Well that certainly explains a lot...
It doesn’t actually.
I was very angry when they bombed Georgia.
I have closer friends there than Russia.
If there was a way to go back to posts before that.. I was really sarcastic about things, like a refinery fire in Lithuania. I was joking here about it. Also there was that mysterious pipeline that blew up on the coldest day ever causing the Georgians to rely on kerosene for heat. They stood in line with cans for hours. My friend messaged me from Tbilisi about how cold he was and broke my heart. He is like a brother to me.
In South Ossetia it was destroyed. Ok.
The Georgians were getting gas from Iran and back then -Russia and Iran were not the good buddies they are now.
I still think Russia was behind it, and other “accidents”.
In most wars I have not supported Russia at all.
This time they did the right thing though.
This time NATO is the evil party.
And you should be prepared.
This time, imo, we won’t survive.
And this time...HOW do you say we are out of ammo to give Ukraine from one side of your mouth and say we are going to war with both Russia and China from the other side?
The US is under completely insane leadership.
Insane.
I don’t expect to see next summer.
I don’t think, in most cases, that Russia is much nicer than we are. I never did. Until this war.
See my post here at number 4.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062207/posts
You will be stunned I bet at my post here, number 11.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062515/posts
One more if you are interested.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221036/posts
In retrospect, at the time, both Italy and France had nearly identical forms of government in place.
They both appointed and probably still do appoint regional governors.
At the time, it being an iron fist was just Seattle beating the drum. And I lived there then. There is a good reason we moved to the midwest.
There are other threads where Putin was solidly backed here.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/776355/posts
And there is this, see post number 7
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1108874/posts#7
Then look at this if you like.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721778/posts
We considered a trip to Abkhazia a few years ago.
I have always wanted to go there.
But the people there were like demons, the things they did to Georgians living there make nazis look nice.
In the end we just couldn’t go.
It wasn’t so much the Georgians but the incredible horrific cruelty toward them.
I thought I had heard everything.
They made the word sadism inadequate.