Bio
F William Engdahl
is an economist and author and the writer of the best selling book "A
Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order."
Mr Engdhahl has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for
more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early
1970s. Mr. Engdahl contributes regularly to a number of publications
including Asia Times Online, Asia, Inc, Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun,
Foresight magazine; Freitag and ZeitFragen newspapers in Germany and
Switzerland respectively. He is based in Germany.
US attempts to get Georgia into NATO, coupled with its desire to
erect an anti-missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech republic
would give it first strike capability towards Russia. Moscow sees this
as a national security threat against the sovereignty of Russia.
Political economist F William Engdahl believes this is the geopolitical
endgame being played out in Georgia.VIDEO 03:07
Part 2: Nuclear War by miscalculation
Russia went into Georgia to essentially deliver a message. There are
more than 1,000 US military special forces in Georgia doing exercising,
training Georgian troops, before Georgia launched the attack on Ossetia
on 8 August. There are 1,000 Israeli troops at least, private security
firms and military advisors, including advisors who are upgrading the
Georgian air force in an installation near Tbilisi. That's what the
Russian airplanes hit, and they essentially made the military strike on
South Ossetia militarily impossible by making incursions inside
Georgian territory before they announced that they were calling a halt
to their military operations.
VIDEO 04:01
