Posted on 08/22/2008 2:54:49 PM PDT by kronos77
If Russia recognises Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia then the West's backing of Kosovo's independence move this year will have played a key role, according to analysts.
Russia's upper house of parliament will meet in emergency session Monday to discuss recognising the independence of the rebel Georgian regions.
In the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi on Thursday tens of thousands of people thronged the main square urging Moscow to back the bid for independence from Tbilisi.
Western nations have repeatedly championed Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity even as Russian troops advanced to within 30 kilometres of the capital Tbilisi.
However Moscow argues that it has been protecting its nationals in peril abroad, as the United States, France and other western powers would do.
Russian leaders also cite the example of Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence from Russian ally Serbia in April and has since been recognised by the United States and 20-odd European Union nations among others.
"With the recognition of Kosovo, they opened Pandora's box," said Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia's mission to NATO.
Western officials strongly reject the Kosovo-South Ossetia parallel.
"In Kosovo there was a UN presence, there was also the issue of ethnic cleansing, there was a standstill in negotiations, no chance for a negotiated settlement all these different things came into play," one British diplomat said.
"I don't think you can draw parallels."
(Excerpt) Read more at georgiandaily.com ...
First installment. The real price tag will be when the UN steps in demanding that we hand the American South West over to Mexico on the same stupid basis as Kosovo or Ossetia.
As I assume you know it is an AFP story. They like it in Georgia because it puts the blame somewhere other than where it should be... on Saakashvili!
But for Alain De Neve, of Belgium's Center for Security and Defence Studies, Moscow and Tbilisi have made the connection even if the West doesn't want to.
Michael Savage said this very thing a few days ago.
Wait until the get a good taste of the Kosovo-Aztlan parallel.
What goes around...
I think you CAN draw parallels. Supporting the independence of Kosovo DID open Pandora's Box, IMO. It was a bad idea and nothing more than diverting attention from Clinton's sex scandals! Citing the participation of the UN, a corrupt, disgraced, and discredited organization, adds little that is supportive of the argument.
What is much more interesting is that you edited out the Western counterarguments from the original article yet made absolutely no indication in your post that your post that you had done such. Pretty dishonest, but what else would one expect from a Putin shill?
Do you understand how it works wrt to copyright infringement here at FR. Only excerpts are allowed.
He very deliberately edited out the sections that gave the pro-Western arguments. And gave no indication that he had done such - look at the original linked in the moderator’s note. And the amount he posted was well in excess of a normal excerpt length and the sections posted were not contiguous. So I don’t buy that argument.
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