Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Why Georgia Fears Being Swallowed by Russia" video.

There was one misleading statement - 2008 invasion was not about NATO, it was for money - to eliminate gas pipe project, which would deliver gas from Central Asia to Europe without the need to be transited through Russia.
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@vaziralramin4565 That "nonsense" worked - "Nabucco" project got cancelled. But until invasion in Ukraine Russia sold gas from Central Asia as Russian gas, basically making a lot as a middle man - no need to spend anything on drilling themselves, only strong arming some former Soviet countries into this business and eliminating competition in exports - like Georgia in 2008 or Syria for gas export form Qatar by a pipeline to Europe, however this Russian interference in the Middle East was somewhat diminished by the use of liquid gas tanked technology.
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@vaziralramin4565 The amount of potential gas reserves has nothing to do with opportunity to rip off Central Asian countries by buying their gas cheap and then selling to the West. But that time is gone, Russia screwed up and now Central Asian countries are computing or even outcompeting Russia in gas export to China.
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