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uj797@victoria.tc.ca (Arthur T. Murray) wrote:

>In order to steal oilfields from Chechnya, the Russians
>are following the old Roman observation in Latin:
>"They make a wasteland; they call it peace."

Well, it belonged to the russians, now somebody else is trying to
steal it from them by financing the chechnian uproar forces.

This is a very old tactic, remember the situation in the late 1800ths,
when oil was discovered in what is today known as Iraq.

The area belonged to Turkey, they had owned it for many centuries, and
nobody else was interested in that land area, it was just a dry desert
where a few poor people lived.

After the oil was discovered there was a big international conference
about who was going to own it, Britain, USA, France, Holland etc were
all very interested in taking it from Turkey.

In that conference Britain made a mistake which let the others get the
initiative.
Soon afterwards there was an uproar by the local population, financed
by the britains, which meant that they got the initiative back.

This was one of the first times the local population was used for
gaining control over valuable land areas. Earlier the powerful
countries usually sent armies to fight over the assets, ignoring and
killing the local population if they got in the way.

Since then the method of secretly financing and supporting local
population uproars has become a popular method, because it fits better
into the new ideas of human rights for all people, letting local
populations have some say in how their land is going to be used, a
right to selfdetermination, etc. It also saves the attacker from the
risk of getting a bad reputation in the world opinion.

So most local population uproars in this world are actually just a
cover for an attack from another country.
But there are exceptions, where the revolution is the result of
longtime development and education in the population, like for example
the russian revolution.
But even the russian revolution got a little support from abroad.
I think some german interests helped Lenin at some point, to make
trouble for one of their big competitors, the Tzarist Russia and to
gain some influence on the happenings there.

We don't know who is financing the uproar in Chechnya, it could be a
moslem country, or USA, for example. We only know that they want to
rob the russians of their oil wells. And that they have no concern for
the sufferings of the local population at all.
All the powerhungry nations are playing the same game, including the
russians, so I am not condemning anybody in particular,
I just want to point to the fact that the local population very seldom
has the wish to be used as pawns in a cynic game, neither do they have
the money needed to finance such an operation.

>Any American oil company that buys Chechen crude oil
>in the future from the gangster government of Russia

Would it be any better if the americans bought it from the gangsters
who are now trying to steal it?
To the chechnyan population it doesn't matter much who is creating all
their suffering.

Roger