Appeasing Russia

It is difficult to understand the critics of Russia who fail to establish the connection between the West's support for the independence of Kosovo and the Russian intervention in Georgia. In 1999 NATO intervened in a strikingly similar, though much more brutal way, bombing Serbian army and civilian targets for 3 months in order to save the Albanian rebellion. The Serbian army and police had practically destroyed the Albanian guerilla whose leaders are now indicted for war crimes in the Hague, but after heavy bombing they eventually had to withdraw from Kosovo. Like Russia today, NATO paid no respect to Serbian sovereignty and used the same humanitarian reasons to justify it's action.

Supporting Kosovo's independence in February this year, western politicians kept repeating that Kosovo is a unique case that will not be used as a precedent but failed to explain what exactly makes it so unique and who will make sure it is not used as a model by any of the hundreds of ethnic disputes around the world. In one thing one must agree with Russian diplomats: after invading Serbia and Iraq, the US and Britain have little credibility left to reproach Russia for doing the same. That is of little comfort to the small countries like Georgia or Serbia, but one should expect from commentators to show some more respect to common sense.

Russias neighbours invites US troops to train their armies??? Great American journalism, United States has spend hundreds of millions to in "election donations" for color coded revolutions to gain influence to get "invited".
No matter what Russia does, they will always be a threat and enemy to the US because they are a regional power, and like every single regional power they disrupt US global dominance.

US does not use its power to expand democracy, they are using democracy as a way of expanding their own power. A Georgian president receiving 97% of votes in what can only be described as a US coup to instal a satelite state is not a "beautiful democracy"!

I especially enjoyed reading how McCain was barking threats at Germany for being too friendly with Russia. The cold war is over! Europe should support Russia on this issue

Check this out for a reality check:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1832982,00.html
I'm glad to see Gates has not lost reality as Rumsfeld did.

How is Putin a dictator, he has about 70-80% support of the nation, also confirmed by the international community. Because he opposes the illegal independece of a new puppet state Kosovo, because he critised how the Serbs were demonised and US attacked the civilian infrastructure, because he opposed the Iraq war and asks for caution about attacking Iran? Russia has not attacked a country since the end of the Soviet Union, they intervened once when their citizens were being massacered! Why is US expanding into Eurasia?

Restoring the Soviet Union? There is a difference now, Georgia and Ukraine are American satelite states after the US supported their free elections by pouring millions into the pro-American (anti-russian) parties. In Georgia the president received 97% of the votes, God bless american democracy...

The US expansion into Eurasia is the new Soviet Union. US army bases built along Russias border and the rocket shield is the new Hitler standing on Russias borders.

Send in the Marines to fight the Russians. We will show Russia who is the super duper power. I'm not joining the military. I'm just a keyboard warrior like many of you people commenting here and reporters. LOL

The method Russia seems to be using in gaining its objective of restoring the Soviet Union is to separate a piece from another country and then move in its ???piecekeepers??? to keep that piece for itself.
In conclusion, the international community should make plans for reacting to the next Russian attack on its neighbour. The present reaction is inadequate since Russian forces are staying in Georgia. The next attack will come since the invasion of Georgia is premeditated and part of a bigger plan (Robert Kagan???s Aug. 11 article in The Washington Post). There are also plenty of ???frozen conflict??? opportunities that Russia can warm up ??? Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan, Eastern Ukraine that is mainly Russian-speaking, Transdniestria in Moldova, the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad between Poland and Lithuania (access rights for example), the mainly Russian-speaking Ida-Virumaa region of Estonia.

Georgian President to McCain: "Move from Words to Deeds"


This Maniac has got to be Kidding !!

All you Pro-Georgia People, Volunteer to be a "Peace Keeper" in that Region or better still, Enlist in the Military...OK

I'll lay down Flesh, Blood, Bone and Spirit for Atlanta Ga. Augusta Ga and savanah Ga....But Sakashvilli's Georgia...

KISS MY BEHIND, WHERE THE SUN....NEVER SHINES !!!
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This Maniac Sakashvilli has got to be Kidding Me !!

Sakashvilli Attacked and Killed Many Osettians Thursday Night, without Provocation.... He Started this Invasion, keep this in mind.

Keep in Mind...



1. Russia Supplies the USA with Gas & Oil.

2. Russia has the Largest Stockpile of Nuclear Weapons on Planet Earth !!

3. Russia also has one of the Largest Militaries On Earth !!

4. Russia and China are In Agreement on Most Foreign Policies and Performed Joint Military Excercises with China in Aug. of 2007.

5. Both Russia and China Together would be a Nuclear NightMare, Noone would WIN and we'd Jeopardize our Nation for Manaical Sakashavilli & Georgia...No Way !!



No American should lay down their Flesh, Blood, Bone and Spirit, for a Man Willfully Blind in Attacking a Seperated Province with Russian Peacekeepers within Osettia

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(CNN) ??? Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday called for John McCain and other American leaders to do more for Georgia in their response to the conflict in his country.

"Yesterday, I heard Sen. McCain say, 'We are all Georgians now,'" Saakashvili said on CNN's American Morning. "Well, very nice, you know, very cheering for us to hear that, but OK, it's time to pass from this. From words to deeds."

McCain told a crowd in Pennsylvania yesterday that he had called Saakashvili to express solidarity with the people of Georgia, saying: "Today, we are all Georgians."

McCain's foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann a Long Time (Georgian Lobbyist) told reporters on the campaign plane Tuesday that McCain's remark "obviously meant a lot to Saakashvili personally, but more importantly the message it conveyed to the Georgian people in this really, time of unprecedented national emergency." Scheunemann said McCain and Saakashvili are friends who have speaking daily throughout the crisis.


But Saakashvili said action is more important than rhetoric in the face of "brutal" and "deliberate" Russian violence. He urged the United States to take the lead in installing an international peacekeeping force.

"We should realize what is at stake here for Americans," he said. "America is losing the whole region."

"What Americans should do know, first of all, clearly make known their intentions," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13/mccains-top-foreign-polic_n_118743.html

John McCain's Lobbyist Buddy Randy Scheunemann a Mccain Campaign Cronie was a ....Georgian Lobbyist for YEARS !!!

This whole Conflict has been Scripted and all for the World to.. SEE


WASHINGTON : John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

The payments raise ethical questions about the intersection of Randy Scheunemann's personal financial interests and his advice to the Republican presidential candidate who is seizing on Russian aggression in Georgia as a campaign issue.

McCain warned Russian leaders Tuesday that their assault in Georgia risks "the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world."

On April 17, a month and a half after Scheunemann stopped working for Georgia, his partner signed a $200,000 agreement with the Georgian government. The deal added to an arrangement that brought in more than $800,000 to the two-man firm from 2004 to mid-2007. For the duration of the campaign, Scheunemann is taking a leave of absence from the firm.

"Scheunemann's work as a lobbyist poses valid questions about McCain's judgment in choosing someone who _ and whose firm _ are paid to promote the interests of other nations," said New York University law professor Stephen Gillers. "So one must ask whether McCain is getting disinterested advice, at least when the issues concern those nations."

"If McCain wants advice from someone whose private interests as a once and future lobbyist may affect the objectivity of the advice, that's his choice to make."

McCain has been to Georgia three times since 1997 and "this is an issue that he has been involved with for well over a decade," said McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.

McCain's strong condemnation in recent days of Russia's military action against Georgia as "totally, absolutely unacceptable" reflects long-standing ties between McCain and hardline conservatives such as Scheunemann, an aide in the 1990s to then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.

Note: Aug-2007... Russia and China Hold Joint Military Exercises...

A Word to the Very, Very Wisest of Men & Women.

After the Olympics, Watch China's Hu Jintao and who he will Favor on this Dispute and rightly so, in this case. Keep in mind that, we are in Major Debt with China and Russia Supplies us with Gas and oil, not to mention Both Countries are Both Nuclear and Ever-Ready to Nuke !!

Russia having the..... Largest Stockpile of Nuclear Weapons !!


The Associated PressPublished: August 17, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/17/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-China-Maneuvers.php


CHEBARKUL TESTING RANGE, Russia: President Vladimir Putin said Friday he had ordered strategic bombers to resume regular long-range patrols as Russian and Chinese forces held their first joint military exercise on Russian soil ??? a show of armed muscle aimed at sending a pointed message to the United States.

The resumption of bombing patrols, which analysts say signaled a significant change for Russian military policy, comes amid a growing chill in U.S.-Russian relations, strained over Washington's criticism of Russia's democracy record, Moscow's objections to U.S. missile defense plans and differences over global crises.

Both Moscow and Beijing share a heightening distrust of what they see as the United States' oversized role and influence in global politics, and the two former Cold War rivals have forged a "strategic partnership" aimed at counterbalancing Washington's policies.

The Russian-Chinese war games, which took place near the Urals Mountain city of Chelyabinsk, coincided with Russian air force maneuvers involving 20 strategic bombers which ranged far over the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic oceans.

One of those drills, involving 11 Russian aircraft, prompted NATO member Norway to scramble F-16 fighter jets to observe and photograph the Russian planes as they flew over the Norwegian Sea.


The group of strategic bombers, early warning aircraft, fighter jets and refueling planes represented the biggest show of Russian air power in that region since the early 1990s, said Brig. Gen. Ole Asak, chief of the Norwegian Joint Air Operations Center.

"We haven't seen that kind of activity in a very long time," Asak told The Associated Press. "Not since the early 1990s. It was quite impressive to see."

In announcing the policy change, Putin said halting long-range bombers' flights after the Soviet collapse had affected Russia's security as other nations had continued such missions ??? an oblique reference to the United States.