Comments on: “Czar” Putin declaring war in … on Europe?

By: askance

askance — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:28:37 +0000

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By: 2007, 2008 & “Britain out to Kill Putin” tale « Tony Blair

2007, 2008 & “Britain out to Kill Putin” tale « Tony Blair — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:03:45 +0000

[...] Russia – Georgia – South Ossetia – 6 Day War [...]

By: keeptonyblairforpm

keeptonyblairforpm — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:17:52 +0000

Interesting on Stalin, Margaret. He was born in Gori, in Georgia - bombed in the last few days by the Russians. I wonder if he was turning in his grave?

By: margaret walters

margaret walters — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:59:35 +0000

putin was against blair and war on iraq for us entering a sovereign state. now he’s doing same thing. hypocrisy. south ossetia maybe, but why the rest of georgia. by the way stalin was georgian not russian.

By: Stan

Stan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:59:51 +0000

I’m certainly not an apologist for Russia, but I think they have a strong case on this issue. Sometimes the wrong people can do the right thing. South Ossetia has its own culture and language, and is essentiallly part of North Ossetia, which is inside Russia and very much orientated towards Russia in a way that the South has never been orienated towards Georgia. The vast majority of South Ossetians have Russian passports and there were Russian peacekeepers in the country to maintain a cease-fire that had been agreed. In these circumstances the Georgians were crazy to launch an attack on the capital city. Did they really expect the Russians to stand by while up to 1, 500 civilians (including Russians) were being slaughtered? What would the Americans have done if a state in their back yard was slaughtering people within its disputed borders who held American passports? And it was the Georgians (not the Russians) who launched the attack on the day of the opening of the Olympics, possibly in the hope that Putin’s presence in Beijing would create time for them to achieve a quick fait accompli in South Ossetia. The Russian “invasion” was simply a response to this attack that had obviously been planned months in advance. The so-called provocations that preceded it were minor tit-for-tat skirmishes that are endemic in this part of the world and it was the barbaric Georgian response targeting the civilians of South Ossetia’s capital city that was massively disproportionate to what had gone before. The Georgians are now reaping the whirwind of what they have sown (in the hope that they would draw America into defending them) and I have no sympathy whatsoever for them.If they had been in NATO we would probably have been into World war 111 by now.