Posted on 08/08/2008 10:43:34 AM PDT by Jeff Head
Here are numerous pictures from various online Russian and Georgian news outlest of the conflict in Georgia where Russia has now intevened on the ground and in the air and invaded Georgia over the Ossetian Seperatists.
Russian tanks and vehicles moving toward and into Georgia
Russian aircraft attackintg Georgia positions
Georgian troops movingn toward the fighting
Burniing Georgian Armor
Georgian forces engaging seperatists
I’d hate to be the driver of that little red car facing all those tanks!
Nice picture, sad situation.
I have to repeat myself... you are a total moron if you are serious with this comment. How is Georgia "radical". They are CHRISTIANS defending their territory against Putin/Russia who are supporting our Islamic enemies in Iran and Syria! I can't believe how totally clueless your comment is! Georgia is our friggin ally engaged in Iraq!
IF your comment was in irony, you should work to improve your sarcasm skills. I'm speechless.
Thanks for the ping!
The russians only have one military doctrine: Brute Force
Let’s just send a few B-2s and A-10s to wipe out those columns of tanks.
SU-24 Fencer I believe
Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008
Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.
The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:
“Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!”
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/
Yes. This pictures of Russian columns just beg for another Desert Storm style “Highway of Death”. It’s probably out of question that we would engage directly. But the Georgians should have access to enough weaponry to kick out the Sovi... eh Russians!
Actually, Russia had nothing to do with this choice. As reported, it appears that Georgia launched an offensive in South Osietta to try to take it back from the seperatist. Russia responded today by bombing the airbase in Tslit and rolling a column of tanks into South Osietta.
I have no doubt that the Russians are backing the seperatist, but they didn’t pick the specific day this went down, though I’m sure they were planning on this eventuality.
I think the Georgian Flag has a Chistian cross on it with small crosses in each quarter.
In 1996, the Olympics were in Georgia. Bizarre.
From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
Russia, China flex muscles in joint war games
Reuters: Aug 17, 2007
CHEBARKUL, Russia (Reuters) - Russia and China staged their biggest joint exercises on Friday but denied this show of military prowess could lead to the formation of a counterweight to NATO.
"Today's exercises are another step towards strengthening the relations between our countries, a step towards strengthening international peace and security, and first and foremost, the security of our peoples," Putin said.
Fighter jets swooped overhead, commandos jumped from helicopters on to rooftops and the boom of artillery shells shook the firing range in Russia's Ural mountains as two of the largest armies in the world were put through their paces.
The exercises take place against a backdrop of mounting rivalry between the West, and Russia and China for influence over Central Asia, a strategic region that has huge oil, gas and mineral resources.
Russia's growing assertiveness is also causing jitters in the West. Putin announced at the firing range that Russia was resuming Soviet-era sorties by its strategic bomber aircraft near NATO airspace.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29030120070817?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
U.S. Navy Intercepts Russian Bombers Flying Near Ships
Monday, February 11, 2008
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) U.S. fighter planes intercepted two Russian bombers flying unusually close to an American aircraft carrier in the western Pacific during the weekend, The Associated Press has learned.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330362,00.html
"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century"
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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"'The Black Book of Communism,' a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
F&F said this am that they had left earlier in the week.
You are correct. They give them nuclear technology. Heck of a way to deal with radicals.
South Ossetia has as much right to be its own country as Kosovo, and Russia has a better claim, in terms of national self-interest, if not international law, to a right to intervene on behalf of the South Ossetians than we had to intervene on behalf the Muslim Albanians.
The Putin era hostility to American allies on former Soviet territory may have one root in Great Russian nationalism and another in a nostalgia for superpower status, but its deepest root draws on the sense of American and Western Slavophobia which Clinton and Bush’s mishandling of the Balkans created.
Bad though it is, the West should sit on our collective hands on this one, though us Orthodox can pray fervently that the fraticidal war will end quickly.
I’m sure up next will be an hour long special update by Greta Van Susteren on the Natalie Halloway Aruba murder.
Fox News is always on the ball when wars breakout.
and it does not always work all that well either.
Actually I would call the Georgia situation much closer to the Russian-Chechnyan scenario.
“How is Georgia radical? They are Christians!”
Ha! Good one my friend, hehe.
Hey Schmuck have you heard of Chechnya? You remember the theatre bombing in Moscow, the apartment bombings? These folks were defending their territory from Putin/Russia too.
And you want to encourage them, for shame.
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