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2008-08-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia Says 2 Regions in Georgia Are Independent

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Then I guess Russia will withdraw from these new states so as not to infringe upon their sovereignty.

Posted by Scott R 2008-08-28 00:40|| 2008-08-28 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Fine - the get your troops the hell out of Georgia proper.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-28 00:55|| 2008-08-28 00:55|| Front Page Top

#3
Scott R, Putin will point to our presence in Iraq as justification for his actions in Georgia.

I'm not saying they're equivalent - they're not. But he will use that as the thin pretext he needs to gain support of people who haven't liked our actions since 9/11.

Putin is an advanced black belt in judo and he plays geopolitics the same way.

Posted by lotp 2008-08-28 05:47|| 2008-08-28 05:47|| Front Page Top

#4 So lets declare Chechnya and Dagestan independent for them. Two can play at the independent regions game, and russia has way, WAY more regions to lose than Georgia. We could get every separatist in the russian region fired up if that's how they want to play it.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-28 08:05|| 2008-08-28 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Problem is if the West started handing out passports, the entire region would empty out in no time.

Posted by ed 2008-08-28 08:22|| 2008-08-28 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 The Russkies have been handing out Russian passports to people from those regions for years. They aren't independent - they're Russian now, de facto if not de jure. And so goes the old Russian game of absorbing the margins.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-08-28 11:09|| 2008-08-28 11:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Even the ChiComs aren't buying the official Russian line. Sure, the Russkis have boots on the ground, but they seem to be standing in a giant pile of poo.

Posted by Slats Glans2659 2008-08-28 12:00|| 2008-08-28 12:00|| Front Page Top

#8 We ought to encourage the Chinese to hand out passports in far eastern Russia. They outnumber the Russians there.

What's Vladivostok's name in Chinese (And Sakhalin in Japanese)

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-28 19:16|| 2008-08-28 19:16|| Front Page Top

Posted by Peace Lover aka a lot of other nyms today 2008-08-28 19:40|| 2008-08-28 19:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh yea, the famous Rusian peacemaking

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-08-28 20:58|| 2008-08-28 20:58|| Front Page Top

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