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Plus it’s the oldest law of warfare: have your guns in populated areas, and when the enemy responds, show the world your dead women and children.
“Right,” I said. “That goes on a lot where I usually work, in the Middle East.”
“Yes,” he said. “That’s exactly what the Russians were doing.”
PING! Thanks for posting this.
AP is really getting good at this. They can now start with lies right from the very first article. Even though the truth of how this all started is now known, MSM will never acknowledge it.
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Georgians need use that skunk gas the Israelis are using. It will clear out the Russians in minutes…like roaches they are. It may take a few days to clean up all the vomit though.
Their press was taken over by Putin for this exact purpose, and to maintain power by denying any possible opposition.
It's about time we saw the truth in print.
Great article exposing the Russkies.
BTW, have you noticed that since the Russia-Georgia conflict began, Iran has been verrryyy quiet?
There are US missiles in the Black Sea, and Nutjob knows his toy rockets are no match...
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Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia... Georgia didn't start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia. This happened before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and allegedly started the war.
This is wonderful, thanks for posting it!!
Good Article.
A lot of this information made its way in bits and pieces into western media but its nice to have it all compiled in one piece.
Vladimir Putin has long deplored the breakup of the Soviet Union, describing it as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" of the 20th century.
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“Right,” I said. “That goes on a lot where I usually work, in the Middle East.”
A fitting end to a very revealing article. Thanks for posting it.
Interviewee (I): Andrei Illarionov, former economic adviser to PutinI;
Andrei Illarionov Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity CATO Institute
I. [] speaking of substance, there is large amount of evidence attesting that the war against Georgia was being prepared for a long time, at least three years, and most intensively, at least, during last four months from April 2008, when at the frontiers along Caucasus Range about 20,000 personnel were moved forward, and approximately 1,200 units of armored vehicle were moved onto the territory of Abkhazia, before the conflict even began, in May, June July; actually speaking, a party which claims to achieve peaceful resolution of the problem does not move in an armada of tanks, which is comparable with the amount used by Soviet Union in the Battle of Kursk [] (one of the largest tank battlefields in the history of the world; happened during WWII).
The West is ideologically divided. Too many of us believe the Russian lies. We believe, in our simplistic way, that tiny Georgia provoked mighty Russia. We haven’t bothered to find out what actually happened. Here are just a few indications that Moscow planned everything in advance: (1) Last month the Russian army practiced invading a small country; (2) Russia recalled its ambassadors to Moscow for a meeting on July 15 to discuss a new foreign policy concept connected to the necessity of “defending” Russian speaking people in unnamed other countries; (3) Moscow’s South Ossetian proxy evacuated ethnic woman and children before beginning an intense bombardment of Georgian villages; (4) The South Ossetian artillery opened fire at 11 pm, while the Georgian artillery didn’t return fire until 12:30 am; (5) Russian mechanized columns were actually moving into Georgia prior to Georgia’s push into South Ossetia on 8 August ; (6) The Russians were mobilizing ships in the Black Sea weeks before the supposed “Georgian aggression”; (7) Georgian internet sites came under intensive Russian attack in advance of military operations. Georgia invasion 'planned since April'
GEORGIA CONFLICT 2008 - Day by Day Documentary website by FReeper Jeff Head
South Ossetia separatists rejects talks with Georgia
Georgia: Academics, Politicians Counter Putin's Ossetia Claims
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“Georgia didn’t start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia.”
KGB tactics are to look for an EXCUSE to invade/attack a country.
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