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Daes -> RE: Georgian president's Russia claims raise eyebrows .WTF is this about? (8/15/2008 12:22:03 PM)
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Saakashvili was an idiot for attacking South Ossetia in the first place, killing civilians and even peacekeepers that had been in the territories for fifteen years or so. Perhaps he did not expect Russia to retaliate during the Olympics. Its also hard for me to believe that he would do this without some sort of prior approval.
Do I think Russia overreacted? Yes. But I do believe they had a Right to respond. (This seems like a good example, given the population of mexicans, us citizens as well as immigrants, in cali) If per se, Southern California wanted independence from the United States, and the United States made an attack in Socal, could you really blame Mexico for coming in to ensure its the safety of (the term being relatively flexible here) "its" people? California would become divided in the same ways that Georgia is now.
You have these two territories that want to be recognized as independent states and seem to be happy to have Russia's protection.
Right now we have the whole "He said/She said bullshit" going on, and Saakashvili looks much more suspicious to me. Russia claims Georgia was attempting genocide through ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia, they had already killed 2,000 people. Georgia files a similar suit right after.
You can argue that Russia's occupation right now is "wrong" but its not hard to see where theyre coming from, either.
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