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To: michael97123 who wrote (405733)	8/11/2008 10:20:39 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574096

both wanted to join--georgia almost desparately and the US was pushing for it but the europeans didnt want to piss off the russians further so they caved. The Russians took it as a signal. Okay. I thought they probably needed a public referendum, esp in the Ukraine where a good portion of the population is Russian, and figured they couldn't get the votes. Now of course if georgia was in NATO and the russians did this, collective self defense comes into play. We shouldnt have provoked the bear but once provoked we needed to try to deter the bear rather than give the wrong signal. Or was it the right signal that euros have no backbone. Well that's part of the problem for the EU......their heat comes from Russia. They can't afford to irritate Russia too much or Russia will turn of the NG pipeline. My German friends have talked about it.........I guess the EU felt it was between a rock and a hard place.....oil from the ME or NG from Russia.