Comments on: South Ossetia

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:28:55 +0000

Yes I heard this news too that the birthplace of Stalin was bombed. Did not say what kind of damage was inflictied on the town.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:24:49 +0000

I live here in USA. So far only stoopid few said that US won a World War II. The rest know the truth. I do not know where you live, but what I am readin on news was always for Russia and steps it took. Now the media is nutral. I have not heard or read anything that blames Russia. Yes Bush said and his ugly partner Condoliza to move Russian army out of Ossetiya. Didn it happen? No. It is not going to happen because NATO is not going to act. It is just a talk that idiot Bush had to make.

By: Johnny Pez

Johnny Pez — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:14:44 +0000

Nitpick: the Doug in Tblisi is Doug Merrill, not Doug Muir.

By: abb1

abb1 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:52:58 +0000

Mr. Parker reports that Georgian town of Gori (the birthplace of Stalin) is being bombed into the stone age in accordance with the dying wish of Mr. Solzhenitsyn.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:42:27 +0000

USA is not going to support Giorgia. The army is tied up in Afganistan and Iraq. All is left are National Guards. Unless mobilization, no USA there. NATO iz not going to to anything without USA. I say Russia crash Giorgia. Kick them in their a$$es and sand them back to push sheeps trhrough the fence (from behind).

By: Sergey

Sergey — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:38:25 +0000

I say, Russia stood up for many years for once. Giorgia was freed hundreds of years ego by Russian blood when Russia fought Turks. Russia will melt Georgia in pieces. They should step back. I am pro Russia in this war. Using artillery on peaciful people? Only damm morons can do. I wish they burn in hell.

By: Lena

Lena — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:33:50 +0000

Well, this situation os beneficial, first of all, for the United States…
They’ve always been trying to defame Russia, and, well, they seem to succeed in doing that now.
Most of the population doesn’t care much about the reasons of this war or whatever (if most of the world now thanks to the mass media is sure, that it was the United Stated, that won World War 2), they are ready to accept what is shown on the Global TV.
Do they people from Ossetia, who lost their homes, their relatives…everything just in a single night? Do they show, that Georgian soldiers are killing women, kids, and…Russian peace-makers (whos main goal is to STOP the agression in OSSETIA, not attacking Georgia). And, for sure, if the US is supporting Georgia, why should they show the real situation? The easiest and the most effective thing here is to turn the things upside down and to blame Russia.

By: ANDREY FROM RUSSIA

ANDREY FROM RUSSIA — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:38:17 +0000

People, from Russia now it is visible what global lie show from your TVs. I in a shock. Why you do not see that you deceive

By: Joe Jeepster

Joe Jeepster — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:56:51 +0000

Vanessa Kachadurian
“Sorry, I know the real truth and all of you didn’t even know about the CASPIAN OIL PIPELINE.”
How much funds per year Georgia can get for transit of Caspian oil?
And how much funds Georgia wasted in 2004-2008 for preparation to this war?
(Some evaluations give us about 1.5 billions USD or more).
Is this project have payback period at all, or it is just a part of much more big game?
Georgia is agricultural country with about 17% of unemployed people and only 9% of employed in industry. If Georgia’s existing political «elite» have few of brains and conscience, they must raise welfare of Georgian people. But they want war. They unleash war with inhuman artillery and rocket bombardment of civil town Tskhinval. Nobody can predict consequences of this act of inhuman genocide. Nobody can predict extent of escalation of this conflict. I think, people of Georgia demand another political elite, not supported by west.

By: THE ANONYM

THE ANONYM — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:30:05 +0000

YOU are not right WHO TRUSTS GEORGIA. I DO NOT LIVE In Russia, BUT I FOR IT. I LOOK NEWS ALMOST From the VERY FIRST O’CLOCK of WAR.YOU LOOK NEWS WHICH to YOU TRANSFERS GEORGIA, And IT MISLEADS YOU. GEORGIA THE FIRST HAS ATTACKED ON OSSETIA. AND RUSSIA HAS GONE ON PROTECTION OF PEACE CITIZENS AND FOR PEACEMAKERS.

By: Exile

Exile — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:14:53 +0000

The Telegraph is reporting that Georgia was given a nod and a wink by the USA, on condition that it was all sorted out within 48 hours. Now things have gone pear-shaped the Georgians have basically been dumped.

Serves ’ em right.

By: Steve LaBonne

Steve LaBonne — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:10:07 +0000

Daniel Nexon- I didn’t mean that response in any way as a criticism of what you said, which I in fact agree with. I just wanted to add to it by focusing on the lethal consequences for those least at fault.

By: David Weman

David Weman — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:09:20 +0000

They’re both Americans with German wives, they both have worked in the Balkans and Caucasus, they both blog on Fistful, but they’re different people. Honest.

By: David Weman

David Weman — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:05:22 +0000

Hi, Maria. I feel I should point out Doug Muir and Doug Merrill are different people.

By: Daniel Nexon

Daniel Nexon — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:49:26 +0000

120 – fair enough. Let me rephrase: the governments and their defenders are drowning in a sea of double standards. We’ve even seen them stressed right here (but, oddly enough, always pointing in one direction).

CNN and BBC did report on the start of the fighting, i.e., before the Russian intervention. If you think otherwise, you’re just wrong.