Liberal, appeasing, self-disarming, peace-at-any-cost governments allow an aggressive state to mistreat an ally in the hope that this will be the end of the aggression. This same scenario lead to an otherwise unnecessary WWII.
I can understand the Georgian citizen emotions. But their government was suckered into beating back the seperatists in S Ossetia, which gave the Russians a pretext to come in, wrong as it was. It is sovereign Georgian territory.
But, the govt of Georgia didn’t act wisely, right as they were. They needed to stall until they were admitted into NATO, and this wouldn’t be happening. They need to use this to push for expedited membership into Nato, when this settles down.
Thank you. You couldn't be more right, on both counts.