hes on his way back from beijing I guess the olympics got him a little fired up. i don't expect him to enter the war but would not be surprised at all if he comes on like "to protect the sovereinty of a friendly nation we must intervene for democracy and freedom"

8/11/2008 3:46:05 PM

[Edited on August 11, 2008 at 3:48 PM. Reason : XL]

8/11/2008 3:46:32 PM

wat?

8/11/2008 3:52:39 PM

christ almighty

won't someone suspend this fucktard already?

8/11/2008 3:53:14 PM

Yeah how about no?

8/11/2008 3:54:12 PM

What war? Whatever it is, I'm glad I'm too old to be drafted.

8/11/2008 3:57:12 PM

now that i think about it he's prolly just about to give russia and ole'tomatum

8/11/2008 4:45:36 PM

its quite possible that the Russia Georgia conflict could last awhile and be an important international issue for whoever gets elected in November

8/11/2008 4:46:43 PM

I WILL BREAK YOU

8/11/2008 4:57:18 PM

whats he sayin no tv at work

8/11/2008 5:19:18 PM

he wants a peace agreement with russia and georgia

8/11/2008 5:23:17 PM

i dont think TI and Jeezy want any part of a peace talk

shit is real couz

8/11/2008 5:24:45 PM

8/11/2008 5:24:52 PM

that cant be right...i read on someone's blog that he was a warmonger...i trust that blog so theres no way he would want Russia and Georgia to end their conflict

8/11/2008 5:24:53 PM

someone tell me real quick why i should care about either of these countries?

8/11/2008 5:26:38 PM

russia is big

they're ugly

and sometimes they are friends with mean people

8/11/2008 5:27:37 PM

if any friends at all

8/11/2008 5:28:39 PM

There was a decent story in the Wall Street Journal today that did a good job explaining (in admittedly broad strokes) what the conflict is about and why anyone in the West should care.

But I don't have a link.

8/11/2008 5:28:53 PM

lots of cool porn comes from russia

8/11/2008 5:28:55 PM

well Russia is really big...they are also kind of gangster, and we kind of squashed our official beef with them in the last couple decades

Georgia is supposedly one of the countries that adopted an American-like lifestyle when the USSR broke up...at least I've heard its the "most American" of all the countries that made up the former USSR

So Georgia is helping promote freedom and democracy, and Russia is a superpower in the G8

8/11/2008 5:28:59 PM

well its unacceptable to threaten a democratic government in the 21st century

8/11/2008 5:29:34 PM

but completely acceptable to threaten every other kind of government

8/11/2008 5:35:09 PM

Georgia has a trans-national oil pipeline running through it - the second largest in the world


through it, all the oil from azerbaijan flows, and that's where most of the west gets its "russian" oil from



Russia wants to control Georgia, thus controlling the pipeline, thus controlling the west

8/11/2008 5:35:21 PM

^winnAr

8/11/2008 7:36:10 PM

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS!!!!!!!!

SIC 'EM WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF

8/11/2008 7:38:46 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqZVZGo2mXc

8/11/2008 7:39:46 PM

Quote :

"azerbaijan"

wtf are you making up country names now?

8/11/2008 7:39:50 PM

i was just quoting G.W.

don't shoot the messenger

8/11/2008 7:41:48 PM

uh oh, maybe I should stay in japan a little longer

8/11/2008 7:42:21 PM

^^^ you are not Bush...

8/11/2008 7:49:42 PM

um...duh?

8/11/2008 7:50:35 PM

8/11/2008 8:26:04 PM

Quote :

"wtf are you making up country names now? "

perhaps you should try maps.google.com sir

8/11/2008 8:26:38 PM

ton G Dub was in a jeopardy clue on teen jeopardy

something about nuclear

8/11/2008 8:27:33 PM

SCHPENFAG IS JUST DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST, JoeNumbers.

[Edited on August 11, 2008 at 8:28 PM. Reason : USER FAIL]

8/11/2008 8:28:03 PM

new cue lair

8/11/2008 8:28:09 PM

Yes, it's not a nucleus, it's a NUCULUS.


SEE WHAT I DID THERE?

8/11/2008 8:29:22 PM

exactly

8/11/2008 8:29:26 PM

OH I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

GOOD JOB, SIR

8/11/2008 8:30:00 PM

hey look

Earl is still posting stupid ass threads

8/11/2008 8:30:51 PM

This is the perfect example of the pot and kettle.

8/11/2008 8:46:51 PM

Quote :

"perhaps you should try maps.google.com sir"

haha, TWW user #3 who didn't understand the purpose of my

8/13/2008 4:34:01 PM

Quote :

"Russia wants to control Georgia, thus controlling the pipeline, thus controlling the west"

Isn't it only like 1 million barrels worth a day flowing through? I'd venture it isn't that big of a deal if the oil futures markets didn't rocket up over this conflict.

8/13/2008 4:37:47 PM

I was thinking the same thing Chance. However on NPR today they were talking about how badly it would affect the US supply. I can't remember their justification though

8/13/2008 5:00:40 PM

like rousseau said, the russians will never be civilized

8/13/2008 5:10:01 PM

Looks like gas prices are gonna get higher.

8/13/2008 5:24:25 PM

^^^ I did some googling. Here's the deal

The pipeline doesn't run through Russia, it is through Georgia, but not the Ossetia region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Baku_pipelines.svg

It also isn't even at full capacity and supply just yet, which indeed will be 1 million barrels per day.

Here are some US crude consumption figures
http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html
20,680,000 barrels/day

At the moment, we aren't importing much of anything from the countries around the Caspian where this pipeline is transporting it's oil. As best I can tell, Azerbaijan is controlling the Caspian Sea fields, we get 57,000 barrels a day from them at the moment.

Bottom line, the market knows whats up and isn't concerned yet. We would be concerned if Russia became extremely territorial hungry and tried to reclaim Georgia. I'd imagine we'd either go to war over this pipeline or work out some sort of deal, with Russia taking a nice slice of the pie with their racket.

[Edited on August 13, 2008 at 5:25 PM. Reason : a]

8/13/2008 5:25:07 PM