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To: petekoby who wrote (39686)	9/8/2008 3:53:32 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 220026

IMHO Saudi Arabia and the Gulf nation have a keen interest to keep Russia within its border and the right size, they are tasting the benefit of business outside the oil and they like it and have very major RE projects underway to attract tourism. I speculate that this is also a reason for the steep fall of crude oil and energy prices in general - to weaken Russia and it may very well be that one of the decisive information from the EU was that if Russia does not back down there would be sanctions and if they try to manipulate energy supply to the EU there is a commitment form the ME and Mexico for more crude oil. Further China is quite scared that the Russian will go trough their adventure unpunished as there will be tremendous pressure on Tibet and Xinjang to go independent and those countries are bigger in size than Ukraine!! China proposed UN intervention which for sure irked the Kremlin tremendously. So if the world would be united there is a great chance that Russia will back down we will all go back to normal business – Putin may go into honorary retirement which I wish it should happen very soon