[Recovering Ex-hippie]

thanks for this great thread...Unfortunately, many people on Freeper and in general...many of them die hard conservatives and anti communists have bought the initial Kremlin talking points.Just unbelievable.

[xkaydet65]

Given the amount of military power employed, the geographic setting, and the need to prepare a good cover story three to four months sounds spot on. Ample time to plan and deploy.

[SumProVita]

I agree. This is good analysis.

[McGruff]

Sounds like what I've read.

In the end, the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, responded to a series of shooting incidents and roadside bombs with a full-scale assault to recapture the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali.

Not a smart move. Why not wait till the Russians had gone home from their War Games. Also why didn't they bomb the tunnel from Russia to South Ossetia.

One thing I don't see here is the timeline of the US forces training with the Georgians. From what I've been able to find out we had just left Georgia.

[elhombrelibre]

Georgian invasion planned for four months ping.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[airborne]

And it caught our intelligence agencies by surprise?

[rjp2005]

Thank you very much for posting this. I’ve been looking for something like this for days!

Could someone send a link to this article over the the DU? They’re stuck in la-la land listening to a German politician who believes it’s all Georgia’s fault.

[pgkdan]

Anybody with a brain knew that the Russians were lying about the reasons for this brutal series of war crimes they’ve committed. Anyone could see that there was a great deal of planning and staging required to pull this off in a day the way they did. I was and continue to be flabbergasted at how many Freepres showed up here as apologists for the Russians.

[mikey_hates_everything]

And of course Kosovo’s declaration of independence on February 18th and our quick recognition of it before the Russians and Serbs could deal with it had absolutely nothing to do with Georgia. /s

[Bender2]

bump for later read

[VOA]

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[VOA]

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[Uri’el-2012]

Since when do you have one of the combatants become "peacekeepers" ?

Who allowed tne Russians to be "peacekeepers" in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

This region has been a powder keg for 14 years .

President Mikheil Saakashvili strongly urged the EU President Xavier
Solona to replace the Russians with other more neutral peacekeepers
months ago and was rejected.

It would seem that the EU is supporting the Russians and contributed
to this aggression.

OBTW where have State, Defense and CIA been for the past 14 years ?

You don't need Humint or spy satellites to know that you don't have a
combatant(Russia) whose leader is ex-KGB, as a"peacekeeper"

It is all about World Domination by the Russians using Oil as the weapon.

[dennisw]

bttt

[TigersEye]

“No European country said anything about it,” he said during a visit by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state. “So who invited the trouble here? Who invited this arrogance here? Who invited these innocent deaths here? It is not only those people who perpetrate them who are responsible, but also those people who failed to stop them.”

Exactly! Tail tucking appeasers (ie liberals) create more danger and cause more suffering than the warriors of the world.

[Antoninus]

Ping.