Article

2008-08-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Georgia forced to accept a Russian occupation

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2008-08-16 01:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Why all the drama, Saakashvili?

Posted by McZoid 2008-08-16 06:22|| 2008-08-16 06:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Why the comment?

Posted by .5MT 2008-08-16 08:19|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-08-16 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Russians like buffer zones. Vast buffer zones the size of the Ukraine.

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2008-08-16 10:40|| 2008-08-16 10:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Did Georgian troops fight at all? They look like they dumped their gear and ran from the photos. Most of their armor and trucks look like they were set fire right before being photographed. Like they ran out of gas rather than destroyed by fire.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-16 11:00|| 2008-08-16 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 What was signed is a ceasefire, not a peace agreement. Per a WaPo account of a Rice press conference, Russian troops will be required to leave the non-disputed territories:

After arriving here to discuss the deal with Saakashvili and to show U.S. support for Georgia's embattled government, Rice told reporters, "Our most urgent task today is the immediate and orderly withdrawal of Russian armed forces and the return of those forces to Russia." She said that "all Russian troops and any irregular and paramilitary forces that entered with them must leave immediately." The only forces allowed to stay under the cease-fire agreement are Russian peacekeeping troops who were in two breakaway provinces of Georgia before Aug. 6, she said.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-16 13:40|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-08-16 13:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Zhang Fei:

Yah, Condi knows that Russian peacekeepers were already there, and there they will stay. Why not listen to Condi? The apologists prefer the rhetoric of "occupation," to the facts. There is a clear drift to status quo peace. The difference is that the "Georgia for the Georgians" crowd is beaten and discredited. That's good.

Let me speak for the people of Georgia: the nationalists were frauds; they are reckless losers; we hate them; keep us out of your rhetoric prisons; don't make heroes out of those lame ducks.

Posted by McZoid 2008-08-16 15:52|| 2008-08-16 15:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Russians like buffer zones. Vast buffer zones the size of the Ukraine.

Then they need a Poland-sized buffer zone for their Ukrainian buffer zone.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-08-16 15:54|| 2008-08-16 15:54|| Front Page Top

#8 When your president is chewing his own tie, you know it's not good.

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPEhSsOXa8

Posted by CobraCommander 2008-08-16 18:15|| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPEhSsOXa8]">[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPEhSsOXa8] 2008-08-16 18:15|| Front Page Top

#9 One thing has been puzzling me .. if they T[he Rus] are allowed to control the 'Autonomous Districts', do they also include the Autonomous Republic of Adjara?
This is located in the South West corner of the country and ..I think.. where the pipline enters Turkey.
map link

I have read that the Russian Navy Blockaded this Area and that Russian troops approached it but do not know if they occupied it.. and if so Does this new agreement mean they can occupie and control it..
>This site has a link on the Russian blockade
...but this site also talks of..
Russian nukes in S Ossetia
and
US to Transfer Bio Weapons to Georgia
??/.

Posted by Linker 2008-08-16 20:01|| 2008-08-16 20:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Never let in:

A. Vampires
B. Russian "peacekeepers"

Posted by Slats Glans2659 2008-08-16 21:27|| 2008-08-16 21:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Well Actually There Ar Contingents Of The Spetsnaz Brigade - WEREWOLFS - in action in Georgia

Posted by linker 2008-08-16 21:33|| 2008-08-16 21:33|| Front Page Top

23:40 Abdominal Snowman
23:35 Abdominal Snowman
23:29 KBK
23:22 lnker
23:15 Red Dawg
23:15 liberalhawk
23:10 liberalhawk
23:09 liberalhawk
23:07 liberalhawk
23:07 Sherese Jones6358
23:06 linker
23:05 Pappy
23:04 liberalhawk
23:01 Sherese Jones6358
22:59 DarthVader
22:58 liberalhawk
22:55 ed
22:54 liberalhawk
22:52 linker
22:52 Pappy
22:50 Elinker
22:48 liberalhawk
22:45 Sherese Jones6358
22:41 ed