Russia/Georgia Situation News & Updates

Rice offering Georgia imperfect peace plan
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Russian Cossacks to join fight with brothers.
news.trendaz.com...

[edit on 15-8-2008 by Justice11]

Urgent Peace Talks In Georgia
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What you guys think about Rice unfair peace plan?

"i came here to defend my people from genocide"

www.independent.co.uk...

The Georgian Crisis and the Threat to global energy

energeopolitics.wordpress.com...

reply to post by Rentor


Yes, it was for real, the post of that video is found here:
abovetopsecret.com

Cold War mentality in a warming world:Russia does itself few favors.
Opinion is hardening against the Kremlin. For all its bluster, it is weak and vulnerable.

Rarely have Russians had such cause to celebrate their hero. One minute Vladimir Putin was in Beijing mixing with Russian athletes on the opening day of the Olympics, the next he appeared in the Caucasus, sleeves rolled up and directing a victorious counter-attack against his rival, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Fleeing refugees and wounded civilians were comforted. Generals saluted smartly as they were sent off to battle. No one was left in any doubt that Putin, rather than the absent Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, was still firmly in charge of the country.

www.theaustralian.news.com.au...

On July 11 Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov and Transport Minister Igor Levitin unveiled a comprehensive modernization program for Russian Black Sea ports during an inspection visit there. The program is ambitious in both scale and pace, with most of its goals scheduled to be attained by 2010. It is a counterpart to the program for accelerated expansion of Russia’s Baltic ports, which the Russian government also launched this year, with President Vladimir Putin taking a personal interest in both programs.


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Kim Sengupta: First war, now anarchy as Russian militias run riot
The conflict in Georgia appeared to be evolving into a vicious new phase yesterday, with killings, burning and looting by irregular militias coming in behind Russian military columns thrusting from the breakaway province of South Ossetia deep into the country.

www.independent.co.uk...

Alright, first let me caution everyone that I have absolutely no way of substantiating this. This information was told to me by someone extremely close to me and who I trust, so I believe that he or she was at least told these things, however I cannot vouch for their sources. They told me that the sources were U.S. personnel returning to Ft. Bragg from Georgia on Sunday night/early Monday. This is what they said. Again, I cannot substantiate this personally and take no responsibility for its authenticity or validity. What they said (reworded slightly for clarity by me) is in italics below.

Last week, prior to the initiation of hostilities, Georgia notified NATO and Russia that Russia’s increasing support of separatists in the two breakaway states was unacceptable and that they would move "soon" to reassert Georgian sovereignty. They then proceeded to surround Russian peacekeeper garrisons in S. Ossetia and began arresting "agitators," most of whom were holders of Russian Passports. Spatnaz was detected in both breakaway states. Spatsnaz determined that logistical support was originating from a town across the border (actually a ceasefire line established in 1992) in Georgia.

S. Osettian paramilitary forces then shelled the Georgian logistics and support emplacements in that location. Georgian units then entered both breakaway states and those states (Abkhazia and S. Ossetia) in turn asked for Russian reinforcements, citing Georgian violations of the cease fire accords which stipulated the types of armed forces (mainly police) that were permitted into the separatist areas. The Russians - having been warned (Russia says provoked) about Georgian intentions - moved light infantry and airborne artillery and calvary units into both states. Realizing they were too lightly armed, they called in tactical air support while heavier units moved south. The Georgians then lost most of their armored forces in air attacks.

The Russians then moved into Georgia from both the west and from the north to cut supply and communications. Heavy Russian units were massed to the east of the Ossetian state. They entered Georgia and appeared to be heading towards the Turkish border. Units had also started heading towards the Turkish border in the west. Russia assured the Turks that they had no intentions of entering Turkey and planned to halt their advance roughly 10 miles shy of the border via Chiaturi Gori and Dusheti, Kaspi and Gori. They also reinforced border installations facing Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Ukraine. They are fully mobilized.

U.S. military advisors were returning to North Carolina starting Sunday night. It was the view of the US military at that time, and may still be, that using U.S. military assets to return Georgian troops to their home (from Iraq) was perceived as a definite provocation by the Russians (although the word mistake was not used, so the degree of that provocation is debatable.) The anticipated objective of the Russians as assessed by the U.S. at the time was (and still may be) to:

1. Intercept Georgian troops attempting to enter territory in the breakaway states and annihilate them, and

2. turn Georgia into a huge burden on NATO rather than a forward strategic asset.

Again, I cannot substantiate this; however it would jive with what we've seen.




[edit on 8/15/2008 by AceWombat04]

Jovial Russians mount deep incursion into Georgia
Dispatch: Vladimir Putin shows West he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. But there are echoes of Balkan-style atrocities in a lawless zone near South Ossetia

www.telegraph.co.uk...

Amid promise of peace, Georgians live in terror· Russian militia accused of orgies of looting and rape
· Fleeing villagers accuse Medvedev of betrayal
The first armoured personnel carrier nudged past the top of the hill. It paused as if getting its bearings, and then set off towards Tbilisi. Behind it, an endless column of Russian military vehicles appeared on a shimmering horizon - trucks, tankers, and a beaten-up Nissan.

www.guardian.co.uk...

Refugees from world politics
TBILISI - At 6 P.M. yesterday, a dozen or so impassioned refugees from the Georgian city of Gori were protesting outside the Georgian parliament. Their protest came very close to turning violent.
www.haaretz.com...

GEORGIA CAN BE PUTIN'S AFGHANISTAN
Time to stop the hand-wringing about Russia's re-igniting the Cold War by invading Georgia. Time to start thinking of what a golden opportunity this presents.

First the reality. Russia, before, during, and after the Soviet Union was and remains a brutal imperialist dictatorship. The Soviet Union was simply the same old Czarist Russian imperialism with Marxism-Leninism as an ideological rationale. The fall of the USSR only meant the fall of the rationale.
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Briton risks his life in 1,200 mile journey into hell to rescue his family in Georgia
A British man travelled for two days in a Toyota Landcruiser with no food to rescue his stranded family from the conflict in Georgia.

Allan Howarth made a 1,200-mile journey across mountainous terrain through Azerbaijan and Georgia to rescue his Georgian wife and two children.


He repeatedly played Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon - the only tape in his car - to keep him awake during the journey.


www.mailonsunday.co.uk...

Originally posted by Justice11
Russian Cossacks to join fight with brothers.
news.trendaz.com...

[edit on 15-8-2008 by Justice11]

" A Russian soldier standing close by whispered half in disgust, half-respectfully, "They'll take them from the wounded and dead."


These 'volunteers' will only serve to inflame the situation even more.... Even the Russian military doesn't like them..

Originally posted by Justice11
GEORGIA CAN BE PUTIN'S AFGHANISTAN
Time to stop the hand-wringing about Russia's re-igniting the Cold War by invading Georgia. Time to start thinking of what a golden opportunity this presents.

First the reality. Russia, before, during, and after the Soviet Union was and remains a brutal imperialist dictatorship. The Soviet Union was simply the same old Czarist Russian imperialism with Marxism-Leninism as an ideological rationale. The fall of the USSR only meant the fall of the rationale.
www.tothepointnews.com...

LMAO not even close.. Georgia doesn't stand a chance against russia .. I think the russians have proven that over the last week or so.

At least........ Not without hands on military support from the US or other nato countries etc.. And thats just hopefully NOT going to happen. The result of that happening would be WW3.



[edit on 15-8-2008 by wolfmanjack]

BREAKING - SKY TV - Russian NATO Envoy: U.S. missile shield deal with Poland shows system directed against Russia.

Thanks AceWombat04, that info seems to be accurate...

I'm ashamed of my government statements... (Canada) at the VERY least he should have been non-partisan, calling for the end of hostilities.... but no, he's a puppet.

Those militias should help South Ossetians and Abkhazians instead of seeding trouble....

And Russia should make a pact with the Georgian army to overthrow that son-of-a-biatch so-called president of Georgia.

BREAKING - SKY TV - Russian NATO Envoy: U.S. missile shield deal with Poland shows system directed against Russia.

WELL OF COURSE!!!! Russia and a lot of analysts said it was directed at Russia. Now it will only WORSEN the relations and POINT NUCLEAR MISSILES AT EUROPE'S HEAD.

I hope it doesn't escalate further and that sane members of NATO, like Italy and Germany, stop the NATO membership of Ukraine and Georgia.

[edit on 15-8-2008 by Vitchilo]

South Ossetia: The perfect wrong war

By now, days after Georgian forces stormed the capital of south Ossetia and Russian units counter attacked across the breaking away province and beyond; a devastating war has spread across the Caucasus causing death, destruction and displacement of populations. All wars are terrible -- even the legitimate ones where country, freedom and survival at are at stake. But this war is particularly unnecessary, could have been avoided and above all is wrong; in fact I call it the perfect wrong war.

www.americanthinker.com...

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BREAKING - SKY TV - Russian General Staff: Have seized large depot of U.S.-made arms near town on Senaki, Georgia.