He might be right. Not telling he is right. There is a difference. But this diversion is good to: - piss of the russians - play some pressure on russians since world media is blind - create a diversion to place naval forces of us, uk, and france near Iran And GW wants to keep republicans in us governnament. And this is great for Mccain, if us is in state of war or pre/war. Obama has no chances. So, if you look at it in a whole perspective, maybe yeah gw and georgia governnament made this possible.
Chavez will say anything to make the U.S. look bad. He has said it is his mission to bring the U.S. down, make us look bad, and convince all the other countries to attack us. I don't listen idiotic dictators and hopefully nobody else will either. Don't get me wrong, we have done a lot to make ourselves look bad recently, we are not innocent of doing wrong, but I certainly hope people won't take the word of someone who's primary agenda is to f**k over the U.S. any way possible....
Firegirl, I know all that No need to explain to me. The same goes to UK vs Russia, UK will always see Russia as an enemy. And this is why: Since 2004 US government paid 3 billion US.dollars for development of Georgian army!!! $ 3bln = 30% of the whole Georgia's GDP at that time (2004) ^ georgian weaponry. more photos here , warning : some photos are sick.
Really! As much as that... they're almost catching up with Israel as the US' favourite military aid project...
Uh yes. I know that. Just because he was democratically elected doesn't mean he can't run around acting like a dictator, or try to make his election permanent (hence a dictator). Someone that would trample the freedoms of his people (like freedom of speech for example) to me is a dictator, democratically elected or not....
Why would the US want to help Georgia out with aid and training just so they could attack Russia and get their asses whipped and possibly have their government overthrown? No one with a brain would think Georgia would of stood a real chance against Russia militarily. It makes much more sense that Russia was provoking Georgia into an attack so they could hurt Georgia's chances of joining NATO. The territory conflict could have been solved diplomatically, but in diplomacy Georgia and Russia are more equals than they are on the battlefield. This conflict favors Russia, not the US or the west. The only real way this hurts Russia is by alienating them from the west. But Russia/USSR never really seemed to care about being alienated as long as they had real power. In the 90s Russia was weaker and depended more on looking more western-friendly. I think now that Russia has rebuilt its riches with their nationalized energy, we'll see a less western-friendly Russia. If I were a Russian citizen I'd be getting the hell out of there while I could. Russia could very much go back to USSR style of governing and exercising state control in the next few years.
Its certainly the otherway around for the most part as its the US's intention to, as some one pointed out, create diversions. One major benefit that the US received was the anti missile defence shield in Poland.