‘Sinful Saakashvili’ or Hero?

An interesting suggestion from Steve Levine. The Russians have a big weakness. Bush, Obama and McCain should keep in mind Russia's Achilles Heel as they deal with Putin and Medvedev. Levine knows this area, having covered wars in Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Tajikistan as well as the Soviet-Afghan war: http://oilandglory.com/2008/08/russias-achilles-heel.html

They are both to blame. With the cyber attacks days before on Georgian internet from Russian locations, to the shelling by Ossetians, the Russians goaded Saakashvili into doing something stupid. Which he provided for them in spades. And of course, and entire Russian army and navy conveniently ready to invade the entire country at a moments notice. Hmmm. Very convenient. One question, why is it OK for Russia to subdue Chechyna (a breakaway ethnic group within their international borders), but its not OK for Georgia to do the exact same thing to South Ossetia. Would be nice if reporters asked the Russian government that one.
If I were Georgia, I would immediately recognize and support complete independence for South AND North Ossetia. Russians would never allow North Ossetia to join a free South Ossetia and now they become the bad guy occupiers trying to subdue Ossetian independence. Instant blowback and a new Chechya-like problem to deal with. It would serve them right. In the meantime, hopefully Georgians send Saakashvili packing for his stupidity.

Peace in Georgia!!! DOWN those like Putin who are always standing against human rights!
Bring Putin to International Court of Justice for genocide and ethnic cleansing of Georgians!!! Investigate his childhood, where and how he spent it, information that has been limited to everyone around the world, and the truth might come out! And someone get a psychiatrist for him! He sure needs one!!!
And S. Ossetians and Abkhaz people, wake up!!! Russian gov does not care about you! Don't forget when they gassed their own people in the theater with poor Chechen women! Russian gov will gas you as start dancing different way than they do.
And YES CAPTAINSMC I agree with you that 2/3 of population from S. Ossetia fled to South of Georgia and NOT to Russia. Probably that 1/3rd of population was even forced to go to Russia by alcoholic Russian "soldiers". Peace in Georgia!!!

"Gori in ruins"? See for yourself
http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=yrmSgErH5WU

It is strange how Georgia is receiving support from all media after attacking what can only be described as ethnic cleansing. How America is taking Georia side only makes it very clear how US policy follows Brzezenski's vision (the grand chessboard) of how United States should gain control and dominance over Eurasia. I guess it is easier to blame Russia than Georgia, as CIA is workign there and the last 4 years US has pumped money in to the Georgian army after putting in this puppet regime after the "democratic coup" that United States staged in Georgia and Ukraine. If we also take the rocket shield and Nato expantion into account how can the media portray Russia as the aggressor???

Georgia did not start this. It responded to several months of shelling of its villages. "South Ossetia" and Abkhazia ARE Georgian territories with ethnic minorities which want to secede with help from Russia. The western media didn't begin to cover this until after Georgia finally moved in to stop the separatists' from terrorizing villages in their attempt to provoke this conflict, knowing Russia would assist them. He was defending his people without help from anyone.

Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/13/2008 21:53:17
Comment: Go to a different site to post your ridiculous political blogs.
For you info - Obama has over 300 foreign relations advisers. His #1 adviser is none other than Mr Brzezenski. It is his President Carter that will be remembered for the Iran takeover of the US embassy - because we followed Brzezenski's advise. His advise also included giving weapons to Osama bin Liden and the Talibans - that ended well too, didn't it? Does Al Queda ring a bell? 9/11? Thank Obama's adviser for that.
Mr Brzezenski,as a native of Poland, whose family immigrated from Poland to Canada in 1938, had strong personal dislike in USSR/Russia.

Putin and his "siloviki" comrades control Russia, and the Georgian Prez. must have been out of his mind to send armoured columns into S. Ossetia and expecting US or [gulp!] NATO's help. NATO has proven to be a failed alliance, as you can see from its actions in Afghanistan. The Russians are re-building thier military with petro-dollars, and soon will be a real menace to former Warsaw Pact nations. They are sending a message. They are sending it to Poland and the Czech Rep. NO US MISSLE SHIELD. The ball will be in our court soon. I expect both host countries to say NO to the shield now. Expect NO help from European nations that are NATO members. These nations are Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and to a lesser extent, France. They have reneged on thier NATO commitments, and we are shorthanded. Lots of ambushes, attacks on our perimeter, probing for weakness, and a lot of firefights in small villages surrounded by hills with dense foliage. So, do not expect ANYTHING from those GUTLESS nations I mentioned above. They are led by cowards who are only interests are thier own.

People always vote with their feet ......the reports coming from the South Assetia are are that one third of the refugees went north to Russuia and two thirds to the south .....One out of two refugees fled to their friends the Russians . That is a pretty good indicator of allegiance......So the majority of the people who live in South Assetia , by voting with their feet , are saying they are Georgians .....Russian propaganda has been revealed by these facts

This was is started by Georgia, not by Russia. So it's Georgia that can stop the war as well. I think Russia will step back once they are sure that America will not come in to their territory

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.

Georgians blame Saakashvilli? What about the McCain campaign encouraging the Georgians to invade S. Ossetia? See Washington Post article...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/12/AR2008081202932.html?nav=rss_politics

McCain's top foreign policy advisor Randy Scheuneman has a serious conflict of interest here. The day Scheuneman signed a $290,000 contract to lobby for the Georgian government, he prepped McCain to speak with Saakashvilli. We don't know for sure what was said to Saakashvilli. This works out good for Schenueman any way you look at it, except when his advice to Saakashvilli was to go ahead and invade in spite of warnings from Bush and Condi not to do so. McCain benefits when he looks tough standing up to the Russian bear. Did he have a hand in creating the situation by free-lancing on foreign policy?