Good vid. I never understood the push to extend NATO right up to the border of Russia. It seems to me a complete provocation, not that Russia is right in this latest incident. The question now is what will the NATO states do about the old, new Russia? I don't think much as we have lost most, if not all, moral standing in the world.
Are you implying that Russia was wrong in this situation with Georgia? Or do you mean that you don't want to be perceived as saying Russia was right because you have not yet reached a firm opinion?
As I understand it there is a providence in North Georgia that is more closely aligned w/Russia than Georgia. The squabble began there and Russia has now extended the fight (invasion) into Georgia, which is a sovereign nation. Behind it all is oil and what appears to be a more nationalistic Russia flexing it's muscle.
As I understand it there is a providence in North Georgia that is more closely aligned w/Russia than Georgia. The squabble began there and Russia has now extended the fight (invasion) into Georgia, which is a sovereign nation. Behind it all is oil and what appears to be a more nationalistic Russia flexing it's muscle.
North Georgia or better known for the past 26 years as South Ossetia won de facto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992 [ Wash Post]. South Ossetia strongly identifies with Russia - I mean that in a good way to Russia - the South Ossetians like and want Russia in their lives - its population speak Russian; South Ossetia uses Russian currency, and the people of South Ossetia have Russian passports issued to them for travel. Russia has had peacekeepers in the buffer zone between Georgia and South Ossetia for years.
But because of South Ossetia's emerging profile as related to positioning of oil pipelines and the desire of DC/Tel Aviv to re-route oil pipelines to bypass Russia via Turkey, together with Georgia's nationalistic desire to reclaim South Ossetia came to a head this week. Georgia attacked South Ossetia and killed 12 Russian peacekeepers along with South Ossetian personnel and civilians.
So you can see that Russia did not have much choice re: how it needed to respond to this incident. Twelve Russian peacekeepers were plugged by Georgia. Well, duh, what did the sock puppet President of Georgia think Medvedev would do in those circumstances? Hello!
That Russia is pushing Georgia back and crossing its borders with a massive show of force is justified, imo, because Georgia crossed the line big time not only in its aggression against an ally of Russia's and one that shares a border with Russia, as well as Georgia's willful murder of Russian peacekeeper-nationals, as well as Georgia's game playing with the DC/Tel Aviv/Turkey junta.
I think Russia may also want to send a message to the ZioNeo chickenhawks about their plans to attack Iran through the way it is handling Georgia now. The message is "Shove those plans where the sun don't shine." Iran does a lot of business with Russia and has become an ally of sorts in Russia's mind and Iran also shares a border with Russia. So now Russia wants to crush Georgia in a spectacular unforgiving fashion to tell the goon squad at DC/Tel Aviv - "don't bring war to my neighborhood and don't mess with my friends because I will not stand for it." The bear has been awakened from its sleep and now the bear is pis*ed, bigtime. We live in interesting times.
Postscript: I'm not pro-Russian per se. But in this dispute with Georgia that GEORGIA CAUSED, I think Russia has good reasons for reacting the way it is to the gauntlet that was thrown at its feet by The Usual Suspects and their sock puppet surrogate, the President of Georgia.
Georgia attacked South Ossetia and killed 12 Russian peacekeepers along with South Ossetian personnel and civilians.
So you can see that Russia did not have much choice re: how it needed to respond to this incident. Twelve Russian peacekeepers were plugged by Georgia. Well, duh, what did the sock puppet President of Georgia think Medvedev would do in those circumstances? Hello!
That Russia is pushing Georgia back and crossing its borders with a massive show of force is justified, imo, because Georgia crossed the line big time not only in its aggression against an ally of Russia's and one that shares a border with Russia, as well as Georgia's willful murder of Russian peacekeeper-nationals
You must have supported Israel in their war against hizbollah then, too? ;-)
You must have supported Israel in their war against hizbollah then, too?
No I did not as a matter of fact. How is Israel's unprovoked attack on the sovereign nation of Lebanon comparable to what's going on between Georgia and Russia?
Lebanon's military did not take Israel's soldiers hostage. Hezbollah has some elected representatives in the government of Lebanon but in the context you are using the term Hezbollah, you mean Hezbollah as the para-military organization that has no relationship to the Lebanese government or its military.
Russia's peace keepers were keeping "the peace" in the buffer zone between Georgia and South Ossetia, which has won its independence in 1992 from Georgia.
Then this week after 16 years of "peace", the military of the government of Georgia attacked South Ossetia to try to reclaim it and in the course of the attack, the government of Georgia killed 12 Russian nationals who were peace keepers.
I see no similarity between Israel's attack on Lebanon to what's happening between Russia and Georgia.
I see one thing in common: Israel pulls us into conflicts where we don't belong, and NATO is also dragging us into conflicts where we don't belong. The question is: who cares, and why?
The notion that either of these two conflicts matter at all to us is artificial.
Okay, smart guy, go ahead and provide support for your theory that there is similarity between what Israel did to Lebanon a couple of summers ago and what is happening between Russia and Georgia today. Make me a believer and please tell what I said in my previous message that was false/"Bologna."