Since Georgia fired the first shot, and would surely never start a war with Russia unless it had been assured it had the backing of a larger power, the role of the US in this cannot be ignored.
The statements from Bush the Lesser are rather conspicuous - especially since the Georgian forces were trained and enabled by the US and Israel - since he never issues such statements when Israel attacks the Palestinians, but when Russia responds to aggression by US-backed forces, suddenly he finds the words "disproportionate response" easy to utter.
So what is the motive here?
Is this simply the Neo-Cons further provoking Russia? Is this about the pipelines from the Caspian, that either Bush hopes to seize, or disable in order to make his new pipelines in Afghanistan more viable?
Or, as two more carrier groups head for the Straits of Hormuz, is this about tying up Russian forces while the US and Israel gear up for an illegal strike on Iran, in order to limit its response to their aggression?
Source JordanThornton
Showing posts with label South Ossetia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Ossetia. Show all posts
Monday, August 11, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Russia's involvement in the conflict. South Ossetia
"Russia's involvement in the conflict is indeed completely legal and actually mandatory according to international agreements between Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia.
I suppose this may indeed come as a surprise to many of you. In accordance with international agreements, including the agreement of 1999 between Georgia and South Ossetia's separatists, Russia does not only execute peacemaking functions, but is obliged, in case one party breaks the cease-fire agreement, to defend the other party, which is exactly what we are doing in case with South Ossetia. What I find really striking is that this piece of information gets censored in Western 'free' media and is never reported.
Another point I would like to make is about the right of some nations such as Georgia to exert their right to be independent but others like Ossetia to be deprived of it. In the former USSR, some nations had the status of 'republics' and in legal terms were equal to Russia (e.g. Georgia, Ukraine, etc.). However, others such as North Ossetia and South Ossetia were autonomous republics within Russia and Georgia respectively. It was a system created by Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and persisted until the breakup of the Soviet Union. What bewilders me is that all the freedom and democracy loving Canadians who probably abhor Stalin use Stalin's criterion of determining which nations have a right to form independent counties and which other do not.
By the way, why are democratic leaders in North America and Western Europe covering up for crimes against humanity and possibly genocide committed by the Georgian government? Does anyone realize that in a single day about 1,400 people have died, a number that constitutes 2 % of its entire population and about 30,000 since Thursday have fled South Ossetia (roughly 45 % of the population)? "
source: georgi81
I suppose this may indeed come as a surprise to many of you. In accordance with international agreements, including the agreement of 1999 between Georgia and South Ossetia's separatists, Russia does not only execute peacemaking functions, but is obliged, in case one party breaks the cease-fire agreement, to defend the other party, which is exactly what we are doing in case with South Ossetia. What I find really striking is that this piece of information gets censored in Western 'free' media and is never reported.
Another point I would like to make is about the right of some nations such as Georgia to exert their right to be independent but others like Ossetia to be deprived of it. In the former USSR, some nations had the status of 'republics' and in legal terms were equal to Russia (e.g. Georgia, Ukraine, etc.). However, others such as North Ossetia and South Ossetia were autonomous republics within Russia and Georgia respectively. It was a system created by Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and persisted until the breakup of the Soviet Union. What bewilders me is that all the freedom and democracy loving Canadians who probably abhor Stalin use Stalin's criterion of determining which nations have a right to form independent counties and which other do not.
By the way, why are democratic leaders in North America and Western Europe covering up for crimes against humanity and possibly genocide committed by the Georgian government? Does anyone realize that in a single day about 1,400 people have died, a number that constitutes 2 % of its entire population and about 30,000 since Thursday have fled South Ossetia (roughly 45 % of the population)? "
source: georgi81
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