Plain and simple, Russia wants Georgia. When the Soviet Union was breaking up, there were some pieces of the puzzle they never intended to lose. They were/are fond of Georgia. Their beloved Stalin was born there. They don’t feel complete without it…and it smoothes out the map along the coast of the Black Sea, as it curves into Turkey, just brushing past the Middle East. Not to forget Georgia’s lucrative pipelines for oil and natural gas.

A short way back up the coast is Sochi, Russia’s year-round resort city and the proposed site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The Olympics will be very close to Georgia’s boarder - Russians think "not." This makes the Russians edgy…nervous enough to start a war?

From the “NewsHour,” PBS television, aired August 12, 2008, Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador, spoke of Georgia and the surrounding countries, “The Russians wish to re-establish a historic area of hegemony that includes Ukraine…it is no accident that the other former Soviet republics are watching this.”

But Georgia seems persistent. They want to be a NATO member. They think they are Europeans, as the easternmost touch point of Europe. Back when Georgia was defining itself as a separate country, when the Soviet Union was breaking up, battles raged over the same boarders as they do today. In jumped handyman, Eduard Shevardnaze, a Georgian native, but also the former Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs under Mikhail Gorbachev.

He was chosen as de facto President of Georgia in 1992 and then elected President in 1995. Was this when he started sending out his letters of welcome? It is said that Shevardnaze was favored by the United States as a counterbalance to Russian influence in the Caucasus regions…and lavished with economic and military aid as an emerging new democracy.

Inventor, Peter Paul Sumaruck walked into the Atlanta office of Digital, the manufacturer of popular minicomputers since the 1970’s (until purchased by Compaq in 1998); people he knew there had invited him in; they had mail for him.

Sumaruck opened the letter - on Georgian State letterhead and signed by Eduard Shevardnadze; it was an invitation to come to his country…and bring his Zero-Amp Tech power system. The most curious thing about the letter was the detailed description of security measures offered for Sumaruck’s protection, talk of many bodyguards, escorts and a detailed list of weapons to be supplied for his own personal defense while in Georgia.

Sumaruck’s reply to the Digital people was that if Shevardnadze wanted to purchase rights to his invention, he could come to this country and talk to him. An inventor must be prudent, and if need be, self-protecting. And from the tone of the letter, Georgia wasn’t interested in using his invention to power their factories and government buildings - more likely their interest was in weapon production. This was not the first time the theme of weapon design had come up. Sumaruck has to keep telling people he doesn’t want his invention used for weapons - no killing people.

What was Eduard Shevardnadze thinking? He had been a Communist all his life. It seems, therefore, unlikely that he could maintain duplicate, triplicate loyalties - Russia and Georgia, as well as a friend to the United States. But Russia does not seem to be suspicious of his motives; should we? Surely Mr. Shevardnadze wants the best for his country, whatever that may be.

Letters are strange things. They’re private only because they are addressed, one to another. They can be opened in advance, but they are private, essentially. Once you send one, you have to let it go; once received, it is up to the reader to decide it’s fate. And rarely is the public privy to its contents. All these aspects make letters more valuable.

Thinking of Mr. Shevardnadze and the current warfare going on in Georgia, I ambled through various internet routes in and around that country, arriving at http://members5.boardhost.com The article’s primary intention was to point up military connections between Israel and Georgia, but I was immediately drawn to something else, another letter from Mr. Shevardnadze.

Current posting is dated August 9, 2008, but the text is from eurasianet.org from exactly one year before on August 6, 07. It is from an interview on Imedi TV, Tbilisi, with Germane Khitalishvili, the designer of a rocket launcher - unique because it is silent.

Khitalishvilli stated that after a test of his weapon - attended by various generals and a US Department of Defense chief advisor - he received a letter from now-former President Eduard Shevardnadze, suggesting the inventor introduce his weapon to various Georgian “power-wielding ministers,” (perhaps a rough translation), and that he would attend.

Pete doesn’t think much of the weapon, “have to see it,” he said. Most readers would think first of the weapon, but I went back to the letter. The designer, Mr. Khitalishvilli, was impressed with his letter, no doubt believing the it was part of his ticket to acceptance. The letter shows Mr. Shevardnadze’s penchant for weapons. But let’s play what if…if Shevardnadze had come to the United States (which he could easily have done) to view Peter Sumaruck’s Zero-Amp Tech power source, Georgians could have been trained in construction and adaptation of the technology for vehicles and for buildings. Mr. Shevardnadze would now be a prince of power…not from silent weapons, but from powering his small country into a major spotlight on energy breakthroughs.

And there would have been no need to built the BTC pipeline, nor would they need a pipeline for natural gas. Also, not to denigrate Georgia, but there is a lot of barren land out there - those beautiful 1200 year old stone churches are surrounded by dry earth. By now, with Zero-Amp Tech, their land would be lush and verdant - trees and agri-businesses would be flourishing everywhere. It would be a transformation.

Ha…if that were the case, Russia would really want Georgia now. Fighting a war over energy is unnecessary. All you have to do is be technologically up to date. Seize the power, not with weapons but with human-friendly technology. Science is power.

Der Spiegel, dated August 26 - Mr. Shevarnadze is at it again, writing letters. In the interview, he says he wrote a letter to Demitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, "asking them to withdraw their troops (from Georgia)." Mr. Shevardnadze surprises me (and that's difficult to do); he says every country has the right to align with whomever they choose...and that, "Georgia must join NATO."

What will we see with Georgia: A modern European country, or a burned out backward spot on the map. A progressive answer requires vision and ambition. It's a continuing story; Georgia refuses to go away.                                          **********************************

...Contact Zero-Amp Technology at  charlotte@worldviewopinion.com for answers to indepth questions.

for Pete's garage, go to: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4914871211025734766&hl=en

radio interviews:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/WaterFuelMuseum/va/2008/11/22/pete

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/WaterFuelMuseum/va/2008/11/26/kirk-miller