Video (3min 9sec): The Geopolitics of Georgia Part 1 of 3. F William Engdahl: There are far bigger stakes being played out in Georgia than a territorial dispute.
"Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, that Russian forces had stopped their military progression in Georgia. This follows a five day battle ignited by Georgia's military offensive to regain control over it's separatist province of South Ossitia which has close ties to Russia. But according to F. William Engdahl what lies behind this territorial dispute is not as straightforward as it seems.
"This is probably the most unstable area on the planet right now because the United States, the Bush Administration has been urgently trying to get Georgia, the Republic of Georgia, into NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). They're trying again at the December NATO meeting, along with Ukraine. And Russia has made it abundantly clear that that would be a 'national security threat' to the sovereignty of Russia of the first degree, and the trigger for God knows what...
