Yeah, watched about six seconds of the rebroadcast, heard the rhetoric straight out of Pravda, and cut the TV off.

You can't arm and finance a separatist movement, park your troops on someone else's sovereign territory, turn a blind eye while said separatists lob mortars, then when they respond, claim, "They started it."

Occam's Chainsaw: Yeah, watched about six seconds of the rebroadcast, heard the rhetoric straight out of Pravda, and cut the TV off.

You can't arm and finance a separatist movement, park your troops on someone else's sovereign territory, turn a blind eye while said separatists lob mortars, then when they respond, claim, "They started it."

Can't? Or shouldn't? Because they did.

Who cares. Seriously.

Georgia shares a border with Russia. They are NEVER going to be free of Russian domination. It's a simple matter of geography. Just let it go.

And even if there ARE wheels within wheels involved with oil pipelines, etc. - seriously, what are we going to do about it? Go halfway around the world to fight Russian troops in their own back yard? While we're already fighting TWO other wars?

Just let it go. Sorry Georgia. Some sort of relationship with Russia is going to have to be part of your reality.

Occam's Chainsaw: Yeah, watched about six seconds of the rebroadcast, heard the rhetoric straight out of Pravda, and cut the TV off.

You can't arm and finance a separatist movement, park your troops on someone else's sovereign territory, turn a blind eye while said separatists lob mortars, then when they respond, claim, "They started it."

Oh really?? Because that sounds like America's modus operandi for the latter 50 years of the 20th century.

Benjamin the Rogue: Can't? Or shouldn't? Because they did.

Well, can, but don't be surprised when we reseat you on the short bus.

Luckily, the majority of the MSM, modern society, etc. will be along for the ride.

Argh2: Georgia shares a border with Russia. They are NEVER going to be free of Russian domination. It's a simple matter of geography. Just let it go. [snip!]
Sorry Georgia. Some sort of relationship with Russia is going to have to be part of your reality.

As Kissinger would say, that's Realpolitik.

Argh2: Who cares. Seriously.

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Just let it go. Sorry Georgia. Some sort of relationship with Russia is going to have to be part of your reality.

Sounds just like what happened to Poland in WWII. Turned out great, eh? I'm not saying there's an easy solution to this, but if the US wants and expects allies in its wars, we'd best act like allies too.

oregoncat: Argh2: Georgia shares a border with Russia. They are NEVER going to be free of Russian domination. It's a simple matter of geography. Just let it go. [snip!]
Sorry Georgia. Some sort of relationship with Russia is going to have to be part of your reality.

As Kissinger would say, that's Realpolitik.

I believe kissinger would actually say: "Zat iz vee realpolitik"

Poor Gorby, trying to so hard to make his countrymen forget that he was responsible for the breakup of the USSR. The law of unintended consequences, and all that...

What would the US do if China decided it was good to attack Taiwan
/same thing here folks

Shut up Gorbachev. Wingnuts need their new enemy -- as the old ones have stopped winning elections. Never mind we haven't finished the other two wars.

Seriously. This week has shed the light on the bizzaro world of conservatism Fark Independents^TM. They are only defined by their enemies, and many of them are having a serious identity crisis.

The entire neo-con intellectual base looks like a bad case of multiple personality disorder with episodic bouts of manic depression.

Argh2: And even if there ARE wheels within wheels involved with oil pipelines, etc.

The pipeline is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck.
They are a series of tubes...

Argh2: Who cares. Seriously.

Georgia shares a border with Russia. They are NEVER going to be free of Russian domination. It's a simple matter of geography. Just let it go.

And even if there ARE wheels within wheels involved with oil pipelines, etc. - seriously, what are we going to do about it? Go halfway around the world to fight Russian troops in their own back yard? While we're already fighting TWO other wars?

Just let it go. Sorry Georgia. Some sort of relationship with Russia is going to have to be part of your reality.

Besides, Georgia was just asking for it, wearing those slutty skirts, flirting openly with Sam in front of her ex, no wonder Vlad got all crazy jealous and slapped the beeyotch up and started killing the kids.

/blaming the victim
//it's what bullies do

zerkalo: Poor Gorby, trying to so hard to make his countrymen forget that he was responsible for the breakup of the USSR. The law of unintended consequences, and all that...

Uh, you're thinking of Yeltsin.