NewsBlaze, CA
Feb 17 2007

Crossfire War – German FM to Embark on Three Capital Trip – South
Caucasus

By Willard Payne

Crossfire War – Berlin – Washington – Moscow Watch – South Caucasus –
Central Asia Theatre: German FM Embarks Sunday on a Three Capital
Trip to South Caucasus – Baku – Tbilisi – Yerevan – Energy Security
Concerns

Night Watch: BERLIN – As part of the concerted effort of
Berlin-Washington-Moscow, and the industrial concerns that unite
them, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is scheduled to
embark Sunday on a three day, three capital trip to the South
Caucasus, on the eve of (f)allout fighting in this region the
deciding front: Baku-Tbilisi/Yerevan.

That may be the order in which he visits them. The visits in
Azerbaijan and Georgia may be more of a confrontation since both
governments have military support from Turkey-Iran with the intention
of causing another defeat for Russia in the region as in the first
Caucasus war from 1994-96, when due to so much corruption in the
Kremlin, Russian troops were not being paid as they are now under
President Vladimir Putin, Berlin’s protege. [IRNA]

Yerevan however is an extremely strategic base the Allies can use to
counter Tehran-Ankara. Armenia defeated Azerbaijan in their war over
Nagorno-Karabakh, 1988-94 and relations between Yerevan/Baku are
still extremely hostile with occasional exchanges of fire, but with
Allied support Yerevan will have no difficulty when fighting erupts
again and Armenia can even be used as a secure base for Allied
forces. And therefore help Moscow secure the Caucasus-Caspian and its
enormous energy resources for the industrialized world.

Steinmeier is representing the banking-industrial concerns that have
been financing Moscow’s domestic and foreign policy. An extension of
the centuries old economic connection between the West-Russia as the
West established Russia for the primary purpose of guaranteeing
access to Central Asian raw materials. This current war has increased
and solidified Germany and Russia economically to the extent where
right after the war’s conclusion the world may see a brand new
international hard currency ruble directed linked to a new deutsche
mark. Parts of Germany have never used the euro. The war will make
official what had been long known privately.

During and after Steinmeier’s visit to Yerevan watch for Allied
support of Armenia to increase.