Monday, August 18, 2008

Do Expired Crest Whitestripes Stil Work?

OSCE, NATO held

Hier ein (gekürzter) Kommentar von Andreas Zumach zum Georgien-Konflikt ( taz, 15.8.2008
):

Der Konflikt mit Russland ist Teil eines globalen Kampfs um Öl und Gas.

Gemeinsames Haus in Flammen

KOMMENTAR VON ANDREAS ZUMACH

Mit seinem militärischen Vorgehen in und gegen Georgien hat Russland eindeutig gegen die UNO-Charta und das humanitäre Völkerrecht verstoßen. Doch so notwendig diese Feststellung auch ist: angesichts der realen Machtverhältnisse wirkt die Verurteilung Moskaus hilflos - und aus dem Mund so mancher PolitikerInnen und Intellektueller in westlichen Hauptstädten wie Washington, Paris und Berlin, aber auch in Warschau oder Vilnius klingt sie auch scheinheilig und verlogen. Immerhin trägt man dort eine erhebliche Mitverantwortung für die Eskalation, die zu dem heißen Krieg auf dem Kaukasus geführt hat.

Am Drehbuch für diesen Krieg wird bereits seit Anfang der Neunzigerjahre geschrieben. Damals, nach dem Disintegration of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union was that the West only briefly the vision of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's reform of the "common European house" on. The "Conference / Organization for Security and Cooperation (C / OSCE) should" be the heart of the European architecture "for it was in the" Charter for a New Europe "in 1990 in Paris by the leaders of all 54 Member States of the CSCE was formally proclaimed. But it stayed with the rhetoric.

Andreas Zumach is taz correspondent at the UN in Geneva. Photo: taz
Indeed, Western governments have since been systematically strengthened NATO and extended it eastward to the borders of Russia, while it could deteriorate the OSCE. Rather than engage Moscow by OSCE agreed with all the rights and obligations there in Europe, the country in the NATO-Russia Council was put off for a mere appearance. With the illegal recognition of Kosovo, the U.S. and EU have created a dangerous precedent that the credibility of their criticism of Russia is undermining support for the breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. And the "anti-missile project in the vicinity to Russia's western border, to which the United States and Poland agreed on Thursday the final and is supported by the NATO explicitly sets the provocation of Moscow continued.

The conflict over the Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the rights of minorities living there had long been resolved, he would not be part of a large energy poker game between the U.S., Russia and the EU in the Caspian basin and Central Asia. This poker began when secured the big oil companies of the United States after the end of the Soviet Union far-reaching access and development rights to the oil and gas reserves in the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union [...].


Is the West's energy policy, the war in Georgia will be hot in the years to follow further wars in the Caucasus or Central Asia. U.S., NATO and the EU are a powerful Russia will face similar helplessly divided and incapable of action as now.

change can be so only if the West is freed as soon as possible from its slavish dependence on oil and gas by the energy efficiency significantly increased, reducing the per capita energy consumption dramatically, and above all a much greater extent than before switching to solar, wind and other renewable and environmentally friendly energy sources. Diminishing demand for Oil and gas would not only qualify Russia's current power again. It would also help the country needed to diversify its economy and exports, and weaken the power of the state power companies, which is highly problematic within society. This would also improve the conditions for development of Russia to the rule of law and democracy.

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