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Understanding Georgia

posted by [personal profile] rfunk at 01:55pm on 10/08/2008 under ,
If anyone else is as bewildered by the sudden Georgia-Russia war as I was, these two posts at Daily Kos may help:

"US Transporting Georgian Troops Out of Iraq to Fight Russia" (with multi-lingual maps!) discusses the political background between the US and Georgia, including their support for the Iraq war in return for the training they needed to fight Russia to win back breakaway territory.

"Georgia: oil, neocons, cold war and our credibility" discusses this conflict in the wider context of oil and history.

And after reading those, you know everything I know about this Georgia thing.

Update: Oh, I guess it's over already.
Mood:: 'curious' curious
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posted by [identity profile] the-shampoo.livejournal.com at 11:08pm on 10/08/2008
Yeah, I guess Georgia was like "hey, stop blowing up our civilians, we are no match for you so we'll take our troops out" and Russia was all like "we don't care, we're gonna blow you up anyway". Or something like that.
Or so it seemed, from all the articles I read, Russia appeared to be a big bully.
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posted by [identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com at 11:25pm on 10/08/2008
That's kinda the opposite of what I gathered. (I get the impression that the U.S. press is biased toward Georgia though.) What I got is that Georgia decided they finally had the skillz to put down their longtime-breakaway province, and then that province called in Russia to help.

There doesn't really seem to be a good guy here.
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posted by [identity profile] the-shampoo.livejournal.com at 12:40am on 11/08/2008
Yeah, obviously I don't have a "side" in this situation because I know nearly nothing about it. However, most of the things I read made it sound like Russia was bad and Georgia was good. Although, some glazed over the fact that Georgia was kind of making war on its own people first.
I don't really know what is "right". But, perhaps I've been the victim of some of the media bias against Russia. Because everything I read was all about how Russia was reacting way too strongly, and it isn't even their business or something.
Makes me think. I dunno what happened, but I hope the violence ends soon.
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posted by [identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com at 12:17pm on 11/08/2008
It certainly seems like Russia's response is disproportionate. (ack! as I was typing that I heard Bush on the radio saying the same thing!) I guess Russia wants to make sure nothing like this happens again. But yeah the way this started seems to have been forgotten.

I'd thought it was over, but I guess it was just Georgia's hopes for victory that ended. I definitely hope it ends quickly.
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