[FPSPACE] MSNBC (Oberg): Now, NASA and Russians need each other

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

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From: jeoberg at comcast.net [mailto:jeoberg at comcast.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:17 AM

> HOUSTON - Going into the 2008 presidential campaign,
> spaceflight advocates hoped that the subject might
> actually become a topic of political interest for the
> first time in decades. Now it has, for all the wrong
> reasons.

 [snip]

> The first step in a "get better" strategy is to stop
> going into the U.S.-Russian deal acting as if the U.S.
> was over a barrel. 

 Barrel of oil, you mean?

 In fact, US ( and EU ) moneymen have been so focused on
 diverting Azerbaijani oil to the West through Georgia and
 Turkey that they have forgotten to wrest Kazakhstan loose
 from Moscow such as to secure control of Baikonur!

 What good is the Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Kirgistan
 to the US hegemony, when, in fact, the jewel in the Central
 Asian crown is Kazakhstan? 

 Do send Dick Cheyney to Astana, before it's too late!

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Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark