Posted on 08/25/2023 6:17:31 AM PDT by Cronos
Moscow could annex Georgia’s Russian-backed breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia, warned Kremlin security council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev.
The former Russian president and prime minister accused NATO of escalating tensions by discussing Georgia’s potential membership to the alliance, something Georgia has shown interest in.
“In Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the idea of joining Russia is still popular. And it may well be implemented, if there are good reasons for it,” Medvedev said in a scattergun opinion piece published Wednesday morning on Russian news site Argumenty i Fakty in which he attacked NATO and the West at length.
The two Moscow-backed regions were at the center of a brief war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008. Following the conflict, during which Russian forces occupied nearly 20 percent of Georgia’s territory, Russia unilaterally recognized the independence of the two regions.
On the 15th anniversary of the conflict, Medvedev, who was president at the time, warned Russia “will not hesitate” to act if their unspecified “concerns” become reality.
Georgia has repeatedly expressed interest in joining both NATO and the EU over the years. In 2008, a national referendum found that 77 percent of voters backed Georgia joining NATO, and following the poll, the transatlantic military alliance issued conclusions in which it said the country would ultimately become a member, but progress on its accession has since stalled.
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The ethnolinguistic mix of the Caucasus region is fascinatingly diverse
Well, if it’s just a “minor incursion,” as biden would say, there won’t be a war or anything.
Abkhazian
Ossetian
Once again.
None of our business.
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In before the Putin Fanbois appear, applauding the annexation, and denouncing Russia’s neighbors for daring to band together to protect themselves against invasion, and annexation by Russia, which Russia absolutely never does, except when provoked by neighbors who threaten Russia by colluding to keep from being invaded by Russia.
They look like the same woman. Sisters? Or one woman modeling the attire of the respective regions?
Hey shitbird, the US is being invaded by low IQ trash.
How about we do something about that?
Can’t blame Georgia (the soccer version, not the Kirby version) for wanting to join NATO after Russia attacked them. But NATO shouldn’t want them. Georgia brings no military benefit to the existing NATO members. In other words, Georgia wouldn’t increase our security it would decrease it.
I’ve often thought about the ridiculousness of referring to descents of Anglo Saxons (two Germanic tribes) as Caucasians.
No, we would not want to run the risk of them potentially bumping you off your anchoring position.
Better to be a Putin fanboi than a NATO/WEF/DC sock-puppet.
Our country and Europe is rapidly turning into crap by open-borders, Kalergi Plan enthusiasts who have a perpetual micro-dick hard-on at seeing Russia destroyed.
Is Fulton County one of the regions Russia wants to absorb?
Whut?
Europe is a continent of continual wars.
It has been this way for more than a thousand years.
League of Nations couldn’t change that
UN couldn’t change that
NATO couldn’t change that
Leave them to their rivalries and hatred.
It’s what they prefer.
We do not need to be the world policemen, nor pour out precious blood and treasure on people who despise us.
Kindly adjust your chat-bot settings...
You are invading the USA?
Exactly a like other than the eye color and shape of the face.
I did notice the different eye color, but I know models sometimes use colored lenses for different looks depending on the shoot.
But, yes; the two women are very much alike.
I’m sure Neocons think Georgia brings a strategic advantage, in that NATO can move its weapons that much closer to the Russian border.
You can say the same about the Middle East.
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