Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Amb. David Smith, (Ret.), is the Director of the Georgian Security Analysis Center in Tbilisi, Georgia. In a recent issue of the Georgian publication Tabula, he writes about Japan's multidimensional  disaster as a result of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant damage that occurred there earlier this month. He observes that among the international ramifications of this tragedy is the possibility that the crisis could well be exploited by Russia, which moved to supply energy to Italy after the Libyan uprising interrupted gas supplies and is now promising increased deliveries to Europe while other gas supplies are diverted to Japan. Writes Smith, "These are but Moscow’s latest moves to render Europe and now Japan more energy dependent on Russia, prying at cracks in the American-led alliances, gradually altering the correlation of forces at both ends of Eurasia, leaving, Moscow hopes, Russia as the undisputed geographical pivot." Click below to read the article in full.