Friday, January 9, 2009

Russia

This whole oil pipeline imbroglio is like a bad pitch for a Tom Cruise star vehicle:
Scrappy fledgling democracy (lead by a Russian assassination survivor) must fight for independence (read: heating oil) in the midst of an international geo-political battle of modern eco-commerce against a brooding mastermind with sights in cornering the Natural Gas market in Europe as a petro-fueled crown for own imperial ambitions....
Somehow, the whole thing is just so cliche to me... I'm sure it wouldn't be if I was sitting cold, at home, in Bosnia. The whole thing is very Graham Green.

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