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2008-08-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia wants to redraw map of Europe in peace terms with Georgia

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-12 14:36|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 However, over half an hour after Mr Medvedev gave his ceasefire order, The Daily Telegraph saw three Russian helicopters fire nine missiles at targets 25 miles north of Tbilisi. It was not immediately clear what they were shooting at.

You know, lunatics' difference from other people is that when they smell blood it is very difficult to stop them. So you have to use surgery," President Medvedev said.

Res Ipso Loquitur

Posted by superstitiousGalitizianer 2008-08-12 14:41|| 2008-08-12 14:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Gori, the birthplace of Stalin, now appears firmly in the hands of Holy Mother Russia.

Posted by borgboy 2008-08-12 16:33|| 2008-08-12 16:33|| Front Page Top

#3 A shell landed a few feet from the massive statue of Stalin but it is untouched. Likewise the marble monument that covers the hut where he was born.

Posted by john frum 2008-08-12 16:56|| 2008-08-12 16:56|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO RUSSIA's "VICTORY" AGZ GEORGIA IS PYRRHIC.My instincets are also telling me that RUSSIA IS "HEDGING" AGZ THE DAY NUCLEAR ISLAMISM ANDOR STRONG CHINA EFFEC REDRAWS THE MAP OF ASIA AS WELL. Prob safe to also argue as per any PAN-REGION CONSEQUENCES VV GLOBAL WARMING.

Again, RUSSIA IMO fears its ability to long withstand any new destabilization and breakup of post-USSR RUSSIA, espec after Radical Islam [States + Militants-Terr groups]+ its Jihad goes full-monty NUKULAR. MUSLIM SOUTH OSSETIA [Georgia] + MUSLIM NORTH OSSETIA [Russia] = RUSS INVERSELY? KEEPING ITS ENEMIES CLOSE AND ITS FRIENDS CLOSER??? This basically leaves Russ free to focus on the looming Islamist threat to CAUCASIA, CHINA + RUSS FAR EAST [North Asia] VV PAKLAND, AFGHANISTAN, MONGOLIA + UIGHURS. RUSS FEARS NUCLEAR "YOUNG TURK" RADICAL ISLAMISM IN CENTRAL ASIA, + ITS OWN TRADITIONAL/HISTORICAL FEARS OF CHINA AS PER [modernizing]CHINESE HEGEMONIC AMBITIONS = INTER-NATION COMPETITION IN ASIA-PACIFIC.

* TOPIX > RUSSIAN MARKETS COLLAPSE ON NEWS OF SOUTH OSSETIAN CONFLICT.

HOWEVER, RUSS DEFENSIVE MILOPS AGZ RADICAL ISLAM IN CHECHNYA + OTHERS IS USING UP THE RUSS MILITARY's POST-SOVIET MIL ASSETS, MANPOWER $$$ + MATERIEL, WHICH RUSS CAN'T USE AS "HEDGE" AGZ THE US-NATO OR PAN-ASIAN COMPETITORS [read - CHINA], ETC. VV "THE GREAT GAME" OF GEOPOL.

Where MANCHU CHINA was once belabeled the "SICK MAN OF ASIA" at the turn of the 20th century = BOXER REBELLION [BTW > History Channel], RUSSIA COVERTLY FEARS BECOM THE NEW SAME AS CHIN GEOPOL MILPOL POWERS SLOWLY IMPROVES AND STRENGTHENS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-12 20:51|| 2008-08-12 20:51|| Front Page Top

#5 "Tis NOT the first time in RUSH LIMBAUGH's
"HISTOIRE" that TSARIST RUSSIA, USSR, and even Post-Cold War RUSSIA had used MILITARY AGGRESSION AS COVER FOR PERCEIVED NATIONAL/STRATEGIC WEAKNESS AND FEAR. Not the first, nor the last, for Russ + many other World States, includ the USA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-12 20:57|| 2008-08-12 20:57|| Front Page Top

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