Posted on 07/14/2009 7:31:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia has not contributed to promoting stability following last year’s brief war, the US State Department said Tuesday.
Medvedev made the controversial trip to South Ossetia Monday and offered financial and military support in defiance of the West and the Georgian government.
“Certainly I don’t think that it was any kind of step forward in terms of establishing stability in the region,” US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
The situation in Georgia over the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has been a source of tension in US-Russian relations. The US strongly objected to Moscow’s invasion of Georgia last year in response to a Georgian military offensive in South Ossetia to quell separatist attacks.
Moscow accused Georgia of provoking the conflict and supports independence for Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
While in Russia last week with Medvedev, US President Barack Obama acknowledged that the two countries continue to disagree over the conflict, and vowed support for the former Soviet republic’s aspiration to join NATO. Russia has criticized NATO expansion into what the Kremlin considers its historical sphere of influence.
Since the war that began in August, Russia has stationed thousands of additional troops in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
He was a muslim terrorist chechen animal! He was a patriot for Chechnya! KGB Inc. had him assassinated in Dubai! He was a Hero of Russia!
Wrong, Georgian troops bombed and took over Tskhinvali(South Ossetian capital). Saashkashveli had an overblown ego and though he could undermine the sovereignty of South Ossetia. He thought that with Israeli weapons and American and Israeli training he could waltz in South Ossetia with no consequences and no opposition.Former British Military officers and UK monitors confirmed Georgia shelled civilian areas of South Ossetia before the Russians started their bombardment.
The majority of Forces in Abkhazia were Russian Forces, russian Cossack and Abkhazian armed forces. While individual Chechens may have volunteered, it wasn’t endorsed by the Chechen government. And to assume the Russians our friends with the Chechen Terrorist Government is absurd, is that war and all those attacks on the Russian people a fraud? Is it a fraud that Russia has been waging war on these terrorist aggressors for years now? What proof do you have the governments are allies.
It doesn’t matter that the Georgians in South Ossetia are Christians, they are disloyal to South Ossetia and need to be deported to Georgia, just as the Muslim Albanians should be deported out of Kosovo.
The US State department opposes the Russian President visiting Odessia, but Obama supports it. BTW, Obama ceded Georgia to Russia when he was over there.
Yes it was.
Mr Kadyrov confirmed that Chechen units and paramilitaries had fought with Russians against Georgians in South Ossetia last month. "We Chechens are obliged to be on the front line with Russia because we are warriors, and we know what war is." - Chechen "President" Ramzan Kadyrov
The jihadist Chechen terrorist red army units occupying Georgian territory are "former rebels" who fought alongside Shamil Basayev against Russia in the first Chechen war. Then they switched sides and fought on Russia's side in the second Chechen war. Russia won the second war by putting a jihadist terrorist who supports sharia law in charge of Chechnya. He built the biggest mosque in Europe in Chechnya, Russia.
Chechens support Abkhaz independence because it is a step towards their goal of the establishment of a muslim Caucasian caliphate from the black sea to the Caspian. Russia has stupidly advanced this cause at Christian Georgia's expense.
Putin said that Russia is islam's best friend and that Russia will never make common cause with Christianity against islam.
It is the Ossetians who are disloyal to Georgia. They should go to Russia if they want to have Russian passports and be Russian citizens! The Ossetians were on the Bolsheviks' side in 1921 and helped them invade and Bolshevize Georgia. Now they are on the Bolsheviks' side again! Stalin was an Ossetian.
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