrice Lumumba, then president of Kongo. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org However, the successful secession of bosnia has set a precedent in Europe that now country borders can be redrawn; this was not the case for the last 50-some years. All over Europe there are many "boiling pots" which just need a little more heat to go bonkers: Basks still look to separate their land from Spain; Italy must return the non-italian parts which they illegally occupied after the world war; germany might insist on having german areas (including Kaliningrad, a russian exclave) returned; last but not least, Belgium could see a separation of the dutch "vlaams" and the french part. Separations do work; the artificial country of Czechoslovakia has been dissolved into its relatively stable parts after the communist regime expired. In Western Europe the relative "complacency" ensured that no further explosions take place but in the eastern parts with little experience with democracy (and a a result, totalitarian regimes) and also, a lot of food fighting, poverty and religious motives, public unrest is somewhat expressed more openly...

To: Real Man who wrote (10079)	8/10/2008 11:14:13 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 71454

You could very well be right. And I think local knowledge is vital, but even if what you say is true as it may be, isn't it possible that a local situation might have turned into a strategic opportunity for Putin and his thug cronies?

To: Real Man who wrote (10079)	8/10/2008 1:18:27 PM
From: Jamey	Respond to of 71454

Vi you may have been premature in calling commodities and oil's demise. Major oil pipelines going through Georgia and it's bound to have an effect on the price on Monday. There are just to many hot spots in our globalized world to ever call oil or gold out. Trey