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2008-08-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

You Can Call Me Misha: How naiveté and an erratic streak may have doomed Saakashvili

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-27 11:28|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Let's see - Russia appears to have decided to annex large chunks of Georgia, but Georgia's leader is to blame because he was too naive to understand that Russia would decide to expand its territorial boundaries.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-27 12:38|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-08-27 12:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Disgusting article. The whole point of it seems to be to take another thinly veiled swipe at GWB. another one of the experts. Read Michael Totten's latest for background on this conflct.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2008-08-27 13:18|| 2008-08-27 13:18|| Front Page Top

#3 So newsweek continues to spread the Russian propaganda. How nice of them.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-27 13:45|| 2008-08-27 13:45|| Front Page Top

#4 OS: So newsweek continues to spread the Russian propaganda.

Well, the writer's name is Anna Nemtsova.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-27 13:48|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-08-27 13:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Praised for bringing relative peace and economic stability ..., he revealed a darker side in November 2007 when he claimed antigovernment protesters sanctioned by Moscow were trying to overthrow his government.

The article then goes on to detail various Russion provocations. Given the ensuing events, maybe that 'darker side' remark is unjustified. It's not paranoia if they are really out ot get you.

Posted by SteveS 2008-08-27 18:38|| 2008-08-27 18:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Compare wid REGNUM > MODERATE KOLEROV:THE NEW BIG CAUCASUS. MUTUAL CONTAINMENT WITHOUT ALIENS/OUTSIDERS. WHAT EXISTS NO MORE AND WHAT CAN YET STILL HAPPEN. Russo-Georgian Conflict, Russ-US/NATO, + the DEATH OF OLD RUSS-CENTASIA AGENDAS AND COOPERS versus BIRTH OF NEW AGENDAS AND COOPERS. IIUC/IICC, the forecasted- predicted or desired NEW [mostly ANTI-US/NATO-EU] AGENDAS + REGIONAL COOPERATIVE SECURITY ALLIANCES INFERS VENTURES BTWN RUSSIA + STRONG MUSLIM NATIONS. It is NOT clear in this artic just how potent Russ will be vv newfound Muslim allies - WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT RUSS AMBITIONS REGUIRE PRESENTLY WEAK, MOSTLY MUSLIM FORMER SSRS TO BECOME NATIONALLY/LOCALLY STRONG VV BOTH RUSS + US-NATO/EU.

* RIAN > HOW RUSSIA CLOBBERED GEORGIA BUT LOST THE WAR [agz US-NATO/EU]. Georgian War, etc. is covertly strategically about the US-led containment and weakening of its only other major Nuclear Competitor capable of militarily challenging and defeating its power.

Also from REGUM > MEDVEDEV: IFF NATO [Russia?] BREAKS UP [ceases relations wid Russ?], RUSSIA [US-NATO, World?]WILL LIVE WITH IT; + US DOVES [USN-NATO Ships]BRING TO GEORGIA TOMAHAWK LAND ATTACK CRUISE MISSLES, + NAVAL SHOW OF FORCE: 150-KM SEPARATE BWTN RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET AND NATO NAVY + MOSKVA AND IVANOVETS MISSLE BOATS [5 ea. Russ Warships]total]ANCHOR IN ABKKAZIAN TERRITORAL WATERS, + BLACK SEA FLEET STARTS TRACKING NATO GUESTS. RUSS > 1936 International Convention on Black Sea limited Ship Types, Numbers, and Order of Presence. Warships can not be greater than 45000 tonnes nor stay longer than 21 days widout rotation.

* KOMMERSANT > RUSSIA DISTURBED/UPSET US CAUCASUS PLANS [Surround Russ wid NATO-Allies in CAUCASUS, Turn Black Sea into "AMERICAN LAKE"].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-27 22:26|| 2008-08-27 22:26|| Front Page Top

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