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And Russia is afraid of NATO? Why? It has now proven itself to be a worthless organization that exists to do nothing but standardize military regulations, promote common defense markets and hardware, and generate bureaucracy. It has done nothing to help this country who, in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods on earth, stuck its neck out for us. Shame on NATO. Shame on my own country, the USA. Shame. What a sad day this is.

@Oliver

I agree in theory, but insofar as Ivan is concerned, he has invaded every country on his border, and has a different conception of such nuanced international legal terms as “citizenship,” “nation,” “offensive forces,” and “treaty.” Don’t suppose Daghestan and Chechnya have received the same options for statehood as South Ossetia or Abkhazia “should.” These are merely Russian settlements from the fascist Soviet policies on race.

Very unfortunately, Georgia is not yet a part of NATO, and the US and her shamefully cowardly European allies are in no mood for WWI-style diplomacy. The question to be asked here is: where is Georgia to turn, is she cannot turn to the West?

Were it not for the absurd world energy policy promoted by the United States, and enjoyed by the rest of the world, the axis of rogue states, embodied by OPEC-nations and the neo Soviet Union—embassadors and protectors of every dictatorship on the earth—would have no means to engage in such brash fascism (as we also observe from the Arab-supported arabized Sudanese government).

This is an embarrassment to the United States and Germany, but more so to those who believed that Russia’s government was anything more than a KGB-run neo-Soviet Union. The Soviets have transplanted local peoples with their own throughout the Soviet-occupied sphere, including, but not limited to, Prussia, Poland-Lithuania, Belarus, the Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Turkestan, and Moldova. Having failed to fully settle Georgia, the fascists have mailed out passports to separatists, who themselves have as their prime minister a Russian settler.

This continued displacement of decent peoples from Europe by the Soviets is disgusting. Had the US taken the advice of Patton in 1945, there would be no EU rebuilding in Breslau, Posen, Danzig, Koenigsberg, Allenstein, and the like, nor in the Polish holdings of Minsk, Lviv, Chirnivtsi, etc., nor anywhere in Austria-Hungary. Had the Europeans any sense or decency, they would support the US against barbarians.

Shockingly, the only ones acting beyond expectation in this circumstance, are the French, who are at least not supporting the Soviets. The US must begin as a strategic hedge against the communists, to move its bases eastwards, and forget this absurd idea of Turkish EU membership, but rather initiate a policy Turkestan unification.

The only one talking about Israel here is you, Reyes. Get with the program.

Georgia deployed 2,000 troops to Iraq to help the U.S. That’s where the majority of her support was.

Besides, your logic is faulty Oliver. Since most European countries in NATO haven’t deployed troops to Afghanistan, are you saying you would do nothing for them if they got attacked? You’re just building strawmen.

Georgia has stuck it head out for itself and everyone else as an independent democratic nation with the right to have free elections and less corruption, regardless of the orthogonality of such to Russian policy.

I was lucky to see the President Traian Basescu of Romanian give a lecture before a relatively small audience, in which he (without notes) discussed the need to internationalize the Black Sea, which is presently Russian territorial water. In this case, Basescu—who was impeached by the remaining corrupt Sovietized political bloc in Romania, but reinstated by a plebiscite—was seeking to control a seemingly endless flow of heroin and other drugs, weapons, and sexual slaves through the Black Sea corridor, another aspect of Russian policy.

Not only must the Black Sea be wrested from the Russian mafia, but Turkestan must me pursued to hedge Russian influence in the oil and gas markets, as well as to serve as a bulwark against further Russian expansionism and malfeasance.

Didn’t the Georgians start the war?

I feel bad for Georgia, but there is little the US can, or should, do. The 2,000 soldiers in Iraq was appreciated and the US has helped with training and aid and worked to integrate Georgia with the West. But it was always going to be decades long process.

We should help Georgia as much as we can, but Georgia can’t seriously expect direct military intervention by the US against Russia. Starting World War III would be insane beyond belief.

We should step up economic, military, and political links with Georgia (once the dust settles) and the other former Soviet satellites like Ukraine. Ukraine is the big prize being fought over, keeping her free and out of Russian hands should be the strategic goal.

I am afraid I have to remind you that Iraq is not a NATO operation. To the US that might not matter. To the rest of NATO it does matter.

You obviously didn’t finish reading my first reply to you, or else you would not have answered so incoherently.

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