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2004-06-13 Caucasus

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-13 00:53|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...Georgian allegations that Russia sent a military convoy of 160 trucks carrying
materiel and some 120 troops into the breakaway Republic of South Ossetia the previous day to repulse an anticipated Georgian military incursion...

*sarcasm* Oh, no, Russia will NEVER be aggressive towards its neighbours under Putin. Under Zhirinofsky perhaps but NEVER EVER under Putin, not in a hundred years. There's only some *influence* towards the former Soviet Union countries, not naked imperialistic aggression. */sarcasm*

Russia encourages separatism in three or four neighbouring countries even as it murders its own separatists by the hundred thousands.

Reminds me of Milosevic's Yugoslavia. In that case ofcourse it was in the neighbouring countries that the Serb separatists were murdering, and in Yugoslavia itself that the genocide against the Kosovars hadn't yet occured.

Now it's the opposite, where the genocide happened inside the borders of the Russian federation, but outside it it hasn't reached that point yet.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-06-13 10:40:55 AM|| 2004-06-13 10:40:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Aris - it's not America conducting these military operations, so ~~the press~~ nobody cares.

Posted by Raj 2004-06-13 10:49:37 AM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-06-13 10:49:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 In one sense, Aris is right: Just because the Russians are no longer motivated by Communism doesn't mean they ceased to be nationalistic. Regardless of who's at the helm, They'd love to sieze control of the Bosporus and get a perpetual warm water port closer to Mother Russia.

Posted by Ptah 2004-06-13 3:02:55 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-06-13 3:02:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 the europeans will have to deal with a resurgent bear within the decade...and it will be def a euro problem especially with the contemp the US has been treated by the euros they will be own thier own....

Posted by Dan 2004-06-13 3:58:44 PM|| 2004-06-13 3:58:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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