Russia to Blame?
Posted 08-12-2008 at 04:45 PM by EndGame
I've been watching the news with interest lately to monitor the developments of the Georgia/Russia conflict.
There has been some pretty strong rhetoric used by both sides, particularly by the Georgian President who has used this as a political point scoring opportunity. As a leader of his people he should be abssolutely ashamed of himself.
Firstly he allows military operations to be conducted in S. Ossetia and when it comes back to bite him on the ass, he starts accusing the Russians of genocide (something he can't verify in anyway). He stirred the hornets nest and when things got out of hand, he went crying to his big US and western allies, using words like genocide. He used the whole situation to paint Russia out as some terrible monster.
Russia should not have killed Georgian citizens or gone as far as they did, but they had every right to react I believe, and I think any other nation would react in a very similar way.
The Georgian president mentioned that the scale of the counter-attack was so large in scale it could only have been pre-planned for the Russians. Whether that is true or not, that President played right in to Russia's hands and gave them a valid reason to launch such a counter-attack. If Georgia hadn't been so reckless Russia wouldn't have had reason to attack, and if they had, they would have come off looking like the bad guys.
All the time this has been happening, the people out on the streets have been suffering and dying, and turfed out of their homes, whilst the Georgian president runs round streets for fear of being bombed with his massive entourage of bodyguards. He had nothing to fear, the Russians made clear their intention was not regime change.
It was the people, the civilians and young men of the army on the front line who lost big time in this battle. That is both the Georgian government's fault, and the Russians in my opinion.
War should never be used as a political point scoring contest. And I hate to say this, but big Dick Cheney and co. from the White House should pipe themselves down and have a word with themselves. They blew sunshine up the Georgian President's backside and gave him a false sense of security and power. That goes some way to explaining why he spent the War trying to provoke western powers into a war with Russia.
Instead of the US trying to look like "Charlie Big Potato" in this, they should have been mediating, like other nations were. Lets face it, Georgia could have been taken over, the US were never coming to the rescue. They've got too much on their plate, Iraq, Afghanistan and maybe, just maybe Iran.
The state of the world is atrocious. Global warming and related matters, pollution, energy crisis and disease. We're all from different places and cultures, but we're all built the same, and we should be pulling together, seeing the bigger picture and using our combined resources to tackle the bigger issues. I realize this is idealistic and borderline utopian, but its really the best outcome for the world. The most pointless invention in the world is the "nation". We're all like each other, we all have the same problems, some of us have it worse, and we could do so much more if each nation wasn't trying to assert it's own dominance on others.
The big political leaders should think more about their people when it comes to war. Its their people and citizens being killed, and fighting the wars. Its the people being pushed out of their houses. Its the people who are dying from starvation as a result of these wars, never the asshole politicians who start them.
It makes me sick. I'd love to see a political leader who just wanted the best for everybody. Not a difficult policy, but one with huge implications if put into practice.
Stay safe everyone, no matter where you are from, and be good to each other.
There has been some pretty strong rhetoric used by both sides, particularly by the Georgian President who has used this as a political point scoring opportunity. As a leader of his people he should be abssolutely ashamed of himself.
Firstly he allows military operations to be conducted in S. Ossetia and when it comes back to bite him on the ass, he starts accusing the Russians of genocide (something he can't verify in anyway). He stirred the hornets nest and when things got out of hand, he went crying to his big US and western allies, using words like genocide. He used the whole situation to paint Russia out as some terrible monster.
Russia should not have killed Georgian citizens or gone as far as they did, but they had every right to react I believe, and I think any other nation would react in a very similar way.
The Georgian president mentioned that the scale of the counter-attack was so large in scale it could only have been pre-planned for the Russians. Whether that is true or not, that President played right in to Russia's hands and gave them a valid reason to launch such a counter-attack. If Georgia hadn't been so reckless Russia wouldn't have had reason to attack, and if they had, they would have come off looking like the bad guys.
All the time this has been happening, the people out on the streets have been suffering and dying, and turfed out of their homes, whilst the Georgian president runs round streets for fear of being bombed with his massive entourage of bodyguards. He had nothing to fear, the Russians made clear their intention was not regime change.
It was the people, the civilians and young men of the army on the front line who lost big time in this battle. That is both the Georgian government's fault, and the Russians in my opinion.
War should never be used as a political point scoring contest. And I hate to say this, but big Dick Cheney and co. from the White House should pipe themselves down and have a word with themselves. They blew sunshine up the Georgian President's backside and gave him a false sense of security and power. That goes some way to explaining why he spent the War trying to provoke western powers into a war with Russia.
Instead of the US trying to look like "Charlie Big Potato" in this, they should have been mediating, like other nations were. Lets face it, Georgia could have been taken over, the US were never coming to the rescue. They've got too much on their plate, Iraq, Afghanistan and maybe, just maybe Iran.
The state of the world is atrocious. Global warming and related matters, pollution, energy crisis and disease. We're all from different places and cultures, but we're all built the same, and we should be pulling together, seeing the bigger picture and using our combined resources to tackle the bigger issues. I realize this is idealistic and borderline utopian, but its really the best outcome for the world. The most pointless invention in the world is the "nation". We're all like each other, we all have the same problems, some of us have it worse, and we could do so much more if each nation wasn't trying to assert it's own dominance on others.
The big political leaders should think more about their people when it comes to war. Its their people and citizens being killed, and fighting the wars. Its the people being pushed out of their houses. Its the people who are dying from starvation as a result of these wars, never the asshole politicians who start them.
It makes me sick. I'd love to see a political leader who just wanted the best for everybody. Not a difficult policy, but one with huge implications if put into practice.
Stay safe everyone, no matter where you are from, and be good to each other.
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