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Singularising Russia on a tit for tat analysis re Georgia is like looking at a pawn instead of the chessboard: It is about USA sponsoring NGOs to interfere in and destabilise Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Russia and subvert their sovereignty by supporting local Quislings with money and slick media operations (USD48m funds Georgias Rose Revolution and Ukraines Orange Revolution), turning these countries against Russia in various fora, (and dragooning them into US adventures in Iraq), buying leaders like Azerbaijans Hediar Aliev with bribes arising from no-bid contracts, blocking foreign electoral monitors to oversee these fraudulent elections, getting oil out of Russia on Western and not Russian terms of sale, putting missiles on Russias doorstep, and treating Russia and Russians like ****.
These actions are designed to quarantine and dismember Russia as well as to sew dissent in EU. Russia not surprisingly, does not subscribe to this programme. Neither does the EU. NATO threats to ignore Russia are empty since it has done so for 15 years.
Saakashvili was not provoked in this matter: he has a pathological hatred of Russians, as do most Georgians I have met (typically yuppies being groomed for leadership by USAID money): his incendiary rhetoric illustrates his lack of self control, underlying motives and criminal irresponsibility. He gambled irresponsibly, and that is why his countrymen languish in hell. When I was in Georgia, Georgians were nauseatingly obsequious: trying to impress me as to how *American* they were by showing me their Columbia University T Shirts (when they couldnt even tell me where Columbia was), and brandishing worthless diplomas issued by USAID for sitting in one of their democracy seminars, but all I saw were a bunch of American kiss-ass wannabees who were lapping up USAID money and loving it and looking down on their own people. They are about as American as Khinkali and Democratic as Josef Djugashvili.
Mr Saakashvili is not a Westerner, American, European, or champion of freedom. He is US installed puppet USAID groomed via a free fast-tracked Harvard diploma and CV, and whose salary until recently was paid by the US State Department. His words and actions show him to be a despotic thug, a USAID implant loathed by his own people, a media manipulator, a liar speaking with a fake American accent, and dressed up by a PR agency. He poses in front of the EU flag when addressing the media - when Georgia is not in the EU and it's not his flag. Why doesnt the press denounce this fraud?
I and many Americans may shed our blood for democracy but will be damned if we shed our blood for the likes of him. He brought this crisis upon himself and his people and shamelessly tried to drag the USA and EU into his bloodfest. He is a criminally irresponsible megalomaniac as well as a manipulative liar and would shut his yapping mouth and assume responsibility for his acts had he any decency.
As far as pointing the finger at Russia, the fact is that Georgia unleashed the artillery barrage. Russian peacekeepers are exactly that – keeping the peace - and they should bloody well stay there to prevent future bloodshed.
Russias specificity, vis a vis Europe is that it is a multiethnic state. There are 20m Russians in Ukraine, 2m in Byelorussia, 8m in Kazakhstan, and 2m in the Baltics (denied Baltic nationality and thus effectively stateless). It is natural Russia is guardian of its stranded post-Soviet Russians.
The West stupidly opened a Pandoras box in Kosovo, Russia has merely validated this precept by implementing it in Abkhazia and Ossetia, and will no doubt do so in future as half of Ukraine (east bank) seeks union with Russia and Crimea is Russian (Khruschevs gift of Crimea to Ukraine is of dubious legality).
Poland (and the fascist-revisionist Baltics) are so clouded by Russian hate they forget they are in (and have obligations to) the EU, and are instead selfishly and irresponsibly using it as a vehicle to strike at the object of its hate (thus aligning itself with the USA - whose interests lie in a fractured and weakened EU) and thus paradoxically further weakening it. Quite inconsiderate.
Just a small extra thought. USAs comical references to stolen Humvees are most likely an exercise to distract the hoi polloi from more serious issues: Judging from Mr Saakashvili Olympian street sprint in Tbilisi, where he abandoned the French Foreign Minister (his official guest), to his fate, I'll wager that the heroic Georgian soldiers, in their haste to flee from the hostilities they initiated, forgot to wipe out the hard disks of all those US supplied computer systems with defence plans, doctrines, and operational procedures bringing Georgia up to NATO standards. There must be some happy faces in the Russian Military Staff as well as red faces in Foggy Bottom.
Always make sure the kid can pass his driver's license and hold his booze before giving him the car keys.
excellent article in the Guardian.
