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Backstory of Russian-Georgian conflict

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:03:00 -0500

The history, events and factors that led to the current conflict between Russia and Georgia.

harkirat

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:56:48 -0500

there should be an diplomatic solution,
america should abstain from playiny geopolitics to its advantage

Adam

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:43:15 -0600

First off, American troops aren't the ones on the ground in Georgia, those are Russian. Russia is the one trying to undermine the sovereignty of another state here, the US has little to do with it. Regardless of whether the accusations of civilian targeting by Georgian troops are correct, Russia has proved very eager to demonstrate imperialist intentions in their swift invasion of Georgia, and the subsequent acceptance of two break-away regions as sovereign states: Russia, like most of the world, is showing that it's perfectly fine with recognizing new countries, as long as doing so helps Russia. It's not like they're some universal force of freedom and good when it comes to ethnic majorities wanting their own land. See: Chechnya.

Adam

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:50:51 -0600

Also, this article is somewhat misleading. Yeltsin urged a resolution to the conflict, and Russian troops were very keen to aid in the suppression of Abkhazian rebellion in the civil war of the early 1990's, so long as Georgia joined the CIS. It had been the only former Soviet Republic not to do so (with the exception of the highly-autonomous Baltic states). Kozyrev, the foreign minister, was quoted as saying "A strong Georgia is in Russia's interests," and it's certainly possible to say that Russia's support of the breakaway regions now is a start reversal of position just ten years after their forces backed Georgian government troops to restore order in the 90's.

Shawn

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:58:17 -0600

Yeah this is wack