Posted on 08/20/2008 3:19:44 PM PDT by Shaun_MD
Deputy chief of the Russian army general staff Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn told reporters Aug. 20: “The president ordered us to stop where we were. We are not pulling out or pulling back troops behind this administrative border into South Ossetia,” he said.
He pointed out the proposed Russian positions on a map, one just outside the Georgian city of Gori. Moscow planned to establish 18 long-term checkpoints including at least eight in undisputed Georgian territory outside the pro-Russian enclave of South Ossetia, said the general. They will be staffed by hundreds of Russian troops.
The plan appears to flout the terms of the French-brokered ceasefire deal signed last week by the presidents of Russia and Georgia. Moscow says its peacekeeping mandate and the ceasefire terms give it access to a “security zone” along the Georgian-South Ossetian border.
Nogovitsyn said at least 64 Russian soldiers were killed and 323 injured in the fighting sparked by an “unprovoked surprise attack” by Georgia on the South Ossetian capital.
Eighteen shoulder launched missiles which somehow slip into Georgia could take care of those checkpoints.
These people are more deserving of us providing weapons for than just about anyone we have armed in the last 20 years.
As would one stealth bomber run.
Well well well. What say you international community?
All I hear are tumbleweeds rolling by.
How about those spooky unmanned drones with missiles? Thoses could make the checkpoints turn to vapor post haste.
We’re not prepared to do the dirty work ourselves, but Putin started this fight, and I think that a whole bunch of anti-tank weapons, together with RPGs, SAMs for the helicopters, and all the other good stuff we have available, will make Georgia into a hell-hole for the Russians.
I think we don’t want to fight the Russians ourselves at this stage, but we can give the Georgians a lot of weapons that they can use themselves. Drones might be a problem, because US military probably needs to operate them.
They’ve been doing it to us in Iraq and I think it’s time we returned the favor.
Checkpoints? More like shakedown points. An opportunity for Russian and Chechen thugs to frisk, pat down and help themselves to other people’s stuff.
There seems to be some dispute in Russia as to how far they will pull back. /s
I agree.
Eighteen targets for Tomahawks . . .
“We’re not prepared to do the dirty work ourselves,”Speak for your self.
Love that picture!
Inspiring and topical!
This is not to suggest in the slightest that the US military is not capable of defeating the Russians, or is not better than the Russians in any way. It is.
I agree, we should do to the Russians what they have been doing to us in Iraq, which is to assist the people who are fighting us. Notice the Russians have not sent their own soldiers to fight us. The Georgians don’t need us in order to inflict heavy casualties on the Russians; they just need some good weapons. I’d give it to them, as much as they want.
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