As for the RUSSO-GEORGIAN conflict, it was started when Georgian troops brutally attacked Ossetia and killed 2000 civilians, mostly Russian civilians; killed 12 Russian peacekeepers and shot down four Russian aircraft, and the Russians are the bad guys?
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, South Ossetia declared independence because they wanted to join up with North Ossetia and be part of Russia. Why then did Shaashkavili decide 16 years later to attack? In my opinion, he thought that because he was supported by the West, Bush would rush to his aid - and Shaashkavili later stated, "Where is NATO! Where is America!"
His foolishness brought this whole mess around. One question to ask yourself:
In 1999, NATO, led by Clinton, in violation of International Law, NATO Charter and without the approval of the US Congress, bombed tiny Yugoslavia that did not have weapons of mass destruction, never attacked us nor any NATO country and was never a threat to us.
At the time, NATO consisted of 19 member states - of approximately 900 million members. NATO attacked a nation of only 10 million and we thumped our chest like an 800-lb gorilla.
Today, there are 27 NATO members and still growing. We told the Russians, if they pulled out of Eastern Europe, we would not move NATO up to Russia's borders. Well, the Russian their troops pulled out of Eastern Europe, and we broke our pledge by continuing to move NATO up to Russia's borders and Russia reacted. How would we like it if Russia put missiles back into Cuba? We would consider that a threat against us, wouldn't we?
And how many more countries that we continue to add are Americans willing to go to war with Russia?
And finally, after the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO's mission ceased to exist - so Clinton had to find another target but what better than Yugoslavia, a tiny country that refused to bow to Clinton's New World Order, and of course, our wag-the-dog president needed to take attention away from his affair with Monica.
Just something to think about.
To add insult to injury, President Bush intends to send more aid to the jihadist Kosovo government as though 80% of drugs that flow into Europe from Kosovo is not enough.
Beam me up, Scotty!