To the citizens of the free-world, a word of caution...beware.
The policies of Russia's government are eerily reminiscent of those once employed by its former incarnation, the Soviet Union.
Its belligerent posture and meddlesome ways have only escalated the existing tensions between the separatist Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and the Georgian central government.
Clearly, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili overplayed his hand by failing to heed the U.S.' warning to not take any action against South Ossetia that Russia would almost certainly perceive as hostile; thus compelling them to take up arms in defense of the breakaway province (the majority of whose citizens own Russian passports).
2 comments:
South Ossestia and Abkhazia = Kosovo. Russia is doing the correct thing in my opinion, the USA backed the Albanian Kosovo separatists but not the SO and Abkhazian ethnic Russians?..hypocrisy at its finest.
Dino,
I'll never argue that the U.S. isn't guilty of hypocrisy.
I personally believe that President Saakashvili terribly overplayed his hand.
I hope to round out my missive on the Russia-Georgia issue by the end of this week, and I hope that you will read it in its entirety.
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