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Events in Russia Could Push U.S. Toward a Clearer Energy Policy

"The reason NATO is feckless, obviously, is that most if not all NATO countries must have Russia’s oil and gas exports"
With all my respect the major reason why NATO is "feckless" is obviously the simple fact that Russia is a nuclear superpower. It means Russia can literally annihilate NATO in a few hours with it huge nuke arsenal.
Also, I was disappointed to find on this board the same cheap dirty anti-Russian propaganda we can see on CNN, Fox News or AP about Russian-Georgian conflict.
The beauty of Seeking Alpha is its authors usually much smarter and more independent thinkers than their colleagues from mainstream "independent" mass-media.
Unfortunately, it seems to me the author of this article used cheap mass-marked CNN as a source of info about Russia-Georgia conflict instead of less hysterical and more intelligent sources like, say, Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, Time Magazine, Guardian, Times, etc.
And the last but not least.
If Russia wanted to "putting us at great risk", as author claims, it would have disrupted or at least approached major pipelines in Georgia. Russians didn't do that although they easily could do that and push oil prices to stratosphere. They didn't do that because I guess they wanted to send a signal to the West: "Guys, we play according to the rules. We don't fight YOU! We only fight your reckless bloody puppet that forgot how to behave yourself".
They didn't even overthrow Saakashvili, despite of his hysterical complains translated by American mass-medias, as Americans did with Saddam.
I'd suggest author to clear his brains from Cold War prejudice and stop seeing Russians as enemies. Prejudice, fear and hate are bad allies of analytical brains!