Am I missing something here?
Isn’t there an important oil pipeline or two through Georgia?
Which supply America, among other oil hungry nations?
And America has provided military support to Georgia?
If the positions were reversed, how would America react to Russia training Canada’s military forces while Canada had oil pipelines crossing it for Russia’s benefit, and Russian sponsored and aligned Canada had launched a military attack on one of its provinces on America’s border which wanted to unite with America?
I think what is happening in Ossetia is appalling and should be stopped immediately because people are being dispossessed and hurt and killed, but politicians in warring nations and their sponsors never care about that so the reality is that Russia’s actions should be judged by the conduct expected of a comparable nation in a similar position. In which case America and China and India would all act in exactly the same way.
It’s got bugger all to do with who’s morally right or who started it and everything to do with what is in the interests of the nations involved, and who has the most military and political power to get their way.
Putin and Bush couldn’t give a shit who gets shot, as long as it’s not them. This is a pity because if the clowns at the top took the same risks they send their soldiers off to face they’d take a different attitude. Well, Bush, at least, the draft dodging prick who’s currently lost over 4,000 lives of other Americans on an idiotic adventure in Iraq, about oil.
Ossetia is in part about oil, yet again, as well as big power politics and, among other things, Russia letting America know that Russia still has the military power and will to act as it always has in the past, so don’t site an American missile defence shield in middle Europe or maybe Russia will advance there, too, because there’s still life in the old dog.
