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2008-08-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Why Russias response to Georgia was right

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Nice try Sergei - ain't gonna work.

Posted by Halliburton - Blogosphere Welcome Division 2008-08-14 00:13|| 2008-08-14 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Video: Putin's view of everybody not Putin

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-14 01:53|| 2008-08-14 01:53|| Front Page Top

#3 "The writer is minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation"

Please don't get over run by The Putin Propaganda Machine guys!

Posted by Full Bosomed1072 2008-08-14 02:32|| 2008-08-14 02:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Very nicely written. But whatever happened to the Scythians?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-08-14 02:52|| 2008-08-14 02:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Saakashvili's mentor - Gamsakhurdia - accused Gorbachev of faking the 1991 coup. He was a poet.

Posted by McZoid 2008-08-14 03:36|| 2008-08-14 03:36|| Front Page Top

#6 The writer is minister of foreign affairs of the Russian Federation

ahhh...The Federation. It sounds so.....

Hey Sergei - don't quit your day job... if you get my drift.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-08-14 04:20|| 2008-08-14 04:20|| Front Page Top

#7 Imagine that, a guy named Sergei Lavrov shilling for Russia on the net.

Weird!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-14 09:13|| 2008-08-14 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm more amazed by the supposed citizens of free countries shilling for the Russians.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-08-14 09:33|| 2008-08-14 09:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Last Friday, after the world's leaders had arrived at the Beijing Olympics, Georgian troops launched an all-out assault on the region of South Ossetia,

he omits the provacations the Ossetians launched against Georgia in the preceding days.

which has enjoyed de facto independence for more than 16 years.

It has enjoyed that WITH the cooperation of Georgia, which signed on to Russian peacekeeping conditional on it NOT changing the de jure status. For some roughly analagous legal issues, see Taiwan.

The majority of the region's population are Russian citizens.

Cause Russia declared them citizens. This has no import in international law.

Under the terms of the 1992 agreement to which Georgia is a party, they are afforded protection by a small number of Russian peacekeeping soldiers.

a pact signed under radically different political circumstances. And whose spirit Russia has been undermining for quite some time.

The ground and air attack resulted in the killing of peacekeepers and the death of an estimated 1,600 civilians, creating a humanitarian disaster and leading to an exodus of 30,000 refugees.

See Chechnya.

The Georgian regime
a democratically elected govt.

refused to allow a humanitarian corridor to be established and bombarded a humanitarian convoy. There is also clear evidence of atrocities having been committed -- so serious and systematic that they constitute acts of genocide.

youre supposed to take that evidence to the world BEFORE you intervene. So far theres no evidence of anything beyond the usual civilian casualties associated with bombarding a city.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-08-14 12:32|| 2008-08-14 12:32|| Front Page Top

#10 WHere's OldSpook?

Posted by Hellfish 2008-08-14 12:41|| 2008-08-14 12:41|| Front Page Top

#11 OldSpook is taking a well-earnt holiday, Hellfish. He's done so in the past from time to time.

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