Georgia-Russian Conflict Looms

Cid_Yama · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:49 am Post subject: Georgia-Russian Conflict Looms

Russia has warned it will retaliate if Georgia uses force against its breakaway regions.

Moscow has accused Georgia of preparing to invade Abkhazia, and says it is boosting Russian forces there and in the South Ossetia region.

A statement from the Russian foreign ministry said that "a bridgehead is being prepared for the start of military operations against Abkhazia".

In response, it said, it was increasing Russian peacekeepers in both Abkhazia and Georgia's other breakaway region of South Ossetia.

Russia sees the recognition of Kosovo by western nations as precedent for recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7374546.stm
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dissident · Heavy Crude Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 421

I am sure the dirtbag western media will paint Russia as the aggressor. Contrast this to Kosovo. Apparently in the schoolyard minds of western leaders and their mouthpiece media uttering the word "special" is magic. It can convert two identical situations into polar opposites.

Any media coverage that does not address the rights of muslim Abkhazians is pure propaganda. Abkhazians are not ethnic Georgians and they had autonomous republic status in the USSR, like Kosovo had in Serbia. Like in Kosovo, there was a war between the local population and the ethnic group of the dominant republic and this conflict became frozen due to foreign intervention. Russian peacekeepers have a UN mandate to be in Abkhazia just as NATO had a mandate to be in Kosovo.

Abkhazia is not preparing for war on Georgia and did not attack it. The Georgian government is the clear aggressor in this case. The only reason it is so brave is because its US backers claim they will back them up. So the US now wants a war with Iran and a war with Russia while stuck in the Iraq quagmire. The lunatics are running the asylum.

gmin · Tar Sands Joined: Feb 05, 2006 Posts: 98

if Russia wants to beat one of the US puppies on her border, for test of strength, for deterrence to other wannabe puppies, or for her sole amusement, Georgia seems to be the best candidate.

Ta_Tyana · Coal Joined: Feb 08, 2008 Posts: 18 Location: RF

Russia has already draw together with these regions practically giving them all besides the official recognition. IMO, it won't go further if the status-quo is preserved. georgia's US backer have lost the possibility to give it the acces to the NATO, they also won't go further for the moment, as thus they break up the UNO decisions.
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Whatever it takes to make sure that the Red Army can get into the ME over land in a hurry, just in case.
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dissident · Heavy Crude Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 421

Russian forces don't need to go over Georgian territory to get to the middle east. Funny how everyone is so worried about Russia in the middle east where it has never been its whole history, while the USA is invading one country after another. Gotta keep that phantom menace alive to justify the aggression.

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Cid_Yama

Actually , Btu, your quote mearly states that Abkhazia is part of Georgia(according to the author). Are you stating because the author say it is, it is so?
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Ta_Tyana · Coal Joined: Feb 08, 2008 Posts: 18 Location: RF

Let me my two cents about about not so ancient history of these Caucasien regions. In international practice territorial conflicts between Abkhazia and South Ossetia received the status of inter-ethnic in the early 1990s, although actually deep-seated inter-ethnic strife between Tbilisi and the autonomous districts was a reality even back at the time when Georgia was a Soviet republic. As for Abkhazia, the region's population struggled to regain the statehood the region lost in 1931 when Abkhazia, initially a separate republic in the Soviet Union, was integrated on autonomy terms into the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Southern Ossetian citizens pushed for a proclamation of independence and at the same time for entry into the Russian Federation, a constituent entity of which is Northern Ossetia with inhabitants of the same ethnic group. Both internal conflicts of 1992-1993 were marked by serious military campaigns with many people killed and which were "frozen" only after peacekeeping troops with a CIS mandate stepped in.
And as for the Kosovo precendent's role in the case. Today's Moscow policy in these regions has another analogie - Taiwan (the lifting of sanctions imposed against Abkhazia and Vladimir Putin's order to work out measures to provide "objective help to the population of the unrecognized republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia, cooperating with their actual authorities", means the legalization of actually existing ties without the formal recognition of these territories).
Meanwhile, it can be said with a fair degree of probability that de jure Moscow will not take a step to declare Abkhazia and South Ossetia independent, since in this case it would forfeit the chance to appeal to international law and deny such precedence of the idea of a "self-determination" of the nation as a dangerous phenomenon for any federal state.
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