{"id":602,"date":"2008-08-31T09:53:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T17:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=602"},"modified":"2008-08-31T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T19:29:33","slug":"russia-may-annex-south-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/russia-may-annex-south-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia May Annex South Georgia and Sell Oil to the East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/Dmitry_Medvedev.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\nDmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, President of Russia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that Russia plans to annex, Ossetia, a region in South Georgia:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">TBILISI, Georgia (AP) \u2014 Russian troops remaining in Georgian territory are effectively preventing Georgians from returning to their homes, a U.N. representative said Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The zones are near the border with separatist South Ossetia, the disputed province at the heart of the conflict that has ruined Georgia-Russia ties and caused the biggest crisis in Moscow&#8217;s relations with the West since the 1991 Soviet collapse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Russia supplies the EU with about a third of its oil and about two-fifths of its natural gas. In an article published Sunday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said European nations should adopt a united energy policy to avoid becoming too dependent on Russia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Brown said he spoke with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev by telephone Saturday, and told the Russian leader &#8220;to expect a determined European response&#8221; to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With EU leaders set to huddle Monday on how to deal with an increasingly assertive Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has angrily warned Europe not to do America&#8217;s bidding and has said that Moscow does not fear Western sanctions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Adding to the tension, a lawmaker in South Ossetia said Russia intends to eventually absorb the province at the center of the five-day war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">South Ossetian parliamentary speaker Znaur Gassiyev said Friday that Russia will absorb South Ossetia within &#8220;several years&#8221; or even earlier. He said that position was &#8220;firmly stated&#8221; by both the province&#8217;s leader, Eduard Kokoity, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in talks in Moscow earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The statement stoking Georgian suspicion that Moscow&#8217;s intent all along has been to annex the South Ossetia. <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iUA357W77ndvCMh32VlQqdGj53mAD92SU65O0\">http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iUA357W77ndvCMh32VlQqdGj53mAD92SU65O0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that it will more than a united European energy policy that will come out of this.  I believe that this and other moves that the Russians have made will get the Europeans to really decide that they need their own stronger military.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, apparently anticipating economic sanctions, has a plan around them:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Telegraph<\/strong> &#8211; Aug 31, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The announcement on the eve of Monday&#8217;s Brussels  summit on Russia&#8217;s occupation of Georgia put European states on notice that  Moscow is developing an alternative client base in the Far East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">To stave off tough measures, including possible  sanctions, Moscow has sent a variety of signals that it will use its energy  clout to retaliate against any European reprimand for its refusal to implement a  ceasefire with Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Russia&#8217;s Asian pipeline is a technically challenging  effort to link the oilfields of Eastern Siberia to Russia&#8217;s Pacific coast  thousands of miles to the east. Mr Putin visited Kozmino, a giant oil terminal,  where the resources will be loaded for transportation to China and  Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The two-stage pipeline has been delayed by a year and  building costs have soared as constructors grapple with the harsh conditions of  the Siberian tundra, where temperatures regularly fall to -50 C and  infrastructure is nonexistent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">When it is inaugurated the Kremlin will have  succeeded in diversifying its financial dependence on energy sales to the  European Union&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">In the wake of a Czech deal to host an American  missile shield, Russia&#8217;s delivers from the Friendship pipeline fell 40 per cent  but &#8220;technical&#8221; difficulties were blamed for the drop-off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">In the last four years, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine  have also suffered mysterious shortages while embroiled in disputes with  Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Mr Putin lashed out at the European summit, defending  the country&#8217;s incursion into Georgia. &#8220;The truth is on our side,&#8221; he told  Vesti-24 television. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">&#8220;We act absolutely correctly, morally and in  accordance with international law. Someone in Europe wants to serve someone  else&#8217;s foreign-policy interests.&#8221; <\/span><a title=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/russia\/2656372\/Vladimir-Putin-demands-Asia-pipeline-as-warning-to-Europe.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/russia\/2656372\/Vladimir-Putin-demands-Asia-pipeline-as-warning-to-Europe.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/russia\/2656372\/Vladimir-Putin-demands-Asia-pipeline-as-warning-to-Europe.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Europe will not sit on its hand and put up with this.\u00a0 It will most likely decide that it really needs military strength to back up it economic strength and political influence.\u00a0 Europe will re-arm.<\/p>\n<p>However, as I have long been reporting, the Bible indicates that Russia, China, and other Asian powers will get together&#8211;and ultimately attack the future European King of the North (Daniel 11:44-45).<\/p>\n<p><em>Several articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/russia_in_prophecy.htm\">Russia: Its Origins and Prophesied Future<\/a> Where do the Russians come from? What is prophesied for Russia?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/china3.htm\"> Asia in Prophecy<\/a> What is Ahead for China? Is it a &#8220;King of the East&#8221;? What will happen to nearly all the Chinese, Russians, and others of Asia? China in prophecy, where?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/japan.htm\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/japan2.htm\">Japan, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 2: Prophecy<\/a> Japan in prophecy. What is prophesied for Japan. Will God save the Japanese?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/europa.htm\">Europa, the Beast, and Revelation<\/a> Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about \u201cthe Beast\u201d?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/kingofthenorth.htm\">Who is the King of the North?<\/a> Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of<span class=\"style27\"> the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand<\/span>? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, President of Russia COGwriter It appears that Russia plans to annex, Ossetia, a region in South Georgia: TBILISI, Georgia (AP) \u2014 Russian troops remaining in Georgian territory are effectively preventing Georgians from returning to their homes, a U.N. representative said Saturday&#8230; The zones are near the border with separatist South Ossetia, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prophecy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}