You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Where Europe Vanishes
2008-08-12
Long, long background piece from The Atlantic, 2000, on Georgia by Robert Kaplan. Very helpful in explaining how we got to the situation we got to this week. Hat tip Orrin Judd.
Posted by:Steve White

#4  I've got to say his latest conflict has been interesting in how it brought out the passions and prejudices of Rantburg regulars.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-08-12 12:29  

#3  Andf Grom why don't you leave (Israel I recall) and move back to Russia if you agree so much with the gansters that run it nad praise their every brutal act? Hmm?

The fact that you are tucked away safely may have something do do with your mental deficiences regarding Russia and their unwarranted agression and targeting of civilians well outside of S. Osettia.

Go back for a vist you coward. Live with the criminals you praise.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-08-12 03:38  

#2  All this was when Georgia was a mafia state under the wings of the big mafia of Putin. This article is from 2000.

Its their throwing this Russian impopsed thug government off, cleaning up the gangsterism, rooting out corruption, and liberating themselves that has Russia so upset. It sets a bad example for the gangsters that they can be defied.

Grom you dunce, this is BEFORE the rose revolution. How stupid can you be?
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-08-12 03:35  

#1  No! NO! No! No! Georgia is a plucky democracy defending itself from unprovoked aggression by communist Russia led by a KGB archfiend Vlad (the impaler) Putin!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-08-12 02:36  

00:00