Georgia is backed by US, ever since US suddenly discovered (a use for) the <i>other</i> Georgia. And as everyone knows US and media aren't known for telling the unadulterated truth if they can possibly slip in some lies.
While Russia isn't always the most confidence-inducing side either, the situation is a bit more complicated than pedestrian news reports about "Russia invaded Georgia" would have some believe.
Georgians were being nasty to S Ossetia which was mostly-independent since 1990s. A significant portion of S Ossetia's population are Russians (not Georgian but Slavic), these Ossetians identify with Russia and are Russian citizens and carry Russian passports. Russia has for some time kept army posts in Ossetia.
Russia accused Georgia of ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia - and there are numerous Ossetian deaths to back up this part of the Russian turn of events - and countered Georgia. Georgia has long accused Russia of uninvited meddling in Georgia-Ossetia affairs, and I don't think Georgians are making things up either.
(Note that historically, Ossetia was neither Russian nor Georgian. Ossetic was an Iranian language and the Ossetians were Iranians of a Sarmatian tribe.)
What's disturbing is not who invaded who (anyone wanting to sift through the accusations and counter-accusations is welcome to figure out the order in which all this unwanted 'attention' took place), but the fact that the Orthodox christian Georgians would side with the western christoterrorist US - of all the horrible decisions they could have made - is beyond me. Then again, particularly Soviet Russia did take over Georgian land and oppress them; but for Georgia to then go 180 and join the scary US of all things...
"My what sharp teeth you have, christoterrorism." Particularly catholic and protestant christoterrorism.
Meanwhile, of course, poor little US had been chummying up to Georgia in recent times only because it wants the natural resources in this space, including better control on the access to the nearby <i>Key</i> oil reserve. (Move down from Georgia into Kurdistan to get to the large concentration of oil: Kurdistan is next to Iraq/Turkey/Iran/Armenia/Georgia. US invaders are already occupying Iraq.)
Meanwhile part 2, Russians are used to playing bad guys really well and at other times being made into the baddies, so they don't care about the addition of the villain's twirling moustache in their routine. Georgians may slowly be realising what many another country already knows: the US is a friend of absolutely no one, crowned Most Unreliable each time. Sad that Russians and Georgians (and whatever Ossetians are) are dying for American politics. But can't argue with christomath: 1 American life is worth hundreds of non-American christians' lives. And if America can control natural resources belonging to other countries/people by covert meddling, open war-mongering and outright invading, then it's worth all of Asia. Naturally.
From the link to follow:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus a sixth rule of conduct is one of political realism, and explains rule five. It was expressed by Henry Kissinger: âGreat powers do not commit suicide for allies.â (Least of all small and unimportant allies.)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Politically-politely phrased summary of why America can only ever be a Good Weather pseudo-'friend', if that.
This is a good quote though:
www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080812_nato_georgia_and_the_ready_made_war/?ln
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NATO, Georgia and the Ready-Made War</b>
Posted on Aug 12, 2008
By William Pfaff
<b>British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was the man who said the first three rules of warfare are âDo not invade Russia,â repeated three times.</b> A footnote to that rule would be that while the disputed Georgian districts of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not parts of Russia today, they were yesterday, and probably will again be tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. Most of their present populations carry Russian passports, and there are Russian troops in both provinces.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->America committed the Even Greater Blunder not once but <i>Twice</i>: it broke Vizzini's #1 Rule of Foolishness "Never get involved in a landwar in Asia". (Vietnam, Korea)
While Russia isn't always the most confidence-inducing side either, the situation is a bit more complicated than pedestrian news reports about "Russia invaded Georgia" would have some believe.
Georgians were being nasty to S Ossetia which was mostly-independent since 1990s. A significant portion of S Ossetia's population are Russians (not Georgian but Slavic), these Ossetians identify with Russia and are Russian citizens and carry Russian passports. Russia has for some time kept army posts in Ossetia.
Russia accused Georgia of ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia - and there are numerous Ossetian deaths to back up this part of the Russian turn of events - and countered Georgia. Georgia has long accused Russia of uninvited meddling in Georgia-Ossetia affairs, and I don't think Georgians are making things up either.
(Note that historically, Ossetia was neither Russian nor Georgian. Ossetic was an Iranian language and the Ossetians were Iranians of a Sarmatian tribe.)
What's disturbing is not who invaded who (anyone wanting to sift through the accusations and counter-accusations is welcome to figure out the order in which all this unwanted 'attention' took place), but the fact that the Orthodox christian Georgians would side with the western christoterrorist US - of all the horrible decisions they could have made - is beyond me. Then again, particularly Soviet Russia did take over Georgian land and oppress them; but for Georgia to then go 180 and join the scary US of all things...
"My what sharp teeth you have, christoterrorism." Particularly catholic and protestant christoterrorism.
Meanwhile, of course, poor little US had been chummying up to Georgia in recent times only because it wants the natural resources in this space, including better control on the access to the nearby <i>Key</i> oil reserve. (Move down from Georgia into Kurdistan to get to the large concentration of oil: Kurdistan is next to Iraq/Turkey/Iran/Armenia/Georgia. US invaders are already occupying Iraq.)
Meanwhile part 2, Russians are used to playing bad guys really well and at other times being made into the baddies, so they don't care about the addition of the villain's twirling moustache in their routine. Georgians may slowly be realising what many another country already knows: the US is a friend of absolutely no one, crowned Most Unreliable each time. Sad that Russians and Georgians (and whatever Ossetians are) are dying for American politics. But can't argue with christomath: 1 American life is worth hundreds of non-American christians' lives. And if America can control natural resources belonging to other countries/people by covert meddling, open war-mongering and outright invading, then it's worth all of Asia. Naturally.
From the link to follow:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thus a sixth rule of conduct is one of political realism, and explains rule five. It was expressed by Henry Kissinger: âGreat powers do not commit suicide for allies.â (Least of all small and unimportant allies.)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Politically-politely phrased summary of why America can only ever be a Good Weather pseudo-'friend', if that.
This is a good quote though:
www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080812_nato_georgia_and_the_ready_made_war/?ln
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NATO, Georgia and the Ready-Made War</b>
Posted on Aug 12, 2008
By William Pfaff
<b>British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was the man who said the first three rules of warfare are âDo not invade Russia,â repeated three times.</b> A footnote to that rule would be that while the disputed Georgian districts of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not parts of Russia today, they were yesterday, and probably will again be tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. Most of their present populations carry Russian passports, and there are Russian troops in both provinces.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->America committed the Even Greater Blunder not once but <i>Twice</i>: it broke Vizzini's #1 Rule of Foolishness "Never get involved in a landwar in Asia". (Vietnam, Korea)