It's the End of the World As We Know It....

In which the cranky bear continues to awake from its hibernation and assert itself once again, with pipeline-routing interests at stake. Russia will certainly keep using its resurgent power to shift influence eastward, pending Euro complaisance, since they really have no choice in the matter. Georgia has no leverage here, and their good buddy Fredo is just going to leave them twist in the wind, so it should be over quickly enough. But Pooty-Poot will have made his point, one that the next president gets to deal with on top of everything else.