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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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McCain right about Georgia!!!
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McCain seems to like fascists that Georgians don't want.
The hypocrisy of the West in Georgia and Ukraine
The dominant Western politicians and media are describing the conflict in Georgia without considering the responsibility of the US and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) for unleashing the crisis.
During the Cold War, my country Norway, a member of NATO, looked forward to a world in which both NATO and the Warsaw Pact would be shut down and replaced by an All-European Security Order.
The collapse of the Soviet system and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact made that a possibility, but instead of disbanding NATO, it then took on the role of volunteer army for US interventions in foreign countries. Contrary to repeated promises to the leaders in Moscow, NATO established military bases in country after country that had been part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact.
When Khrushchev installed missiles in Cuba, the world felt itself pushed to the brink of atomic war, and yet today, Western leaders are demanding that Russians see the installation of our missiles along their border as tokens of friendship.
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Georgian “democracy” owes more to Josef Stalin than Thomas Jefferson.
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Georgia is not only the country that gave the world Stalin and his most violent henchmen, notably Lavrenti Beria and Grigory Ordzhonokidze. It is a country whose current first lady proclaimed that her husband was a worthy inheritor of those brutes. In 2004, Sandra Roeloffs, the Dutch wife of pro-American president Mikheil Saakashvili, told a newspaper in her home country, “Georgia has produced strong leaders: Stalin, Beria, Gamsakhurdia [the post-Soviet leader], even Shevardnadze before he became addicted to power. They looked further than Georgia alone. My husband does the same. He fits in the tradition. This country needs a strong hand. It is extremely important that respect for authority returns. I think my husband is the right person to frighten people.”
...It did not take long for the political situation in the country to spiral out of control. Okruashvili’s arrest caused large demonstrations against the Saakashvili government in early November. Vast numbers of heavily armed police were deployed to crush the revolt, and the demonstrators were severely beaten. Even though TV shots of this were broadcast on CNN, Saakashvili continued to be lauded as a democrat....
... It was against this background of rising political instability and plummeting political fortunes that Mikheil Saakashvili launched his midnight onslaught on South Ossetia on Aug. 7. He evidently thought, like the Argentine generals who invaded the Falkland Islands in 1983, that a short war of national liberation would boost his flagging support. He miscalculated. **** Cheney may have flown to Tbilisi to promise again that Georgia will soon join NATO in spite of the defeat and to commit forces to restoring Georgia’s territorial integrity, but Cheney will be out of a job by next January and so his promises are not worth much. And judging by the swiftness with which political justice is executed in Georgia, Saakashvili—who has probably now caused Georgia to lose her two secessionist regions forever—may soon follow him into early retirement, or worse.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/16/georgian...
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