Posted on 08/23/2008 7:49:14 PM PDT by Flavius
In a freshly ironed pink dress Irina was waiting on the scruffy dockside of Sevastopol for the return of her Russian hero. And, sharing the lot of military wives throughout history, she was being given short shrift.
“There is no information to impart,” barked a junior naval officer, spinning on his heel and returning to the supply ship, the Kyrill, just back from the brief nasty war in Georgia. Ever since Russia mounted an invasion of a fellow member of the United Nations, flexing its muscle abroad for the first time since the crumbling of the Soviet Union, there has been a new edge to East-West relations.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
>>>”...the inhabitants still mourn the passing of the Soviet Union.”
All—a grandfather wearing battle ribbons, strained-looking mothers — were convinced that the Georgians were ruthless killers: their information came solely from Russian television.
Bunch of Maroons as gullible and narrow as the Obamazombies.
Thanks,bookmarked that one, sums up the attitude of the Russians abroad and in Russia about their errant little
brothers and sisters.
"Russian troops held positions on Saturday in trenches they had dug near a bridge that provides the only access to Poti. Tanks and armoured personnel carriers were parked nearby. Russian troops hoisted both Russian flags and the flag of the Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS, the union of former Soviet republics that Georgia recently announced it had left."
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They are digging in, hoping that the resolve of the West will fade and that they can unseat the Tbilisi government and replace it with CIS puppets. So far they have misjudged the Georgian people...but have they misjudged the West?
I don`t think so...
“MOSCOW, August 23 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia planned the military operation against its breakaway republic of South Ossetia a year in advance, a source in one of Russia’s security bodies said Saturday.
The source also told RIA Novosti that the operation was coordinated with NATO’s plans to strengthen its naval presence in the Black Sea.
“The statements of some NATO representatives that the maneuvers of the alliance’s ships in the Black Sea were planned a year ago are evidence that attacks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia were planned earlier, maybe even last year,” the source said.
A NATO representative earlier said that the three-week deployment - which includes stops at Romanian and Bulgarian ports - was planned at least a year ago, well before the conflict in Georgia.
Already under strain due to NATO’s courting of Ukraine and Georgia, and over U.S. missile defense plans in Eastern Europe, relations between the alliance and Russia have frayed badly since Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia and Russia’s subsequent military operation.
In the opinion of the source, NATO’s buildup of naval force in the Black Sea under the cover of providing humanitarian aid to Georgia, sets a dangerous precedent and may sharply destabilize the situation in the region.
Speaking Friday at RIA Novosti news conference, the deputy chief of the Russian military’s general staff expressed doubts whether it is necessary to have NATO vessels in the Black Sea delivering humanitarian aid to Georgia.
“Now that the conflict [with South Ossetia] is exhausted, there are NATO vessels [in the Black Sea]. What for and with what aim?” Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn said.
He also said Russia would reply swiftly to all provocations against its Black Sea Fleet.”
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080823/116236332.html
Thankee, good info.
See #8
Sevastopol is Russian for “Danzig.”
Given the Russian Govt.'s penchant for lying. e.g. the loss of the Kursk, she may be in pretty bad shape.
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