Still from Threads (1984)
Posted on 08/08/2008 12:02:37 PM PDT by library user
In othe... *cough* older news Herr Hitler promises to protect the rights of Germans in Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Still from Threads (1984)
Defending your country is a power play?
I suspect the west wants Georgia as a part of NATO just about as much the EU wanted Turkey.
While Moscow was "boosting ties" with the separatist governments were they also assuring them that Russia would invade if they could provoke a battle and thus provide the pretext for the re-annexation of the whole of Georgia?
The quote above, incidentally, appeared in the penultimate paragraph of the article, I wonder why the speculation was offered so belatedly?
Probably a sign that oil bubble is bursting. When oil is no longer much of a weapon, they have to use tanks, no pun intended.
As for AP - there is no totalitarian country they don’t like...
Is Georgia part of the ‘air bridge’ supplying Northern Iraq? Others have noted that there’s a US military training mission in Georgia. Plus the Georgian’s contributed a 2,000 man unit to Iraq.
I’m just wondering what our reaction might be if Russia does occupy all of Georgia?
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/
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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=
The Russians are probably looking into establishing a power projection land corridor into Iran and the Middle East. If Georgia falls, Armenia or Azerbaijan may be next. The real question may be how will Turkey react. A hard-line coup in Turkey and the loss of Georgia may mean US troops wont be leaving Iraq anytime soon.
Commies and Birds of a feather.
The separatist areas of Georgia want to be part of Russia again?
I think western nations including Russia, China, and India, are trying to figure out how to control the flow of Islamic people. Georgia is 83% Christian... but probably has little control of its borders. Russia, on the other hand would control Georgia, that alley way from Persia, and have a buffer from Russia proper.
I also think that it was planned to coincide with the Olympics with design help from the west. Expect more of these type of buffer wars around the world.
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