Georgia

Originally posted by ivanhoe
You blame Georgia don't you ? ...

Originally posted by ivanhoe
You blame Georgia don't you ? ...

Originally posted by infomast
1) The exchange of fire between Ossetians and Georgians have been going on for years with various intensity. You can pick the guilty party according to your political beliefs. The real escalation appears to occur a week before the war. Russian papers reported it and sounded concerned. The West didn't pay any attention at least in its mass media. The Ossetia ...[text shortened]... eed to destroy military depots, military installations and all other military hardware.

Originally posted by ivanhoe


The Russian threat followed by an enigmatic appendix:

"Russia will take steps aimed at ensuring its interests along its borders and these will not only be military steps, but also steps of a different nature"[9].

Well, we've witnessed the militairy steps Russia "promised" and now I'm curious to see what these "steps of a different nature" turn out to be.

Anybody any ideas ? Maybe Infomast ?[/b]

Originally posted by no1marauder
I "blame" Georgia for escalating the situation if by "blame" you mean recognizing that they did escalate the situation by a disproportionate response to what seems to have been fairly routine occurrences. I "blame" Russia for their own response which further escalated the situation and led to many more deaths. I "blame" the Western powers for their inte ...[text shortened]... rnishing a precedent under international law for military intervention in South Ossetia.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Infomast, do you have any idea what these "steps of a different nature" could be ?

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Kosovo is a different kettle of fish, although I admit that this was a hard piece to swollow for our Serbian friends and their Russian allies. The Russians may be using this, especially in the context of the propaganda aimed at their own population, as a pretext for their illegal militairy adventures elsewhere.

Originally posted by shavixmir
Illegality in international conflict has become a joke.
What with us boming Serbia in the 1990's, phoney wars against Iraq and the whole Kosovo debacle.

One eats what one harvests.

Originally posted by infomast
Yeah, just had a chat with General Baluyevski (he's already retired, you know) and posed this question straight at him. He's not much of a diplomat, so he couldn't really hide his true intentions.
Infomast, he said, the secret proposal was to rename Georgia into New Mexico and forced those SOBs to learn Spanish as a punishment.

I saw this coming from day one of this conflict:

The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will open military bases in the province under an agreement to be signed on Tuesday.

Tarzan Kokoity, the province’s Deputy Speaker of parliament, announced that South Ossetia would be absorbed into Russia soon so that its people could live in “one united Russian state” with their ethnic kin in North Ossetia.

The declaration came only three days after Russia defied international criticism and recognised South Ossetia and Georgia’s other separatist region of Abkhazia as independent states.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4635843.ece

georgia took a gamble, and got their asses kicked. Russia wants to allow south ossetia to join with north ossetia, and then the two can form their own country, called alania, which is why russia allowed north ossetia to join in the first place

Why not just recognize the North as its own country and allow the two to become a single nation? I don't see why the South must first become part of Russia.

I will be totally amazed if Russia lets go of anymore terriorty it absorbs back into its nation.