South Ossetia: Defense against ethnic cleansing, or invasion? (Turns out, Georgia fired missiles first. it was self defense)
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Quote:Who was justifying the Russian invasion of Georgia? Quotes please.
Originally posted by Geezer:
This is just priceless.
The usual suspects use the precedent of the Iraq war, which they have railed against long and mightily, to justify Russia invading Georgia. Not content with that massive feat of illogic, they go on to once again rail against the very same illegal Iraq war that they claim makes the Georgian war legal.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Russian Blackjacks In Venezuela End Yankee Hegemony: Chavez
http://www.spacewar.com/
by Martin Sieff
Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2008
Two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan supersonic bombers landed Wednesday night in Venezuela, where they were personally acclaimed by President Hugo Chavez as heralding the end of Yankee imperialism.
The 1,380 miles per hour Tu-160s -- NATO designation Blackjack -- flew into Liberator air base in Venezuela. Fiercely anti-American Chavez greeted them with an address on Venezuelan national television with the words "The Yankee hegemony is finished."
The U.S. Air Force and NATO took the Blackjacks very seriously and sent combat aircraft to shadow them closely in their flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
For the two Tu-160s are historic and strategic game-changers. They can carry 99,000 pounds of munitions, including Mach-2, nuclear-capable X-555 cruise missiles capable of annihilating targets 2,000 miles inland in the continental United States when fired from outside U.S. air space
Sending the beautiful gigantic aircraft -- which look remarkably like the old Concorde supersonic airliner -- to Venezuela marks a serious Russian strategic counter-move to the unprecedented concentration of U.S. and NATO warships in the Black Sea -- regarded by Russia as a private lake for 250 years since the time of the Empress Catherine the Great -- and they are also the most aggressive strategic challenge or gambit the Kremlin has laid down in the Western Hemisphere in at least a quarter of a century.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer:
This is just priceless.
The usual suspects use the precedent of the Iraq war, which they have railed against long and mightily, to justify Russia invading Georgia. Not content with that massive feat of illogic, they go on to once again rail against the very same illegal Iraq war that they claim makes the Georgian war legal.
I think we've waited long enough for this claim to be substantiated.
The usual suspects lie, in lieu of being incapable of making an argument.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Myth, Meth and the Georgian Invasion
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090831/cockburn
Kirill Benediktov, in his online book on the invasion, reports that these soldiers were equipped--so subsequent searches of bodies and prisoners of war disclosed--not only with NATO-supplied food packages but with sachets of methamphetamine and combat stress pills based on MDMA, aka the active ingredient of Ecstasy. The meth amps up soldiers to kill without mercy, and the MDMA derivative frees them of subsequent debilitating flashbacks and recurring nightmares. Official use of methamphetamine and official testing of MDMA in the US armed forces have been discussed in news stories.
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I think people have no idea how much is orchestrated behind the scenes, and how they are driven like so many bleating sheep to support this or that "movement". Their POV is constructed by a media which fabricates support or indignation. Even today, 30% think that Saddam Hussein was directly involved with 9-11.
The people who decried Iranian suppression of popular movement are the very same people who supported the Honduran military coup.
Sheesh!
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A couple comments on this necropost:
1. Moussavi resoundingly lost the election, according to everyone except our press. Even Moussavi and Israel have admitted it.
2. The US attempt to establish a beachhead in Georgia was well known, as was the ethnic cleansing in the "break away provinces." These provinces are actually sovereign nations handed to Georgia by Georgian dictator and all time villain Joseph Stalin, himself, a Georgian. This was done in the name of the War on Terror, but undoubtedly Georgia didn't want to give up any of Georgia to a US military base.
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Bit of necroposting here. Geezer and Finn were busy blasting the invasion of Russia into South Ossetia, jumping in with judgements before all (or even some) of the facts were known, imputing all of the things to Russia which we (in fact) were doing: fomenting instability, ignoring elected results etc. It has since become WIDELY KNOWN that GEORGIA ATTACKED S OSSETIA.
I was right- Geezer was wrong. Just sayin'.
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During the night of 7 to 8 August 2008, Georgia launched a large-scale military attack against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reconquer the territory.
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Georgia goes ‘North Korea’ with bombshell plan to ban main opposition parties
https://www.politico.eu/article/georgia-opposition-ban-georgian-dream-
party-election-eu-enlargement-irakli-kobakhidze/
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Meduza a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/11/16/opposition-leader-claims-abkhazia
-s-separatist-president-has-fled-to-russian-military-base-amid-protests
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Georgia: Violent clashes break out in Tbilisi as government suspends talks on joining EU
https://news.sky.com/video/georgia-violent-clashes-break-out-in-tbilis
i-as-government-suspends-talks-on-joining-eu-13262780
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