How can the West criticise Russia's action in Georgia, after its own behaviour over Kosovo?

Question

Aren't the parallels rather strong?

Answer 1

Russia is just an angry bear, as usual.  Russia is controlled by the KGB and if anyone so much as steps out of line, they're dead.  Russian agents kill people in the town where you live.  The Russian political elite do not want democracy, they want dictatorship and everlasting power, not only over their own Russian people, but also over their former satellite colonies, including Georgia, which they will soon command.

Georgia Stat flag and National Anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCBpNC6SN...

Answer 2

Russia is retaliating to a first strike attack by Georgia on Russian citizens.  It can be argued Russia's response is overboard but as of yet can not be considered ethnic cleansing.  Nor at the moment does it appear the Russia is attempting to take over the country of Georgia.  It appears that Russia is attempting to crush the Georgian military.  I know Georgian citizens have been killed in the fighting.  Now before we all get on our high horses about that let us remember that 600,000+ Iraq citizens have been killed, very few by suicide bombers.  Most of the Iraq citizens were killed by USA, UK and other allied forces.  Russia is nowhere near as powerful as the now defunked USSR and are not likely to provoke WW3.  Let's wait to see what happens rather than act on paranoid thinking, else the West may be the ones who end up starting WW3 unnecessarly.

Answer 3

I suppose if Georgia was committing ethnic cleansing then there would be some parallels but we haven't seen any proof of it so far.  Perhaps Russia should show us some proof so it can say its actions are justified but so far it looks like they made it up so they can plunder an entire country.  

Answer 4

No. Russia is back to it's old tricks of helping themselves to their neighbors territory. We (the US) always give it back when we're done with it.

Answer 5

This is just the start of Russian Imperialism. The soviet union has not gone away just sleeping and the Democracy they have is just an illusion. Given time the russians will complete the reformation of the dictatorship that was the Soviet Union, and then we will have two EU's to dictate to the people of Europe, while the Yanks try to dictate to the rest of the world.

Answer 6

The west has done the same as Georigia, take Iraq for instance.

No one is going to threaten Russia with war, for they are much to powerful a country for the likes of the undermanned US Army, or the depleted British Army.

Russia will take control of Georgia and this will all go to sleep.

If George Bush tells Russia it will use force, then we'll have an all out war, for which I am sure I know who the winner will be!!!

Answer 7

People are poisoned by cnn and the rest of the propaganda.They only show the poor georgians...What about the poor russians?It's all propaganda and dirty politics.

Answer 8

I think you got it wrong. The U.S. supported Kosovo's stand for independence as most of Europe did. Russia is not the one trying to break away from domination as Georgia's former province is.  

Answer 9

The west had no designs of conquest over Kosovo only to stop ethnic cleansing , Georgia had a rebellion on its hands , by a people that it had helped many centuries ago that wished to take a large part of its country and people back under Soviet control . After struggling for 60 years to get out from under there domination. As for ethnic cleansing by Georgia you should not believe Russian propaganda , The Osseans were offed autonomy to run there own government but refused point blank , there are nearly a million ethnic Georgians living in northern Osseania it is there traditional land , what do you and all those that criticise Georgia think that they should have done just allow a foreign people to land grab something that was not theirs in the first place and take the ethnic Georgians with them .

Answer 10

Sounds to me that you haven't an inkling about our involvement in Serbia and Kosovo.