It’s amazing really. The country that’s leading the world when it comes to waging warfare, the country that has the most ignorant president in US history is struggling decyphering what the news headlines mean. Russia attacks Georgia! Does that mean Atlanta is under fire? No that’s not what it means. It means you have to go back to school if you thought that. While Americans can’t tell the difference between Eurasia and North America the American President has the audacity of critizing Russia for their act of aggression towards a foreign country.
George Bush stated in an NBC interview that he thought it was “interesting” that while the rest of the world of coming together for unity as part of the Olympic games, Russia is waging war. Is what he’s trying to say that while we’re playing sports and pretending to be joined globally that other countries aren’t supposed to create any acts of aggression? That’s ridiculous. The United States has lost all of their credibility when it comes to telling other countries what they should do.
Another thing nobody seems to keep in mind is that the West is moving closer and closer to Russia and after the Kosovo event, Russia has made it quite clear that it wouldn’t just stand by and watch as former member states are being pulled into Nato. They understand just like every other country in the world that this is a race for resources. What we as consumers see on the news, is rarely ever what’s going on underneath the surface. In reality what’s going on here is that Russia is reasserting its position in this area and will do whatever it takes to keep the West from expanding any further. The reason for this is that Georgia has a pipe line running through the area which is of extreme strategic value. To top this situation, US troops were in the middle of conducting military exercises just weeks earlier which had to be suspended due to the current attacks. Let’s put something into perspective here. Let’s imagine for a moment, that Texas declares its independence form the Federal Union. Let’s also imagine that foreign troops then participated in War Games with Texas. Don’t you think many people in this country would have a serious problem with that? That’s basically what’s going on in Georgia. We’re in their backyard, aligning ourselves with enemies of Russia. It almost makes you wonder what exactly our involvement was in this situation, as I think it’s quite a coincidence that we had troops in the country that got attacked by Russia.
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While I agree Bush is a useless, incompetent cow, I disagree with your analogy. The vast majority of countries in the world have recognized Georgian sovereignty - which would probably not have happened with your hypothetical Texas. Additionally, Georgia, in one form or another has been an independent nation/kingdom at various points in its history and did not willing become part of the Russian Empire or Soviet Union. Contrast this with the Republic of Texas, which voted to join the United States by popular referendum.
Russia had little to no right to invade Georgia proper (i.e. beyond South Ossetia), and it’s questionable that there was significant cause for them to legitimately invade any part of Sovereign Georgia (including South Ossetia). Any pretext has been set up by Russia over the last year - including granting citizenship to the population of a renegade province in another sovereign country.
Granted I am upset that Mikheil Saakashvili took Russia’s bait, but I have little doubt that if he hadn’t Russia would have eventually designed another pretext to invade. My greatest fury is at the utter lack of useful response by the Federal Government (i.e. Bush the Coward) and the European Union (i.e. The Useless Gits). We abandoned any ally which is unforgivable. We should have at least made a show of force, such as redirecting a Battle Group toward the Black Sea. What we need to do is push the Russians out of the country and throw down the gauntlet. Diplomacy is useless in dealing with Putin, as can be seen by constant Russian violations of the so called cease fire and its use of Georgian civilians as force laborers (I’d use the term slave labor). Putin means to weaken the Republic of Georgia to the point of utter collapse, and George Bush bears some responsibility by his lack of response to the situation.
Since the US Government and European Union have failed to act, it is incumbent upon the citizenry to do what the government has not. What can be done?
1. First, always complain to your Representatives and Senators. Call for any and all means to restore Georgian Sovereignty. This of course will accomplish little to nothing as many politicians are base cowards and sycophants, but you have to try.
2. Domestic Energy - I know we don’t like the topic, but it has to be aired and new sources of fuel, both conventional and alternative must be found and developed.
3. Withdraw any and all investments in Russia and Russian Firms. Call on American companies to not do business in Russia.
4. Here’s where things get a bit more direct - protest at Russian consultants and Embassies. Interfere with traffic in and out. Submit bogus requests to waste their time and energy.
5. Take down Russia websites and servers - hackers attack. Cost them as much money as possible.
6. Support Georgian resistance groups when and if the time comes.
I somewhat agree with what you say, however I think there are serious flaws in your argument, especially when it comes to the last few points. The main part you’re leaving out here is the fact that after the Cold War, the soviet union was pretty much broke and wasn’t able to go against moves of the West such as Kosovo. Putin was extremely upset, but he didn’t intervene. Now Poland is part of NATO, and coincidentally we had 1,200 US military personnel involved in military excercises right in what used to be the former Soviet Union. So where my comparison to Texas might not entirely work for you, my point here is that foreign troops are in Russia - that is the bottom line. We may look at it differently, but those are the cold, hard facts.
Putin is seeing the West come closer and closer to Russia and he doesn’t like it and guess what - they’re not broke anymore like they were in the 90’s. They put their nuclear bombers back in the air to let us know “hey we still have these, and they’re in the air”. If you ask me, we’re heading straight towards reigniting the Cold War with accusations and threats already in place.
Send forces to the Black Sea? hahahaha - we are sending forces, they’re en route - but we’re calling them “Humanitarion” resources.
Finally!! Something other than ” Stop those barbaric Russians”. Thank you kindly.
Obviously any kind of agression is going to cause a stir, i believe me i am not happy about the situation in Georgia , but i completely agree with your point, US has been trying to pretty much slap the Russians in the face by intervening and putting missiles along the Russian border. Now that the Russians did something about it, the whole worlds screams murder. Seriously HUGE double standard.
Thanks for agreeing. It seems many Americans are rather narrow minded in their world view. I mean a lot of what Politicians say on this topic may sound good, but the reality is that Russia can’t be messed with and of all countries, we’re surely in no position to make a move on them. Now we have that Ignorant Governor from Alaska saying on National Television that we should help Georgia, and as part of a NATO treaty would have to stage a military attack on Russia. I’d laugh my ass off, but it’s not funny that the governor who claims to have an idea about foreign policy because she can see Russia from Alaska? WoW. Only in America….
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