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The US and the Russian-Georgian conflict

Posted by seumasach on August 13, 2008

 

Yousef Fernandez 

Press TV

10th August, 2008

 

Tensions between the former Soviet republic of Georgia and Russia erupted into full-scale war on 7 August, leaving thousands of civilians dead and turning dozens of thousands more into refugees. 

The conflict in South Ossetia has great strategic importance because it involves one of the United States’ staunch allies and Russia, a re-emerging superpower with vast energy reserves that is showing growing eagerness to defend its interests on the international stage.

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Brzezinski’s Georgia Puppets Attack Russia – WWIII In Sight

Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2008

 

Webster Tarpley
Rense.com
11th August, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC — Clearly playing the role of the aggressor, the NATO puppet regime of Mikhail Saakashvili has carried out a midnight sneak attack against Russian peacekeepers in the province of South Ossetia. Those peacekeepers have been there for 15 years under an agreement with Georgia. Saakashvili is a protégé and creature of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the foreign policy boss of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. As is explained in my book Obama- The Postmodern Coup: The Making of a Manchurian Candidate, Saakashvili was brought to power in 2003-2004 by a people power coup or CIA color revolution, directed by the Brzezinski clan and financed by George Soros, one of Obama’s key financial backers. In a very real sense, it is the Obama campaign which has attacked Russia in South Ossetia.
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Plucky little Georgia? No, the cold war reading won’t wash

Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2008

 

It is crudely simplistic to cast Russia as the sole villain in the clashes over South Ossetia. The west would be wise to stay out

Mark Almond

The Guardian

9th August, 2008

For many people the sight of Russian tanks streaming across a border in August has uncanny echoes of Prague 1968. That cold war reflex is natural enough, but after two decades of Russian retreat from those bastions it is misleading. Not every development in the former Soviet Union is a replay of Soviet history.

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Media Disinformation: BBC distorts the News from the Georgia Region

Posted by smeddum on August 11, 2008

Media Disinformation: BBC distorts the News from the Georgia Region

Global Research, August 10, 2008
Chimes of Freedom

As usual, the BBC is twisting and distorting the news coming out of the Georgia region. We keep being told that around 1500 have been killed in Georgia, the inference being that this has resulted from Russian bombing.

Not so, the casualties are in Ossetia.

While the Ossetians claimed over 1000 dead the BBC neither reported this or any newsreel coming out of Ossetia showing the destruction caused by the Georgian shelling of the breakaway republic.

All we are getting is one-sided reports of the destruction being caused by the Russians.

Unlike News 24 which is its international news carrier, the BBC website does make some mention of Ossetian casualties:

“We left our town because the situation there is worse than anything I’ve seen in 18 years of conflict. Houses are being hit by rockets and heavy artillery, aircraft are bombing the roads.”

Since yesterday, Russia Today was reporting the complete destruction of Ossetia’s capital by Georgian shelling. Again, the destruction of the Ossetian capital was never reported by the BBC. Read the rest of this entry »

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US-Russian tensions in Caucasus erupt into war

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2008

 

Bill Van Auken

WSWS

9th August, 2008

Long-escalating tensions between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia erupted into full-scale war Friday, leaving hundreds if not thousands of civilians dead and turning thousands more into refugees, forced to flee for their lives.

The immediate focus of the fighting is the attempt by Georgia to militarily seize control of the enclave of South Ossetia, which has existed as a de facto independent entity for the past 16 years, and Russia’s armed intervention to counter this assault.

Underlying this military confrontation, however, are far broader conflicts. Feeding the bloody confrontation in South Ossetia is US imperialism’s drive to establish hegemony over the vast energy resources of Central Asia and the Caucasus through the assertion of American military power in the region. The Russian ruling elite, for its part, is seeking to reassert its grip over a region that was ruled by Moscow for two centuries before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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German Leaders Split on Placing Blame in Caucasian War

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2008

 

Deutsche-Welle

10th August

Members of Germany’s ruling coalition have alternately blamed Russia and Georgia for the current conflict. A German expert says they should focus on their potential as mediators — and not rely on US involvement.

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Is Tskhinvali the centre of the world?

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2008

(John Laughland, Director of Studies at the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, for RIA Novosti)

RIA Novosti

7th August, 2008

Sir Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) – Reader in Geography at the University of Oxford, Director of the London School of Economics and long-serving Member of Parliament – is usually credited with being the founder of political geography. Deeply imbued with very British ideas about the need to maintain the balance of power on land to preserve hegemony at sea, Mackinder famously argued in 1904 that Eurasia was the geographical pivot of world history, and that control over Eastern Europe would lead to control of it and therefore of the whole world.

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Georgia Attacks South Ossetia, Russia entering with tanks

Posted by alfied on August 8, 2008

One hundred fifty Russian tanks, armored personnel carriers and other vehicles have entered South Ossetia

Georgia pounded the capital of its breakaway South Ossetia province with heavy weapons on Thursday after a ceasefire broke down within hours and separatists said they were under siege.

President Mikhail Saakashvili praised a joint military training program involving more than 1,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers at a former Soviet base Monday, amid heightened tensions with Moscow.

Georgia has about 2,000 troops in Iraq — making it the third largest contributor to coalition forces after the U.S. and Britain

The U.S. soldiers, Marines and airmen arrived in Tbilisi in mid-July to teach combat skills to Georgian soldiers, as well as 30 troops from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine. The program, called Exercise Immediate Response 2008

In January, Georgian defense officials began to phase out use of the Russian-designed Kalashnikov rifle and introduce the American M-16. Georgian troops were training mostly with American weapons on two gunnery ranges Friday. Many NATO countries use the M-16. Read the rest of this entry »

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Russia says threat of war between Georgia, South Ossetia real

Posted by seumasach on August 3, 2008

 

See also: Georgia, Washington and Moscow: a Nuclear Geopolitical Poker Game

MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) – The threat of war between Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia is becoming increasingly real, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

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