Rob Henderson
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Don't forget, no one else did anything either.Another lesson: The west now is as spineless as it was in the mid 30s...
Don't forget, no one else did anything either.Another lesson: The west now is as spineless as it was in the mid 30s...
Same in the 30s. And look what happened there. As Haile Selasse said after the world looke the other way during the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, "Today it is us in Ethiopia; Tomorrow it will be you in Europe."Don't forget, no one else did anything either.
And what West should do? Launch a full-scale military invasion in Russia or nuke it down? Would it be more right or better decision, and would it REALLY establish peace in the region?Another lesson: The west now is as spineless as it was in the mid 30s...
You can do whatever you want now because the US is tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan. :jump:
And what West should do? Launch a full-scale military invasion in Russia or nuke it down? Would it be more right or better decision, and would it REALLY establish peace in the region?
However, 6-point peace plan which now is being implemented in Georgia, was initiative of France. Imho the France made a best decision and did what should be done to limit and even end a conflict. And not US or NATO as such.
Agree. It is not duty of US to involve itself in every hotspot in the world. However, US quite often had tried to take a role of <world police>. But it is off-topic.Besides, the US doesn't have to, and can't, do everything.
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russian forces in Georgia will withdraw to a buffer zone by Friday evening -- two weeks after the initial invasion -- according to the deputy chief of staff of Russia's armed forces.
"By the end of the 22nd, we will pull back to the checkpoints line," Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Thursday at a daily military briefing in Moscow, according to a translation by Russia Today TV station. Russia and Georgia signed a cease-fire agreement last weekend that allows Russian forces to establish a buffer zone inside Georgia within a few kilometers of South Ossetia, a pro-Moscow breakaway republic. Russian peacekeepers have been stationed in South Ossetia for more than a decade under international agreements.
Nogovitsyn noted that only Russian armed forces can perform peacekeeping duties in the Georgia-South Ossetian conflict zone.
Russia's incursion into the former Soviet republic followed the launch of a Georgian campaign against the Russian-backed separatist territory of South Ossetia on August 7.
Russian tanks, troops and armored vehicles poured into South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian territory, Abkhazia, the following day, advancing into Georgian cities across the administrative borders with those regions.
Top Russian officials repeatedly have said their troops are pulling back in accordance with the French-brokered cease-fire. But U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that Russian forces remain in Georgian cities, and that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev "is beginning to sound like a broken record."
"First his troops are going to be out on Monday. Then his troops were going to be out on Wednesday. Now his troops are going to be out on Friday," Rice said.
"I'm beginning to wonder if the Russian president is ever going to keep his word, or can he keep his word, or what's going on there."
Washington has been pushing its allies to isolate Russia diplomatically over the incursion by suspending NATO-Russian contacts. In addition, Rice said, the world's leading industrial powers are not likely to meet with Russia as the Group of Eight in the near future.
This lefty supports action in Afghanistan. Only. And if it came to Georgia, I'd probably support that too.Negative, the Soviets are playing fart fart games because they know we aren't gonna do anything about it with so many lefties whining after combat even after we were attacked. Plus, they know we have an election in 75 (ish) days.
More like modern capitilists they can teach us a thing or two about capitilism, look at the way the set up the market paridime to suit them. Cornering the market on natural gas in Europe.Oh sure, MC = Modern Communists probably or more like it.
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