Russia / Georgia / United States Conflict
UPDATE: Russia has retreated out of Georgia, saying, "The aggressor has been punished."
Today, 8/13/08:
Russia to U.S.: Choose us or Georgia Forum link removed - Nukora
Any political comments will be deleted if it shall spark a flame war. (Wish they could be drafted. I <3 opinions)
Hmm. I don't know how to talk political while not talking political, but i'll try.
Okay, the reporting of this whole event seems a bit... "manufactured" to me.
Here's some things I consider to be facts:
This "war", is, once again, ...all about an oil pipeline.
This entire fiasco is due to a pipeline right-of-way across Georgia. That pipeline does not pass through South Ossetia - at its closest point it is 55km away.
When the USSR disbanded, South Ossetia and Abkhasia voted to stay with Russia, not Georgia. To give you an idea of how overwhelming the decision was, the data from South Ossetia the voter turn out was 95% and 99% of those voters elected to stay with Russia.
Condoleeza Rice visits Georgia and is told by the Department of Defense that war games are scheduled for Georgia for most of the month of July. Those war games ended July 31, Georgia attacked August 8. Do the math.
The purpose of the war games was to train the Georgian Army in 'counterterrorism operations' and 'door-to-door urban warfare.' In reality, it was prepping it to invade South Ossetia.
There was no 'urban war' or 'terrorism' in South Ossetia until Georgia and its allied advisors personally delivered them.
The advisors included both US military Israel military. Evidently, Ukraine troops were also involved in the invasion and murdering of civilians. The war started with the death of at least 10 Russian peacekeepers, and then Georgia started in on the genocide of civilians.
This premeditated act of war has slain 2,000 people and injured many others.
Russia responded, logically, properly and quickly to the attack...the sovereign right of any nation to defend its territory and citizens. The people of South Ossetia made the decision in the early 1990s to stay with Russia. Most of the people who live there have Russian passports, not Georgian passports.
President Medvedev has instructed Russian military judicial and forensics professionals to document these war crimes against the people of South Ossetia. Russia intends to press charges for war crimes against the perpetrators.
The Russian Black Sea fleet has blockaded Georgia to prevent any further military arms from coming into Georgia from Israel and the US.
Often unreported in the news is that Russia has also rushed humanitarian aid into South Ossetia.
We don't live in a very nice world people.
I hope not all of you believe things as they're told to you by your "news" programs.
~AA
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