Posted on 08/10/2008 2:03:43 AM PDT by maquiladora
MOSCOW (AP) — A news agency says the Russian navy has deployed ships to blockade Georgia's Black Sea coast.
The Interfax news agency says the Moskva missile cruiser and other Russian Black Sea Fleet ships have been deployed to Georgia's coast to prevent any weapons supplies.
A Russian navy spokesman refused to comment on the report Sunday.
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Putin is trying to reassemble the USSR by force.
Someone here in FR (can't remember who) said that if the Russian military attacked Gori, they were going to overrun the whole of Georgia. Gori is a strategic lynch pin.
We had better take those 2000 Georgian soldiers to the US to start the Georgian Army in Exile. This could very well be the next Big War.
And the EU is going to get hit hard.
Jim Rob lifted the ban on AP, you can excerpt articles from them now.
That's a good point. Russia has certainly been preparing for this, and I recall that the Russians did say, when we accepted Kosovo's independence, that this would be a precedent that would be applicable to other situations, including South Ossetia. However, the initial provocation seems actually to have come from Georgia (if reports are to be believed, which is not necessarily the case). Or maybe it was simply that a situation which was apparently not that uncommon - rival villages hurling a few rockets at each other, which in turn brought the engagement of Georgia - was used as a pretext by the Russians. In other words, while they were already prepared, an ideal situation just happened to arise.
Yes, that's definitely ironic! I have a friend who was teaching English in Georgia and he says the Georgians are quite proud of Stalin, btw.
So are half of our congress and many of our mayors and governors.
I realize it's quite a different thing to deliver life services vs. weapons (also life services IMO especially now), but might they do it OR allow delivery to THEIR ports and transport through their land. I somehow don't think Pooty's going to blockade Turkey.
Not really. Take a step back and look at the bigger picture. The Russians have done away with the huge army that it had back in the Soviet days. Russia during the late 1990s and early 00s put a lot of money into creating a smaller professional armed forces not relying on huge amounts of conscripts. So in essence Russia has a large numbers of professionally trained spearhead forces including paratroops and special forces.
The Russians are using the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk. This is Russian territory.
“OK they can have Georgia, but if they come after Alabama then Look out.”
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heheheee! :^D
Here ya go, CG!
Navel Blockade isn’t authorized, time to sink some Russian ships.
Headline” Black Sea Fleet Destroyed”
now how did that happen, those Georgians ...
Think about it?
Russian ships are steam ships, it takes them 1-2 days to get out of port, how are they already there?
How did the tanks cross the border so quick?
It takes a day for the Russians to even get a tank out of the motor pool. They crossed the border in hours not days.
This is a Russian drama staged for the world.
This could conceivably put us into a direct military confrontation with the Russians if we do it using our military transports.
I was in Europe last week and there were reports in the press of activities in the Ossetia region. The Russians were concluding war games there, so much of the equipment was already there. But there was unrest. Unfortunately, I just shrugged and ignored it, because there has been unrest there for so long it’s become almost normal for it to flare up every now and then.
Maybe they could fly or drive into Turkey and cross the Turkish/Georgian border...
Russian Commander: “But we have to get bacck to port!”
Ukrainian Commander: “Well, Crimea river.”
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