Balkan Shadows

The conflict in Georgia is nothing new. This military move by the Russians was hatched in the Kremlin long ago. They were only waiting for the most opportune time to make their move. During the Olympics , when the attention of the world was turned to the Games, was a good time to strike. Putin has been seethign in the Kremlin for years, as he saw power slipping away from him as more and more countries within the former Soviet block became friendly with the West. He had to strike before Georgia and the Ukraine became members of NATO as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are. Now the Russian Bear is on the loose to take back the errant children into the waiting arms of Mother Russia. The West cannot allow this to happen. Folks,m the Cold War is on again.

Don't look at Georgia ... look at Ukraine. Thats the biggie and if we let the Russian's move as they have, be prepared for them to command the separation of Crimea from Ukraine. Keep in mind that Crimea already has a degree of autonomy to go along with its Russian speaking Russian leaning population. What happens when Russia, upon the looming expiration of its lease on ports in Sevestopol (2017) decides it doesnt want to leave and chooses to stip up thing by claimning its sending troops into Crimea to defend its citizens. Hell, what happens if it decided to defent Russias in West Hollywood. Where's the line to be drawn? Just remember this .. scratch a Russian and your fingers will be covered in slime.

PM PUTIN: YOU ARE NO LONGER THE U.S.S.R. AND DON'T BE STUPID. JUST TWO FIGHTER JETS FROM NATO WILL CRUSHED AND PULVERIZED YOUR ARMED FORCES.

The simple fact is the US has problems with Russia far beyond the Georgia crisis. The Russians are buying up all of the crude thay can get their hands on. This is one of many reason prices are spiking. The other is a world shortage of oil outside of the Middle East. The biggest danger of war is a mis-calculation on oil supplies resulting in our economy being crippled. We now import about 70% of our oil, and this policy is becoming the Folly of a Congress that will not act on other energy sources.

Does anyone wants to play chess? Two current empires will exhaust means on stand off ???.While India and China stay aside and send their kids to school to be doctors, engineers ??? the Future???who will take bread winning over european civilization. America and Russia ??? so much alike, twins in the mirrow .
Just ordinary happen to be born in Russia girl :o)

Believe me, the last thing Russia wants is to claim back Georgia. Gergians were the worst parasites on Russian body in Soviet times, Russians don's want to feed them again. All they want is to punish this idiot Saakashvili for 2000+ dead. They will not let Gerogia function until he is in power. And they will kill him then, he does not deserve UN justice.

Maybe , just maybe , the world would be a hapier place for living without US spreading it`s way of life , so called democracy .Can America live on it`s own?Why they`ve taken a role of a ``world policeman`` . How come fuel in US is as cheap as in kuwait where they have more oil than water? Maybe tha US is a one who`s need to be reorganized or call it whatever you like, and they ,on contrary doing opposite, they trying to make whole world like them selves.

Russia are expantionists? Why did United States interfere in Ukraine and Georgia to insert puppet regimes? The US Allies are meant to fight for US expantion with foreign troops.

US used humantarian reasons to destroy Serbia and declear illegal independence for Kosovo to gain controlanother puppet state.

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 still moving deeper into 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.

Using Kosovo as an excuse,does not excuse Russias sledgehammer approach in Georgia. This said,Wesley Clark[one of the more idiotic political generals that this nation has produced,a ''first rate,second-rate man''],and Clinton, erred in the minds of both conservatives[Dana Rohrbacher and Tom Campbell],and liberals[Barney Frank], when he so quickly decided to go to war in the Balkans that he did not bother to inform Congress or the UN of his intentions. Indeed,even members of the Joint Chiefs were left in the dark. Liberals rallied to Clintons side in observing that he ''stopped genocide'',which bears veracity,as the trial of Kazadic shows,but few were paying any attention to the rage of the Russian bear in Clarks adventure,which bombed and shelled Serbian civilian targets indiscriminately,seeded the land with uranium-tipped ordinance,even took out the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade,killing several of its staff,hit bridges packed with fleeing civilians,and stupidly allowed the outlaw,al-Qaeda-trained KLA to remain armed. I warned in a piece on AOL News on Nov. 14,1999 that this would not be the end of Russian perfidy,and:

''That they will use Kosovo in a future conflict with a neighboring state is a means to justify their actions,trading brutality[in their eyes regarding the US treatment of their Serb brethren], for brutality''.

It is in times like this that I hate to be correct.