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Title: Georgia's President Saakashvili vows to reclaim 2 breakaway provinces
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-09-07 16:05:12

[CanadianLynx]

up the ante..like" all in" why don't you!I wonder how much"#$#$%" he just created.If Russia backs down might as well let everyone go.
down to who loses"face"

[Scape]

I wish him luck. S. Ossetia he might have an easier time with but Abkhazia will not become subservient to Georgia. They have been wanting independence and their aim is union with the Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus. Their military requires most males to be in the military. Think Sparta.

[roger-roger]

Ugh this bullshit is starting to look like UN Peacekeeping mission all over it. They should call it UNSOTFA (United Nations Separation of Two Fucking Assholes).

[Scape]

That's the thing, the Russians were peacekeeping in the region. That was until Georgia kill them all.

[roger-roger]

Ya.... Russia and peacekeeping... Russia was peacekeeping a nation that broke away from them. Then after separatist camps were bombed, Russian peacekeepers died. Georgians claimed the separatists were being supplied by the ‘peacekeepers’ themselves, I personally think the Russians were backing the separatist.
I do however believe the Georgians did go a little nuts with the counter attack and killed quite a few innocent civilians. No one side is in the right here, although the Russians seem to be instigating more than they should be.

[Scape]

The Russians were supplying the separatists and they were also deliberately issuing Russians citizenship to further bolster their claim as well. However, it was not a play Russia made it was a counter Russia was using as insurance vs the Georgian ambition. One which seems prudent considering the region.

[Terence]

This is a quagmire of no concern to us. I support the Russians in asserting that this is the same thing that we did in the Cuban Missile Crisis. When did the North ATLANTIC Treaty Organization become the Black Sea Expansionist League.

We signed treaties with the Russians against these hostile territorial interferences at the end of the cold war. The Republicans just can't help kicking the Russian Bear. Russian mineral and fossil fuel reserves mean they are going to be soon able to compete in a technological way the old USSR never could.