Russia/Georgia Situation News & Updates

The latest BBC headline is that "fighting worsens"...

I have to agree tho, I think this will trail off quite quickly. Georgia knows it will have to leave with its tail tucked between its legs. The only danger I can see is if they try and bait Russia into invading Georgia-proper in order to seriously escalate the situation. I think Russia has more sense than that.

reply to post by Digital_Reality


yep the article is from Reuters , but mine is in portuguese.

reply to post by ZeroKnowledge


I think you make a good point but remember now, that is ancient history. (figuratively speaking)
Georgia has attacked Russian military personnel. The gloves are off.

To the Russians, the Caucasus is just one, big cesspool of nationalistic extremism waiting to boil over and take off more chunks of Russia with it.
Moscow isn't going to allow another Chechnya to take place here.

Regardless of whether or not the Ossetians support Russia's actions, Georgia is actively trying to undermine the integrity of a Russian republic.
They can't afford to look incompetent after Chechnya, especially such a popular man like Putin.

The Georgians just handed their ass to Russia on a silver platter...

reply to post by dracodie


E qual é o problema de ser em Português?

(As English is the official language of ATS, here is the translation)
And what's the problem of being in Portuguese?

Hey people.

I fell asleep before after staying up since this thing broke around 5am GMT. So let's face facts, there is basically no way back from here now. Both sides have lost numerous soldiers, propaganda is running riot i.e ethnic cleansing, shooting down of 5 planes etc. Now I don't know if what they are saying is true, but something is damn sure fishy.

I heard on BBC News channel before that Georgia wanted a ceasefire, if they did why would they pull out 1000 troops from Iraq so quick?? I don't think this thing will be over within a few days, it's going to get alot worse before it gets any better... a damn lot worse.

reply to post by ArMaP


ROFL , i didnt looked at your location .
É bom ver aqui um portugues

Its good to see a portuguese here

[edit on 8-8-2008 by dracodie]

I think it might be time to remove the dust over "When the *$/% hits the fan.doc" and get prepared for the worse.

[edit on 8-8-2008 by sc4venger]

Just got back to work from lunch and tried to find this on CNN, FOX, and MSNBC, all I could find was coverage of John Edwards' stray baby. Is this still going on or have things settled down?

Here is a link to some pictures someone posted in another forum. The people in some of those pictures look scared as hell. I know I would be.
Link

Rumors of war...

One at a time, they're all taking place...

Originally posted by Rook1545
Just got back to work from lunch and tried to find this on CNN, FOX, and MSNBC, all I could find was coverage of John Edwards' stray baby. Is this still going on or have things settled down?

Sky News is reporting that "Fighting Rages in South Ossetia"

news.sky.com... 15073456?lpos=World%2BNews_0&lid=ARTICLE_15073456_Heavy%2BFighting%2BIn%2BSouth%2BOssetia%2BAs%2BRussia%2BMoves%2BInto%2BBreakaway%2BProvince%2BTo%2BT ake%2BOn%2BGeorgia

Sorry about the length of the link guys, I don't know how to do that fancy linkage yet where you write down what you want the link to say lol

reply to post by Rook1545


Yeah its still going on. They have not issued a cease fire on account of John Edwards admitting he cheated.

reply to post by RenegadePsycho


I read that one earlier, I haven't seen anything new for a few hours. It would be nice get some fresh news instead of all of us sitting here stewing wonder what is going on and speculating.

Originally posted by Digital_Reality
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Yeah its still going on. They have not issued a cease fire on account of John Edwards admitting he cheated.

haha!! Genius!! I don't know who John Edwards is nor care that he fathered a love child.... I care bout the friggin' knocking on WW3's door... I wonder if the doomsday clock will be moved any further along to midnight if this thing gets any worse?

Originally posted by Digital_Reality
reply to post by Rook1545

 

Yeah its still going on. They have not issued a cease fire on account of John Edwards admitting he cheated.

Damn, and I figured that since it was big news in the US and a possible war didn't merit airtime, that things had come to a standstill and the top generals over there were playing SceneIt to decide the winner.

reply to post by The Godfather of Conspira


I totally agree with you that Georgians made a huuge mistake , and Russia will ensure that NATO and Georgia will not be used in the same sentence for long time.
As for ancient history - i think that we are running in a spiral, so to speak. There a different times, different conditions, technologies and a lot of stuff. But our basic attitude is the same. Principles of human society and politics - which are nothing more then management and coexistence of different societies - are the same. So to disregard history is to close eyes on a lot of things that will happen. I hope there was some sense in that.

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Link corrected with the help of TinyURL.

Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by RenegadePsycho

 

Link corrected with the help of TinyURL.

Thanks. A technical comment -- you don't need tinyURL -- just use the URL tag with a symbolic name as the ahnchor, you can have as long a URL as you want.

As Georgia is a break away state from Russia(or the USSR) you would think they would be more sympathetic with South Ossetia wanting to break away from them.(Not saying they are liking it.)
After all are Georgia not now democratic.
Unless Georgia's buttons are beening pushed else where(can't think were!)
This is getting worring and I hope peace brakes out before it gets any bigger.

Let's face it... Russia is fortifying it's position for the Iranian conflict.