Great picture.
You KNOW these wo agreed on the date and time Bush was to make his speech.
Btw, you should also know by now that the EU is heir apparent to NATO.
Posted on 08/12/2008 6:47:40 PM PDT by a_Turk
The Kremlin's decision today to call a halt to its five-day assault on Georgia leaves Russia calling the shots in the energy-rich Black Sea littoral and Caspian basin.
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Nato and the EU
The Russians see the Caucasus test as a zero-sum game and have won. That means lose-lose for the west. A key objective for Putin was to destabilise Georgia to invalidate its aim of joining Nato. He may have succeeded.
The Americans suffered a rare defeat in April at a Nato summit when George Bush argued strongly for starting Georgia towards alliance membership and was defeated by Angela Merkel of Germany and Sarkozy of France.
"This is the first time ever that an American president's request was rejected because France and Germany stuck together," said a senior source at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
In a tough statement yesterday, John McCain said the Nato rebuff to Georgia "might have been viewed as a green light by Russia for its attacks on Georgia. I urge the Nato allies to revisit the decision."
But the French and the Germans feel vindicated in rejecting Georgia and are unlikely to bend.
"A country that has such problems and is led by a hot-headed militant does not belong in Nato," said Rahr in Berlin. "It could take the whole alliance hostage and start the third world war."
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(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I predict this is a ruse, prepare for Georgia to be crushed.
The Russians will say on the initial refusal of Georgia to their terms, we tried and they didn’t want peace.
After all, this is the Russian way.
If anyone thinks this is over, you will be sorely mistaken.
Think about it, how can they allow outsiders to pick over their actions in Georgia, there is too much terrible evidence.
Raping Women, etc.. Georgia is done. They are using this to reduce the resistance as much as possible on their way to the capital.
You wait, they will have the President of Georgia in Moscow within a month if he doesn’t commit suicide. And if you think he is going to the US Embassy, the Russians are making sure he doesn’t get there.
If I was them, get ready to defend yourself rather than patting yourselves on the back.
The Russians are quietly laughing to themselves.
I hate them.
Jeepers, the Guardian cannot even bring itself to capitalize “West.”
that’s the headline from a socialist rag.
What happened to that wonderful soul of Pooty-Poot?
Putin has been pi**ed off ever since.
W was right again.
W will go down as a great statesman.
Actually, President Bush looks pissed at Putin in that picture, to me.
The Russians could report that Jesus walked with them and the Guardian would report it as fact.
The good news is that if McCain is smoking that much pot and gets elected president, we might get rid of the "War on Drugs". Germany is averaging 1.4 children per family right now. Anybody who thinks they're going to put any of those 1.4 children into harms way for the sake of Georgia is smoking too much reefer.
As it was in George Orwell’s day. Old Stalinists fade slowly.
Wouldn’t this just be the greatest opportunity for pound a few Iranian nuke sites into the 7th century? Russia would probably thank us for taking the heat off of them.
Yeah, the President looks pissed. And, yes, the Guardian is just carrying on where Izvestia and Pravda left off.
Okay, sure.
Putin is very weak-chinned.
The stupid cultured Euros are going to let themselves get into another raging continent-wide war through their "sophistication". Damned idiots.
An Ambassador spoke of Russian humanitarian aide (the reason) to shore up the infrastructure of roads and rail through the Caucasus recently. He now knows why and isn’t happy at this Hitler-isk action.
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