It’s clearly a game of high-stakes politics, only what are the stakes?

The thirst for oil is like sucking your mother’s tit dry. It’ll kill you too.

The Georgians, emboldened by heavy US support (Second largest receiver of aid to Israel) and with their government fighting tooth and nail to get into NATO, used the traditional Olympic truce as cover to attack people inside their own countries. Our media – ever so entwined with the government and particularly this administration – have been feeding us half truths in the name, I’m sure, of “American Foreign Interests”. But the Russians are much too straightforward to care about the Olympic truce enough to let ethnic Russians – with families just across the boarder in their country – and put their foot down. They told Georgia: “America cannot cover up your atrocities and twist our words to start a war this time. You’ve made a foolish move.”
As for Poland – all you have to do is look at our Cuban precedent. We made it clear how missiles at one’s borders should be handled.
This “european guy” is scarily right, despite his hateful tone. We must start looking harder at the minor deceptions we’re given here in our country; land of the free will not be a very proper nomenclature for America if we continue down our current path. The world can see it — when will we?

But I cannot say don’t hold out some kind of hope that we can regain control of this monster we created with our single voices, with the democratic wind strong behind our backs. We must rediscover our voices and never be quiet.

I’ll be razzed for the mere mention, but:

“We are the ones WE have been waiting for.” -Senator Barack Obama.

soviet union constitution predicted south ossetia’s independence on the exact day Soviet Union falls apart and they used that right but they wasn’t recognized by the world (US and EU), they were independent all along, they just use Georgia’s passports

bla bla bla…long story short

you may have the most stupid president ever but he’s not the one running your country, it’s always been

1.) banking cartel
2.) oil cartel
3.) military cartel

nonetheless, USA would never dare to attack Russia, you crazy morons, where the hell do you live? on mars? if they would, they would do that long time ago

russia is keeping low profile but when you piss them off, they’ll fuck you little bushmans back to stone age, no missile shield will help you and not to mention your dumbass crybaby soldiers

I’ve seen them in Iraq, first they were all like “yeah, let’s fuck ‘em up” and “nobody can beat us” but when they started to suck iraqi dicks all you could see on TV was crying soldiers “I wanna go home” and dumbass parents camping outside the White House with signs “bring my son home”

YOU STUPID FUCKS! nobody in this goddamn world likes you, take a walk in Europe, Asia and Middle-East, take a walk anywhere, nobody fucking likes you and we all pray to god everyday for a world war 3 because you never fought on your own ground, you always went somewhere else so you don’t know how it’s like to have war in your country but 90% of the world does that’s why nothing can surprise us and once bombs start falling on US ground, you’ll be running around screaming like little bitches protesting against war

i really pitty your mindless brains, worms without a though of its own, you don’t need us to destroy you my friend, you don’t need koreans, al kaida or whatever, take a look at your own country

illegal immigrants, minority becoming majority til 2042, you have teachers carrying guns in schools, you have metal detectors everywhere, you can’t move without being IDed, you can’t shit in your own backyard with “patriotic act”, you have the worst educational and medical system, inflation getting worse every day, dollar value is dropping, oil prices are increasing, you performed a GENOCIDE on native americans, you used black people as SLAVES…

just look at your own country

YOU will destroy yourselves, you won’t need anybody else to do it, you’ve been sticking your nose in other people’s problems since WW2 but nothing lasts forever, even Hitler knew that so enjoy your little pathetic lives until you can

If we weren’t’ bogged down in Iraq, we probably would be fighting Russian troops now in Georgia, well on our way to WW3.

However, I don’t think it’s fair to say Russia was OK to attack Georgia as much as they have. Yes, Georgia (a mostly Muslim country) started this by attacking Ossetia (a mostly Christian country). And at the time, Russia had peacekeepers in Ossetia protecting the people from prior Georgian attacks.

On the other hand, Russia probably had way more justification for invading Georgia than the US ever had to invade Iraq. (Not only did Iraq not have WMD, we now know that even though most world leaders and most Americans really thought they did, OUR leaders knew they didn’t.)

See the problem here? America.

wow. the media seems to have bleached our collective memories. Russia’s backing of the South Ossetians is a response to the claims of independence made by Kosovo in February, which was backed by the West. Russia sees support for Kosovo as belittling its Serbian ally (and thus damaging the Russian sphere of influence) and implicitly encouraging Tajika and Chechnyan separatists within Russia.

By attacking a country armed by the United States (yes, much of Georgia’s gear is American-made), Russia sends out a message not only to the West but to other separatists. The Georgian “provocation” was just the outlet needed to execute Putin’s foreign policy. Unfortunately, other countries dealing with separatists seem to agree with Russia; India and China also opposed Kosovar independence. Now that Russia has set such a precedent, expect India to crack down on the Assamese and China to further restrict the rights of Uighurs.