“Don’t try and spin it. I take no sides. Both sides in the dispute have blood on their hands. Both sides hold equal blame for years of bloodshed and meddling. The dispute isn’t black and white.
If you can’t see that this was a simple Russian solution to a problem then more fool you. The Russians used the big stick to achieve their aims. They will repeat as necessary until the Georgians get the message to stay away from the annexed territories.”
Taking no sides? You clearly are stating at best moral equivalence and since what gives Russia the right to bomb and shell people throughout the sovereign nation of Georgia?
I and many here absolutely fail to see the “simple Russian solution” and no, we are not fools.
This was not about having Georgia “stay away” from its sovereign or as you call it “annexed” territories. This was a premeditated plan executed with overwhelming military force, planned and executed by Pukey himself.
Are you a Putin supporter or Russian ultra nationalist that does not respect any nation’s sovereign borders? We’d like to know more about your “Russian solution(s).”
I support nobody. As stated before the conflict is not black and white. Both sides involved in the conflict have blood on their hands.
Many people said the same thing about U.S involvement in Yugoslavia. Kosovo was the problem they say and why did the U.S. bomb targets up and around Belgrade and other Yugoslav cities? Why was is it so hard to understand that a military planner, regardless of nationality, will seek to exert pressure on an ‘enemy’ by bombing such targets?
The U.S. tried to wipe out Milosevic in an airstrike to meet their aims. If the Russians had done the same to Saakashvili it would have been exactly the same principle in their eyes and in relation to how they perceived the conflict.
If you speak to people in Yugoslavia in regards to 1999 the U.S. to them was simply carpet bombing targets inside Yugoslavia with no regards for civilian casualties. Speak to Georgians and you’ll get the same story from them in regards to Russian bombing. The fact are that military targets are sometimes in close proximity to civilian areas - a simple fact of life. Weapons go astray/malfunction and cause innocent civilian deaths.