 merrie says: Since Russia’s invasion, its forces have been “cleansing” Georgian villages in both regions – including outside the conflict zone – using arson, rape and execution. Human rights groups have documented these actions. It hopes the west will forget ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia drove out more than three-quarters of the local population – ethnic Georgians, Greeks, Jews and others – leaving the minority Abkhaz in control. Last week Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president, put us on alert: “Russia does not really know where it begins and where it ends.” He noted that the Moscow regime is “a lot more sophisticated” than the Soviets under Leonid Brezhnev. He should know – he was on the front line the last time Russia invaded a European country. Backing Georgia with Europe’s political and financial institutions is a powerful response. The most potent western response to Russia is to stay united and firm by providing immediate material and political support. This is a nasty situation. Having said that - let us not forget that Georgia started this part of the story. In my eyes it was a senseless action to take. Madness even. It was never going to succeed - which makes me think it was not the primary purpose. The russians where outplayed in my opinion. Are the reports of the U.S and other allies true? Did they actually train Georgian special forces for the past 10 years? Is this proxy war by the U.S? Michael J. Totten Report from Tbilisi Fleeing Russian brutality, Georgians look to the West for support. 20 August 2008 Russia’s invasion of Georgia has unleashed a refugee crisis all over the country and especially in its capital. Every school here in Tbilisi is jammed with civilians who fled aerial bombardment and shootings by the Russian military—or massacres, looting, and arson by irregular Cossack paramilitary units swarming across the border. Russia has seized and effectively annexed two breakaway Georgian provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It has also invaded the region of Gori, which unlike them had been under Georgia’s control. Gori is in the center of the country, just an hour... August 26, 2008 The Truth About Russia in Georgia TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion. Virtually everyone is wrong. Georgia didn't start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 199... Could this be part of the plan? I mean with internationalists (bankers?) in cahoots. World to be grouped into ..5? 6? regions with individual borders becoming meaningless? Ya know Obama is CFR. It may be he is ordained - beyond any voters' control. Clinton-Bush-Obama, cahoots? Paulson (GldmnSachs)-The FED really calling the shots? McCain just the strawman and they'll never allow him to win? Hopes of America holding strong a faded notion? All a forgone conclusion? Just some thoughts..... I sound more like RonPaul every day. He may have it mostly right, after all. hmmm http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/world/europe/07georgia.html According to the monitors, an O.S.C.E. patrol at 3 p.m. on Aug. 7 saw large numbers of Georgian artillery and rocket launchers massing on roads north of Gori, just south of the enclave. Michael Totten or the O.S.C.E---A multilateral organization with 56 member states-who's got it right? . |
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