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What is hilarious in this case are the extremely clear parallels to Kosovo. Sometimes you almost have to believe in a higher power, in the way events appear that contrapoint each other so well.
I cannot condemn Russia for moving into Georgian land, and I would call a hypocrite anyone does (that includes everyone who has done so far, including Bush, Gordon Brown, the UN etc), simply because NATO, the US and the EU did the same to Serbia. Do you recall them pledging that fly-by sorties "will solely be conducted over disputed territory and to strike at armed forces, and go nowhere else"? Of course not. I can't think less of Russia for bombing infrastructure and power stations through _the entire Georgia_, and blacking out their capital either, because NATO did the exact same thing to Serbia. Serbia was going to oppress and depose in an armed way people within their own "soveregin" borders who were a) wanting autonomy and b) generally violent and trouble-making (do you think the KLA appeared from nowhere, with kind farmboys ready trained?), and they sought to do this in an extremely heavy-handed and at times genocidal way. I cannot see the Georgians taking a very different stance towards the South-Ossetians.
Russia is even in a strong position to demand or enforce the deposition of the Georgian president. Much like the West has demanded and enforced the capture or deposition of Serbian leaders, Russia can do the same. From a Russian stance, they are clearly war criminals.
And the audacity of NATO - to me, that was the dagger through the heart of anything that can, for all future time, be called "international law" - they BROKE INTERNATIONAL LAW by creating Kosovo. They broke the UN Charter, they broke treaties, and they broke the ultimate sovereignty of nations. The reason given was that "it would have been against the spirit of the law not to", which is a reason also known as inventing extrajudicial justifications. Russia can state the same thing, "we perceive it is against the natural order of the universe not to assimilate South-Ossetia", and the _moral_ weight in terms of lawbreaking and international treaties will not be any different from what the West has done.
Of course, the leftist position is as always to lie and play mind-games with words. In this case they are seeking to leverage the phenomenon of guilt and causality, by creating a causal association between _Iraq_ and Russia and hence accuring any negative moral weight of Russia's invasion to the causal lynchpin of Iraq. This is a liar's wordgame of which the Left is an extreme and often orgasmic fan. They conveniently (because with them, it's always about what is convenient) leave Kosovo out of their sentence structures when they invoke this.
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