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[miltiades]

THE TIMES REPORTS "
Russia and Georgia were on the brink of war last night after Moscow responded to a Georgian offensive in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia by sending tanks, troops and war-planes across the border.

More than a thousand civilians were reported to have been killed and large parts of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, were reduced to ruins as a conflict with potentially global repercussions erupted after months of rising tension. Georgia announced last night that it was withdrawing half of its 2,000 troops from Iraq as it ordered an all-out military mobilisation.

The country is the West’s strongest ally in the region, one of the staunchest supporters of America’s War on Terror and a vital conduit for Western oil and gas supplies from Central Asia.

“We have Russian tanks moving in. We have continuous Russian bombardment,” President Saakashvili declared as he appealed for international support. “Russia is fighting a war with us in our own territory.”

The United States, the European Union and Nato appealed for an immediate end to the fighting and for the crisis to be resolved through direct talks. President Bush pledged US support for Georgia’s territorial integrity after holding talks with Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister, in Beijing where both men were attending the opening of the Olympic Games.

After a week of skirmishes with separatist militias, Georgian forces began an offensive on Thursday night to seize control of South Ossetia, which broke away in a civil war in the early 1990s and has since sought closer links with Russia.

Russia responded by sending units of its 58th Army, including tanks and hundreds of troops, into South Ossetia while its aircraft reportedly attacked military targets in Georgia itself.

Eduard Kokoity, the leader of South Ossetia’s self-styled government, said that more than 1,400 people had died in the Georgian offensive. The International Committee of the Red Cross said that hospitals were overflowing. Reporters saw trucks bringing wounded Georgian soldiers out of South Ossetia to a military hospital in Gori.

South Ossetia is little bigger than Luxembourg. but an all-out war would have global repercussions and could leave Russia with a stranglehold on Central Asia’s vast oil and gas supplies. Analysts said that Georgia’s bid for Nato membership, to be discussed at a summit in December, would be complicated greatly by continuing hostilities with Russia. If an increasingly assertive Kremlin succeeds in imposing its will on its tiny neighbour, it might be encouraged to do the same elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. ""

I wonder which side are we likely to support in Cyprus and most importantly which side will the Greek government support.
The repercussions of this conflict could have a serious impact on the entire world and one hopes that this conflict comes to an abrupt end , taking into account that America has extended a guaranty to Georgia's' territorial sovereignty . Georgia is a staunch supporter of the USA war against terror and has provided troops in Iraq.

[boomerang]

I thinik "turkey=fascist state" and the tcs are gonna side with Russia on this one Milti...After all the Russians went in to save/help their bros...
Thats whatthe Russians are saying

[miltiades]

I thinik "turkey=fascist state" and the tcs are gonna side with Russia on this one Milti...After all the Russians went in to save/help their bros...
Thats whatthe Russians are saying

The important element here is , will this conflict have wider repercussions , ie the Russians launching a full scale war on their adversary , Georgia , and the Americans honouring their guarantee to Georgia as regards territorial integrity .

[tessintrnc]

Georgia has reportedly called its entire contingent of 2000 troops back from Iraq and its Foreign Ministry claimed that Russian bombers had destroyed the Black Sea port of Poti.. This is bad news indeed...........

[Raymanoff]

Well, i think once and for all...Russia should level Georgia as an example to all other little miserable interdependent CIS wankers. Ironically, i do have close Georgian friends (my sis godmother for example)... we always been 2 very friendly nations for ages. People are running away from military mobilization since no one wants this war except for an ambitious western harward graduate political prostitute called Saakashvili. For the past 24 hours, he was LIVE on air with CNN, FOX and other media trying to cover his atrocity and blame it on Russians. Rose Revolution, elections, reforms... here u go... Democracy.

But if you compare this to Cyprus problem... it doesnt look good for Cyprus.

[Raymanoff]

territorial integrity? what territorial integrity.... Osetia was on the map way before USSR, it was never Georgia... it had some Georgin minority living there just like TCs

[Raymanoff]

contingent of 2000 troops back from Iraq

a shameless asslicking tactics by Saakashvilli, its so digusting... Georgia have a 0.0001% influence in the world and here you go, they are the third largest foreign deployment in IRAQ after US and UK. Its all been planned before...

[pantheman]

contingent of 2000 troops back from Iraq

a shameless asslicking tactics by Saakashvilli, its so digusting... Georgia have a 0.0001% influence in the world and here you go, they are the third largest foreign deployment in IRAQ after US and UK. Its all been planned before...

Ray, sounds just like the making of the Cyprus problem. American meddling and creating shit. Yes I would like to see what actions the US is gonna take now it is knee deep in debt over its fuckups in Iraq. Can it afford another confrontation? Oh, and lets not forget, they are about to bomb Iran as well I think it is another case of all mouth and no trousers here. I think people severly under estimate the capabilities of the Russians, the expression "let sleeping dogs lie" springs to mind.

The west is obsessed with not letting certain coutries develop Nuclear energy, guess what Russia already has them and it is them we need to ne square with.

Wake up world.

P.S. to Mr Putin, in the event that you may accidentally drop and nuke over Turkey, no need to apologise, you would have done the world a big favour.

[Raymanoff]

pantheman, Georgians are nice people... is not like we deal with different culture and religion, we been very close for decades... They made a bet on Sakaashvili which was a big mistake... he almost erased the true Georgian identity and tried to Americanise whole Georgia... it looks pathetic.

[olgaesplai]

yes today morning we have attacked Georgia....AFTER THEY WERE ATTACK OSETIA,around 1500 ppl were killed (and civilianse), georgians destroyed everything - clinics, buidings, schools. Osetia asked Russia to help them, because noone could.
i know georgians mass-media (by the way they blocked russian channells) accused russian of well-planning invasion etc....noone said that geogians made 1 step.
i think is a way for Saakashwili to get to NATO, for some people is possibility to make money on stock-market and weapons...
the fact - people as a witnesses of politics strategy.
P.s - Osetia never been part of Georgia, they declared their independence in 1990.