It is what it is. Georgian aggression and brutal attack on South Ossetians. You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Russia did exactly what it said it would do when all this started. Medvedev said yesterday the operation was almost finished. All and all it was a very moderate response IMHO.
Bullshit. Georgia was baited into their attack on So by Russian peacekeepers taking pot shots at Georgian civilians and the SO shelling of Georgian villages. And that's the truth. You can defend the Soviets all you want as they make their move to reclaim their former slave states. It doesn't matter. Russia will fail. The world sees Russia for what it is. Too bad you can't.
Bingo. Georgia thought to surprize Russia with the swiftness and scale of their brutality, allowing international community to step in before Russia could react.
They could not have been more wrong. Now they are humiliated, will lose their territorites and NATO membership?
That “working plan” to join is Confederate money.
Mess with a bear, get the belly.
Yeah you're right. The Russians aren't shelling Gori. Right?
The facts say otherwise. Russia has been training South Ossetian rebels as terrorists for several years now. In other words, Russians are state sponsors of terrorism, just like they always have been under the days of the old Soviet Union. The Georgian "aggression" was just a response to Russian backed terrorists who were attacking Georgian property well outside the safe haven of South Ossetia into other parts of Georgia.
There is one positive outcome to all of this, however. Several people in the west, myself included, had hoped that the Russian people had genuinely changed and were willing to embrace free markets and political freedom. The loss of Georgia is unfortunate, but I suppose it is a small price to pay to rediscover a fundamental truth that we had forgotten since the Cold War:
How do you tell when a Russian is lying? His lips are moving.