Ramirezzz
Senior Airman
I prefer European magazines. At least they tend to be neutral. Beside that I have my own sources in the conflict area.
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More good reads.
Read as many of the Op-Eds as possible and you probably get a good idea of what is going on.
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BTW, Russia did not bluntly strike back as you might suggest, but acted accordingly to a well ahead prepared plan – knowing about the Georgian ambitions.
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Kruska
GEORGIA REGAINS CONTROL OVER BATTLE IN KODORI - Eurasia Daily MonitorThey first tried to provoke Georgia in Ahkazia and failed;
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Yes, a "well prepared plan". I have it on good authority that Russia has been planning an invasion of Georgia for weeks, if not months. Russia has attempted (unsuccessfully) in the past to provoke Georgia into intiating hostilities so that they would have an excuse to invade Georgia. They first tried to provoke Georgia in Ahkazia and failed; so they provoked Georgia in South Ossetia (and succeeded).
Oh, here is an expert in Russia's-Georgian relations.
And what were those objectives of the russian invasion?
Had they been achieved or mother Russia's plan failed?
I believe despite what's going on between our two countries Georgians remain a very close nation to the Russians, there about 1,5 million of Georgians in Russia and about 1 million in particulary Moscow. I have some very good friends in Georgia , they are all extremly warm and good people and I dont think our different opinions would spoil our relationship much. So for the much of Russians.ramirezzz, what your opinion about hows gonna be the relationship between georgians and russians after conflict ?
I believe Russia and EU will have a very hard time to convince Georgia in executing the cease-fire agreement in the proposed form. But the compromise is possible though. But it will take time.Both sides and some "third" parties are still very affected by the events of last four days.and do you think the politicians could reach the solution for the issue of s. ossetia ?
well that depends from which point of view you see it. From Ossetian or Abkhazian that means a complete victory - I do not believe Georgia will try to retake these provinces in the nearest future. For Georgia that means a defeat and complete loss of any chance to regain control on those two regions and for Saakashvili himself it is a very personal loss because of his promises made some years ago .For Russia the outcome is rather mixed - they achieved all goals in the military operation, politically gained much prestige in the local Caukasus area. But the relationship to the US is hopeless damaged, if not destroyed , the relations between Russia and EU though aren't much affected.i have a feeling that the situation after conflict will remains the same or even worst. do you agree or disagree ?
I believe some Georgians in Moscow protested against the war. 95 % of Russians support the goverment's actions.i saw in internet pics of russians protesting in moscow against the conflict.
no , it couldn't.do you believe in soviet times this could be possible ? russia is not soviet union.
If North Ossetia will unite with the South Ossetia that means the South Ossetia is goingt to be a part of Russiaramirezzz, mitya, a question for you two:
lets pretend that today, south ossetia became independent. if south ossetia and north ossetia decided to become one independent nation(republic of ossetia), what do you think should be the reaction of puttin and the public opinion of russia ?
the funniest thing is that Ukraine for the most part doesn't want to integrate itself to the Europe. Almost 60 percent of the Ukrainans are against NATO membership.i think the problem is that europen union and the nato didnt approach enought to russia. if you straight relations with ukraine or georgia, you should also straight relations with russia, because is the strongest country in the region and the russian support and cooperation is very important.
they do it already for a long time. There're a lot of cooperative teamwork between EU and Russia on many issues.and russia needs to overcome the past and also join the europen community, maybe not as part of european union yet, but take part and participate of eropean decisions and solutions.
where is the contradiction? Nobody denies there were targets in "continental" Georgia being bombed by Russian planes.
SoD Stitch, no offence here, but the Russian - Georgian relation issue as an every Kaukasus issue is indeed a very complex one and has a long history. Someone who wants to understand what's going on needs to get through a lot of reading. For example for my part I hesitate to make any radical statements on the US-Colombian or Salvadorian relations since my knowlege here is very limited. Let us dig a little bit deeper.
Oh, here is an expert in Russia's-Georgian relations.
Well I think it was Georgian president who said that USA and NATO responded weakly, I think that the only way to respond was the way it was, if we don't want a major war and crisis in our hands.