I told ya... i have to do a lot of reading before reaching a conclusion. I’m not done yet. lol
My gut feel is they should have told Russia to get out and for Georgia to knock it off. South Ossetia has been basically independent since 1993. Some 90% of the population are Russian citizens. Short of killing them all, I doubt there will be much ‘love’ from that region—so they shouldn’t be storming in there demanding that they “unite.”
As far as I can tell, the critical pipeline route does *not* go through So. Ossetia. If the pipeline is to be preserved without a major war with Russia, perhaps they should just let Ossetia be. Which begs a big question for me. What prompted this squirmish now? Why did Saakashvili take the actions he did that appear to have ignited the whole affair?
Like I said—I’m not done reading, but Saakashvili’s past actions and associations don’t exactly endear me the man. At best, this would be like supporting our great “ally”, Stalin against Hitler. ;-)
Only because Russian went in and handed out passports right and left to them like candy. Duh.
The Russkies planned this weeks ago, anyone can see that the amount of equipment moved in could not be moved that quickly. And, then they got separatists to provoke the Georgians into the initial assault.
Says who? It is a part of Georgia and has never been recognized as a sovereign country. Do your homework.
For the same reasons that Israel goes in and pops the palis a few times after they keep provoking them.
I’m not convinced you’re wrong here. I will be reading up more myself.
It’s my understanding that in recent weeks the two break away provinces, had been lobing shells into Georgia.
That may be an false report. At this point I don’t know.