The day started off well, being in England, you have the English weather and the English weather is very changeable, so yesterday's rain had disappeared and the sun had its hat on and I took myself down to the square in front of Uxbridge tube station and bought myself the papers, went to Costas, bought myself a big cup of latte and perused the 'Observer' and the 'Mail on Sunday'.
Now as we all know, the 'Mail on Sunday' is read by the wives of the people who run the country and it is not really suitable for a bright boy like me. However, the bias on the situation in Georgia in that one paper in particular caught my eye and I just had to read it and it was all there; "vital pipeline to West threatened by escalating war", "Russian bear goes for West's jugular", "1,100 mile oil pipeline that helps supply the UK"1 ..... the great game refered to in some of my earlier posts is in full swing and with Russia forcing Georgia to withdraw unconditionally from South Ossetia, the bear is there and all the West can do is pin its hopes on diplomacy. However, the real culprit here is Georgia's volatile president, Mikheil Saakashvili, who flaunted international law when he launched the assault on Tskhinvali. This is a man who wants to take his friendship with the West one big step further and join NATO and we can only thank God that the Germans and French put the dampers on that one or else we would already be going to war with Russia.
1 'The Mail on Sunday', August 10, 2008 pp1,4,5
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