Russia is feeling the chill of Isolation

Russia is feeling more isolated now, and that is dangerous for the world. Dispite that the United States did not provoke Russia into a conflict by docking their releif ships at the Georgian port of Polti, Russia went to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) expecting to get a “united position of SCO members” of support for its aggression against Georgia, instead they were told that SCO relationship with the United States was more important. The SCO is made up of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, with India, Iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan having observer status. These countries also face internal threats from separatist factions in their own land and Russia was warned that their support and aggression against a sovereign nation was a bad precedent.

The danger can clearly be seen inside Russia with how they are spinning there defeat in most of the media controlled by Putin. They are telling there people that they have the support of the SCO and only that the SCO was not willing to recognize the independence of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Putin a media control freak cannot afford his country knowing the truth. Only the English language Saint Petersburg Times has published the only factual account of the summit inside Russia, founded in 1993 it may not be long before this paper too stops publishing as Putin tightens his grip to control his international failure.

In order to lessen the criticism of his regime Putin has resorted to blackmailing against Europe by threatening the Russian oil supply to the west. This is nothing new as Russia has restricted oil and gas deliveries over recent years as a way of applying diplomatic pressure, while Moscow explains away the reduction as technical upsets or maintenance.

While some journalists in the United States are saying Russia is only responding to the west’s recognition of Kosovo, they have been actively destroying Georgia’s ability to move Caspian Sea oil to the west that is not under Russian control. Last week the Russians mined the railroad leading from Georgia to Azerbaijan reducing Georgia’s ability to supply western Europe. It is inconceivable that a military would mine a railroad under it’s control, when aircraft or tanks could be used to prevent a railroad from being used to supply ones enemies, especially since that same railroad could be used by your side to provide logistical support to your troops. This was a deliberate and coordinated attack on the oil supply that is outside of Moscow’s control in order to coerce Europe from their reliance on NATO.

This had the intended purpose of making other country’s think about how they will get their oil to market. Kazakhstan is considering diverting its oil from Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to Russian controlled delivery systems. Russia is doing everything possible to control Europe’s oil supply for political reasons, the west needs to come to this realization. It is time that Europe start to welcome the initiative by US Republicans to expand America’s oil reserves as secondary source of energy in the event Russia completely cuts off Europe’s supply of oil and natural gas.

As Russia becomes more and more isolated they will turn to their only remaining allies Iran and Syria. There support will come at a terrible price. As Russia will take on the role of Magog as Putin is crowned Gog, the worlds only hope lies in the 39th chapter of Ezekiel.