Can someone please explain to me in simple terms what caused the invasion of Russia into Georgia?

Question

I thought Ossetia is part of Georgia? Why would Russia get invloved?

Answer 1

georgia is an independent nation that was once a russian republic but now it is an US ally. the ossetia province is a separatist nation that is still tied to russia. russia wants the oil that georgia has and georgia was trying to chase the russians out of ossetia and reclaim it as independent  

Answer 2

We should have let Gen. Patton keep marching north and destroyed their a$$ when we had the chance.

Answer 3

georgia bombed ossetia and russia moved in to 'save' them, russia also has ulteria motives such as preventing georgia getting into NATO

Answer 4

I'm from republic of Georgia, I would like to tell you people that situation is really bad over here, but we are calm.

I'm sure that nobody believes Russian lies any more, the world knows what is going on here, they know we didn't want this war to come, we have children, families here - this is not our choice!

The war started because osetians opened fire on our villages, it was well organized provocation planned by Russians. In this situation we had nothing more to do then defend our citizens!

Russians are saying that their citizens live in osetia... this is ironic, if they are afraid for the life of their citizens they would have evacuated them as soon as the shooting started, all countries who care about their citizens are evacuating people from Georgia because situation is dangerous, so what do you think should America leave their citizens in Georgia and make up a reason to get involved in war, saying that "americans in republic of Georgia are endangered"?

One more question - what were russian citizens doing in osetia, where did they get Georgian vizas, as you know this is "De jure" Georgian territory so russian citizens had to get vizas while living there, otherwise they didn't had right to be in osetia!

And again comes a question - civilians in Cxinvali died because it was bombed, as you know our military airports were bombed beginning from august 8th, we couldn't take our planes in to air because of that, so how could we bomb Cxinvali? Cxinvali was bombed by Russians, they knew that civilians were still hiding in buildings, but they didn't care as long as they were destroying our soldiers, everything else (including human lives, lives of civilians: children, women) did not matter for them.

Russians are bombing our cities far away from conflict zone, they can't explain why they are doing this, they continued bombing our cities even after Medvedev anounced that the so called "operation for keeping peace in Georgia" was over - foreign journalists died while city Gori was bombed after his anouncement. on TV they are saying that are doing this because of military strategic objects (military airports, military bases) but actually they are bombing civilians, homes, children, women are dying here, two days ago a pregnant women died in city of Gori! my friend saved 4 year old girl from the basement of crushed building - this is the real face of so called Peace-keepers, this is the real face of Russia!

Russians are talking about Genocide of osetians - this is somewhat true, because they (russians) were the ones who bombed Cxinvali for 3 days - Cxinvali does not exist any more!

Georgians left Cxinvali because there was nothing more to defend, russians did not give a d**n that Osetian civilians (women, children) were hiding in the basements of buildings at the time there were bombing the city. Georgians asked for corridor to take civilians from Cxinvali to safe place.

I'm not thinking of leaving country, this is my HOME, my home country, I'm staying here because my husband, my friends are going to stay here to defend our country.

It's not about South Osetia any more... it never was, Russia wants to get hold of Georgia, but this pie is going to turn very bitter for Russians, we came to 21th century keeping our language, homeland and religion, fighting with number of conquerors and we will loose our lives before we loose our country, we'll defend Georgia to last breath!

The only way you people can help us right now, is to tell the world about what is going on in Georgia, everybody must know what Russia is doing here!

As long as God is on our side nobody can defeat us, we are defending our homes from people who killed children in Beslan, who killed their own citizens (hostages) in "Nord-Ost" incident.

Truth is on our side and we are more stronger and braver than ever!

Today as always I'm proud to be Georgian!

P.S. even now Russian troops are terrorizing Georgian citizens in villages near cxinvali, carrying out execution of civilians in their own houses, burning houses - this is Genocide.. open your eyes

Answer 5

Russia claims that Georgians killed three peace workers.

Of course, the real reason is that the US has their back turned with the Iraq war, and Russia is seeing this as the perfect opportunity to reclaim Georgia.

Answer 6

They were fighting over a part of land in Georgia

Answer 7

Has to do with the oil and natural gas pipes running through Georgia. And Russia wanting Europe to continue buying theirs.  

Answer 8

Russia doesn't like NATO in their back yard.

Answer 9

They were playing a soccer game along the border and accidentally kicked the ball into Ossetia - and the Ossetians wouldn't give it back.  Really p**sd the Russians off.

Answer 10

Georgia went to go take back one of there old provinces (by force). In the process they killed some Russian dignitaries.

Answer 11

"Georgia went to go take back one of there old provinces (by force). In the process they killed some Russian dignitaries."

Georgians started the conflict by invading Osetia and killing 2000 civilians during the process (in less then 4 hours) At the same time, Georgians destroyed barracks of Russian peacekeepers (who had UN mandate to be there) and killed 10 of them + wounded 30 more.

Many of the civilians were Russian citizens.

Answer 12

There's a great news site - newser.com - that summarizes all the news articles about the conflict. Here is a link to their world section.

http://www.newser.com/section/2/world-ne...