He says this to warn and intimidate that his mafia like control of the movement of Oil is critical to him.

He is sabre rattling to prevent any intervention to Russias OIL TRADE route to Europe.

70,000 barrels flow through Georgia until the only railroad bridge blew up mysteriously and the pipeline terminal that statrs in Turkey and goes through Georgia also exploded.

Russia can hold Europe energy hostage with control of every path that oil and gas take to get there.

He threatens to mobilize troops to Poland if the US unilaterally keeps sending missles to within 90 miles of Russia.