Despite the best efforts of Russia and its allies in Europe to sink the proposed pipeline and a very lame effort by Turkey and the rest of Europe to keep it alive, somehow the Nabucco project marches on in what can best be described as a geopolitical war of attrition.
"One of Putin's more shrewd insights into the German mind was his treatment of German policymakers as equals at a time when they were chafing at U.S. condescension. (The Russians nurse a similar resentment at being treated as strategically irrelevant by the United States.) The "strategic partnership" with Russia, therefore, has served to soothe German insecurities. But it has also inflated an unrealistic sense of influence over Russia that has produced notions such as "rapprochement through economic interlocking"--representing a misguided confidence comparable perhaps only to British hopes of being able to sway the United States during the run-up to the Iraq war."
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