Was the war on Georgia a plan to open the Black Sea to NATO forces?
The whole world had asked the same question after the war erupted: Is the Georgian leader, Saakashvili, a mad man, who held a military operation in South Ossetia despite Russia? Now this question has a possible answer: This war had sped up Georgia’s NATO membership process, moreover turned into an urgent requirement. So Saakashvili is not a mad man. If we go back to the straits issue. In the short term the U.S. would propose Turkey make a new arrangement on its straits. And it would ask for an easing on the arrangements for the passage of warships, including American ones (possibly on the condition of a NATO decision). It is for this reason that the Black Sea is no longer an internal sea and had become the waterway of the world’s most important energy lines. And Russia does not want any other country’s hegemony here. This is the main reason for the Georgia war, Russia’s greenlight to the invasion of Azerbaijan by Armenia and the increased partnership of Moscow-Tehran-Damascus-Beijing.
