This will be I think my eighth entry about the Georgia/Ossetia/Russia war; not sure why I continue to follow it, since by internet standards that news is so "last week." But today I found an article in Der Spiegel suggesting that "The West" is beginning to have doubts about Saakashvili - that he started the war and lied about it (which is what I've suggested since day 1 - about the time I showed the video of Saakashvili bizarrely eating his tie)...
But now, five weeks after the end of the war in the Caucasus, the winds have shifted in America. Even Washington is beginning to suspect that Saakashvili, a friend and ally, could in fact be a gambler -- someone who triggered the bloody five-day war and then told the West bold-faced lies…
"More and more people are realizing that there are two sides in this conflict, and that Georgia was not as much a victim as a willing participant." Members of US President George W. Bush's administration, too, are reconsidering their position...
One thing was already clear to the officers at NATO headquarters in Brussels: They thought that the Georgians had started the conflict and that their actions were more calculated than pure self-defense or a response to Russian provocation…
The details that Western intelligence agencies extracted from their signal intelligence agree with NATO's assessments. According to this intelligence information, the Georgians amassed roughly 12,000 troops on the border with South Ossetia on the morning of Aug. 7. Seventy-five tanks and armored personnel carriers -- a third of the Georgian military's arsenal -- were assembled near Gori. Saakashvili's plan, apparently, was to advance to the Roki Tunnel in a 15-hour blitzkrieg and close the eye of the needle between the northern and southern Caucasus regions, effectively cutting off South Ossetia from Russia...
Saaksashvili (The US puppet) has year in year out lied to the west about Russia. That is the only reason the US put him there. He is a disgrace for the Georgian people. He ruined their country by treating the Abkhaz and Ossetian people like animals since 2004. He made Georgia become an ethnic nationalistic state in stead of a Democracy. Never ever should he sit on the presidents chair. Never ever should Georgia go into NATO and the communistic EU with him in the chair. Russia should treat him like the US treated Sadam. Russia should have invaded Georgia and taken controll of Tbilisi US style and put a Russian friendly president there. That's the only way peace can be achieved in the Caucasus.
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I'm not really well enough informed to comment on the article itself. Just the video of Saaksashvili eating his tie in a moment of stress disturbed me. If an American presidential nominee did that we'd axe him fast. It's certainly possible that Saaksashvili has lied to the west, and even that sebzar, the previous commenter is correct about what he has done to Georgia.
ReplyDeleteBut what I must take exception to is Sebzar's opinion that Russia should have replaced him with a pro-Russian president. That smacks of imperialism and a return to the bad old days of the CCCP. Communism failed and while Putin's desire to elevate his country to former "superpower" status is understandable, forcibly conquering your neighbors isn't the way to go about it.
But don't you see you're walking right into the logical argument posed by Sebzar (and Putin) - that Saddam Hussein was mistreating and killing his neighbors and his own people, and that even though he was no threat to the U.S., the Bush administration forcibly (and preemptively) removed him from power, thereby setting a precedent for how future disagreements in international diplomcy should be managed.
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