Post by radovic on Dec 7, 2007 16:54:42 GMT -5
Is Kosovo-for-Iran swap with Russia looming?
December 6th, 2007
According to the former Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Planning and U.S. Ambassador to India, Robert D. Blackwill, the West needs to “adopt tactical flexibility and moderate compromise with Moscow on at least some of these issues: the time line of U.S. anti-ballistic missile deployments to Eastern Europe; the entry of new NATO members from former-Soviet space; the status of Kosovo…” in order to enlist Russian help in cornering Iran and its drive to build a Shia Muslim atomic bomb (WSJ).
One clear implication of Blackwill’s insider analysis is that Washington may be more interested in sustaining the tradability of a geopolitical token that Kosovo Albanian separatism is rather then any intrinsic concern for the cause Albanian Muslims are espousing in the region. Washington has, indeed, turned a blind eye to any and all Albanian Islamic violence on Serbs just as it has been agreeable on extending and postponing the eventual status decision that the “impatient” Albanians demand all in hope that Kosovo Albanians can be successfully traded with for some geopolitical concession from Moscow.
The euphemism Blackwill uses for this trade is “flexibility”.
Unilaterally recognizing Kosovo Albanian independence, indeed, provides absolutely no geopolitical gain for Washington because it will not extract anything from Moscow but more intransigence elesewhere.
Therefore, Blackwill’s flexibility proposal on Kosovo is highly significant not just because it comes from the mouth of a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a hawk on Russia that has invented the media attack on Putin and is persistent in Washington’s irrationality when it comes to Serbia, but also because it is a policy follow up on the recently publicized CIA intelligence piece which concludes that Iran has no nuclear program.
Both of these suggest a possibly sharp change in Washington’s foreign policy that is strained in many spots across the world and, judging by Blackwill’s lengthy list of tradable geopolitical issues, some in Washington are reminding that divesting of a useless asset like Kosovo Albanians should be done when the perception of its importance is at its peak.
Crude oil prices are expected to drop sometimes by March of 2008 and perhaps that drop may be a catalyst that may entice Moscow to cut a Kosovo-for-Iran deal and by virtue of switching sides attempt to raise the price of oil back to these levels that have made Russia an immensely prosperous society.
December 6th, 2007
According to the former Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Planning and U.S. Ambassador to India, Robert D. Blackwill, the West needs to “adopt tactical flexibility and moderate compromise with Moscow on at least some of these issues: the time line of U.S. anti-ballistic missile deployments to Eastern Europe; the entry of new NATO members from former-Soviet space; the status of Kosovo…” in order to enlist Russian help in cornering Iran and its drive to build a Shia Muslim atomic bomb (WSJ).
One clear implication of Blackwill’s insider analysis is that Washington may be more interested in sustaining the tradability of a geopolitical token that Kosovo Albanian separatism is rather then any intrinsic concern for the cause Albanian Muslims are espousing in the region. Washington has, indeed, turned a blind eye to any and all Albanian Islamic violence on Serbs just as it has been agreeable on extending and postponing the eventual status decision that the “impatient” Albanians demand all in hope that Kosovo Albanians can be successfully traded with for some geopolitical concession from Moscow.
The euphemism Blackwill uses for this trade is “flexibility”.
Unilaterally recognizing Kosovo Albanian independence, indeed, provides absolutely no geopolitical gain for Washington because it will not extract anything from Moscow but more intransigence elesewhere.
Therefore, Blackwill’s flexibility proposal on Kosovo is highly significant not just because it comes from the mouth of a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a hawk on Russia that has invented the media attack on Putin and is persistent in Washington’s irrationality when it comes to Serbia, but also because it is a policy follow up on the recently publicized CIA intelligence piece which concludes that Iran has no nuclear program.
Both of these suggest a possibly sharp change in Washington’s foreign policy that is strained in many spots across the world and, judging by Blackwill’s lengthy list of tradable geopolitical issues, some in Washington are reminding that divesting of a useless asset like Kosovo Albanians should be done when the perception of its importance is at its peak.
Crude oil prices are expected to drop sometimes by March of 2008 and perhaps that drop may be a catalyst that may entice Moscow to cut a Kosovo-for-Iran deal and by virtue of switching sides attempt to raise the price of oil back to these levels that have made Russia an immensely prosperous society.